Cashmere Mafia will aways pale in comparison to Sex and the City. That's simply the way it is. Sex and the City is the mythical "origin" of the gang of girls show. Cashmere lacks the shock value, the outrageousness, the freedom of the sex talk, the dreaminess, the tug and pull of those women's lives. I'm not here to plug SATC, it had its many problems- the wealth, the racism, the hetereosexism (best addressed in another troubled but potentially rockin' show, the L Word), the wrapped up romantic independence squashing ending. In the end of course, all these shows about women are really about men (and the awful, awful women they cheat with who are never part of the club).
so here's my dream, for the writers to cook up with all their spare time. a television show with:
ugly women
fat women
character actors!
women in the secretarial roles, assistants, nannies
working class women
feminists
sexually aggressive, husband stealing women (who do not have to be redeemed or punished!)
women of color (it doesnt go blonde, brunette, redhead, other- in which case it now seems
fashionable to substitute a chic asian woman as the acceptable diversity quota. push the boundaries, now)
older women and i'm talking 50+
women who don't want children
put them in NYC and let them live large, fashionable lives and rip the shiza out of Sex and the City and its postfeminist glitter. why does it always have to be one step forward and two steps back?
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