Lipstick Jungle: Season Two – DVD Review

By June L. May 26, 2009, 16:19 GMT

Based on the best-selling book by Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, this fun and sexy series follows the lives of three ambitious women in Manhattan: Wendy (Brooke Shields, Suddenly Susan), a successful movie executive who struggles with juggling her career and family; Victory (Lindsay Price, Beverly Hills 90210), a fashion designer with big hopes for her professional and love life; and Nico (Kim Raver, Third Watch), a ...more

Lipstick Jungle is a series fans feel ended too soon. It had an appealing and glamorous cast in stories that exhibited stylish life as well as humor and drama.  At least with the last season on DVD, fans will be able to visit again with Nico, Wendy and Victory.

Based on a novel by Sex In the City author Candance Bushnell (who also co-produced with head writer for the series Oliver Goldstick) Lipstick Jungle was a delicious drama comedy.  Three successful business women Wendy (Brooke Shields) Nico (Kim Raver ) and Victory (Lindsay Price) juggle their jobs against life and relationships, and although these women have careers most of us could only dream of, the problems they face are familiar. 

We watch Wendy deal with an out of control teenage daughter, the trials of having a gorgeous singer husband who goes out on tour, and suffer through endless advice from her abrasive and interfering mother (Mary Tyler Moore.)  Nico has her own troubles with Charles (Christopher Cousins), and then with Kirby (Robert Atwood) as she tries to put her private life back together and keep her magazine on track. 

Victory is determined to make her fashion business a top designer house, and hires Dahlia (Rosie Perez) to work some PR magic.  Her on again, off again relationship with Joe Bennett (Andrew McCarthy) the powerful billionaire could either make her dreams come true or ruin the whole thing. 

Gorgeous clothes, beautiful living spaces, and the business elite of their professions don’t keep Wendy, Nico and Victory from being “real” and the audience senses that their friendship is perhaps the most important thing in their lives.  Whatever success or trials these women face, they continue to communicate and share the experiences with each other.

Lipstick Jungle season two is attractively packaged in a boxed set illustrated with stills from the series.  The episodes are presented on three discs, with a running time of over nine hours.  Program notes for each episode are on the back of the inside disc folder. 

Surprisingly, there are no special features included, as one might expect to find some cast and crew revelations, or a blooper reel.  Perhaps that will come if a set of the complete series is released.  Lipstick Jungle was shown in the UK and in Australia and has gained quite an international following.

Just reading comments on fan sites, it is evident that this is still a much loved series in many countries, and even though word has come out that it is definitely cancelled, fans are still hoping for more.  

Lipstick Jungle: Season Two is now available at Amazon. It is available for pre-order at AmazonUK for a June 29th release. Visit the DVD database for more information.