Sex and the City — Classic or Dud

*that won

70% of laughs = Cattrall

ugh her delivery is amazing

Chris Noth's in for the movie.

yes good news

watching season 3 premiere when they go to staten island... i love when charlotte is dancing to that song. made me laugh out loud

this show already seems like a dated relic

The criticisms that many people have about the show are perfectly valid, but there are still some things that I love about it and will probably remember for a long time, such as Carrie coming home from a night out with the girls to find boyfriend Aidan practically comatose on the bed from having eaten too much KFC. The plaintive way he asks her to rub his belly for him is just great.

haahaha "baby, will u rub my belly?" ::snore::

I'm hoping Armageddon will prevent movie's release.

I'll tell you what I do hate about Sex and the City, though, and it's the fact that they insist on having sex scenes in it, but the women are wearing bras. Who does that?

all the women bare their breasts except Carrie.

it's true. wait miranda??

i don't remember miranda's breasts! oh well there was one aidan saw her naked.

lol charlotte loved showing off her bod in that show! samantha obv.

I don't think so. They might have done a couple of times, but on a regular basis, none of them do except Samantha. I'm watching a double bill now, and there's no bare breasts, despite a lot of shagging.

i don't remember miranda's breasts!

its not like I'm cataloguing boobie-exposure or anything but I'm certain they all did because Carrie stood out as the lone exception - she's one of those "I don't DO nudity" actresses cuz she thinks she's better than everyone else or a "real" actress or some such bullshit... over time I've really come to hate both SJP and her character.

oh I did just remember a Miranda's boobz instance - the breastfeeding episode. Also pretty sure she's nekkid in one of her encounters with Blair Underwood or one of the other non-Steve romantic interludes...?

They might have done a couple of times, but on a regular basis, none of them do except Samantha.

I dunno what constitutes a "regular basis" but Carrie is the only one who does not do nudity on the show FACT.

I remember seeing Miranda breastfeeding on a TNT rerun and it was ridiculous cuz they did one of those black-bra-animation-paintover things. SO STUPID Americanz be scared of nipples

wikipedia sez:

"Had a no-nudity clause in her contract, but accidentally appeared nude in "Sex and the City" (1998). In a bedroom scene when she stripped off her nightie the camera was supposed to stay above her breasts, but the shot was framed wrong and both of her nipples appeared in the shot. She didn't find out about this until the episode aired. She appeared nude only once more during the run of the show, although in a wide, non-revealing shot."

Breastfeeding doesn't really cover it, because it's non-sexual. Kristin Davis, according to Wikipedia, bared her breasts twice, once where she was supposed to have been covered up and the shot was framed wrong, and once in a wide shot. My point was that it's not realistic for these women to always be wearing a bra when they're having sex, and for me it's a big drawback of the show.

well I agree they do do it a lot and it is obnoxious - I'm sure there's a sex scene where Nixon's topless but I am NOT googling "Cynthia Nixon nude"

V. wise.

Speaking of SJP, am I the only one who finds her faintly terrifying in the ad for her perfume? She reminds me of Glenn Close in 101 Dalmatians.

My point was that it's not realistic for these women to always be wearing a bra when they're having sex, and for me it's a big drawback of the show.

-- accentmonkey, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

hmm, ok.

Dud. They're all a bunch of horrible, rotted out, face-melted liches who float around on the disgusting smell of impending menopause.

I blame that show for the hoards of ape-brained,mhorse-faced girls who roam around New York City in packs DISHING DIRT like they're fucking sophisticates. You can always tell the group of girls on the subway or in cafes who are secretly thinking to themselves< "God I am -so- like Carrie right now!! looll"

I think the other actresses started wearing bras during the sex scenes when the producers/whoever realized the show was going to be syndicated.

lol @ "its not like I'm cataloguing boobie-exposure or anything"

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yes that makes sense, i mean Samantha would be wearing bra during sex scenes (or indeed montages) with that Smith dude which itself made no sense at all. (xp)

I think the other actresses started wearing bras during the sex scenes when the producers/whoever realized the show was going to be syndicated.

Yes! You are right. I didn't think of that.

i think katherine heigl wears a bra in the sex scenes in 'knocked up'. i don't really have a problem with this convention.

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oh i got totally into this show over the past several weeks. i thought it got better as the seasons went on. but maybe just b/c i started liking/getting to know the characters more? i don't know, i got hooked.
i get it now. still have some issues with it sure whatever but there's a lot to love abt it too.
!

also: a lot of hot men

This has that quality where even if you think it blows, you can keep watching and scoffing just to soak in the insane formal regularity of it. A friend and I used to watch this and make bets at the beginning whether it would be an "I couldn't help but wonder" episode or a "I had to ask" episode (or one of approximately 5 "other" episodes). I think it's entirely possible that they realized, at some point, how the horrendous pun segues could actually provide maximum entertainment value to people who partly loathed the show.

I can't believe I actually have something to comment on, nudity-wise, but: at some point there was an ASS DOUBLE for Charlotte, and you could tell, because this ass double had the world's flattest ass, whereas Charlotte, surprisingly, is like kinda pla-DOW in that area.

i am on the last episode! i am feeling kind of attached
but it will be okay
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charlotte does have a great ass!
and yeah, in the first two seasons i was more a loather than a liker of this show but was sucked in by the maximum entertainment value quality. and then i was just sucked in by the characters and storylines and the real/unreal quality of it all, which i think is good b/c it leaves enough space to relate but also to distance and just enjoy tv

am still kind of blown away that freakin' barishnikov! was on this for several episodes! and that sjp got to kiss him A LOT!

oh rrrobyn.

i know :/
i am caught up
i can't control it

these paris episodes are ridiculous i gotta say

I'm surprised, Robyn -- I remember liking the first season or so when it was on, when it was still trying to be sharp and clever and HBO-y. It was the gradual descent into soap-com ridiculousness after that that made it really laughable.

We should compare this to the Girlfriends thread -- the first bit of that show is so wildly aping Sex+City that it's kind of uncomfortable. You spend the whole time imagining a pitch meeting where people are like "Black Sex and the City!" "Black Sex and the City?" "Sex and the City -- black!" "City black Sex and!"

at certain times i have a soft spot for soap-com ridiculousness, believe it

i liked the sharp & clever of the first couple of seasons but i don't know, maybe it wasn't my kinda sharp & clever, also somewhat alienating to me. or maybe that was b/c it was so very late-90s. i can see why i had no interest in it in the first place but also why it makes sense that i got into it now. anyway, it's all watched now! i can see how regular viewers would get choked up at the finale - i mean, most people watched this over many years; i watched it over a couple of months, and partly as distraction/procrastination. it worked! and now it is over

I like some soap-com ridiculousness, too -- I was gonna say that I prefer it to be more camp or knowing than this show tended to be, but then I realized that (a) this would have really blown if it had ever attempted camp or knowingness, plus (b) Bring It On is still on my favorite-movies list. (I prefer it like that, but I don't know what that is: "seeming like it's going to be knowingly campy but then it's actually scarily earnest and thus unintentionally campy?" Sex+City might actually age into that category, it'll be poignant and hilarious to the teenagers of the 2040s.)

I love Bring It On so much.

whatevs dudes, seasons 1 and 2 are good but seasons 3 and 4 are fucking amazing when it comes to entertainment value (plus carrie's fucking hair). not to mention season 5.

season 6 rocks but baryshnikov's character is a schmuck, charlotte's baby storyline and samantha's cancer storyline are pure schmaltz and the paris episodes are way too fucking cute.

but the thick of the 6th has Harry marrying Charlotte and Berger breaking up with Carrie, which is priceless ("this will no longer be known as the day i got broken up with on a post-it -- it will now be known as the day i got arrested for smokin a doobie!")

fuck

Yeah, except I saw that episode recently and I couldn't help thinking that if my friend kept shiting on about being broken up with on a post-it in that annoying way, I would just go home.

The thing, even though I don't love every tiny thing about it, I still really like the show.

Harry is my favourite, though.

so great

Especially his pride in walking about the apartment naked.

hahaha yes so funny

on that beautiful couch

Just the thought of the way she says "doobie" is grossing me out.

i think season 6 was when miranda finally got a normal, or at least not hideous, hairstyle.

steve seems like a bro

total classic

we really haven't had enough SJP here yet