Didn't We Almost Have It All?

It was with great excitement that I watched Cashmere Mafia this week - not only have I been hungering for new tv lately (please, please just give the writers what they deserve, already!) but it definitely sounded like my kind of show. Powerful women - hells, yeah! I was hoping for Sex in the City with CEOs and they didn't disappoint. Now, it's not the best show ever, but it has definite potential and it raised some interesting and important points.

Now, in some aspects, the show is uplifting for women. These chics are kicking ass and taking names - earning promotions, running the show, winning the awards - they're some powerful bitches. On the other hand, though, the show seems to ask the question of whether women really can have it all, and not surprisingly the answer is no.

At the opening of the show, one of the chics (sorry - one episode isn't nearly enough for me to remember the names of the characters) is proposed to and as she's glowing as brightly as her new diamond, she and her new fiance run into their mutual boss. In a situation contrived for tv, the boss man lets them know that the two will be in direct competition for a promotion and the loser will be out on his or her ass. It's all or nothing and they both go for it. The woman wins the job and guess what - the man backs out of the engagement. Seems he wanted her to lose gracefully and retire to having kids and making his dinner. Lovely.

In another case, one of the women sees the husband of another woman kissing some hussy right in the middle of the street in the middle of the day. (Okay, maybe hussy is a strong word, but again, the names are eluding me.) The group decides to break the news to their friend and find out that she's completely aware of her husband's indiscretions and that the only rule he's broken is that he's supposed to keep the hussies out of town. So what does she do? She lets her husband know that she'll be taking a lover as revenge, then they'll be "even" and he'll keep it out of town in the future. Wow.

The third member of the group is the mom and wife trying to do it all and to her credit she's hanging in there, but just barely. She can't keep good help - she goes through two nannies in the first episode - and her husband gets a new job that will keep him from helping out. The poor chic is drowning.

In the end, the one woman with something positive happening in her love life is the lesbian. This does a whole lot to change my general disdain for the male species. Overall, I was entertained, but found it a little too true to life for it to be completely satisfying. I'm interested to see where this series goes. Don't misunderstand - it's not a man hater type thing persay - just the unfortuante reality for women in these positions.