Reply #154: No, it was a political drama [View All]

[MADem]

Not funny at all, at least not deliberately, it was the story of a consulting firm run by Cajun and Mary, playing themselves, and one of their partners was a nice Catholic guy whose marriage was falling apart and who consorted with hookers, was a little kinky, and was close to suicidal...a bit of a drunk, too. One of the other workers in the firm was a closet lesbian who was having a fling with a power woman in DC--a lobbyist or some such, and she got dumped by the woman, In the meantime, all these other guys are chasing after her. There was Saudi intrigue, a lot of subplot...towards the end of the series, Mary was getting subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury over the Plame leak, she had to hire a lawyer who was charging her up the ass, and they had to close the firm and sell the furniture.

Oddly enough, the real reason the two of them did the show is because they had sunk a bundle into a restaurant in DC, which should have done well, but then came 911, the Bush economy and no one was going out to high toned new places in DC, they just stuck with NORA and some of the more established hot spots, so they had to unload the asset, they took a bath, and needed cash.