Lucy, you’re better than this!
Do you watch ABC’s latest superficial prime time serial, Cashmere Mafia? It’s like the high-flying corporate female superpower working mom version of Desperate Housewives (so you can call it the anti-DH) or the female version of Big Shots or the Lucy Liu version of Sex and the City (not even by a long shot but she tries).
What’s next? SAHD (Stay-at-home Dads) Confidential? Here’s a big and hearty hail to trite, formulaic TV dramas.
I watched a couple of episodes yesterday at ABC.com and man, was I just wincing and chuckling at the same time. Do people really follow these things? I can’t even bring myself to watch Big Shots without wanting to stab myself in the chest. With Cashmere Mafia, I was in danger of drowning in a pool of my own regurgitated blood, and I’m no TV snob. I love Pushing Daisies and Heroes and Battlestar Galactica and 30 Rock and Lost and House and Grey’s Anatomy (which has its moments, of which there are less and less of as each season goes by) but Come. On. Hollywood. The pilot started WAY before the writers’ strike so don’t even blame it on that. How did it even get through? Who were in those focus groups? Hannah-Montana fan girls and Wall Street execs with traces of Oedipal they’ve not managed to yoga or therapy out?
And what the heck kinda name is Cashmere Mafia? Half the time the women in the show don’t even wear cashmere?
Better off watching Youtube anytime.
Posted in Imperfect Everything
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Hi,
I really enjoy your blog, they are so down to earth but extraordinary. We’re also a Microsoft family and live in Houghton Beach, Kirkland. we have a nine month old baby girl, I was wondering if you know any wonderful daycare in the area or in-home nanny service for baby in her age. You can contact me at juno8404@yahoo.com Thank you so much.
Juno
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Hi there
Not sure but you can check out http://www.childcare.org for some contacts. Good luck and welcome to the Northwest!
Cheers
Jenn
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Thanks. We actually have lived in NW for more than 8 years now, but relatively new to WA (Portland OR for 7 years). Will continue to check your blog for parenting inspirations.
Juno
February 5th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Hey.. I like Cashmere Mafia….and Lucy Liu too. Though I missed the first few episodes, I’ve been religously taping them (thanks to hubby’s media center hehe!) Though they are big shots, high flying, high corp and super power working women, they have their struggles with marriages and romance too. Though glamorous are they, I don’t envy that kinda lifestyle but just enjoy watching it for the sake of drama. You asked about the SAHD verion? There’s a jap. comedy drama on that.. it’s quite boring (I find most jap movies are) but entertaining in some aspect where it got some of hub’s attention and we started to have ‘debates’ about the SAH lifestyle. If you’re interested/curious.. http://www.crunchyroll.com/series-1490/At-Home-Dad.html
February 5th, 2008 at 1:49 am
BTW.. Kong Hei Fatt Choy (KL version). I’m Hokkien.. not used to saying that.
Also found something amusing today… Safeway (the one in Redmond Way) advertises Chinese New Year. They made an annoucement on the speaker about the Year of the Rat and there’s CNY balloons at the flowers and gift section. My 8 years here have come across anything like this.. CNY is that you feel in an asian store or chinatown or google back to M’sia. I find it funny! TC!
February 5th, 2008 at 9:28 am
OMG Rachael lol. I suppose they are entertaining in a twisted, TV-ate-my-brain kinda way.
How are you celebrating CNY?
February 5th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Eerrr… Not celebrating
It’s just another regular working day. I mean.. How? We don’t have red packets.. fire crackers.. no CNY family/relative/friends gatherings.. no peanut cookies.. it would look awkward to dress Isaac in red and send him off to daycare lol Somehow, don’t see it happening…. But we do call back home and wish everyone Happy CNY.
Do you celebrate?
February 6th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Yea we’re having a small gathering here for our Duvall friends. Wehave some Malaysian friends here, and we invited some neighbours over. I do miss home though, sigh. Here have to do all the cooking lol. Xin nian kuai le to you lady!