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List Price: $29.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 13399
Released: September 23, 2008 |
| Our Price: $13.87 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Set in glamorous New York City, four women stay close as they strive for success in the business world. Affectionately known as the Cashmere Mafia, they rely on each other for support in both their careers and their often-tumultuous personal relationships. Publisher Mia (Lucky Liu), CEO Juliet (Miranda Otto), top business executive Zoe (Frances O'Connor) and key marketing executive Caitlin (Bonnie Somerville) are bright, driven and dedicated, supporting each other through rocky marriages, rival colleagues, kids' recitals and the hunt for the perfect loft. Their ambition comes with a price - although they consistently outpace their male colleagues and husbands in salary and title, they must watch out for scheming rivals, eager to bring them down. But how better to climb to the top of the corporate ladder than with your buddies at your side?
Description of Cashmere Mafia - The Complete Series:
Pitted against Lipstick Jungle during the 2008 TV season, Cashmere Mafia holds its own with a familiar but still welcome focus on four powerhouse New York women whose fierce devotion to their jobs is matched only by their unwavering friendship with each other. Helmed by Darren Star (Sex and the City), Cashmere Mafia focuses on the lives of magazine publisher Mia Mason (Lucy Liu) and her friends Zoe Burden (Frances O'Connor), Juliet Draper (Miranda Otto), and Caitlin Dowd (Bonnie Somerville). Zoe and Juliet--both married with children--juggle their jobs as high-powered executives with frenzied family lives. While Mia searches for love with a colleague, a brain surgeon, and a manny, cosmetics executive Caitlin questions her sexuality and finds a relatively stable relationship with another women. There are some plot points that go nowhere: a sex tape, a pregnancy, a fashion show disaster. But the core group shares wonderful chemistry. While Liu is meant to be the show's star, Otto, with her icy, red-haired good looks and regal voice, has the most compelling scenes. As the cuckolded wife with a n'er-do-well husband, Otto injects depth and emotion to Juliet, who has to work out in her own mind that presenting a happy image is no substitute for actually being happy. Thanks to the 2008 Writers Strike, the series is truncated to just seven episodes. The sad thing is that the show was canceled just as the writers began to develop the characters into interesting women, rather than high-heeled caricatures we've seen before. Often compared to Sex and the City because of the female cast, the New York setting, and the fashionista wardrobe, Cashmere Mafia doesn't touch Sex at its peak. But it hints at enough "what could have beens" to make viewers wistful that the series didn't get a second season. --Jae-Ha Kim
Cashmere Mafia - The Complete Series Reviews:
Favorite TV show! 
2009-04-18 - This was my favorite TV show when it was on the air and I was disappointed when it stopped coming on. This show is so chic and inspiring for the modern woman. These ladies are powerful, stylish and fun! I wish they would bring it back to TV!! I watch the DVD when I need a little 'diva' in my life!
Good 
2009-02-05 - It is a good series however I am not sure that the casting was the best. It was also a bad decision to have basically the same situations than in Lipstick Jungle.
Cashmere BARFia 
2009-02-04 - I can't believe so many people liked this show. The four main women were as interesting as dry, plain toast. Nothing can beat Sex and the City and Lipstick Jungle was more realistic as to how me and my girlfriends lead our lives here in Manhattan. We can relate to the women of Lipstick Jungle than the four dry pieces of toast from Cashmere Mafia. I'm glad it's over. I hope for it to never return. I couldn't stomach another over the top dramatic moment with that uptight, tight lipped Julia Draper. If it does return, I won't be wasting my time. I'd be more entertained by watching paint dry.
This Show Should NEVER Have Been Canceled!
2009-01-11 - Frankly, I enjoyed Cashmere Mafia MORE than Sex in the City. The women in Cashmere Mafia were portrayed as strong, independent women with real problems. Their loyalty to one another in the face of adversity and through everyday life was refreshing to see.
UNTHINKABLE that they only gave this terrific show SEVEN episodes!
SATC Updated for Working Adults
2008-12-30 - I loved this show, and was really sad it wasn't renewed. The updated characters were much more realistic than SATC but still rocked the couture. Two of the women are executive moms, and from Zoe locked in the closet trying to have a conference call while her kids run wild, to Miranda's spot-on commentary about the tension between her type and the stay-at-homes, I thought the series was an excellent update from the "40-something but still buying shoes and renting a studio and sleeping around and not sure if I want to get married blah blah blah" of SATC. Cashmere Mafia showed you can be educated, act your age, have a career, have kids and still look fabulous. Juliet's character is the best by far - she brings depth and feeling to a role that could have gone brittle and frigid. Although my favorite line goes to Lucy Liu while ripping an Alexander McQueen scarf off her ex-fiance's girlfriend, "Enjoy the bounce!" I LOVE that these are intelligent women who think on their feet and excel (for the most part) at their high-powered jobs rather than staggering around trying to find the front door like Carrie at Vogue. Maybe that's what killed it - people didn't want to believe it was all possible...
