Lipstick Jungle – Everyone is fighting

(Season 2, Episode 13 – “La Vie En Pose” )

This was a bittersweet episode of Lipstick Jungle — bitter because everyone and their mother were fighting about one thing or another, and sweet because the ending was a compilation of scenes from previous episodes. It’s clear that they don’t think we’ll be seeing any more of the girls.

While this wasn’t my favorite episode of the series, I’ll still be sad if this is the end. Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, and Lindsay Price are dynamic actresses who work well together. They’re fun to watch, even if the storylines in this episode seemed a bit forced, as if the writers decided they’d better ring every last fight and argument they could out of it. They sure know how to suck the life out of a dying series.

Case in point: Victory’s parents come to the city to attend her and Joe’s engagement party thrown by Nico and Wendy. It seemed cliche to have her parents be “common folk” who don’t fit into Joe’s world. At one point, Victory tells Joe, “My family is so close, it’s not like a family, it’s like a cult.” Well, if they’re so darn close, they’d know that she hob-nobs with the rich and famous, too.

I wish Nico would just get over herself. Now that she and Griffin are spending time together, she’s all hyped up about having to sign the relationship papers for the company’s files. Just enjoy it, Nico. And I’m not buying that you’re so sold on having Kirby back in your life. You’ve got a good thing going with Griffin. Just go with it and quit whining about everything, for cripes  sake.

And there was conflict just about everywhere else we looked in this episode:

• Between Nico and Wendy, when Sal tipped Wendy off about a movie project being looked at by Parador.
• Between Nico and Griffin, who thinks Nico is the one who tipped Wendy off about the project.
• Between Wendy and Maddy, who’s acting up and yelling at her mom, “Fine, put the ankle bracelet on me like you couldn’t put it on dad!” Yeowch!
• Between Victory and her mom, who brought along a scrapbook of wedding ideas. As if she doesn’t know her daughter is an independent woman who makes her own decisions.
• Between Nico and Dahlia, who booked her on The Today Show with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb where Nico was forced to talk about personal stuff.
• Between Nico and Griffin, who was perturbed that she talked about her ex on national television.

And here’s my WTF Moment from this episode: The new online editor flying out to Skywalker Ranch for George Lucas’ annual press event on electronic publishing. Really? You’d think he’d have more pressing matters to think about.

What are your thoughts on this episode and Lipstick Jungle? Are you sad to see it go?

Clacked by Jane Boursaw
on Jan 11, 2009 @ 01:35 EST5EDT