The drama that is Mistresses hasn’t changed much since it started but apparently I have. I don’t know how I stomached that stuff in the first place but it has quickly deteriorated into the typical ABC nonsense. Let me clarify that–I simply woke up and recognized the nonsense that has always been going on.
Like I mentioned once (or twice), the show follows four women through their torrid sex lives. Its Sex in the City but far less cool. The channel tried to add their brand of tokenism to the show, a vaguely African American woman and a first generation Asian woman. However, these two always end up being the most morally corrupt characters on the show. The Asian started the series by being the mistress to a married man who happened to be her psych patient. She went on to boff his son and then engaged in a seemingly endless string of one night stands that she herself called whorish. She wasn’t done. She slept with another client’s boyfriend and just recently one of her one night stands found her and let her know that she could have HIV.
Our black-ish character is a widow. Well, she was a widow… Apparently her husband faked his death, got a new family and left her and their daughter enough insurance cash to open a business. Once she discovered this she slept with her once dead hubby and went on to sleep with, well, every other black guy that hit the screen. She’s currently working with the lead character’s black ex (her lawyer) because the dead-ish husband turned out to be a drug mule wanted by the FBI, oh and at least one of the string of dudes she’s sleeping with turned out to be an FBI agent who was undercover ‘feeling her out’.
Ugh. Who writes this stuff.