― kevin enas, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
However I was put off during the test due to the bizarre description of London as a holiday destination and therefore my result was skewed. Cucumber sandwiches? Eh? Eton? That's not London, it's somewhere in Berkshire goddamnit. These interweb quiz folk should pull their collective fingers out.
― Emma, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― alex thomson, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
FYI - if you watch Absolutely Fabulous, it becomes clear that Carrie will turn into Edina and Samantha will turn into Patsy.
― Sarah, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
this is the new prism through which i shall view all life.
― jess, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― RickyT, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Punk Rock, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
It's lame WITH all that URST and RST. How tedious would it be without it...we'd be comparing it with the absolute death-throes of Murphy Brown or 90210. The fact that this time the plastic yuppies are female and 30-something and rich as a Murdoch fails to make them any more interesting or make me identify with them any better than Dallas or Dynasty, or Home and Away or Neighbours for that matter. Noisy mediocrity is a still a sure fire winner. Just call it 'cutting edge' or 'confrontational' and it's instantly critically bulletproof. The sex angle is just another layer of armor, making it easy to put any criticism in the PC or 'moral police' bin.
Overpublicised, over-rated DUD.
― Karen, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Thursday, 16 January 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 16 January 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Venga, Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Great. I've been told I look like both.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 17 January 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
All HBO original shows are vastly overated.
― fletrejet, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
I love it
― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 December 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 December 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 December 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Sunday, 26 December 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Sunday, 26 December 2004 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Making Samantha monogamous, inexcusable.
Square Pegs and Ed Wood are still SJP's finest hours.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 December 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Sunday, 26 December 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 26 December 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Samantha resembles many big-city male homos, at least in New York.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and Big lives across the street from me. He has a mustache now, and apparently likes to complain about noise to his doormen quite a lot.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
agreed. there was one scene towards the end where carrie and charlotte were sitting in a park, sharing a black & white cookie (something that's specific to NYC/NJ and NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH). and they didn't even make the cookie a seinfeldian conversation piece or anything, they just sat there and ate it while they talked about other stuff. it was a directorial masterstroke, i thought.
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 December 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, but let's look at some of those, shall we?
"Friends" was shot on a fucking stage set (and it looks it!), and the main characters lived in a palatial apartment in a prime neighborhood they'd never in a quadrillion years be able to afford given their alleged careers.
"Seinfeld" was shot entirely on a set. The inside of the actual Tom's Diner looks absolutely nothing like the one depicted on the show in question.
What makes "Sex in the City" different is that it is a fairly accurate portrayal of life in the city. Granted, the bars and clubs they frequent don't always exist, but the geographic details are on the money, as are the location shots. For that, I give them credit.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
OH WAIT, MORE PEOPLE LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY THAN IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF NEBRASKA
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost; oh yeah, I forgot that "more heavily populated" always equals "more interesting."
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Unrelated: Where was "Caroline in the City" set? Was it the same "City"?
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
OH WAIT, MORE PEOPLE LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY AND BUY ADVERTISERS' PRODUCTS THAN IN THE ENTIRE STATES OF KANSAS, NEBRASKA, SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, MONTANA, AND WYOMING COMBINED
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
No, but you did make a sweeping generalization that every show since the dawn of television has been set in NYC. I just cited the ones off the top of my head that weren't. So ha!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Let's talk about this: how would SITC be different if set in another city, or in a town or village or burb or whatever? In what ways does "the City" become part of the show?
xpost: Alex, please be assured I'm not really being serious, I'm just wasting time at work by misdirecting my dislike for this show into regional pissyness. I just assumed everyone realized that.
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link
One reason why Sopranos is an untouchable classic compared to SATC us that it's not coming back
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 10:50 (three years ago) link
there is no take so shitty it cannot be topped by a shittier one
i think my hell would be having to watch people like this discuss art pic.twitter.com/flUwzdyHYK— Shaun (@shaun_vids) January 12, 2021
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 10:59 (three years ago) link
which SATC character blacked up ?
― marg bar āmrikā (||||||||), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 11:00 (three years ago) link
The Many Saints of Newark is an upcoming American crime drama film directed by Alan Taylor and written by David Chase and Lawrence Konner as a prequel to Chase's HBO crime drama series The Sopranos.
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 11:04 (three years ago) link
Baddiel's two fave bands is Morrissey and Al Jolson
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 11:05 (three years ago) link
Oh jfc, every time the series had black characters in it it was so bad
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 11:05 (three years ago) link
BG - that's not the same as coming back ;-)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 11:15 (three years ago) link
New title for memoir: Men Explain Sex and the City to Me— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) January 12, 2021
Gulag middle-class women already
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
sexist. why not middle class men as well?
― as#d,.F:ddz;,c#,;;,;,;,sdf' (Left), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
Glad to know only men have reductive takes on the show. Emily Nussbaum actually wrote a good piece about the show’s retrospective standing back in 2013, which answers the question of the inane original tweet and then some.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
Nah just the women. Mao Zedong does not give a shit about SATC, it's in the red book xp
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
The most famous such conversation took place four episodes in, after Charlotte’s boyfriend asked her to have anal sex. The friends pile into a cab for a raucous debate about whether her choice is about power-exchange (Miranda) or about finding a fun new hole (Samantha). “I’m not a hole!” Charlotte protests, and they hit a pothole. “What was that?” Charlotte asks. “A preview,” Miranda and Samantha say in unison, and burst out laughing.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
SATC is Entourage for women
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
Left...otm
I watched the first episode of Sex and the City thinking it would be about sort of erotic psychogeography— Rob Palk (@robpalkwriter) January 12, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link