A new reality series goes behind the scenes at Cosmopolitan and finds rival Carrie Bradshaws, a formidable editor-in-chief and a dash of tacky glitz. Sound familiar?
Opening shot of high heels clicking across a Manhattan street. Camera pans back to a slender woman of a certain age with an expensive, slightly avant-garde hairstyle tapping out emails on her phone as she enters an imposing glass-fronted office. Cut to same woman striding out of lift 60 floors up, powering through an open-plan office, firing off orders about which Manolos to put Jen in for the cover try.
The glossy magazine behind-the-scenes doc is a fully fledged screen genre all of its own. What started with The Devil Wears Prada spawned The September Issue and Absolutely Fashion: Inside Vogue. Only the White House and the Tudor court have proved greater catnip for the modern storyteller than the glass-walled office of an editrix.
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