Lipstick Jungle

Seasons

2008

USA

6.6

TV-14

A look at the lives of Nico, Wendy, and Victory -- three of "New York's 50 Most Powerful Women," according to The New York Post.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pilot

Three longtime friends, Victory Ford, Nico Reilly, and Wendy Healy, are challenged with keeping up with complicated business and personal lives in the mean concrete streets of New York City. For Wendy, being a big-shot film executive, a wife, and a mother proves to be a heavy daily juggle in which her British musician husband, Shane, is fully supportive of her career despite that he takes a back seat to her life. Victory, meanwhile, is struggling to revive her once top notch fashion career, and longs to find her "Mr. Right" which seems to come true when a handsome, but nihilist billionaire named Joe Bennett, offers his financial and social services to her. Nico, the editor of a top fashion magazine must deal with serious marriage issues to her older husband, besides a stressful working life to rise above her demanding boss Hector.

S1 • E2

Chapter Two: Nothing Sacred

Wendy enjoys the success of her company's most recent movie, but only temporally. Wendy finds out that her old nemesis, Janice Lashera, promoted a novel for publication, which defaces Wendy as an empowered businesswoman and (even worse in her eyes) a bad mother. Nico's relationship with Kirby heats up, and instills her with a liberating mentality to shake things up around the office. Meanwhile, Victory has a problem with the downsizing of her company to just one employee, herself. However, she is very intrigued by her cynical new man, Joe Bennett, who turns out to be a very different person than the one she though.

S1 • E3

Chapter Three: Pink Poison

Janice Lasher makes Wendy looks bad as a mother when she is preparing to release her new book. Wendy tries to prove the claims incorrect by bringing her daughter, Maddie, to a "Women in Media" luncheon. Meanwhile, Nico tries to slow down on her affair with Kirby when he keeps phoning her and even showing up at her office. Victory hires, Roy Merritt, a young Texan as her new personal assistant, while she introduces Joe Bennett to Wendy and Nico, which leads to a major change in which direction the relationship will go.

S1 • E4

Chapter Four: Bombay Highway

Wendy has her eyes on a film in India which she feels great about, but the film doesn't seem to be a money making scheme. Wendy, however, throws a premiere party and gives Victory an opportunity to design for a star actress which does not go well at all. Meanwhile, Nico confides Victory and Wendy about her affair with Kirby and the problems when Kirby refuses to end it.

S1 • E5

Chapter Five: Dressed to Kill

Victory finally discovers that someone has stolen her work, but doesn't know who was involved... unaware that it was her former assistant, Resse, who ripped off her designs and sets out to get back at her during a charity event for a wealthy investor. Meanwhile, Wendy tries to boost Shane's career in the music industry. But Shane resents this intrusion into his life as a stay-at-home husband. Also, Nico helps Kirby to get employed as a still photographer on a movie shoot starring Sasha Winters who makes a move onto Kirby.

S1 • E6

Chapter Six: Take the High Road

Nico's boss, Hector, sends her on a business trip to Scottland to try to snag author J.K. Rowling for a major publishing deal. But things take a turn when Kirby also travels to Scottland to have another secret tryst with Nico, while Wendy also happens to tag along and after meeting Kirby for the first time, gets very angry and hostile when she discovers that Nico lied to her about ending her extramarital affair with Kirby. Back in New York, Victory grows more suspicious about what Joe's plans are for her when he makes a show of her during an high-society charity art auction.

S1 • E7

Chapter Seven: Carpe Threesome

Wendy deals with Lorraine Lipman, a difficult scriptwriter when she's hard-pressed by her co-worker, Salvator, to make a deadline for the next movie deal. Meanwhile, Nico faces a harsh reality when she learns that Charles is hospitalized from a heart attack, and she was not there for she's still counting her sordid tryst with Kirby. Victory gets used to the idea of Joe being her boss instead of her boyfriend, and while a swinging couple, pro hockey player Parks and his wife Kelly, give Victory a proposition she cannot refuse.