I used to watch this show frequently when it first came out… it was witty and funny, and refreshing to see older, single women having a good time and proud of their status.
Now… I can’t bear to watch it anymore. These women have turned sad and pathetic, unable to find any meaning in life beyond the hot waiter at the restaurant or the new shoes of the season. They are all pushing 40 now, which is fine and dandy, but these women are utterly depressing! I’m embarassed to watch this show anymore, I’m literally embarassed for them.
Either NYC really does suck for meeting quality people, or these women should have ended the show while they still had an ounce of self-respect…
yes, i realize i may be the only one on the board who actually watches this show
Miranda has a baby and a new unrequited crush on Steve.
Charlotte is planning to convert to Judaism in order to marry the man she loves.
Carrie is in a new relationship.
It is an episodic TV show, you know. That’s how it works, and it’s not at all unique to Sex and the City.
Why move away? They seem to enjoy it.
I have no idea either. I’m not a fan, but you know, relax.
I know what you’re saying and I don’t totally disagree. Really, it was just as true when the show started and they were in their early/mid 30s. That’s the premise of the thing, and if you like it, you buy it. If not, you don’t watch. Ta da!
It is certainly funnier than most shows currently on television.
I think the difference is that I like the characters and when I used to live in NYC, I knew quite a few women like them. Granted, they are not getting any younger and have the same quirks, but who ever really changes their personality no matter how old you get?
My guess is that if they did a reunion show in 30 years, Samantha would still be the slut, Carrie would be divorced six times, Miranda would have six kids and her own law firm and Charlotte - well, she could go either way…crazy art curator bag lady or Suburban/Tupperware party throwing/ex-soccermom.
And if the stories and characters don’t change much, well - neither did Mary leave Lou Grant, Seinfeld never moved to the Hamptons, Ethel never divorced Fred and even Superman wore the same stupid outfit for years and years.
PS For many people, openings of new restaurants, galleries, shows and clubs really are a big thing in NYC - even today.
“Turned”? I hate to tell you this, but they’ve ALWAYS been that way. I have not laughed at that show even once, because I was always too busy detesting the horrible people who were supposed to be sympathetic and funny.
Well, since everyone is dissecting my view of the show, maybe I am wrong. However, I won’t be watching any more episodes of it, as it is terrible. The guys are all butt-ass ugly on the show too.
My girlfriend must be making me watch a different show with the same title (I should have never showed her how to use the “On-Demand” cable feature. Now every night is a SitC marathon.:smack: )
:rolleyes: Miranda is still abrasive and unattractive and now she has a kid (a tripple threat!)
:rolleyes: Charlotte is…well…Charlotte
:rolleyes: Carrie is dating the guy from Office Space. She’ll fuck it because she’s nuts.
:rolleyes: Samantha is barely visible through the Vasaline[sup]TM[/sup] covering the camera lense
And move where? Some suburb where they would be the “weird single lady who lives alone”? Then the show can follow them partying at the Sheraton Hotel Lounge and eating at Red Lobster, Denny’s and TGIFridays each week.
Have to go with minty on this one. I watched about half the first season, and only held out that long because i figured that a show getting so much positive press must have at least one redeeming feature. I was wrong.
Granted, popularity does not a good show make, but according to the Los Angeles Times, Sex And The City hasn’t lost its mass appeal yet:
“The highly publicized sixth season premiere of the romantic misadventures of Carrie Bradshaw and her single gal pals in the Big Apple was off just a bit from last year’s season premiere, but still managed to rank as the most-watched show of the week among HBO subscribers. The season premiere was the second-highest-rated premiere in the show’s history, drew a larger audience than any network show on Sunday among HBO viewers, and was the fourth-highest-rated episode ever for the comedy, which is in its final season.”
Again, not that this is by any means the funniest show ever, but for those Dopers who seem to hate it so much, what current tv sitcoms DO you like?
Ironically enough, Golden Girls (IMHO) happens to be the funniest sitcom that has ever been aired. Seinfeld is wildly funny, as is Will & Grace (or better named… Jack & Karen).
I have loved every single episode of S&TC, but after seeing the second show of this season, with Samantha groping after 20- something waiters and looking horribly pathetic, and Carrie (as much as I like her) analyzing her crappy sex life (to the point of NO return) I can only conclude that the first 5 seasons made me PROUD of hot-single-smart-sassy women… this season makes me pity them…
Maybe they should not move to the 'burbs… but somewhere more classy, like Alabama or Mississippi. That might be fun for them! They just need some good clean air.
I do realize that I"m about 5 months late to reply to the thread.
Anyway, I recently discovered it and have been watching the re-runs on weeknights.
I’ve also started reading Candace Bushnell’s books as a result of the show… Although I don’t like her books as much as I like the show, they are still enjoyable to me!
I am not rich, and I live in the midwest. I think the show’s exciting!
Well, at lot has changed since the OP. Miranda has finally come off her high horse and realized that Steve was The One. I knew this from the first episode he was in, but it took ol’ Miranda quite some time because that huge chip on her shoulder was blocking her clear vision.
Charlotte, still neurotic but Jewish now, is in the happy marriage she wanted. She’s not with a handsome WASP doctor, who was totally wrong for her, but with a homely Jewish lawyer, who is right. A satisfying conclusion for her… maybe she’ll be pregnant by the end of the series.
Samantha too is off the market, incredibly. She’s with a man a good 15+ years her junior, but she’s warming up to the idea of being in a relationship.
Carrie just met that hot Russian artist played by Barishnikov, and I think that’s who she’ll wind up with in the end.
Listen, I too found Carrie in particular nearly unbearable, especially when she screwed up her relationship with Aidan… TWICE! I’d give my eye teeth for an Aidan, and she lost him twice. Grrrrr. But I think we’ve seen all four of these women wise up and she their illusions/delusions. I like them all a lot more now than I did at first.
I only watch the show occasionally, but when I do I’ve always like it. (I have no idea why I don’t watch it more often.) Although sometimes the “Oh, look! A hot guy” gets a bit old.
Carrie with Baryshnikov? Nah, she and Mr. Big will be back together, but probably not married. I wonder if we’ll ever know his name.
I didn’t watch this at all until they started the reruns, and watching two shows a night for weeks at a time might be the way to go.
There’s been a bit of pathos – Charlotte having a miscarriage, Samantha down with the flu and not a single man in her little book would come to help her, Samantha protesting that all she wants to do is f***, Carrie’s comment early on about her nose (got that out of the way), and the way the four of them shift alliances but manage to stay friends.
They have yelled at each other and said hurtful things and stayed friends. I love that.
I don’t think they ever flirted with each other’s boyfriends – that was smart of the writers, I think, not letting them do that.
