Love It/Hate It

Cashmere Mafia Edition

We all know that no one could ever truely replace the SATC girls. Oh and if you don't know what that stands for, get out now. Besides being a perfect six season personality test (I'm a Carrie by the way, though I wish the shoe closet came with the results), it finally got a public dialogue started about all the sexual freaks and faux pas out there, male and female. So while we're falling off our Blahniks waiting for the pink sparkly titled, one-and-half-hours-is-actually-only-two-more-episodes, big flower bonanza that will be the Sex and the City movie, Cashmere Mafia is a nice substitute. I was doubtful of its quality after the first episode, but the characters have developed nicely and thankfully become less 'look at me, I'm a sassy fast talking New York free-male with cash to burn on these ka-RAY-zee designer outfits, just like those other four New York free-males. Remember them? And how much you loved them? Remember?? Well, love us now, cause we're just like them!! Pleeeeease love us!'. A good idea, if you ask me.

BUT...

• Miranda Otto needs to pull the stick out of her arse that she's using to give her that Upper East Side snob drawl. Her fabulous revenge plans are attractive, but an accent that sounds like an immitation of Kate Lanbrook's Proclamations of a Wanker is NOT!



• Pat, Pat, Pat. We KNOW anything you put together is fabulous. So how is it that Lucy Liu looks more like she's stuck in the 90's in this, but SJP was in the 90's and still managed to look like this? Twice! I mean, that first one was Carrie's just-broke-up-with-Big outfit! In the furry fashion stakes, SJP get-drunk-in-no-style coat: 1 (and a 1/2). Lu Liu seizure-causing hot orange mess: 0.



• Sarcasm does not neccessarily the witty make. Tone it down a bit and the girls might actually sound slightly more funny than obnoxious. Not every one of the four have to sound like Miranda. There were three others you know...

Neverless, with all its faults I still think that the Cash will end up in the love pile. Let's just hope Lu Liu's character's fur fetish doesn't get too brutal. If it did, I'd have to agree with the dog.