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'Cashmere Mafia': Worst. Lesbian. Ever.
Last week, wealthy women all over New York asserted their independence and her cleavage, while Mia comes to terms with her split from Jack and Caitlin comes to terms with her...gaiety? Scratch that. She hasn't really come to terms with anything.
Zoe frantically attempts to plan her son's birthday party to "make up for last year" - whoops - and scolds the newly-promoted Katherine for beginning a meeting without her. Katherine, wearing J.Lo's eyelashes and Jennifer Beals' sweater, reminds Zoe that she was promoted for a reason, rather conveniently forgetting precisely where on her anatomy that reason was located. Hey, ever wonder where little bitty dragon ladies come from? Why, much taller dragon ladies, of course! And here comes one now, in a Chanel suit and surprisingly sensible pumps. Mama Mia disapproves of Little Mia's enormous office while somehow ignoring the fact that she's wearing two different shades of metallic brocade. Mama tries to set Little up with a nice, never-married Asian doctor. And oh my GOD Juliet is setting up a deal with Blair Waldorf's gay father's gay boyfriend! Davis enters with a surprise: a dinner out of town. And an Aston-Martin. Holy crap. But Juliet finds a speeding ticket from the Hamptons and is suspicious. And apparently, as the opening titles are now running, apparently Caitlin is no longer a Mafiosa.
My goodness, Mia's blind date is a dish! He's also a brain surgeon who seems blissfully unconcerned that his date is wearing gloves in the middle of the day. (Again.) Zoe gives a young internet mogul - not the same one as last week, for those keeping count - a pair of shoes to replace his Reefs for a meeting with investors. Mia, after unexpectedly enjoying her blind date, is taken aback when he shakes her hand and walks away. At drinks, the ladies dish, and Juliet tells Mia that she and Davis would like to headline the "Power Couples" issue of Portfolio, or related magazine. (There's also a fantastic The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? reference here that you actually just need to watch yourself.) Caitlin has a "thing" on Saturday; apparently, "thing" is lesbian for "gay bridal shower." Just then, Jack reappears in Mia's life, with an anchorwoman and her hair on his arm. After he references attending a party that upcoming Saturday, the ladies insist to Mia that she swallow her pride, call the brain surgeon and take him as her date.
Juliet excuses her daughter from the Portfolio photo shoot to attend a Justin Timberlake concert and finds Davis hiding in the bathroom on his cell phone. We're supposed to feel like Juliet is being unreasonably suspicious, but really, he is being totally creepy. Juliet notes the number on his phone has a Hamptons prefix to match the Hamptons speeding ticket. I'll bet it pops its collar, too. Juliet complains to Mia and her one-shouldered capelet, and accidentally emails Blair's-second-dad that he is a pompous ass. Zoe's meeting with the mogul and the money people is rescheduled for - whaddya know - the exact same time as her son's birthday party. Davis cancels dinner on Juliet, who is suspicious! Zoe checks the provenance of the Hamptons number and tells Juliet that Davis has been telling the truth. Juliet orders in from 21, as people are wont to do, and delivers food to Davis, who is walking out of a hotel with Cilla Grey. He reveals that he has been borrowing money from Cilla and has been dipping into their savings; Juliet realizes that the flashy car and his desire to be in the magazine are just for show.
Zoe's red patent purse and Juliet meet for iced tea, where Juliet calls Zoe out very gently on her judginess. Caitlin is a little overwhelmed by all the rampant girlitude at the bridal shower, where she walks in on a guy peeing and realizes that maybe she still requires some...testosterone. Mia and Brain Surgeon walk towards their brunch when he admits that he's not into Asian chicks. She totally gets it and requests that, in turn, he act like her boyfriend at the brunch. He acquiesces. Bellinis are served! Metallics are worn! By Mia, of course. Bathroom Hottie hits on Caitlin and seems oddly unfazed by her claims of lezzitude. She in turn seems unfazed by her own lezzitude and relinquishes the digits. Brain Surgeon and Mia discover over brunch that they genuinely like each other, and he sets up a third date.
Zoe, while playing laser tag with her son, takes a call from Katherine, asking her to explain something over speakerphone. Of course, Zoe is unaware that she's on speaker, and tells Katherine that if the client really needed something explained by her, that he wouldn't have insisted that the meeting take place on a Sunday afternoon. The client reveals that her people - that is, Katherine and her boy toy - were the ones who moved the meeting to Sunday. Zoe saves the day and her reputation. At the photo shoot, Juliet packs the Aston-Martin with gorgeous matched luggage filled with all of Davis' belongings. She tells Davis that he doesn't deserve forgiveness, and she's right. Bathroom Hottie calls Caitlin, whose credibility has taken a biiiiig dive with me. And Mia, walking home in studded! gloves! runs into Jack, who apologizes for the way he ended things. Mia tells him that she wants to move on with her life.
Next week: manny sex! Divorce attorneys! Illicit hetero sex!
One-shouldered capelet. Multi-tonal metallic brocade. Daytime gloves. These are phrases that nobody should ever have to type. And yet? I kinda dig it. What about you, mon petit shopping buddies?
bleh ... this show has lost me. it's my show to watch to have a good laugh and fall asleep ... which i don't think was the intent of darren star and company. just overdone. if people want to see a similar, but better, show, i'd suggest the bbc's mistresses. a lot more, well, realistic, to everything and the characters seem more real.
tony | Jan 24, 2008 9:03:48 AM | #It's much more fun to read this blog than to actually watch the show.
JW | Jan 24, 2008 2:48:54 PM | #I love this show, it's like diving into a box of Godiva chocolates in the bath! Wonderfully unrealistic with touches of insight.
Call me unPC all you want but when did the Chinese become so tall? Mia's mother is a giantess who dwarfs both Mia and her Daddy and the gorgeous brain surgeon was really tall too - what's going on here?
An editor walking in on Mia and her parents demanding an apology for nipples? Does Mia's secretary just let anyone in there? And Mia, the woman who had the guts and wherewithall to get the publisher's job in the first place doesn't even ball said Editor out? All these women are supposed to be too nice to yell at people? Since when do you get to the top by being this nice??
Zoe, whose husband I adore and hope against hope they are not going to turn into someone horrible just for the story, should have reminded smarmy Katherine just why she got promoted and made the idiot who humped her work with her instead of having Katherine in Zoe's hair every five minutes as if being 12 is the only criteria you need in business these days.
I'm glad Juliette told French guy who was being a dick I just wish she didn't apologise for it afterwards. I say bring back the BITCH to this show.
Is it me but I thought metallics were more suitable for evening wear not daytime? And is Mia's office so cold that she never seems to take her coat off? Another fur topped jacket indoors she must have been boiling under that thing.
I'm already bored with Caitlin being a lesbian and her lesbian friends are so boring, poor Caitlin looked like she'd much rather be playing lazer with Zoe's son. It's stereotypical to say that merely because lesbians are women that they'd rather talk a problem to death rather than have a fight a proper fight with the possibility of make-up sex at least it's exciting - who needs to talk a problem to death every single time and I've said it before and I'm saying it again I'm sick of all these gorgeous lipstick lesbians. Bring in some badly dressed, dungaree wearing lesbians and add some real spice to the show.
Yeah to Juliette finally ditching Davis. The realisation that she doesn't need to be tied to someone who just doesn't think enough about her to even tell her that his business is in trouble without robbing her and then going to his former mistress for money. I thought the idea was that the man paid for the hooker not the other way around. Davis cannot be trusted on anything. This was never really about the affair but more the lack of faith and a singular ability not to know his wife at all. It wouldn't surprise me if he tried suing Juliette for alimony to pay for that damn car. Hopefully, Juliette's clothes will get more exciting once Juliette starts bonking the french man and his love of colours!
Note to Solly re: Chinese people and height.
A good question, since we Americans don't learn much about China in our school experiences. But China is a huge country, filled with all sorts of different ethnic traditions. Thus, the wide variety of height and other aspects of human appearance and type. Check out the height and look differences between three different Chinese actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Jet Li, and Jackie Chan.
Michelle | Jan 24, 2008 3:39:37 PM | #i do want to thank the show for giving asian actors and actresses role, rather than the usual stereotypes on asian women and the emasculated asian male that hollywood often portrays.
i still say the most intriguing character is zoe. that's a character i would watch and would be interested with in real life. part of me thinks that, if this show wasn't an ensemble, and more time was actually dedicated to her character, i'd be more intrigued.
i am curious how much people actually like the overdone mid-30's woman in a sexual crisis and trying things out storyline. it seems to be used everywhere, and it was well apparent that bonnie somerville wasn't making a life decision, and rather, just dabbling.
the whole davis/juliet storyline ... bleh. okay, we get it. even rich people have issues. honestly, i like miranda otto, but they need something different for that character. either the way they want her to act it is just odd, or she makes it odd. not sure.
tony | Jan 24, 2008 5:21:17 PM | #How dare you forget Mia's giant pearl earrings? I couldn't take my eyes off those hideous things. Or Juliet's huge gold square earrings combined with that 30 lb necklace. Keep up the fashion comentary!
Emily S | Jan 24, 2008 6:25:13 PM | #Okay, I am watching the ep again and just noticed Caitlin's green "crystal" necklace- that looks like it should be worn by a Fortune Teller's dog. ( A Great Dane maybe? It's big enough.)
Emily S | Jan 24, 2008 6:36:56 PM | #JW I am totally with you. I have stopped actually watching the show, but check out the blog once and a while to see what's going on. Sad that in such a barren landscape of scripted TV I can't even be bothered watching this.
Jess | Jan 24, 2008 6:46:49 PM | #I agree with Tony in that this would be a better show if it were just centered around Zoe. She's the only sympathetic figure on here and the only one whose problems seem interesting. The whole Caitlin thing is lame. I don't believe for a minute that she's attracted to that lady. Look how she looked at the guy in the bathroom. Totally different. Juliet drives me nuts, and I almost don't blame her husband fo stepping out (jk). Mia is too uneven to get a read on. I think I'm going to end up like Jess. I just won't be bothered to watch, even if nothing else is on.
Alexis | Jan 24, 2008 8:04:16 PM | #I absolutely adore Cashmere Mafia. My only problem is there are no more episodes scheduled. TIVO could not locate any, and it can find episodes for the next three weeks. I am not happy.
Monica | Jan 24, 2008 8:05:58 PM | #- One-shouldered capelet. Multi-tonal metallic brocade -
I dont even know what that means, skimmed right though it when it first popped out.
Anyways - the lack of asians, or minority characters on TV is one reason why there are disparity (sp). basically, if there were more minority characters, there would be more to choose from and a tall asian women would not be such a shocker if we're use to it.
im asian, im tall -- holla!
| Jan 24, 2008 8:17:48 PM | #Was it me or was this week's episode slightly improved?
Most of the women finally demonstrated behavior befitting of the intelligent and powerful women that they're supposed to be (especially Zoe).
Furthermore, they seem to be moving past the "Caitlin is a lesbian" plotline which was dumb, because we all knew that like Samantha in Sex and the City, she never actually was.
Also, dare I say that the previews for next week's episode looked kind of fun?
Perhaps the strike has made me crazy, but I'm starting to enjoy this one...
Concerning height- Lucy Lui is tiny, and not all Chinese are short. Two words- Yao Ming
7'4" NBA basketball player.
Was it explained in the pilot, which I didn't see, that Mia is divorced? Both of her parents are Asian so I'm just curious about last name Mason.
jen | Jan 28, 2008 2:26:56 PM | #I am trying to find out the designer of the necklance Juliet wore last week...choker with crystals hanging from it. Any ideas?
Kathy | Jan 30, 2008 3:29:18 PM | #lol @ Don.
If someone tells you all asians are short, just mention Yao Ming.
Linda | Feb 1, 2008 2:52:47 PM | #Where can you get the gold square earrings Juliet wears in this episode?
Jenny | Feb 2, 2008 4:42:33 AM | #
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