Lipstick Jungle

Chapter Eight: Pandora's Box

Season 2, Episode 1, Aired 9/24/08

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Nico's guilt over her affair leads her to decide to do anything to save her marriage. Wendy decides to spend more time at home with her family, but things aren't easy when her mother decides to come for a visit. Victory is having trouble keeping her distance from Joe who is trying to get her back.moreless

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Brooke Shields

Wendy Healy
Kim Raver

Nico Reilly
Lindsay Price

Victory Ford

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A great kickoff to the second season that changes the game a bit.

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By SWERJ321, Sep 26, 2008 Report Abuse

I know some may feel it's a cop-out to reveal Charles was cheating long before Nico so she doesn't come off as bad. But it's actually a nice dramatic touch that after wallowing in guilt over her affair, she finds out Charles was so much worse, knocking up a student and paying for her life while she was sneaking around. That he died is another shock as I had been expecting a confrontation about all this but now he's gone so Nico never gets that closure. It's a fine dramatic cap-off to the overall story and the promise of more for Nico.

Mary Tyler Moore was a smart choice as Wendy's mom, feisty and controlling but the scene of them laying out the problems was nicely done. Victory's quest for her own place and dealing with Joe was difficult and a bit too flightly but Rosie Perez livened it up as the feisty marketer. And I liked the part at the beginning of Wendy busting her daughter on the fake ID.

What really made the episode was the scenes of the girls together. Raver was terrific in the pre-funeral rant, drunk and trying to hold together while ranting on Charles' secret misdeeds and Victory and Wendy trying to keep up. But better was the part where they asked if any of her family was at the funeral and she smiled to let them know they were. That last bit of Nico in the cab was a bit much but it's still a good start to a season that may be even better than the first.moreless

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Lipstick Jungle season 2 premiered with a very solid opener!

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By Steve509, Sep 18, 2008 Report Abuse

This was a pretty solid season finale from Lipstick Jungle. After only seven episodes during season one, I knew they would have to come back strong and they did. Nico's marriage is falling apart, literally, because she reveals all of the secrets about her being unfaithful with Kirby. Charles had already known about this because he had her trailed and photgraphed with Kirby. Charles also was involved in a relationship with student, Megan, who showed up to the hospital for Charles' double by-pass, where we find out that Megan is pregnant. Charles ends up dying from complications in the surgery. Meanwhile, Victory is still trying to avoid Joe Bennett at all costs because after they broke up last season, he found comfort in the arms of another. Victory, who now has a new publicist, Dahlia, played by Rosie Perez, is trying to just conduct her business. Dahlia convinces Victory to go into business with Joe, although she wants nothing to do with it. Dahlia goes behind her back anyway and gets the deal with Joe closed. And over on Wendy's side, her underage daughter is getting into clubs with a fake ID and her mother, played by Mary Tyler Moore shows up from Connecticut. She told her daughter she was in the city for a dental appointment, but she was really trying to get back into acting. She saw a headhunter who told her to go home and "open a yarn shop." Wendy settles things with her mother and daughter, Victory decides to go into business with Joe Bennett and Nico decides to hail a cab and take her new medical procedure out for a test drive.moreless

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Trivia
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- Featured Music: "Gotta Be Free" by Marcus Miller featuring Corinne Bailey Rae "Right as Rain" by Adele "What You Wanted" by Angus & Julia Stone Edit
- Goof: When Nico gets in the taxi at the end she is wearing two necklaces and after she reads the card and goes over the bump, she's only wearing one. Edit
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- International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Kapitola osmá: Pandořina skříňka (Eighth Chapter: Pandora's Box) Edit
- Original International Air Dates: Norway: September 21, 2009 on TV3 Germany: November 4, 2009 on ProSieben Czech Republic: February 24, 2010 on Prima Edit
- Mary Tyler Moore and Rosie Perez are credited as Special Guest Stars in this episode. Edit
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- Dahlia: You can see a doctor and save your marriage in one visit. One shot and your back in business. Come on, you ladies can't be that far behind the curve. Botox has moved south. Way south. They're shipping collagen down to the delta. Edit
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- The plastic surgeon Nico calls is located at Park and 73rd. The address is a reference to a lyric from a song in the play "A Chorus Line" that goes "Have it all done. Honey, take my word. Grab a cab, c'mon. See the wizard on Park and Seventy-Third." Edit