![]() SatC only made itself relatable to privileged, white, heterosexual women, and it’s hard to ignore the flaws that are now quite painful to rewatch. Life goes on … Sarah Jessica Parker in And Just Like That … the cult series’s sequel. But Miranda follows her as a silent act of support: “She knew Miranda was behind her.” It’s gorgeous. In season four’s Shoulda Woulda Coulda, when Miranda tells a nearly infertile Charlotte that she’s pregnant, a devastated Charlotte insists on walking home alone. But, just as it does with relationships, the show explores the very real, imperfect moments in friendships, as well as the glorious ones. Sure, there were some bumps in the road, such as when Carrie shamed Samantha after walking in on her performing oral sex on the delivery guy (resulting in the classic line “I shall wear whatever and blow whomever I want as long as I can breathe and kneel”). Find a friend who will volunteer to pull out your diaphragm if it gets stuck – like Samantha does for Carrie – and you’ve got a soulmate for life. The love these women really need, though, has always been each other’s. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.” Now that is a line to live by. And when Carrie ends things with awful Aleksandr Petrovsky in the finale, she nails it with: “I’m someone who is looking for love. Even Samantha takes a chance with Smith Jerrod after breaking things off with cheating ex Richard Wright, saying, “I love you, too, Richard, but I love me more” (she later echoes these words to Smith in the film). Idealistic Charlotte meets lovely, bald, hairy Harry Goldblatt and finally realises that sometimes you need to dismantle a lifelong picture of what you think your life should look like to find what’s best for you. Fiercely independent Miranda doesn’t even realise she wants Steve Brady in her life until months after she has his baby. You can be happy, successful and fulfilled with your single life – and still want romantic love. ![]() ![]() When it came to relationships, SatC did a beautiful job of reassuring us that it’s OK to want one. Perhaps it’s time to take a sermon from Samantha, who spends whole evenings masturbating with a vibrator while smoking spliffs. Apparently, people are having sex less than ever. No topic is off limits and these four women paved the way for openly dissecting sex without judgment. Prim Charlotte shouts “Don’t you ever just want to be pounded really hard? … I just really wanna be fucked!” at her old sorority sisters. Horny Miranda fantasises about having sex with a sandwich. Samantha talks about dating a guy with the “funkiest tasting spunk” over breakfast. On again, off again … Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mr Big (Christopher Noth). Sex and the City was, and still is, the single woman’s bible. Barely a week goes by where my oldest friend and I don’t exchange a Samantha meme (“If you turn into one of those married assholes, I’ll kill you” is a favourite). I can confirm this as a single thirtysomething who has watched the whole six seasons at least, oh, five times since my 20s. Conversations from the whole series still take place everywhere over brunches, margaritas and nine-minute WhatsApp voicenotes. Women talking so frankly about what they want from sex and relationships was groundbreaking at the time a quarter of a century on, it is folklore. And just like that, one of the best-ever female-led TV shows was born. “The right guy is an illusion start living your life!” countered PR guru Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall). “Most men are threatened by successful women,” added art dealer Charlotte York (Kristin Davis). “By the time you reach your 30s, you think, ‘Why should I settle?’” was corporate lawyer Miranda Hobbes’s (Cynthia Nixon) answer. Why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?” was the first question Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) pondered with her fellow single friends. T wenty-five years ago, a big-haired, well-heeled sex columnist made her debut in a bold new comedy about women over 30 dating in New York.
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