First thoughts: Cashmere Mafia

I just finished watching ABC's new show Cashmere Mafia, which premiered last night. This hour-long quasi drama follows the lives of four high-powered Manhattan women balancing demanding careers and personal lives, all while looking fabulous and having great sex. If that's starting to sound eerily familiar, add on Patricia Field as the show's stylist and Darren Star as its producer, and you reunite two of the people behind Sex and the City, a show that Lucy Liu, who plays one of the leads, once guest-starred on. Whew!

So is this just a pale imitation of Sex and the City? For most of the episode I'd have to say yes. There was a lot of running around, hopping in and out of taxis and town cars, sitting in very chichi restaurants and sipping of cocktails. There was even a bitch queen in hot dress slow motion montage, which was about the most ridiculous part of the episode. However: when Miranda Otto (who I love because of Lord of the Rings) icily whispered to her philandering husband that she's going to take a lover, I became more interested. That was a surprising response and it could be a lot of fun to watch her play that out.

For now, I'll keep watching.