Posted by Dustin on 12.13.2008 at 10:41 pm

So I have two weeks of thoughts to post on “Lipstick Jungle.” I’m going to forgo any big recaps and just go with my thoughts with a bit of recap to preface.

Kirby and Nico continued to disagree over the baby, with Kirby putting his foot down saying he and his priorities, as well as his job, basically came first. On one hand I can’t blame him as this wasn’t what he had signed on for. I guess he and Nico never had the kids discussion, did they or didn’t they want them. On the other hand, they’ve been making Kirby all about Kirby the past few episodes as well, so it was no shock to see how he was acting. It’s almost as if they want us to not like him.

Nico wanted to adopt Charlie, but Megan’s parents came to take Charlie and Megan back home with them. Nico faced losing the baby. She and Kirby later broke up as neither were happy anymore. I just feel like they wanted to break them up to pave way for Nico and her boss to have a fling, which has also been a long time coming. He’s been interested in her all season, now that she’s free, he’s going to go after her. I don’t know if I like the idea of these two together at all honestly. Nico meanwhile began hormone treatments to harvest her eggs.

Victory had to do a shoot involving a nude model for a campaign for her clothing, unaware that SHE was to be the model until after she approved. Kirby was called in to be the photographer in order to calm her nerves. There were some great scenes of her freaking out and downing shots to get through it, but once she got comfortable she gave it her all. Baring herself for the shoot gave her the courage to confront Joe and tell him what she was feeling, to thank him for all he’d done for her, and to say she would have said yes. They kissed then did the wild thing. It seems like these two are back together, with Victory planning to propose to Joe this time. I just can’t help but think he’s not going to say yes though, I don’t know why. It just seems nothing is going right for the ladies lately.

Finally Wendy had to agree to be partners with this creepy producer, who Cassidy gave her script to first, but he ignored it for months. He had the pull in the industry and a studio ready to produce it, Wendy didn’t at the moment. Wendy agreed to work with him, rather than sell out to him. This annoyed Shane, who kept dropping snarky comments about how “nobody was paying him to just stay at home and not work.”

Shane got a job offer to go on tour with Natasha Beddingfield for four months and wanted to take it. Wendy had issues with him being away for so long, which led to serious fights. Shane started slinging the insults, such as why couldn’t she let it be his turn now, and she liked it better when she was taking care of him. Their son overheard them fighting, which causes problems for him at school.

I have to say, I HATE that they did this to Shane and Wendy. Just like Kirby and Nico, it seemed these issues just suddenly appeared. More than that, they just suddenly turned Shane into a jerk. How soon he forgets he has a job and these connections because of Wendy! In the end he did what he wanted to do, accepting the job to go on tour for 4 months. Hello, has he forgotten Wendy is friends with that guy that would love to bop her? He’s just walking away when his marriage is in trouble? I can already see him being on the road and his manager putting the moves on him, which maybe is what he wants.

We’ll have to wait till January to find out what happens next, as that is when “Lipstick” (and pretty much every other show) returns.