(Season 2, Episode 12 – “Chapter Nineteen: Lovers’ Leaps”)
This episode set things up nicely to move forward with the lovely ladies. Too bad there’s only one episode left! The season finale airs next week, and I’m preparing myself to be left hanging in limbo for the rest of my life. Maybe a miracle will happen, and we’ll get another season of Lipstick Jungle.
I’ll map things out via my favorite scenes:
Nico and Griffin in the elevator. When last we left Nico, she was shooting hormones with the hopes of having a baby solo. She’s still thinking along those lines, but things are progressing sweetly with Griffin. After he impulsively hires an online editor for Bonfire without first discussing it with Nico, she says he should have played hard to get. “Not my style,” says Griffin. “When I know what I want, I go for it.” Then he moves in for the smooch and plants one on Nico, right there in the elevator. You know, this stuff never happened to me when I worked in the corporate world. When Griffin looks at Nico, it just makes me woozy.
Wendy and Shane in bed. After more back and forth about him going on tour with Natasha Bedingfield — including a miserable session with a marriage counselor — Wendy finally listens to the advice of her girlfriends and packs a bag for Shane. You’re going, she says, now get out that door. She realizes she pushed him to the brink when he stumbled home drunk after partying with Natasha and her gang following a gig in the city at a club called, appropriately, The Bitter End. All this led up to a resolution between the two that he should go on the tour, and Wendy needs to let loose the reins a bit. And they ended up in bed making sweet love. Aside from his gross hairy chest, it was nice to see the two squabbling lovebirds return to their former happy relationship.
Victory and Joe on the boardwalk. Victory sets up a romantic dinner to celebrate their one-year anniversary, at which time she plans on proposing to him. What she doesn’t know is that he’s been hit hard by the sagging economy and basically has to start over. And he doesn’t want to drag her down. Doesn’t matter, she says. “You own my heart, Joe. Whatever else you do or don’t have, you’ll always own my heart.” Big smooch.
Aside from all the nice lovey-dovey scenes, one thing that bugged me about this episode was Nico’s resistance to hiring an online editor. Bonfire sounds like a pretty big magazine, and I’ve worked long enough in the publishing industry to know that you need someone doing that job full-time. She can’t helm the print version AND the online version. And then for her to be ticked that the new blogger gets a giant scoop on a murder suspect and puts it on their Web site?! That would be a major coup! OK, so the new girl should have run it by Nico first, but despite the fact that she had to revamp their next cover story, Nico should have been kissing her feet for grabbing that story before anyone else in town.
Your thoughts on this episode? Will you be sad to see Lipstick Jungle end?
Clacked by Jane Boursaw 
on Jan 03, 2009 @ 13:12 EST5EDT
