Picking Up Where Sex & The City Left Off
By Beth in Uncategorized, TV, Sex & The City on April 7 2007
I never really liked “Sex & The City,” but I’ll acknowledge that the show had a dramatic cultural impact on how men and women dish relationship talk and moreover revealing that women are actually capable of talking about sex openly and directly. And dare i say, like men.
Ok, ok. I’ll put the snark factor in this post on the DL for now.
Not too long ago, Shopgirlove and I lived with a man who was more of an estrogen-charged chick than either of us and while Shopgirl and I would stay up watching “South Park” reruns on Comedy Central our former roommate would watch “Sex & The City” reruns on TBS. Don’t ask me why. It’s like watching “The Sopranos” on PAX. So this association of the show and my former roommate did little to my original opinion of the show. Neither did the fact that my former roommates two apartments ago also religiously watch the show. As these things go, I wasn’t too fond of them either.
So how does my rant bear any relevance to this post’s title? I’m getting to that, ok. Turns out that the writer of “Sex & The City” Candace Bushnell is back with another series. “Lipstick Jungle” is geared towards a group of late 30-40 something women and their high-powered jobs. It has already started production in New York with Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, and Lindsay Price (who starred in a Toys R Us commercial when I was a kid so she can’t be more than 30). If the show is anywhere as dramatically charged behind-the-scenes as its catfighting predecessor, it shouldn’t be too surprising that Melissa George, the Aussie who was slated to play a “crazy analyst” commitment phobe (I’m taking creative liberties here) has already opted out of the series.
Oy. I fear the only good thing to come of this series which will debut on NBC’s fall line-up is the return of 80’s brat pack heartthrob Andrew McCarthy. He could be the next Big thing.
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