
Cashmere Mafia is back tonight for its proper premiere — apparently ABC would prefer to call the episode that aired on Sunday a sneak preview. But is anyone going to be watching? I didn't expect the highly anticipated series to be struggling in the ratings already, but the news after Sunday's episode wasn't good. The show drew about 10.7 million viewers, which might not be so bad if A) it hadn't lost almost half of the audience that tuned in for Desperate Housewives right before it, and B) 2 million people hadn't switched the show off at the halfway point.
Though lots of you weren't really digging the show on first watch, most of you were either instantly hooked or charitably willing to give the show a second chance. Having seen tonight's second episode, I will say I liked it better than the first — though it still didn't come close to my high expectations. I'm not ready to tune out Cashmere just yet, but I am a little bit afraid for its future — after all, if it couldn't do well with a huge episode of Desperate Housewives as its lead-in, how will it perform when its only support comes from Wife Swap and Supernanny?
Are you still game? You can watch a scene from tonight's episode if you read more.
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i watched it for the first time last night. i felt these women only cared about being rich and high-powered and not in a good way. unlike the sex and the city women i didn't feel a real comradery between them, and they threw in that "i love you guys" at the end of the episode for good measure... i felt they weren't really down to earth or relatable.... and i'm a nyc professional woman! hopefully they will come down to earth tonight.