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Lipstick Jungle
EMAILPRINTSERIES: NBC, Thursday 10:00p (60 minutes)

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 27 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 35 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Drama
Created By: Candace Bushnell
First Air Date: February 7, 2008
Summary
Starring Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, Lindsay Price, Andrew McCarthy, Paul Blackthorne, Julian Sands, David Alan Basche, and David Norona
This adaptation of Candace Bushnell's book of the same name treads the same familiar grounds of her other big hit, "Sex in the City."
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Christian Science MonitorGloria Goodale
This is a high gloss, prime-time soap but it's a tad too earnest.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
t's not perfect. A few situations and lines are hyped-up "Sex and the City" moments, like when a distraught Lipsticker complains, "I need a cupcake." But if you can moan your way through such moments, the show gets more serious as it goes.
Read Full Review >Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith
Lipstick Jungle has some good things going for it, including actresses in roles that call for slightly more maturity than we're accustomed to, and juicy enough meanies to give it a little suspense.
Read Full Review >SalonHeather Havrilesky
Lipstick Jungle is just as fluffy and soapy as you'd imagine a show based on a book by Candace Bushnell should be, it's still far smarter and more appealing than ABC's rich-and-powerful-lady fluff-fest "Cashmere Mafia."
Read Full Review >New York PostLinda Stasi
All three actresses deserve better dialogue than they are given. But the clothes? They speak volumes.
Read Full Review >San Jose Mercury NewsCharlie McCollum
What keeps Jungle from being laughably bad is Shields is so charming and Raver so intelligent in their roles that they carry scenes that should just keel over and die.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
I should probably feel bad, too, about finding all this silliness passably amusing, especially after having trashed its evil stepsister on ABC. But somehow I don't.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Lipstick Jungle isn't that bad. It's more like "awww."; Not as in "Awww, isn't it cute?" but "Awww, little Candy didn't do as well this time as everybody hoped."
Read Full Review >New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Lipstick Jungle apparently still isn't sure we get the point about bonding, because it goes out of its way to make it clear that even sympathetic male characters don't.
Read Full Review >PopMattersCynthia Fuchs
The series has laid groundwork for minor and mostly predictable complications.
Read Full Review >Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Thoroughly average and unfailingly adequate, NBC's Lipstick Jungle is easier to like than ABC's cold, cynical "Cashmere Mafia," but that's like putting lipstick on a pig, albeit a pig dressed in couture.
Read Full Review >USA TodayRobert Bianco
You're stuck with a dull mush that works neither as drama, comedy or camp trash.
Read Full Review >Washington PostTom Shales
It's nearly a certainty that someone will call Lipstick Jungle, NBC's new drama series about sensual and successful women, a "guilty pleasure," but it's really more of a guilty horror.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Lipstick Jungle wrongheadedly wants to have it both ways--to celebrate and explore the lives and loves of women at the top through protagonists who don't have the drive or the depth to make it there.
Read Full Review >Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
What the obnoxious "Cashmere Mafia" and now the dull Lipstick Jungle suggest is that it's not as easy to recreate the "Sex and the City" phenomenon as assembling three or four attractive actresses of a certain age and pairing them with a name producer from the HBO show.
Read Full Review >The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Lipstick Jungle is a wooden clog of a melodrama squeezed into a flimsy, satin and marabou mule.
Read Full Review >Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
The show itself is so poorly conceived that you can only pity the viewer who gets lost in this Jungle.
Read Full Review >LA WeeklyRobert Abele
Lipstick Jungle is a strangely dour affair--its shadowy, chilly depiction of New York fits right alongside the NBC house style of Law & Order--and is almost misshapen in its clunky blend of drama and comedy.
Read Full Review >San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Please say this is entertainment--and nothing more. That might not make it all right, but it would restore a whole lot of faith.
Read Full Review >Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
No matter how horrible the clichés or gorgeous the gowns, they can't distract from the androphobic virulence at the heart of Lipstick Jungle.
Read Full Review >TV GuideMatt Roush
Which "Sex and the City" knockoff is worse, ABC's "Cashmere Mafia" or NBC's Lipstick Jungle (based on Sex author Candace Bushnell's best-seller)? It really depends which one you're watching at the time. Both are simply dreadful, failing miserably at making their glamorously high-powered heroines sympathetic, credible or remotely interesting.
Read Full Review >SlateTroy Patterson
It's all the same stuff--magazine parties, feckless husbands, tempting male bimbos...but without "Cashmere Mafia's" redeeming air of farce.
Read Full Review >Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Better to wait for the big-screen movie of "Sex and the City," arriving May 30.
Read Full Review >Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
What do women want? Well, they don’t want another migraine-inducing soap opera about the lives of high-strung, whiny female executives in New York. I’m pretty sure of that.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 35 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Shay S gave it a9:
I never watched "Sex and City" but from what I saw of the 2008 movie, Lipstick Jungle, as NOTHING similar to City. Along with my, millions of fans got disappointed when the show was canceled. Some networks are just sad, and only read the paper reviews, and NOT the FANS reviews.
Pamela D gave it an8:
wonderful depiction of a long-lasting, and supportive, friendship between 3 women. Their outrageous NYC lives is a bonus.
Lorraine I gave it a10:
Love Love Love It !!!!
cr gave it a10:
I love this show! I hope it doesn't get canceled. why did they move it to Friday night?
belinda h gave it a1:
Dull. The characters have no charisma!
Lindsey A gave it a9:
I love this show. Please keep it going. I know more people will catch onto it. People just feel threatened by it because they were so obsessed by sex and the city, they probably feel like they are being unfaithful by watching it. Love the plots. Great show.
Anne o gave it a9:
I love the fashion of the show and the sex scenes are wonderful.
