(Season 2, Episode 12 – “Chapter Nineteen: Lovers’ Leaps”)

This episode set things up nicely to move forward with the lovely ladies. Too bad there’s only one episode left! The season finale airs next week, and I’m preparing myself to be left hanging in limbo for the rest of my life. Maybe a miracle will happen, and we’ll get another season of Lipstick Jungle.

I’ll map things out via my favorite scenes:

Nico and Griffin in the elevator. When last we left Nico, she was shooting hormones with the hopes of having a baby solo. She’s still thinking along those lines, but things are progressing sweetly with Griffin. After he impulsively hires an online editor for Bonfire without first discussing it with Nico, she says he should have played hard to get. “Not my style,” says Griffin. “When I know what I want, I go for it.” Then he moves in for the smooch and plants one on Nico, right there in the elevator. You know, this stuff never happened to me when I worked in the corporate world. When Griffin looks at Nico, it just makes me woozy.

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(Season 2, Episode 11 – “Indecent Exposure”)

I’m seriously ready to start one of those lame write-in campaigns to save Lipstick Jungle. I say lame, because do they ever really work? Hey, if it didn’t work with Moonlight, I’ve got serious doubts it would work with Lipstick Jungle.

Anyway, the show continues to get better and better, even in the Friday Night Death Slot. They ramped up the sex factor by having Victory get naked for an advertising campaign, and here’s the thing: She was all for the idea, until she realized it was HER who would be getting naked, then she freaked out.

I’ve said before that Victory seems like the most normal person on the show, and tonight she proved that once again. First of all, she has a kick-ass body, but she’s still scared shitless about having to get naked. I think most women would identify with that. No matter what we look like, it’s never good enough.

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I’m really pulling for Wendy and Shane on Lipstick Jungle, and they’ve certainly had their problems lately, what with her kissing the soccer dad while Shane was away. I thought she was kind of asking for it, though, sitting there all sprawled out on the couch next to him drinking wine and all.

I don’t know if that had any bearing on Shane’s actions in last week’s episode, but you’ve gotta think there’s some hard feelings there. So when Josie came crying to him about her dead dog, he raced right off to help her. Well, actually Wendy volunteered him, but what else could she do, with Josie standing their crying at her dinner party?

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I just love it when ads are odd. Not so odd that you don’t know what’s being sold, mind you. But odd enough that the first couple of half-assed times you’re watching a commercial, you have no idea what’s going on, but are intrigued enough to pay attention the next time it comes on. Then, when you finally watch the commercial in full-assed fashion, you’re amazed, fascinated, or repulsed. But by that time, you’re hooked.

That’s what happened when I saw VW’s new Routan campaign the first few times. In it, Brooke Shields talks in somber tones about how people are having babies just to “get German engineering.” The couple standing by the new VW minivan would bellow back “We wanted to have kids anyway!” or something else that completely refutes what Brooke was saying. I was wondering what the hell Brooke was getting at; is it just another quirky VW ad? Sure, but one with a theme. Video after the jump.

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NBC

(Season 2, Episode 3)

Well, good on Victory for telling Joe to shove off and then taking up with Rodrigo. I think those two are hot together, and I’ve never thought she and Joe had any chemistry. At all. He can stay in Europe with Tatiana for a while, as far as I’m concerned.

You know, there’s always a lot going on with this show, and that’s one reason I like it. Except sometimes the storylines are a little goofy. Like, for example, did Wendy really think she wouldn’t get caught forging the insurance papers for Noah Mason? Especially with the very real possibility that he might die — which he did — so now she’s out on the street (literally, in the final scene).

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NBC

(Season 2, Episode 2)

It’s just one big chemistry set in the jungle tonight. No steamy shower scene between Wendy and Shane (damn!), but plenty of hot moments for Nico and Victory. With guys, that is, not with each other.

First, Nico. How much time should pass before you stash the black dresses in the back of the closet? For Nico, not much. She’s already hot and heavy with Kirby the photographer, and I couldn’t be happier! Those two have such smokin’-hot chemistry together, it’s ridiculous.

Too bad her dead husband’s pregnant lover shows up demanding cash and food. But you know what? I thought it was really classy of Nico (and the show’s writers) to have her do the unexpected thing and help the girl out.

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NBC

(Season 2, Episode 1 – Season Premiere)

I loved Lipstick Jungle when it premiered earlier this year, and I love it even more now. Part of that is the stellar casting of Rosie Perez, a publicist hired by Victory to re-brand her business and help her move forward.

Perez’s character, Dahlia, is a blunt, fast-talking chick who can spew the one-liners like nobody’s business. When Nico lamented her crumbling marriage, Dahlia suggested getting some work done “down there,” to tighten things up a bit. “Botox has moved south,” she said. “Way south. They’re shipping collagen down to the delta.”

Then she followed it up by noting, “Every guy has gotta be the superhero. He’s gotta be Batman in that cave.”

You know, with lines like that delivered in Perez’s heavy Brooklyn accent, I’m expecting big things in the weeks ahead. I’ll definitely be paying attention any time she’s on-screen.

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