4.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Lipstick Jungle (2008)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.7
Overview
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside showrunner/head writer Oliver Goldstick. The pilot was directed by Gary Winick.
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Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Race Swap: Yes
Overview
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside showrunner/head writer Oliver Goldstick. The pilot was directed by Gary Winick.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The series focuses on the personal and professional lives of three successful women, emphasizing individual ambition, strong female friendships, and personal choices as solutions to their challenges, rather than offering a systemic critique or promoting a specific political ideology.
The series features an Asian-American actress in a lead role among its three main protagonists, demonstrating intentional diversity in its core casting. The narrative, however, focuses on the universal professional and personal challenges of these women, rather than explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering on specific DEI themes related to race.
Secondary
The series features Roy Merritt, a gay character, who is depicted with dignity and agency. He is a successful professional and a supportive friend, whose stable same-sex relationship is portrayed positively. The show integrates his identity without making it a source of conflict or mockery, contributing to an overall affirming portrayal.
The character Victory Ford, one of the three main protagonists, was depicted as white in the source novel. In the 2008 television adaptation, the role is played by Lindsay Price, an actress of Asian descent, constituting a race swap.
Lipstick Jungle does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of three cisgender women in New York City, with no depiction of transgender individuals or related storylines.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The show "Lipstick Jungle" is an adaptation of Candace Bushnell's novel. All major characters, including the three female protagonists and their male counterparts, maintain their established genders from the source material in the screen adaptation.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.6
6.1
Critic Ratings
1.9
4.0
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