Formula, Formula

I watched the pilots for Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle, and I have to say I was amazed.

Sex and the City is coming out as a movie in May, and I will be there to see it. I am still watching the reruns every night to be honest, and already have a date with one of my girlfriends to see the movie. This I say to demonstrate that I have good girlfriends, so when I say that I am APPALLED that I am watching a show about women who are beyond successful, and the focus is on the things that they need their girlfriends to huddle with them for a perfunctory group hug camera shot?

There is something wrong with American television and film. This desire for formula--if it worked once it will work again! Even if there are failures--and there have been predecessors to Cashmere and Lipstick that have gone down for the count--yet the need to have another Sex and the City has not ended! There is only one Sex and the City, as it should be. I am afraid even that Sex and the City will not be the same as a movie. See my post in May or June after I see it.

It amazes me how we keep at this formulaic television and film when there are so many writers out there, and hopefully more formulas? I do not get it. The idea that we want to see women at the top of their game brought down by the rest of their lives with their friends for buffers...Let me be at the top and see how much time I have to worry about the domino effect...My relationships are important to me with the men and the women in my life, and I would feel bad about anything that went wrong with them. But if I was at the top of my game careerwise? Believe me that would be my buffer more than any human. But that is me--I am another formula I guess not on television or film.