I thought there will never be any glimpse of hope left, post-Sex and the City series. Desperate Housewives was never my taste as I don’t relate well to suburban culture. Perhaps, it’s also because of my reluctance to identify myself as a suburbanite, I'm not sure why. My speculation is that, I love the 'big city' feel.
With an introduction to HDD Player by a big-hearted friend, I managed to rekindle my love toward small screen series rather recently. And very quickly, Carrie Bradshaw and her troop are now being replaced by Nico Reilly (my favourite, no doubt!), Wendy Healy and Victory Ford (what a name!) as my topic of current interests. No prize for guessing as to why it’s Nico Reilly this time. Not because I’m a Cougar (an older woman who dates a younger man) like her, but I just find her as someone I hope to be if I had ever survived in the corporate world.
The women of Lipstick Jungle are where the four single women of SATC have never been yet. Attached or married with very successful careers (at least, two of them). In other words, they are powerhouse women. They have broken the glass ceiling in the corporate world and they’ve worked hard enough to be at the top, which is something I can believe has happened and is happening in reality.
Not a surprise, Lipstick Jungle is the brainchild of Candace Bushnell and with it, she has successfully introduced us, once again, to many more faces and lives of New York’s women and their daily drama. How interesting to know that it’s happening there and soon this part of the world may evolve toward the same tendencies. Perhaps, some may have already reached there.
A toast to Lipstick Jungle but one thing I could sense, is that it may not be a runaway success as compared to SATC. If you've moved on just like me, give Lipstick a try. It's quite refreshing yet some traces and familiarities still exist for us, SATC women and men to enjoy...
