Sex and the City — Classic or Dud

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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



I’ve never seen The Sopranos but even I know that’s a shitty and reductive take - and it’s a shitty and reductive take about SATC too. Some parts of SATC have really not aged well - Carrie raging at Charlotte for not selling her engagement ring to help Carrie out with her deposit would come across even worse than it did at the time, the racism, the aggressively ‘apolitical’ small c conservatism - and some are still great. I love every moment the show acknowledges, either through narratives or telling us, that Carrie is full of shit, and the later seasons are really lacking in that regard.

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

One reason why Sopranos is an untouchable classic compared to SATC us that it's not coming back

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.

Lol this was so funny, and ofc reads as extremely quaint in 2021.

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


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