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I know I'm supposed to hate this show, but is it okay that I think I love it?
Our mafia of cashmere consists of Mia, Juliet, Caitlin, and Zoë. They all earned their MBAs together, so naturally, they're like family now. Mia, a.k.a. Ling, gets engaged to Jack, who is also her colleague. On the day of their engagement, they are told that they are competing for the job of Publisher at the media firm where they work -- the loser will be without a job. Lots of good-natured competition follows, but when Mia wins, Jack breaks their engagement. He wants someone to come home to, and he doesn't think Mia can be that.
Juliet is the COO of a hotel and resort chain and is impossibly connected. She's been married to Davis for years and has a daughter. Zoë sees Davis kissing the town strumpet, Cilla (great name), and all of the girls gather and tell Juliet. She stoically carries on and informs her chickenshit husband that she will be "taking a lover" and, after that, they can start fresh. Send this woman to the Middle East. I like the way she thinks.
Caitlin is a lesbian? Er, we meet her when a guy is dumping her at breakfast. Then, she meets Alicia Lawson at her office and sparks fly. She consults her priest, also her brother, who tells her to go for it. I know, this is great. Her brother is hot too. So she goes on a date with Alicia, and they kiss. She seems to like it. And, she has a car in Manhattan. And, I think she was drinking and driving.
Zoë is a managing director in mergers and acquisitions, and she's having a lot of trouble with the younger women in her life. Her assistant is ungrateful and lazy. Her nanny is slutty and unprofessional, and she drinks Zoë's good wine. When Zoë confronts her, she quits. Zoë tells her husband, Eric, that these girls are from Generation I.D. ("I Deserve"). Her husband is kind of a second banana to Zoë (as are all of the men in the mafia girls' lives) but gets a job that will keep him away from home, which taxes Zoë further. Who's gonna live her life for her?
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It's morning in Manhattan. There's the sun rising over Central Park. There's the Wall Street 2/3 subway. There's the St. Regis, which is uptown. We're all over the place here. Busy cameras. There's Bendel's and Bergdorf Goodman. So, in six seconds, I'm gathering that the New York of this show is not the New York of the majority of us poor working slobs. Unless it's about janitors.
Now, here are Lucy Liu and Tom Everett Scott. They don't look like janitors, unless janitors have kicky little figures and expensive wrap skirts. Lucy and Tom are walking in a park that only looks vaguely familiar to me, having a good-natured argument about when their first date was. She's saying that the first anniversary of their first date is the day, while Tom is saying the anniversary is today. Lucy says she's a woman; therefore, she wouldn't forget the occasion of her first date with her special fellow. Suddenly, Lucy's attention is grabbed by some street musicians (a guy with a guitar and a girl beside him) in the park. They're singing Modern Love's "Melt With You." They're the same people who were playing on the night of Tom and Lucy's first date. Crazy coincidence. Okay, I don't want to be this guy -- the one who's all saying what New York's like and how this isn't like New York. But the first character they introduced was the city, right? So, I feel obligated to point out that those street performers have never performed on a street in New York. They look like they just left a Scientology class in L.A. (just an observation; please don't hunt me, Scientology). The girl is just kind of bouncing and swaying. What do the crafters of this program feel that bouncing girl was adding to this moment? They look like mimes. Scientology mimes. So, Lucy is transfixed by the coincidence. When she turns to Tom, he's on his knee with an open jewelry box in his hand. She gasps and covers her face with her hands. "Will you just admit that I'm right?" he asks. "No," she giggles. That's kind of cute. "Okay, will you marry me?" Yes! She will! Applause from the people who were improbably paying attention to the street musicians along with Lucy and Tom as "Melt With You" melts into the actual Modern Love version. They're gonna be so happy.
Afterward, Tom and Lucy are walking hand in hand along the sidewalk. They get really nervous when they see some guy named Clive, dubbed "Lord Voldemort" by Lucy. Real mature. Clive, who has a British accent, says it's serendipitous that he's meeting them. I don't know what John Cusack has to do with this. Clive has just come from a meeting with "the board." I'm assuming it's the board of "Barnstead Media," because that's the name on the poster from Kinko's that some PA just tacked to the wall behind the actors. They're probably in the lobby of a movie theatre. I guess when your clothing budget exceeds the gross national product of some third -- nay, second -- world countries, you scrimp where you can. Like on guest actors. The dude playing Clive has surely made a happy career playing trees and other things made of stiff, unemotive wood. Clive walks and tells the trailing Lucy and Tom that the company's "consolidating on the print side" and will make either Tom or Lucy the publisher of U.S. print; the other will be out of a job. He says they are playing "Survivor West 23rd Street." They are gonna be so skinny when this is over! They "can't" base the decision on past performance (because Lucy and Tom are mostly equals), so whoever wins the biggest account in that quarter gets the job. But the quarter ends at the end of the week! Exactly. Uh oh. Clive sees that Lucy is wearing a ring, and says that one of them will be married to the Publisher of Barnstead Magazine Group. So, the boss is a total caricature. Why is the cliché of the mega-evil boss so overused? Jobs actually are stressful and bosses often are assholes. It's one part of life that could be mimicked realistically for good effect. The histrionics are unnecessary.
After Clive Darth Vaders down the crazy neon lit hallway, Tom and Lucy (can we get some character names here?) are nonplussed. Tom says one of them could bow out -- meaning Lucy -- and she says that he's funny. How Noel Coward.
Lucy kisses her man and leaves him to sit down at her desk. She types an email from Mia Mason (that's like a weird parallel world twin name to Lucy Liu) to Juliet Draper. Mia's email address also says that she's COO of Stanton Hall Hotels and Resorts. Interesting email program. Someone's email signature could say his or her own position, but would that appear if you were writing to someone else? Whatevs -- I gather that this is their way of introducing the rest of the peeps, but it's way forced. She writes to Juliet and tells her to meet her for lunch at the "usual place."
Juliet is sitting at a boardroom table when she gets an email on her Blackberry from Mia. It reads, "Juliet: Cancel your lunch. All of us, the usual place. URGENT. xo Mia" I appreciate her capitalization. People are so opposed to thoughtfully composing their damn emails these days. So, just fucking call me if it's such a problem. I don't have time for your digital chicken scratch. Two guys are pitching something to Juliet and her male counterparts, but they mistake Juliet for an assistant because of her vagina and all. They finish a sentence and wordlessly push their coffee cups towards her. To be fair, she does have a vagina. I'm assuming. Mistakes happen. Juliet stands slowly with a smile and, as she's pouring their coffee, tells the guys that she is COO of the company and the ranking executive in the meeting, so they need to address their proposals to her. "Cream or sugar?" Well played, Miranda Otto.
, Mia sends a similarly worded email to Caitlin Down, the VP of Marketing at Lily Parish. Caitlin's having breakfast with a guy -- they are having an argument. I think they're at Pastis. I have a feeling we're going to see a whole lot of Meatpacking District on this show. Which is interesting because all of the opening shots were far far away from that area. Do I sense an unsure tone? The credits aren't even over yet, so I'm going to give it a rest. Caitlin checks her Blackberry and the guy is like, you never stop looking at that thing and working, blah blah high-powered woman blah blah. He says that if her Blackberry had a "vibrator attachment," she wouldn't need him. He's whining and seems like a wuss, but that's actually a kind of self-important thing to say. Does he really think she's only keeping him around because she just can't live without his penis? It's just as likely that a "Plumbing For Dummies" software attachment for her Blackberry would be the thing that made him obsolete. There's lots of things that Blackberries can't do-- you don't know which one of those things is the thing that you do that she can't live without. Anyway, he says the vibrator thing, and then adds, "Which is kind of the issue, if you want the truth." Bad segue. She freaks, "Are you dumping me?" Huh? Is he dumping her? He says that he's trying to tell her what he's not getting from their relationship. You know what he can get? She dabs her napkin to her mouth and says, "The check. For once." Then she walks away. That was all sorts of weird. It was like too complicated and over-simplified all at once. Caitlin walks away like she's on a TV show and has a mixture of a "the nerve!" face and "I'm free! The rest is still unwritten!" face.
Zoë Burden, Managing Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at Gorham Sutter also gets a Mia-mail. We find Zoë in the midst of a heated business call. Suddenly, two children open a closet and we see that Zoë is hiding amongst the hangers. The children don't look that fearsome. I'm not sure what the problem is. The little girl makes Zoë promise that she will be at her dance recital "this time." Bad mommy. Bad rich mommy. Kid, you're going to get to go to Brown with no student loans or job -- get over the "Mommy abandoned me" shit. You'll thank me. The little boy says that he can't find his shoes and Zoë tells him to ask the nanny. Little girl informs her that the nanny is gone. This is news to Zoë. Then, her hot husband walks up and kisses her on the cheek and says he left a note about for her the nanny. Her plane circled JFK airport forever the night before, so she didn't see the note. And, she doesn't love her children. The Greenwalds across the street apparently poached the nanny by offering all sorts of perks.
Montage of all of the women power walking, taxicab hailing, and more walking. Lucy Liu has to sort of run to keep up with her own idea of power walking.
Mia enters a restaurant to find the other three girls already seated. She fake-calmly sits down, and Caitlin asks where the fire is. Mia answers by tucking her hair behind her ear, thus revealing her engagement ring that I swear was enhanced by some sort of CGI sparkle. The girls go crazy. Mia tells them about the weird job competition and she says, "I go for it, right?" Juliet asks what "it" is-- the job or the man. Zoë and Caitlin, talking over each other, believe that she can have both. Juliet thinks it would be an icky way to start an engagement.
Suddenly, our ladies are interrupted by another woman they greet as "Cilla." What a cilly name. She says that she has a favor to ask, and asks Caitlin if she's in The Arborgast. I take it that's her building. Cilla has a bid on the penthouse that has been accepted, so now she just needs acceptance from the co-op board. Caitlin is actually on the board, so she'll see if she can "move it along." Cilla thanks them and walks away. Once she's gone, Juliet says that Cilla really knows how to divorce. She was married to a famous actor, and to "Ron Buckler." Sounds like Cilla is supposed to be Ellen Barkin? Juliet says that, before Mia and "Jack" start their workplace competition, they should have an engagement party. Nothing huge -- just their "nearest and dearest." "An engagement party? For me?" Mia giggles, and they look at her ring some more. There's a reason Lucy Liu hasn't played many romantic leads: she's really not convincing at giddy.
It's nighttime, and Zoë and her hot husband are exiting a cab wearing party finery. Zoë is glued to her Blackberry. From the looks of the cobblestone streets and (I think) the Gansevoort Hotel behind them, we're in Meatpacking again. Hot Husband says that she needs to make some room in her schedule two days from then when they will be meeting a potential nanny. He says that he has another interview for a restoration in Charleston. He's Bob Vila! She says she can be available at 4 for the nanny interview, and then she changes it to 4:10. "You just said 4," Hot Husband tells her. "Fine, I just might be ten minutes late," she replies. Spoken like a true executive.
The engagement party for Mia and Jack is happening in a restaurant/lounge location. Mia and Jack are glued to their Blackberries. Mia is wearing this half black/half gold lamé dress and magnifico huge-ass hoop earrings that are making me love life right now. Juliet tells someone that they just threw the party together that morning. Hmm. That's actually not very, uh, classy. I don't think an engagement party should not be impromptu, just as engagements themselves shouldn't be impromptu.
Suddenly, Caitlin's clinking a glass and telling Juliet and Zoë to join. I can't tell if they bought out the restaurant they're in or if they are just having a small gathering amongst the other guests. Once Caitlin hands champagne glasses to the girls, they're all "Where's Mia?" They're toasting her. She and Jack stand together as Zoë begins. She says that, when they were in business school together, Mia would describe what her perfect man would be like. Caitlin says that Mia was looking for "Mia with a penis." Laughs. Juliet says that after fifteen years with her husband, Davis, she knows that when you're together, you're home. Couldn't they think of less clunky ways to introduce this crap? It's like "fuzzyfuzzy HUSBAND fuzzy FIFTEEN YEARS fuzzy BUSINESS SCHOOL." Then, in tandem, they add that if Jack breaks Mia's heart, they'll break every bone in his body. Charming.
Later, it looks like Davis and Zoë's Hot Husband are giving advice to Jack. Davis tells Jack to forget about arguing if all of the mafia girls are in agreement. Hot husband of Zoë says that he should never use the "R" word. It's as bad as the "C" word. "R" word? It's "relax." Wouldn't he have already maybe had this talk with these guys? I'm assuming they've been around each other quite a bit.
The girls are leaving. Caitlin says that she has a teleconference with Tokyo. Zoë's nanny quit. Juliet has to go have sex with Davis, since he's leaving on business the day and it's a superstition of hers. Mia says it's like a "Bone Voyage." You're no Samantha Jones, Mia. Juliet says that although the ladies bought tables for a benefit she's working on, she also would like it if they attended. It's Thursday, and Zoë's got her daughter, Sasha's dance recital; but she'll "peek in." Caitlin confirms her attendance.
On the way out, Mia asks Jack what will happen if she gets the promotion. He jokes that he will catch up on his back episodes of The View, adding that he'll be fine and that she should relax, which gets him a terse "Watch it" from Mia. She will not relax, Jack! He laughs, but she doesn't get it.
The day, Juliet enters Davis's office with a dress and asks him whether he thinks it's appropriate for the benefit on Thursday. He loves it. But he wasn't even looking at it. She asks him to close his eyes and describe it -- and he actually can! To reward him, Juliet starts making out with him. They're getting nasty on his desk when their teenaged daughter walks in. She's disgusted. Her parents are pretty hot, but I'd be grossed out too. She's sulky and tells them to lock a door if they're going to "rekindle the flame or whatever."
Caitlin is asleep on a sofa in her office when an assistant enters and tells her, "Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey." My FAVORITE phrase ever. He opens the blinds and reminds her about her 9 AM meeting. She's supposed to interview the new rep from the ad agency. She seriously pulls herself together in less than fifteen seconds, though I'm sure she's got some fierce morning breath right now. The assistant introduces Alicia Lawson. There's some weirdness where Caitlin knocks something off her desk and both ladies lunge for it and oh my gosh! They bump heads. They should wear helmets. Alicia says that the head-butt is usually her move. Then, they stare at each other. They're in love.
Zoë enters her office glued to her phone. She's talking to her husband about their nanny search, saying she hopes that the nanny gods are smiling on them. I think the nanny gods have their hands full with the family Federline right now, but, yeah, maybe they're smiling. When she's off the phone, Zoë starts yelling for a Katherine. Someone says that she's in her office. Zoë enters her own office to find her assistant on the phone with a client, her feet up on the desk. When she's off the phone, she tells Zoë that she was helping a client with some questions the client had because Zoë was "busy with the nanny search." This really pisses Zoë off, and she asks Katherine for a research project that she'd assigned to her, but Katherine's not finished yet. Damn, bad day for Zoë. She sits down and throws a candy wrapper and iced coffee away.
At Barnstead, Mia overhears Jack talking smack about one of Mia's magazines to a client. She's so mad. She has iced coffee for both of them, too! She slides it real hard like across his desk, but he catches it!!! This rivalry seems super-contrived. He was telling a client, Peter Johnson, who buys ad space for SUVs, that Mia's mag was doing a green issue and beating up on SUVs. Would you trust a salesman who was talking badly about other products in their own brand? Eh.
Mia tells her assistant to find out what Peter Johnson does besides eat, because they are going to show him a rock star night on the town. She also tells her to "roll" her to Juliet. I love that kind of talk. Juliet tells Mia that she will get them a table at Per Se and a seat at the poker table at Soho House. Both are actually pretty difficult things to accomplish, so Juliet must be quite connected. After she's off the phone with Mia, Juliet calls Davis and leaves a sultry message saying that she'd like to take the company jet to Hilton Head to meet him and have hotel sex.
Meanwhile, Davis is getting a pedicure or a BJ from Cilla! He tries to check his phone, but she's not having it. The music sounds a little like a show I used to watch about four ladies. They would always dress really funny and say silly things about sex.
Mia and Peter Johnson have been out all night and are having a late night/early morning bite at the venerable Florent -- also in the Meatpacking District. Not to be sappy, but a certain recapper had part of his first date with a certain ball and chain at that restaurant. Peter had a great time with Mia. She tells him that she needs to talk business for one minute, and then she starts talking some nonsense about cars. He laughs, and it's clear that she's got his number.
At the Barnstead office, Mia is asleep on her sofa when Jack barges in. He says that she knew he had an appointment with Peter Johnson, but now he has canceled. She says that she didn't tell him to cancel. No, she kept him out all night. Well, it took her that long to erase the memory of the bad stuff Jack had told him about Mia. Oh yeah? Mia stabbed him in the back. Is that right? Well, she didn't do anything that he wouldn't have done. That's what Jack hates about working with women: they act like they're playing by the rules, but when it gets tough, out come their bosoms and rouge. Mia facetiously says that she wasn't around when the rules were written, so she's a little at a disadvantage. Jack says it's a good thing he's marrying Mia, BECAUSE...he'd hate not having her on his team. Aw. She feels the same way about him. They get all sexy and decide to lock the door so that he can "ravage" her. I can't help thinking that Mia is probs suffering from some morning breath too right now.
Caitlin is outside of a church practicing her confession. Part of the practice run includes saying she's not sure if she's gay. After the confession, the priest says that the real danger is of Caitlin ending up like Aunt Ruth. Is that a euphemism? Sounds horrible. He says that she needs to be sure enough of God's love to know that she deserves to be happy. Caitlin says that the Pope would have his collar for talking like that, and he says that he's talking as a brother. He just wants what's best for her. He's cute, this priest. He says she's been dating for twenty years (correction, fifteen years, says Caitlin) and maybe she should just look for the right "person" instead of the right "guy." She's not sure she's gay -- just that there was a vibe with her and Alicia. They're just going for drinks, nothing heavy. They're not big with names on this show; what's the brother's name?
At Zoë's, the new nanny candidate is bubby beyond belief. Zoë asks her for her salary requirements, and she lists $900 a week, a cell phone with unlimited texting, Wednesdays half-day, Sundays off, a Metrocard, a shelf in the fridge, and a TV with premium channels in her room. Suddenly, Zoë gets a call from Katherine, who wants a "mental health day." She can't have it, since Zoë needs the research that is still not done. She hangs up and hires the nanny. Zoë's nameless husband tries to stop her -- he thinks she's demanding -- but she tells the nanny that Thursday night is her daughter's dance recital and she can't miss it. Nanny will go grab a suitcase. Zoë welcomes her to their home and is out of there. On the way to work, she sees Cilla Grey and Davis kissing outside of the Gansevoort Hotel.
That night, as the strains of Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" are heard (2006 called, it wants its winter hit back), Zoë, Juliet, and Mia are in a restaurant; the beans have been spilled about Cilla and Davis. Zoë says that she'd be really pissed if ERIC (took us long enough to find out the dude's name) were cheating on her and no one told her. Mia suggests punching Davis's balls off. Heh. They look at their Blackberries to coordinate when to tell Juliet that she's been cuckolded. They decide to do it before Juliet's benefit.
That night, in bed, Zoë asks Eric if it's difficult for him to be faithful to her, and tells him about Davis and Cilla. To answer her question, Eric says, "Why go out for hamburger, when you can have steak at home?" So, he only has affairs at their house? Asshole. Suddenly, really loud music is coming from the nanny's room. Zoë goes out to find her in a revealing nighty with a midnight snack, including a bottle of expensive wine from Zoë's collection. The music was her "club night alarm" for when you're going clubbing and need to take a nap first. Not a stupid idea. Zoë tells her that the bottle of wine she's drinking is not an "everyday bottle." The nanny (Brooke) suggests Zoë label the bottles that are okay to drink. No, she didn't. Zoë tells her to wear a robe around the house.
Zoë stomps back to her room and tells Eric that she's "got one at work and got one at home." Brooke and Katherine -- girls from "Generation I.D. -- I deserve." Eric says that they know how much they're needed, which Zoë translates as "We're being held hostage by our help." You know, she had me for a moment there. Eric says that, if he gets the job in Charleston, they'll need all the help they can get. He asks Zoë if she's rooting for him, and she gives a weak affirmative.
Caitlin and Alicia are at a bar. Caitlin seems really nervous, and is talking about Lily Parish's humble beginnings. Alicia says that Caitlin has a nice style, and Caitlin's all bashful about accepting the compliment. Then, the bartender tells them that two guys at the end of the bar would like to buy them drinks. Alicia says that she has a late supper date, so Caitlin has her pick. We thought we were going to find out if Alicia was that way. Caitlin looks nervous for a second and says that she will leave with Alicia. Game still on. Outside, they talk awkwardly for a second before Alicia kisses Caitlin. Caitlin giggles that she has no experience with women, and gets kissed again. They part, and Caitlin gets into her car, which is parked right in front of the place they were drinking. First of all, no drinky and drivey. Second, who in New York gets to park right in front of the place they're hanging out? Third, if you were going to drink and drive, would you make the line from the bar to your car so visible for everyone? Have some shame, Caitlin.
Jack and Mia are making out in bed, until they start comparing sales accomplishments. Then, Jack gets a call and runs from the room. This reminds me of the last time I saw Mr. Everett Scott. He was starkers in The Little Dog Laughed. And it was good. And, the rumors about Johnny Galecki? True. While Jack is on his call, Mia calls Zo¨ and asks her to "reach to her networks" to get Gary Pell's itinerary for the day.
The day, Jack and Gary Pell are at a heliport, getting ready to leave for a golfing trip. Mia arrives in the most ridiculous ode to the late Payne Stewart that ever there was. She's going golfing with them, and immediately starts charming Gary. It's clear that she has won this one.
Zoë's in a meeting and gets a call from Brooke, which she takes semi-quietly to the side. The smoke alarm is going off at Zoë's because Brooke was smoking a cigarette, and the kids won't stop screaming. Zoë says that they're going to have a serious conversation when she gets home, and Brooke just effing quits on the phone. She says that she'll drop the kids off at Zoë's office in a half-hour.
The thing we see is Zoë continuing the meeting via teleconference at her home, as a flying football beans her in the head. Kids are great, huh? She asks them to draw a picture of Mommy's head exploding.
That evening, the girls show up for Juliet's benefit, all in black. Juliet's wearing black too, but she seems surprised that the others are and asks, "Who died?" There's all kind of whistling and kicking the dirt, so Juliet knows something's up. Zoë sits her down and tells her about Davis and Cilla. Juliet is very stoic and asks when it was. She goes to grab wine without even appearing upset, which is weird. Mia's like, "That went well!"
The girls follow Juliet into the kitchen. She says that her husband "steps out" on her. She didn't know about Cilla, but she knew. Caitlin asks her how she can stay with Davis, and she freaks out and tells Caitlin not to judge her. Then, Mia opens the bottle of wine and it pops and Zoë looks at her like she just took a dump on the floor. Tonal problems there. Write that scene if you want it to happen, but that's not what was there. Juliet says that she's not excusing Davis, but that a man gives up a lot when he marries one of the mafia girls. Because they're SO MUCH. She hates Davis cheating, but she hates the alternative more -- dating, single motherhood. Miranda Otto is, again, very good in this scene. Mia tells her that she needs a dress that's more brave.
So the ladies show up at the benefit and Juliet is now wearing a red dress. They walk in formation in slo-mo and I'm in love again. Em, Juliet's daughter, is sullen. Zoë, Mia, and Caitlin approach her and ask her to act tonight like her mother is one of her best friends. She says she will. And people say teenagers are difficult.
Juliet is being introduced, and we see that she and the rest of the girls are all at the same table. (Didn't Juliet say they all bought "tables"?) While the presenter is speaking, Juliet leans to Davis and tells him that she knows about Cilla. He's freaked. She tells him to look around; all their friends are there. She's going to take one of them as a lover. Suddenly they're Will Ferrell and Rachel Dratch.
While Juliet is speaking, Zoë sneaks out and races to Sasha's dance recital. A lady won't allow her to be seated late (Gestapo!), so she sneaks backstage and then walks onstage and out into the audience. She knocks over some scenery in the process. That's crazy. She sits beside Eric, and he tells her that he got the job in Charleston.
The day, Mia is in her office, resplendent in pink. Clive enters to tell her that she got the job! She's thrilled. Jack enters shortly thereafter to congratulate her with a bottle of champs, charged to her expense account. Seeming sad, he says that he's taking his team out for a last lunch. Mia says that she'll see him later, and he just stares down. He says that he thought he'd win, and doesn't think they'll have a family if she's working. They're moving in opposite directions. He doesn't think she wants what he wants as much as she wants to win. Then, he leaves! No!
The girls have a lunch. Caitlin tries to tell them about Alicia, but Mia's breakup trumps lesbian dabbling. The girls see Cilla approaching the host's podium, bitching about being turned down by Caitlin's co-op board. Then, she doesn't get a table. They're turning the screws to this girl. So, she walks over and addresses them as "The Cashmere Mafia." Cilla says that Juliet doesn't want to know what she knows about her; Juliet says the same thing and adds, "Watch it, there!" Cilla says that she will see them around campus, and then leaves. Mia says that she wants to change all subjects, so she asks Caitlin about her kissing, but Caitlin's not in the mood to talk about it anymore. Caitlin asks Juliet what she told Davis the night before, and she says that she might be taking a lover. They all have a champagne toast, and Mia says she doesn't know what she would do without her girls. Then, they start talking potential lovers for Juliet.
You know, this episode didn't stand up to close inspection, but I really enjoyed it. Here's hoping!