By Jennifer Larson
As if having to watch this piece of useless drivel once a week weren’t bad enough, ABC decided to give us a bonus episode. Honestly I can think of about a million better ways to spend my time, shaving that pesky bunion on my big toe comes to mind. This may sound harsh, but give this show ten minutes and you’ll know what I mean. Predictable, cliché and boring are the kindest adjectives I can think of to describe what passes before me on my TV screen during the wasted hour I spend watching it. As a matter of fact, I could practically tell you what will happen on each episode, before they even begin. How, you may ask, am I able to accomplish this feat of seemingly amazing psychic ability; simply put, it’s been done and done again and then for good measure done some more. And I’m not just talking about the obvious rip off of SEX AND THE CITY.
CASHMERE MAFIA is a manifestation of just about every stereotype there is about highly successful business women. You know what I’m talking about; the working mother who spends more time on her blue tooth than she does with her children, the power hungry, ladder climbing girl who expects her man to dutifully stand by her side as she steals his promotion right out from under him. Then of course there is the single, sexually adventurous friend who decides to give the latest trend, lesbianism, a try. Oh, let us not forget the socially impeccable one who’s perfect façade comes shattering down around her when her friends catch her husband fooling around with the town’s local hussy.
As it turns out, the cheating wasn’t as much of a problem as the fact that he was cheating on her home turf was. You see, as Juliet (Miranda Otto) told her marriage counselor, he broke the cardinal rule by getting caught by people in their social circle. Not to worry though, because she has advised her philandering husband that all will be well after she does filthy, nasty and kinky things with one of his friends. A plan I might ad that was highly endorsed by Mia (Lucy Liu), Zoe (Frances O’Connor) and Caitlin (Bonnie Somerville). Why Juliet takes their advice is beyond me, considering the fact that Caitlin is so confused that she doesn’t know if she’s a real lesbian or not, Mia just got dumped by her fiancé and Zoe may very well be about to head down the same path as her betrayed buddy. Of course Zoe may get a chance to nip the possibility of her husband straying in the bud, if she can get past the perky neighborhood milf who is trying to bed him. A storyline that is, again, so predictable. You know stay-at-home, horny mom seeks the warmth and company of the ignored and taken advantage of husband in town.
Meanwhile, Juliet has chosen her prey. He’s a man she passed over in business school in favor of her current husband. He seems up for the challenge, if a bit reluctantly, but still, delving into the possibility of an old infatuation is better than revenge sex with one of the over-inflated egos that run in her social sphere. In the end, it remained just a possibility; it seems as if Juliet’s bark may be worse than her bite. It also seems as if Caitlin may be shying away from her latest sexual adventure as well. After getting caught making out with her female date by an ex-boyfriend, Caitlin denies the fact that she “plays on both teams.” You can imagine how well this sat with her potential new lover; this magical love affair may be over before it even starts. Wow, at least Samantha (Kim Cattrel) gave her unconventional relationship a real effort.
I don’t know what the future holds for these four women, although my hope is cancellation, but I will say this for them, they have bigger balls than most of the men on the show.