LIPSTICK JUNGLE (Sun Aug 31, Seven- 9:30pm)
This is a new series from the creator of SEX & THE CITY and features…er…three single women who are best friends and trying to balance life and love in New York City an obvious S & TC knockoff done on the cheap with less name actors- but hey, FRIDAY THE 13TH’s Jason Voorhees kept on killing sexually-active teens with interchangeable sharp objects in every movie, and yet the teens still kept coming to Crystal Lake, right?! Brooke Shields, who shall forever be a heroine to me for daring to cuss out Tom Cruise, toplines as fashion magazine editor Wendy Healy. She’s joined by 24’s Kim Raver, BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL’s Lindsay Price. Testosterone gets a look in via the show’s breakout hunk Robert Buckley (think the love child of Julian McMahon and Scott Speedman, only without body hair), Eighties’ Romantic Comedy mainstay Andrew McCarthy, as well as cult actor Julian Sands (WARLOCK, NAKED LUNCH) who plays another of his trademarked sexually ambiguous sneering British guys (i.e. Alan Rickman asked for too much money). Shields is fun, Buckley is hot, Sands sneers every time the camera is on him and just because it’s a cheap knockoff of a superior product doesn’t mean you can’t wear it out on a few dates and then take it back to the shop!
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DEXTER (Sun Aug 31, Ten- 9:50pm)
It may hail from the same state and have a similar wicked sense of humour as THE GOLDEN GIRLS, but this Florida-based series about a Forensic Serologist who keeps himself in regular employment and blood samples by moonlighting as a Serial Killer who only serial kills other Serial Killers (try saying that thrice fast through a mouthful of George Eads) features comedy so Mamba-venom-black that Sophia Petrillo would choke on her own cheesecake. As for beefcake, when he’s not draining maniacs of their lifeblood and storing it in his apartment, crazed blood analyst Dexter Morgan is played by Michael C Hall, who played Gay mortician David on SIX FEET UNDER and who has gotten *seriously* hot between then and now- I think it’s a combination of the tan and the psychosis!
