Sex and the City — Classic or Dud

lol nothing i just wanted to clarify that i wasn't using the term negatively... no i'm a pretty worn fag by now

RAWFFFFFLZ

I'd like to be a worn out fag. But SOMEONE is too flakey to wear me out.

lol lol, well i'm not THAT worn out...

I blame this show for corrupting high school girls everywhere, and portraying their vapid lives as somehow being worth aspiring to. I hung out with three other girls in my first year of college and one of them insisted on assigning us as either one of the four satc identities. I wanted to shoot her.

So you blame the show for that? That seems a bit rich. You can't blame a show for what a viewer does with it. What if someone watches the show and thinks: Shit, this is a vapid lifestyle, I'm becoming a defender of *whatever good cause*. Suddenly you think the show's okay again? I'm not a terribly big fan of the show. I like it. it's quirky. I certainly don't identify with the characters. It certainly isn't realistic nor would I look for that because IT IS TELEVISION DUH. Also, you gotta love how terrible the clothes turned out to be. They didn't age that well at all.

I'm sure Pish Posh Beckham has watched it religiously, but only for the fashiontips.

haha... some of them aged better than others (the clothes)

xpost um i didn't say it was the sole cause of it - but just the way this program was received in general made it seem like this was something that "all women can relate to" and this was how life was supposed to be for "strong intelligent empowered women". That was the message that I got at least. I was in high school when this came out and trust me, this show was huge among the girls (and some boys, though mostly they watched it for nekkid Samantha). I get it's just a tv show, and people can have any number of opinions on it but it's kind of ridiculous the kind of impact it had in terms of just making girls think that owning a closet full of Manolos is somehow a birthright and not something that 0.02% of the population can afford.

Anyway, i do find Satc entertaining and funny and I did watch it quite regularly at one point, I'm just uncomfortable how it seemed at one point like the ultimate definer of what a successful woman should be like.

um i love when u find out that charlotte and trey eat out each other's asses on a regular basis

"well, trey likes to do it - we're married."

"i'm carrie, you're miranda, you're the woman watching it at home."

is there any way the movie will not totally suck (and bomb)? They're waaaaaaaay too late.

If it's anything like the show....

i think it could only work if done quite differently from the show. cutting the v/o and not having carrie as central character would be the thing to do. i'd start with a funeral and flashback.

i do not like this show. esp b/c it could've been way better - it is somehow either not real enough or not fantastical enough to me - so it is a humdrum frustrating middle ground and it is no the o.c. or battlestar
(have only recently watched the first 6 episodes though. will prob watch more but i think it is just not my thing)

oooh the 1st season is good but DEF not as good as later! definitely peaks 3rd and 4th

what do you mean by 'good' tho

does anyone actually do anything of substance?

or tv-fiction awesome insanity?

lol good = GREAT performances, and very funny at times

i mean i know all the flaws of the show - i still manage to find it very entertaining. just me tho

haha, not QUITE insanity... tv fiction awesome silliness?

the voiceovers, arrrgh! carrie cocks her head like a retarded spaniel, then comes the stunning insight: "It was then that I began to wonder... are relationships actually something you have to work at?"

yeah, the writing makes me want to punch the writers, i guess that's what it is

and i have not laughed once yet!
and i laugh at a lot of things!

lol, there was a real gem last night when i was watching

"maybe we just have to take the outfits we got, and accesorize them"

or something, u know as like the episode closer... ridic.

well here's the thing, as a gay man, i'm continually fascinated by women, u know like big women

i think women themselves are not as fascinated by these women... more annoyed by them? i dunno. and yes granted the writing can be absurd

oh, yeah. that's a perfect example.

points for normalizing excessive alcohol consumption, though.

xpost

ha so true

and cigarettes! i love the episodes when carrie is just lighting up all over fucking town. she could be on a plane and she'd light up, becuz u know, she's carrie bradshaw

the longer it went, the worse SJP got.

also, fuck (as in kill) rich people.

they should've done a show about the awesomeness of poppyseeds and walked around with poppyseeds in their teeth all day and not really cared and the episode closer could've been "maybe we just have to enjoy life a little more and not be so neurotic and uninteresting"
xpost

the money wasting thing is really horrible to me, and why i can deal with a show like the o.c. when it comes to money issues, is an interesting case in itself re: television and class/economic divides

I bailed on it when every other episode had Carrie drooling at a shop window going "Shooooes... shooooes..." FUCK YOU

Morbz OTM - SJP is easily the worst thing about the show. When I see this in reruns now the voiceovers are like hot pokers in my ears arrrgh so bad

also, fuck (as in kill) rich people.

-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, July 19, 2007 5:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

fuck marry kill

lol geez i'm really surprised i feel like i'm the only one who lieks this show ;/ where's stevie?

i know a lot of people who love this show! that's why i thought i'd watch finally

oh ok good ; )

i think it's okay. it definitely improved.

some of it is okay, a fair chunk of it is excruciatingly bad. kinda depends on what actors/stories are emphasized in any given episode.

i don't unreservedly hate it, but robyn hit the nail on the head for me when she said that it's not real enough nor is it fantastical enough. as others have said it improved a lot as the series went on, and there's some funny stuff there, but with a show that long-running you're bound to get it right occasionally.

that episode that on the emmy, The Real Me, the pilot of the 4th season - the one where carrie does the fashion show and it ends with "To be Real"

is amazing

*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.