HBO-less dormitory dwellers take notice: your Sex and the City substitute has arrived.

Former Sex and the City scribe Jenny Bicks created and produces Leap of Faith, the latest of the group-of-friends-living-and-loving-in-the-big-city sitcom variety.

When Faith (Sarah Paulson) leaves her stable, secure and boring fiancé, she falls back on her trio of best friends. They provide her with support and, instead of cappuccinos at Central Perk, martinis at trés chic bars, where every patron dresses as well as our trendy urban quartet.

If Sex and the City is Armani, Leap of Faith is respectable designer rip-off Banana Republic.

Faith is the cutesy Carrie Bradshaw wannabe whose blond curls and dreamy disposition mimic the HBO's starlet's. Faith's Sex-esque friends are flirty, feisty Patty (Lisa Edelstein), confident businesswoman Cynthia (Regina King) and artsy, naïve Andy (Ken Marino).

Mimicking the Sex format, Leap of Faith follows Faith and friends' fashionable, fast-paced, full-of-romance lives with a single camera and no laugh track.

Leap of Faith leapt into the 8:30 p.m. post-Friends slot a month ago, and continues to grace this once cursed time-slot with sex, style and sass.

-- Reviewed by Caralyn Green