'Cashmere Mafia': Lesbians Are the New Babies
OMG so far this is the best opening scene of a television show. Ever. There is more Hermes in Juliet's closet than in an actual Hermes boutique. Patricia Field, and the product placement people of ABC, I salute you. Mia, her enormous pirate sleeves, and her amazing new Gucci hand/duffle bag trot into her brand-new office to be confronted by a topiary draped in sunglasses and - a gay! Mia has her very own Stanford Blatch! In this iteration his name is Grant, and he's almost certainly about to be a Plot Point, so keep up.
While dropping off the younguns at school, Zoe is confronted by a smug stay-at-home mom unforgivably making eyes at Zoe's husband Eric and, even more unforgivably, wearing a velour tracksuit. Meanwhile, Catilin is clumsily flirting with Alicia at a makeup pitch meeting, and Juliet and Davis are clumsily fighting with each other in therapy. Davis calls Juliet an "ice queen", which Mia agrees with in true Ling-like fashion. At lunch, Zoe busts out a "revenge sex spreadsheet", from which to pick Juliet's future lover. Um, is there like a distribution list I can get on for that? Caitlin reveals that she has a date with Alicia. Mia admits that at Wellesley, girl-on-girl action is essentially a given, and Zoe fondly remembers her girlhood camp make-out buddy and her proficiency with...lanyards. Euphemism? Mia admires Caitlin's ability to be on-trend and announces that "lesbians are the new babies." And really, I can't argue with that.
Back at her office, Juliet struggles with calling her agreed-upon (and Google-tested) lover. She calls Caitlin for advice on one-night stands, and Caitlin calls upon her hair-and-makeup team to gussy Juliet up. If you've seen Juliet, you know that she doesn't NEED gussying up, and she comes out in full Kim Cattrall drag. Seriously, she went from Grace Kelly to Grace Jones. I call foul. Caitlin secretly calls Juliet's selected lover and schedules a date between him and Juliet. Back at the publishing house, Mia's boss instructs her to fire Grant, who actually does call her on the sheer volume of her sleeves, making her realize that she can't part with him. Zoe goes to pick up her kids from Velour Tracksuit, who has helped them to build a "Working Mommy" Build-a-Bear, complete with Bluetooth headset. The next night, with their spouses running late, Zoe's husband Eric and Velour Tracksuit turn their parental playdate into something a little more...romantic. At least, she attempts to make it romantic, making him an offer of no-strings nooky any time he would like, but Zoe breaks up the key party. Tracksuit dangles the promise of an Architectural Digest cover in front of Eric if he'd be willing to...do...her kitchen.
The same plotline that we all loved so much on SATC is back! Alicia gets upset when a man approaches Caitlin in a club and references her slightly loose past. Wait, no: I didn't like this when it happened to Samantha on Sex and the City, either. After meeting lover-boy Bobby for drinks, Juliet kisses him but is unsure that she's able to take it further than that. While getting ready for bed, Eric and Zoe fight about whether or not it's a good idea for him to take the Architectural Digest gig. At an art gallery, Mia gets sandbagged by Grant's incompetence and by her own one-shouldered mink shrug. Mia fires Grant, who flames out in loud and spectacular fashion, embarassing her and landing her on Gawker. Mia decides to be nicer at work, taking her full-figured (thank you casting gods!) assistant under her wing. Juliet gets flowers from both of the men in her life. Caitlin admits to Alicia that she's never had a successful relationship with anyone, of any gender, and that she's really scared. And Zoe totally pulls the rug out from under Velour Tracksuit's Havaianas by hiring a double-decker bus to take all of the kids and parents together on a field trip.
Next week: looks like Juliet decides to let her hair - and La Perlas - down.
What do you think, fellow shoppers? Have all you ladies ordered your "I'm a Mia" or "I'm a Caitlin" t-shirts? Aren't you just exhausted with these gays and their maternity leave? Spill!
LOVELOVELOVE this show! Love the clothes, love how the women have each others back,love the talk. can do without another show having a token gay is she isnt she but hopefully that resolves.
I can't believe I am the first to post in this comments blog. Anyhoo, thought the ep had good flow, the ladies are fab, especially the brits. Fances O'Connor (Zoe) played Fanny Price in Mansfield Park, and I'd recommend seeing it, the source material isn't far from the themes of this show, salacious, just in the Sense and Sensibility way. Miranda Otto did LOTR, and its nice to see the contrast between that self-sacrificing character and "Juliet" on this series. Anyway, good show. Cheers They should put this on the same night as Big Shots, equals parts estrogen and testosterone for all :)
Love the show! So delicious! Come on ladies, tell your friends, let's get the ratings up on this one.
Love the clothes, the bags, Miranda Otto's make-up job but really cannot stand that the working mother and the stay at home mother are portrayed as conniving enemies again. I know it makes great television but God forbid that a working woman cannot be friends with a homemaker - in that regard alone Zoe's nanny problems could be over in exchange for babysitting duties. They don't have to be at each other's throats vying for each other's husbands!
Also, that crock that a person only has an affair because he's feeling neglected and secretly wants to get caught? Oh Dear God - why can't they just admit that they wanted to sleep with someone else? It's never anybody's fault least of all the person with his pants down - I should be a therapist if that's the kind of advice they give to cowardly idiots.
Kudos to Mia mentoring another woman though and she's a normal looking woman too, pretty without being over the top gorgeous like the rest of them.
I'm loving this show and did I mention the clothes - welcome back to TV Pat Field - she is the Edith Head of today.
Oh, and I also didn't like the way they snubbed the perfectly valid point in the meeting that the make-up was just being marketed to white women in favour of flirting and double entendres between Caitlin and Alicia. I think that was a perfectly valid point - it's hard enough getting a look in on suitable make-up colours when you're a woman of colour (yes, I'm a Brit too before anyone makes a comment on my spelling!)and it was nice that a white guy brought it up - he just shouldn't have been dismissed especially since Alicia's not white herself - she was so not doing her job!
I can't believe I'm the only one who thinks that everyone, with exception Lucy Liu, needs a hairdresser!! Their hair is everywhere and not attractive. They've got great bone structure, get some style--shorter--to their hair. I don't think the costuming is that great at all I wouldn't wear any of them! Sorry, the show just doesn't impress me much.