Yesterday I watched two women-centered shows, neither of which I had very high hopes for, because of their situations: THE PLAYBOY CLUB, which is set in the 60s, at the Playboy Club in Chicago, and 2 BROKE GIRLS, which is set in a diner in contemporary New York. Well, I was totally right about THE PLAYBOY CLUB, for reasons I’ll let Debra Goykhman explain in her review, but I was pleasantly surprised by 2 BROKE GIRLS. Overview: Two waitresses from two different worlds (one working class, who needs two jobs to get by and the other, the newly poor daughter of a Kenneth Lay-like fraudster). The show was created by Michael Patrick King (SEX AND THE CITY) and Whitney Cummings — the star of WHITNEY (which I’ll be reviewing in this spot later in the week). What I Liked: Well, I thought the show would be all rich (bad) vs. poor (good), but it has a startling and quite refreshing element of woman empowerment. Though the two main characters are class-opposed and snarky with each other, they’re both three-dimensional, (gasp!) actually seem to like each other, and (double gasp!) actually listen to each other. Sadly, I’m straining hard to remember the last time I saw female friendship depicted this way on a sitcom. Also, don’t drop dead of shock, but as it turns out, this is a show about two women who develop concrete career and financial goals and then attend to them over the course of the series. It was so nice to see a situation, where wealth accumulation wasn’t all a matter of luck, but ingenuity and hard work that we can actually see in action. What I Didn’t Like: There were quite a few stale jokes, but I remember THE BIG...