― DG, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Hell, you can call me Senor Wiencis for all that means. (My hair is a lovely shade of red, though.)
― David Raposa, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― JM, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― kevin enas, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
― alex thomson, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two 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-one 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-one 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
speechless
― surm, Monday, 22 July 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
pretty much OTM this piece, i came here to post it! i like this;
The show’s basic value system aligns with Carrie: romantic, second-wave, libertine. But “Sex and the City” ’s real strength was its willingness not to stack the deck: it let every side make a case, so that complexity carried the day. When Carrie and Aidan break up, they are both right. When Miranda and Carrie argue about her move to Paris, they are both right. The show’s style could be brittle, but its substance was flexible, in a way that made the series feel peculiarly broad-ranging, covering so much ground, so fleetly, that it became easy to take it for granted.
― piscesx, Monday, 22 July 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
surm, what left ya speechless?
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 July 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
Yeah good piece. She has a point about the genuine character growth
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 July 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
What I wouldnt give to hear richard nixon expounding on this show
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 July 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
"And these women... they just fuck like a buncha streetwalkers..."
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
rewatching this in dribs and drabs as I do every few years and God, season 4 is really the worst as a whole. Though there are some moments I really like (Carrie and Big dancing to Moon River until the record starts skipping, Trey doing the photo shoot with Charlotte, the Lucy Liu cameo!) but Carrie is INSUFFERABLE this season. There’s some great fashion but so, so, so much cringe. What the fuck was Samantha at giving Richard that hideous heart print? Has Carrie ever been more loathsome than when she’s browbeating Charlotte to lend her money for her deposit? Also, am I supposed to believe Carrie would start working at Vogue and not knock a column about accessories out of the park? She spent a deposit’s worth of cash on shoes alone!
― hyds (gyac), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
oh no
HBO Max has officially revived #SexAndTheCity https://t.co/st3CaB9MQf pic.twitter.com/IfjgbSkRTI— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 10, 2021
Fellow original star Kim Cattrall (Samantha) is not involved in the HBO Max incarnation. The actress has openly feuded with Parker and, more in October 2017, was vocal about seeing her part being recast in a bid to improve the original comedy's inclusivity.
For his part, creator Star told The Hollywood Reporter in October that he had no interest in returning to the series today. "I May Destroy You is the Sex and the City for now," he said as part of a Creative Space interview pegged to his Netflix comedy Emily in Paris. "Girls was the Sex and the City for its moment. I wouldn't be doing Sex and the City today. Twenty years ago, I knew those people that I was writing about. I understood the time and I understood the characters and also what needed to be said."
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Sunday, 10 January 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
Continuing my commitment to being the only person posting itt,
I find it fascinating that Sex and the City - a show about a bunch of white women making jokes and shagging - is considered embarrassingly retro and borderline offensive, but The Sopranos - a show about a bunch of white men killing each other -is considered an untouchable classic— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) January 12, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 10:40 (three 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