Last weekend I went back hometown. I was kejar-ing a new series. CASHMERE MAFIA! It’s not about any mafia or yakuza (I like this word-yakuza. There is this food outlet where I have to pass to my workplace everyday, it’s named rakuzen. But everytime I see that word, the first word to pop into my mind is yakuza. Evil huh?! Back to my cashmere mafia story).
Cast of Cashmere Mafia.
The sad thing about this series is that it has been axed. >__<
It’s about 4 ladies (knowing each other for 15 years). All of them are high position holders in big companies. They were called the Cashmere Mafia since their business school days. They protect each other and discuss their personal ups and downs. Actually cashmere mafia is for the boys’ club. These power ladies have complicated life. Let me intro you the four characters:
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Mia Mason (Lucy Liu): Publisher at Barnstead Media.
She got the job after competiting with her fiancé played by Tom Everett Scott as Jack Cutting for the same post. Her fiancé broke off their engagement after knowing that she got the job. Oh yeah, who ever doesn’t get that position will get the boot. So he was booted out. I guess not all guys can take that outcome. Oh oh oh..her one of her boyfriend was a neurosurgeon. DAMN GOOD LOOKING FOR AN ASIAN!!! Hahahaha. Played by Jack Yang.
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Zoe Burden (Frances O’Connor): Former Managing Director of Mergers & Acquisitions at Gorham Sutter.
This lady before she quit her job, she is quite a control freak. She is married to a super nice guy, Eric Burden played by Julian Ovenden (good looking) and have two kids. Husband works as an architect. Before he got a job, he was a househusband. ^__^ Her co-worker really knows how to take credit for whatever things she did. That got her so mad and quit the job as she was supposed to get the position of Vice chairman. I guess many companies still caters to men.
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Juliet Draper (Miranda Otto): COO of Stanton Hall Hotels & resorts.
She looks quite like an ice queen. Her husband is playboy. She knows it but she ignores all of them till her husband, Davis Draper (Peter Hermann) was fooling with Cilla Grey (Noelle Beck) which she don’t like her at all. Her good friends told her the news before she went to receive an award for her hard work. And before she went up stage, she told her husband and said “I’m going to choose one of your friend to be my lover.” To pay back for what her husband had done. HEBAT!! Well she did, but not really an affair. She couldn’t do it. But she almost did it without the sex part. She divorced her husband and her useless husband actually ask her to pay his lawyer fee too. TOTAL USELESS!
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Caitlin Dowd (Bonnie Somerville): Senior VP for marketing at Lily Parrish Cosmetics.
She has quite a haywire relationship. From straight to bi to straight again. Yeah..weird lady! When she doesn’t tell the truth, a pimple will pop up her face. Won’t that be good to detect liars? But it doesn’t work for me la. Hahhaha.
Watched from episode 1-7. And it was axed. SAD! Nice series. Really love how the ladies hold such high positions. All so successful but not in relationship. To be a power lady, I guess you can’t have the best of everything.
If you have the chance to watch this series, do try to download it. Much better than Desperate Housewives.
