The Starter Wife

I have a new television obsession...The Starter Wife! This does not replace my need for Veronica Mars, but it's good, clean bitchiness!! The Starter Wife is a 6 hour mini-series on the USA Cable Network. Adapted from Gigi Levangie Grazer's book of the same title. The story revolves around the life of Molly Kagen, a studio exec's wife or soon-to-be ex-wife.

The premise of the story goes like this...

Molly is a devoted wife and partner to her husband, when one day he asks for a divorce. Her world is then turned upside down, she is henceforth snubbed by the Hollywood community and exiled to her best friend's Malibu beach house for the summer. In the meantime, her ex-husband, Kenny, is prancing around town with a Britany Spears like hooch, Shoshanna. Her best friend, Joan, is forced into rehab by her puritan husband, her other best friend, Cricket, is forced to turn her back on Molly because her director husband, Jorge (pronounced, whore-hay, fitting huh?), has a movie in the works and can't have the studio executive mad. The only friend's Molly has left is her gay interior decorator, Rodney and the security guard at the gated community gate, Lavender.

All this drama wouldn't be complete if there weren't a love interest(s)for Molly. The first possibility is Lou Manahan, her ex-husband's boss. The second possibility, is the myterious stranger she see's on the beach, Sam. Now, here come the twists, Lou seems to be a troubled man, the last time we see him in the series, he's drunk, writing a letter and then wanders off to the beach and into the water. Sam, the more likely love interest for Molly, has a dubious past, it is revealed the Sam is homeless, and rely's on the kindness of an older woman in "The Colony" (the name of the gated community).

I don't want to give too much out, tune into USA Network, to see what happens next, or tune in to my blog for more updates!!!