A while ago I said that I was really curious about the upcoming show, Eastwick, on ABC. It’s based on the movie The Witches of Eastwick, and the novel by John Updike. As a fan of both the movie and the book I was hopeful that the show would be just as good. As I previously wrote, the preview trailer that ABC has up on the official website (and which I have embedded below) wasn’t super encouraging. In fact, it looked pretty bad. The tone seemed all wrong, almost goofy, and I had real problems with Paul Gross as Darryl Van Horne (the role originally played by Jack Nicholson).

Well, I’ve had a chance to see the screener of the pilot episode (even if it was just a rough cut), and I have to say I’m encouraged … slightly.

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(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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One thing I love about Victory on Lipstick Jungle is that she seems like a real person. She’s not stick-thin like some actresses, and she seems to have a good heart, even as she climbs the ladder to success.

That was really apparent in last week’s episode when she took an awkward situation – a large woman needing a wedding dress in just a few days – and made her feel sweet and special and beautiful.

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(Season 2, Episode 4)

“It must be cold there in your shadow.” – Kirby to Nico, on Nico’s slacker brother, George

One thing I love about Lipstick Jungle is that the women are curvy. Ok, maybe not Kim Raver, who’s stick-thin, but Brooke Shields and Lindsay Price both look fairly realistic, compared to other women on TV. I like that.

We continue to learn a little more about the women, like Nico’s childhood in Queens and her working-class family. Nice to see Dan Hedaya playing her dad. I think of him as the dad on 1995’s Clueless, but he’s been working steadily through the years.

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(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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(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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