With so few decent prime-time shows on regular networks- we can't let this one go! My husband and I have mostly just been hooked on HBO shows for years and only have 1-2 shows that we regularly watch on the non-cable channels (like the original CSI). Lipstick Jungle, while toned down from Sex and the City, is a great option for those of us missing that show. And it's actually much more realistic- more development on the careers and family issues. If you haven't watched, check out some of the full episodes on the internet- you'll see it's worth saving. And while I'm at it- My Own Worst Enemy is also VERY worth saving- already great and with lots of potential for future story line twists...
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marlinz7 December 2008
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krazyactriz11 February 2008I actually am in the minority & really like this show. I thought there was a certain level of realness here, that is definitely missing in Cashmere Mafia. Yes, there are areas that need to be flushed out and fixed. But that takes time. Hey, the 1st season of Sex and the City just DID NOT work, but went on to be a great show. I believe the same can happen here. Lindsay Price needs time to settle into her role and the whole cast could use a moment to mesh. By no means am I saying these are the same show, but I feel this one needs a moment to gel and form into its own. Please stop beating the show up and give it a chance. You may actually be surprised. 8 stars!
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This show is so good. You can actually tell the characters apart. They have relationships and problems you care about. You can even identify with them. The dialog is not stupid. Finally, a show that doesn't feature sex crazed neurotic morons. This one is smart and every scene is so pretty. It's big budget all the way around. I love it. Please do not dumb it down or make it like every other lame show. I don't think it needs more sex. I think it's just fine, the way it is. I'm sick of all the idiotic shows on TV that have fast scenes, and trite one-liners that are obvious innuendo setups from the beginning. Are people really that dumb? Do writers/producers not see these shows fail over and over? Why do they keep underestimating the intelligence of the American public? On Lipstick, the guys are hot, and I like that the woman are older but hot too. You don't have to be 20 to look amazing. And I freaking love Victory Ford. I love all the characters but I love her the most. Seriously. Watch the show. I am a throw back fan from Melrose Place. This does not have near the same level of scandal but it has my attention just as well. I was originally worried that it would be too much of a Sex and the City ripoff but it really isn't. So if you're going into it worried that you're going to find Carrie and the girls, or even that you're not, don't worry-- it's worlds away from Sex. I also love Brooke Sheilds. Nico's character is growing on me, but I love her plot line. I love getting home on Thursdays, grabbing a glass of wine and settling in for the Lipstick Jungle. It really is the best way to close down the week because we all know Friday doesn't count! I do hope there's more scandal to come, but clever scandal, not just who's- sleeping- with- who scandal. Not that sex is bad, but it really should be more of a magnifier than the backbone. So far, Lipstick has proved just this, and I hope that its momentum keeps going.
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MosquitoMagnet17 March 2010..if they would get rid of the character Victory Ford! Her character seems out of touch with reality. I don't think many people can relate to anything she does or experiences, thus show any sympathy for her. A main character should be someone the viewers care about and it's hard to do when you are just annoyed by her.
Wendy Healy seems to have the perfect life as she has everything (family, friends and work) in balance because of her husband who stays home taking care of the kids. But problems arise when her husband wants to achieve something more in his life too other than just raising kids.
IMO the story about Nico Reilly is most sympathetic as she struggles with her passionless marriage and male dominance at work. Frankly, her story is the one that keeps me watching this show. -
phd_travel28 August 2012In case you didn't catch this one on initially - it is worth a watch. It's not the same as SATC. It's not a comedy - it's a light drama. Anyone expecting SATC would have been disappointed. It's not a comedy drama mix like Desperate Housewives either.
The stories for each of the main career women characters are quite good. Lindsay Price the fashion designer with the Billionaire (Andrew McCarthy)is fun. Kim Raver with the toy boy is exciting (will it work out?). Brooke Shields the producer was the weakest. Don't understand the casting of her scruffy looking Cockney husband and her oddly ethnic looking daughter. Maybe that's why it didn't last.
This is better than the Cashmere Mafia which was really nonsense. -
guzzigirl200010 October 2008This show seems to be quite underrated. It's got it going on - solid story lines and characters. Everyone is very believable in the roles and the story lines are relate-able. It's kinda fresh too vs. cliché and predictable. There are familiar faces and several new ones. Rosie Perez is a nice addition. Great acting and eye candy for the ladies and guys. This show deserves way more credit then it gets. Each episode gets better and better. The 10/8 was awesome. It's in a good time slot too - watch Project Runway then switch to NBC for this quality programming. I feel invested in the show and will keep watching it. Hope you give it a chance.
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mirwais-orbit8 February 2008When I wrote about this show for the first time, I did it after the pilot episode. But after 7 episodes, I feel myself able to truly say something about it.
As I said for the first time, Candace Bushnell knows a lot about women and New York and that's why she has a lot to tell. Sex And The City was about the searching for the true love and not about power, and Lipstick Jungle is about power and the search of a truly self that's hidden somewhere, and it's an interesting plot. What I feel after 7 episodes is that for sure is an interesting plot, but the show is getting a lot late to make it interesting.
The show focuses the lives of 3 friends placed between the 50 most powerful women in the world. All of them has well designed personalities but none that we haven't seen before as the insecure and family troubled Wendy (Brook Shields), a movie producer that despite her insecureness she makes right decisions in her work but it's kind hard for her to tie work and family; the self confident but unhappy Nico (Kim Raver), a magazine editor who is moved by challenges and is tired to be ignored by a husband that never gives her the attention she deserves; and the lovely and believer Victory Ford, a fashion designer that wants to conquer the world in her own impulsive and sentimental ways and is dealing for the first time with the downs of her career.
The cast is quite good but it's kinda hard to feel a great chemistry between them when they're all together but that's OK because most part of the time the story sets each one of them individually. Brook Shields is good even if sometimes she looks like playing "Suddenly Susan" again, but her character is always surrounded by a lot of happenings being hard to follow all the issues at the same time. Lindsay Price is a lot unfamiliar to me because she's been in countless shows but I can't remember her in any of them, anyway, she surprises me a lot when I got myself laughing with some of her moments, but her character stills being quite weak to be placed as "one of the 50 most powerful women" in the show. Kim Raver is by far the best choice because she's proving to be one of the best TV actresses of the time, she's always a lot convincing and her character is for sure the best edged of the show, her previous works with strong characters like Kathlyn Hale in "The Nine", or Audrey Raines in "24" and Kim Zambrano in "Third Watch" gave her great bases for the confidence and the dramatic lines that Nico needs and Lipstick Jungle is being all about her and she deserves this attention after so many supporting roles.
The show lacks of some prime attentions and qualities that made Sex And The City a great thing. New York is being a lot secondary in the plot and that's a shame because this city is a living character for Bushnell's stories. The characters still not being interesting enough (except Nico for the reasons above), and the male characters are being very unnecessary than it should. The plot is flowing in slow motion and after so wrong twists seems like the writers are finally getting in their shape after hard 7 episodes. Now I can see that some really interesting things are trying to come and the show is finally and slowly getting its way. A lot of changes has been made from its pilot, but the show screams for further important turns with urgency.
It's a nice show, and it's being hard to forget it because, as I said, looks like it's finally getting its right tone, and if it does and they kick it right, it promises to be not as fabulous as Sex And The City, but admirable. -
rpc1945-18 February 2008there are things grown people should not be subjected to.Hannah montana concerts,spice girl reunions, and lipstick jungle.This was TV at its absolute worst pandering to every fantasy, delusion and fond dream of either young single women or middle aged married ones who are sure they were meant for better things if they had just not married that bum and had those three kids.The acting,plot,premise and storyline all add to a cacaphony of bad bad TV.I'm sure Brooks shields is nice to her mother and the other two ladies have good qualities as people and actors but they weren't in that dopey soap opera I should've known as Brook shields was in the only movie I can remember walking out of It was a black and white thing called "Pretty baby " Look for it if all the copies haven't been destroyed
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mp09010319 October 2008I watched season 1 and the beginning of season 2 in a weekend, and now I am addicted. Could Nico and Kirby together be any hotter??? They have amazing chemistry! I am in awe of the two of them together, it is crazy. I hope the writers of this show keep them together because it is hot! All three women are strong women who I can totally relate to because of my own career. This show is real good and I can't wait to watch it again. I think everyone who loved sex and the city would love this show. My friends have talked about this show since it was on, but I figured since i missed the first season it would be hard to get into it, but I was wrong. It is a great show!
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Paul_chac19 November 2007There have been better, yes. Not original, no, but after viewing the pilot it left me in some expectation to see what follows. Three successful lady's high in their career working for more is somewhat interesting for young and old, men and women and their own personal family crisis that we always relate to, like it or not. Brooke shields, despite the critics is doing very well. She's convincing, mature and experienced. She's no longer just the pretty face. As for the other two, I don't know. I'll have to wait and see. All the producers need to promise is a good story line and a couple of nice twists so that it can be like said, a good sit back after long day at work TV drama, so we could all forget our real problems and enjoy theirs.
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temporis7 February 2008I watched this show hoping that it would be fun, edgy, and smart. If you consider poor acting, shrillness, and a "been there, done that" feel any of those things. Well, good for you! I have seen better chemistry and friendship is a Vagisil commerical. Brooke looks like she wants uncomfortable with everyone but the cat. Kim looks like she trying to go her best Cynthia Nixon impression and is failing miserable. Lindsay Price seems like she screaming, " Why couldn't I be on Cashmere Mafia?" The worst part is the humor! There is none! If I wanted to see a bunch of hags complain about there existence, I would turn on Lifetime. This show is so melodramatic! The viewers aren't stupid, we understand it's not easy to have it all. But, do you have to be so upset all the time. I would love to see these harpies have to work in a field picking berries for three dollars an hour. Then they would have something to cry about! Save yourself the time. Either rent some Sex and the City or watch Cashmere Mafia!
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tvsolodkoff15 April 2009This is a GREAT show - finally strong, independent, successful women on TV. We can all learn from watching Nico and Co, who in the show does with the usual problems successful women have to deal with, such as jealousy of their partners or macho-colleagues. My favourite character on this show is Nico, she has so much class and is very forceful. I really enjoyed watching Sex in the City and I also like Desperate Housewives from time to time. But my favourite characters of these shows are definitely the strong women who don't scream "Save me, Prince, save me!" But I also like the glamour-factor, which Desperate Housewives lacks completely and in Sex and the City Miranda wasn't very glamorous and Samantha.. well, was unique, but no one I would see as a role model in certain ways. Lipstick Jungle has both: Glamour and strong women with role model ability!
I'm totally addicted to this show! I also absolutely adore the jewellery they're wearing. -
scrapmetal730 September 2009I love all three of these women, they are stunning actresses, just beyond beautiful. But this series has no story anyone could possibly want to watch. Their lives have no more relation to the real world than fairy tales do. It is not just that frequent contrivances jar the viewer, it is that every aspect of their lives and every situation they face is contrived. This show cannot replicate the success of Sex in the City because part of what made that series work was its originality, and you can't repeat originality.
The show makes the mistake of carrying over Sex and the City's obsession with wealth and fame, but taking it up several notches. What the producers missed is that this obsession was never one of S&C's draws; it was not the reason people tuned in. Every time some new boyfriend on S&C was described at the most famous blabla or the leading blabla or the most powerful blabla in the widget industry the show lost its footing, but for the obliviousness of its audience of American women who cannot discern logic from nonsense.
In LJ, it is not only the boyfriends of the week who are plutonian overlords, it is the women themselves. I have no objection to a story about the most wealthy, powerful women on earth, but I don't think such a story can work as a series. I don't think you can do an entire series about them, and you can't put them in those roles and still try to make them just nice, hard-working underdogs just trying to get by. -
lonanichol9 January 2018I was so sad when I found out there are only 2 seasons. Please make more!!
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magic-tone7 August 2009I'd rather kill myself than watch Lipstick Jungle. The acting is TERRIBLE and there is NO humor in any episode at any minute at any second. Boring story-lines, really the story changes every episode. It is just like the twenty minute series, where the story changes in every episode. From the first episode I was a little impressed. Though it wasn't funny, they produced a fine 'Pilot'. But then- when we get to 'Pink Poison'. BOR--------ING------------!!!!!!!! Cannot believe these producers want to make a series like 'Sex And The City'. And now there's Cashmere Mafia. Oh God! Brooke Shields wasn't the best actor, Kim Raver was pathetic and Linsday Price acted like an over-excited child. Her voice just makes me want to rip her throat out... I beg you, all of you who haven't watch Dipshit Jungle yet, Don't WASTE YOUR TIME.
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All in all, Lipstick Jungle was a pretty good show, I would place it in my top ten, but I really enjoyed the show because it was relate able to normal people. I loved Season 1 but I wasn't into Season 2 very much.
Wendy: I thought that Wendy was the person that most people would understand. I felt like she was trying to hard to be a mother and a business women, I wanted to tell her that she had a husband who was a stay at home dad for a reason, she didn't need to give up hours at a job that needed her for things that the house-father should have handled. I also felt like her marriage was falling apart, she loved him but she treated him like he worked for her.
Nico: Most people dislike Nico because she was cheating on her husband, in her defense her husband was cheating on her with a college girl, whom he knocked up, and he was going to sue her for money for cheating when he had been for years, if it was like 4 years of cheating he must have started when his lover was barley 18.
I really loved Nico myself. I understood her, she loved work and it was her passion and her life. I'm a woman like that, my work comes first and everything and everyone else comes second and they know it. I think her dating a younger man was just what she needed, her worshiped her, understood the importance of her work, and he was there for her for just what she needed in a relationship, distance but romance.
I think she was the best friend, what she did to defend Wendy over and over, how she tried to help Victory with her own business. I would love to be around someone like Nico, it would great to have a friend who was like me.
Victory: I felt like the story could have done better if she would have just toned it down. I mean she was all over the place, kind of a hypo- critic, a real drama queen, and she acted like a spoiled child. I'm sorry but if I was failing money wise and a millionaire wanted to help me I would let him, even if he was my boyfriend because business and pleasure are different and I've dated people I work for and with and it never becomes a problem, Victory is just throwing a typical Victory fit. -
Give Sex and the City a B-movie treatment and this is what you get. The story is in place and the characters are in place, but it is just put together in a very over-the-top, run-of-the-mill way that is hardly as classy as Sex and the City ("SatC" from now on). And no, making the characters wear designer clothes does not count as classy! I would understand that the people making this would have wanted to stay away from giving it the same treatment as SatC, but in an effort to do so ended up making it bland, pretentious and preposterous. And to be honest, having some candid sex scenes in it would have made it more honest! For me, what soured it was the fact that i could predict what was going to happen and instead of being immersed in the story, i found myself recognizing every camera trick and cut that was used in the filming! There are so many points here that could have been explored in better and/or subtle ways...Joe the billionaire deserved to be toned down for the sake of realism, for one! When, after watching an episode, you find yourself discussing what could have been instead of discussing what just happened, you know what the fate of the show is going to be, and that's what happened!
P.S.: This review is based on Season one only. Never bothered myself with season-2. -
underware22 February 2008I never intended to watch this show in the first place because I thought the name of the show was ridiculous and I don't particularly like Brooke Shields. Well, this series pleasantly surprised me. Kim Raver is fantastic, Lindsay Price is uplifting, and Brooke Shields is growing on me. This show balances comedy and drama effectively, and maintains a realistic tone while delving into the hackneyed fairy tale scenario of working businesswomen. The overall concept of the show is not fresh, but delving into the fictional lives of three strong women is refreshing all the same.
Just a warning: the pilot leaves a bit to be desired, so watch the next few episodes before you make a decision. I was slightly disappointed with the pilot because Brooke Shields was over-acting and the casting choice for her husband seemed random to me. Also, Lindsay Price's character started a relationship with a billionaire so quickly that it seemed even more unbelievable than a story line like that normally would.
Nice additions: Sarah Hyland as Wendy's daughter, Robert Buckley as Kirby, Andrew McCarthy as Joe Bennett, and Wendy's assistant (I can't find his name).
When it comes down to it, I wouldn't be watching if it weren't for Kim Raver. She's the backbone of the show. -
dragon_tears_29 June 2008Unfortunately for me, i missed Sex and the City, and luckily for me, Cashmere Mafia but i would like to state for the record that this show is the pinnacle of my Sunday nights, it involves most of the things i wish i had, 100 shoes would be nice the clichés annoy me but the acting surprised me. The cheating on the husband fiasco loses the show some points, but i do love the rugged husband who does his washing. The underlying message that women can make it in the workforce and not have to apologize for it is strong in places, yet weak in others...like when they submit to the stereotypes of their gender. Some teething problems, but the show is dusted with a smooth romantic side including a house full of flowers and a candle lit romp. The series definitely has some potential and i look forward to enjoying the next seasons.
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wodkalime146 August 2009In Holland the second season is now on TV. I couldn't wait and i watched in on DVD already.
I also liked season 1 but it wasn't as good as sex and the city. But the second season is so good!!!! Much more humor which i really liked! The best part of season two for me is the episode where they go to the spa (without alcohol en cellphones....) when they go back as fast as they can... hahaha....and then they get car trouble. They open the hood en they are staring at the engine. It was hilarious!
In short. From season two i love this show!!!!! Really funny, but also real problems en great lovestories....just GREAT! I hope there will be much more seasons to come, i can't wait! -
stylianakimaria28 January 2009I am in Greece Europe and watching EVERY episode, I am a strong woman with a career, I'm 34, about to get married and FINALLY a show SHOWS how it is for a woman, and the way she has to deal with things.
FINALLY something that does not betray my intelligence as sex in the city did, of which i maybe ever saw 3 episodes- couldn't stand it. (it was a ridiculous show... such as desperate housewives is)
FINALLY something that feels real and not from a different world. It is VERY natural, I love Brooke Shields and Lindsay Price and Raver, they are just ... one of a kind, EACH of them. The photography,...real, perfect, inspired.. I hate Brooke's husband in the show but again,(his character is pictured somehow like having a low IQ, which of course is something that can happen in life and shows her making a compromise - am sure she somehow is wishing deep inside shed have a husband that is more active from the start and not this "sorry", "shyish" boy-man that wakes up suddenly to realize he wasn't taking care of himself and blaming everybody else!.
THIS is the first time i think this has been portrayed by a man in a sitcom, i mean in this honest way - a man, in the position a woman usually is/or was, after her kids grew up and shes there suddenly having no plans in life, being angry that she didn't foresee this day coming - because she didn't take time to work or achieve her personal goals, in order to take care the rest of the family.
So convenient for men to look away from this wonderful story.
Oh Lindseys man, he is also in this difficult situation. finally men with feelings, but like they are in reality. not all the same and flat like in other sitcom or movies. the casting Couldn't be better..... (again except Brookes husband which every time i see him somehow, i feel he is overacting the role.. but it might also be that i hate whiny men/roles and this is maybe the point in his role)
so many feelings... it would be TOTALLY be a shame to cut the show.
thanks for reading my thoughts... I love lipstick jungle couldn't live without it.
oh ,. and Lindsey price in her role..... the most beautiful charismatic role / woman / visual.. replaces all the fake and empty Barbie dreams i maybe once had as a little girl.
KEEP THIS SHOW ALIVE PLEASE!!! I love it. .. -
BonnieManning22 February 2008I watched the first episode out of curiosity, but I really did not expect to like it. Even with such great actresses, I thought it would probably be stupid. But once the first episode was over I couldn't wait to watch the next one, and it's continued to be that way! These women lead such exciting lives, and their love for each other is so refreshing to watch. This show is about what friendship is suppose to be, and rich people with seemingly great lives have problems too. I'm also really enjoying Andrew McCarthy's character, Joe! He's a billionaire that can be very romantic, but he also has issues. This is a very enjoyable show!!!
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saratee5 March 2008Finally a replacement for sex and the city!!!!!!! ever since that show finished there's been a much need of something that measures even halfway. The shows these days are either too melodramatic,have too many characters without much depth or are a terrible attempt at comedy. Lipstick jungle is funny, casual, scandalous and non complicated. what i love about this show is that aside from its theme of power and relationships, there is depth to all the characters. The script is engaging and even if you can't relate to the characters, you can feel for them. I would highly recommend this show to everyone. Great acting, script and direction.bravo to the team!!!
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newton2911 November 2009I can't wait for season 3! Is there going to be a third season? I watched both seasons back to back and loved it. This is much better than Sex in the City. This show is worth watching and leaves you wanting more. I love that it does not just focus on their careers, they have a life outside of the job that you can believe. The dialog is better than good...it's great! The fashion is good and I really like all the characters. The story line is better than Sex in the City because the character are much more realistic. There must be a season 3 in production. I hope the network is not suited up and stupid were they cancel the show because that would be a waste.
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Hello everybody!
I see that I'm not the only one taken away by this great series.
I simply love it and I think it's a great, down to earth movie. Every movie is about teenager issues, finding great love, a lot of things that people only dream of, makes your heart run faster, you wish you were young again. All the issues, series focus on the same age-group, but as we get older shall I say "wiser" our problems and lifestyle, life patterns change. So we need something that is close to our age, lifestyle.
This is what I missed about SEX and the City...love this one too. Single life, single life's issues, fun and attraction....they hold on to their single status but as we find out...everyone is looking for the same thing, wants the same thing:LOVE, that special SOMEONE. They find it...so what then? Life ends?
NO...and this is when Lipstick jungle comes into the picture. Don't we have issues and problems and fun and all that when we are in a serious relationship or married?? I loved lipstick Jungle and I really hope that I get to see season 3,4,5,6,7,8....and so on. ACtually this is the reason for writing this. I hope they haven't shut down production and I get to see the next season. We need not only SEX and The City in our lives but Lipstick Jungle( or some king of Sex and Marriage/Relationship):))
THanks, hopefully someone will read it, who can help in this department:D Enjoy life:)