― 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
Well, I think the size and scope of "the City" in question has a lot to do with it. If the series were set in Pataskala, Ohio, they'd probably run out of options rather quickly. Whereas, if you put it in, say, Berlin or Hong Kong (or some other teeming metropolis), you have a bit more chance of some genuinely credible and interesting plot developments. And before you ask, yes, I've been to Pataskala, Ohio.
I'm kidding too, n/a. That came out sounding more patronizing and imperious than I meant it to. But, y'know, I'm a boring, ugly and (arguably) skinny New Yorker, so what do you expect?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah, it's called "Gilmore Girls".
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:58 (nineteen 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