Carrie Bradshaw is a loser

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that was the whole point of the show: a cautionary tale.

Are you fo' real? A cautionary tale?
The whole point of the show, just like every other show on air, is to entertain the audience. And the first couple of seasons were entertaining as hell! Early characters and their lines were witty and tremendously funny. But - like a wise PP noted above - the show went downhill once the writers started trying to bring more drama into it.

+1. Life was just a lot more fun back then, so you could watch a ridiculous show and know it was ridiculous. I wasn't out there buying an insane wardrobe or acting like any of those girls just because I was watching the show. It was just entertainment. Now I feel if the show doesn't have some deep meaning or a social justice angle, people aren't interested in watching it.

[Anonymous]

I think the show was revolutionary when it started but you could tell it took a downturn when SJP started producing/directing whatever she did. Her character was unbearably cringey. The show did promote fashion and shoes to such an extent that the common working woman seemed to care very much about expensive shoes overnight. I worked in a large city and knew very few middle management females who bought Manolos etc. After a year of that show, every other woman I knew was wearing those torture devices to work. Before the show, respectable working women would not wear high heels to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh man...
I was in my 20’s doing the New York thing 2000-2008.

That show was like watching a terrifying docudrama on what could happen to you if you don’t grow up.
Nothing depressed me more than sex and the city.

The show that did that for me was Girls. It was literally what would've happened to my friends and me if we hadn't decided to grow up and get real jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rewatching this show lately and in my early thirties these women and their life situations are horrifying.

Is this show supposed to be an urban dating dystopia?

What a strange twisted world with strange twisted people who prize shoes and scowl at babies!

And...what is the ultimate point is the show trying to make?

These women live this materialistic, hedonistic life and...are left so utterly lonely and unhappy. Season 6 is painful to watch:

- Carrie has wasted away her limited looks chasing after a bougie who sees her as nothing more than a trashy bootycall. She destroys the only decent guy with whom she had a shot with for having a traditional family and life with. So she is left old and lonely and settles for being a bootycall for an old Russian?

- Charlotte wastes away her twenties and thirties throwing out perfectly good men because of her ridiculous standards. She arrives at 37 reproductive challenged and desperate and changes her religion to be with a guy she would never have even glanced at in her twenties!

- Miranda spends her youth chasing the dollars and someone with her brains and smarts ends up with a dopey uneducated bartender? WTF?

- Sam is a lost cause. I get grossed out looking at her.

What a strange twisted show!

Just because someone doesn't want children or a husband doesn't mean they're a lost cause, Debra.

But they DID want a husband and children (minus Sam).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that was the whole point of the show: a cautionary tale.

Are you fo' real? A cautionary tale?
The whole point of the show, just like every other show on air, is to entertain the audience. And the first couple of seasons were entertaining as hell! Early characters and their lines were witty and tremendously funny. But - like a wise PP noted above - the show went downhill once the writers started trying to bring more drama into it.

+1. Life was just a lot more fun back then, so you could watch a ridiculous show and know it was ridiculous. I wasn't out there buying an insane wardrobe or acting like any of those girls just because I was watching the show. It was just entertainment. Now I feel if the show doesn't have some deep meaning or a social justice angle, people aren't interested in watching it.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that was the whole point of the show: a cautionary tale.

Are you fo' real? A cautionary tale?
The whole point of the show, just like every other show on air, is to entertain the audience. And the first couple of seasons were entertaining as hell! Early characters and their lines were witty and tremendously funny. But - like a wise PP noted above - the show went downhill once the writers started trying to bring more drama into it.

+1. Life was just a lot more fun back then, so you could watch a ridiculous show and know it was ridiculous. I wasn't out there buying an insane wardrobe or acting like any of those girls just because I was watching the show. It was just entertainment. Now I feel if the show doesn't have some deep meaning or a social justice angle, people aren't interested in watching it.

Agree.

Yes! It was entertainment

[Anonymous]

I thought it was sort of relate-able to young women trying to make their way in love and life into late 20s early 30s. I lost interest when she let Ayden go to keep going back to someone who would never choose her, even on their wedding day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh man...
I was in my 20’s doing the New York thing 2000-2008.

That show was like watching a terrifying docudrama on what could happen to you if you don’t grow up.
Nothing depressed me more than sex and the city.

Sex in the City (never watches) and Friends (a few times) were equally infuriating to watch..... most of us young in NYC had crappy paying jobs with long hours, multiple roommates loving in apts 1/8 the size, riding train for 45 mins to get places...

And, I just realized, because our apts were small and crappy most of us were always out - not watching TV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I’m binge watching SATC episodes this evening and I find her so appallingly awful!

She’s a 30sometbing, has no savings, still rents an apartment, is materialistic and shallow and chases a creepy unavailable jerk!

I feel judged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I’m binge watching SATC episodes this evening and I find her so appallingly awful!

She’s a 30sometbing, has no savings, still rents an apartment, is materialistic and shallow and chases a creepy unavailable jerk!

I feel judged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I’m binge watching SATC episodes this evening and I find her so appallingly awful!

She’s a 30sometbing, has no savings, still rents an apartment, is materialistic and shallow and chases a creepy unavailable jerk!

Wait! She’s not a loser. She’s able to afford a tricked out designer wardrobe and eat out all the time on a salary where she just has to crank out one column a week. Brilliant!

"I couldn't help but wonder …"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rewatching this show lately and in my early thirties these women and their life situations are horrifying.

Is this show supposed to be an urban dating dystopia?

What a strange twisted world with strange twisted people who prize shoes and scowl at babies!

And...what is the ultimate point is the show trying to make?

These women live this materialistic, hedonistic life and...are left so utterly lonely and unhappy. Season 6 is painful to watch:

- Carrie has wasted away her limited looks chasing after a bougie who sees her as nothing more than a trashy bootycall. She destroys the only decent guy with whom she had a shot with for having a traditional family and life with. So she is left old and lonely and settles for being a bootycall for an old Russian?

- Charlotte wastes away her twenties and thirties throwing out perfectly good men because of her ridiculous standards. She arrives at 37 reproductive challenged and desperate and changes her religion to be with a guy she would never have even glanced at in her twenties!

- Miranda spends her youth chasing the dollars and someone with her brains and smarts ends up with a dopey uneducated bartender? WTF?

- Sam is a lost cause. I get grossed out looking at her.

What a strange twisted show!

Just because someone doesn't want children or a husband doesn't mean they're a lost cause, Debra.

But they DID want a husband and children (minus Sam).

Kim Cattrall's character Samantha? I've never seen that character referred to as "Sam!"

[Anonymous]

Writing was brilliant but always bugged me that she was so unattractive and they tried to manipulate us audience to buy she was a prize every rich hot guy in Manhattan wanted. It was a lot like ugly Tori Spelling on 90210 because of her dad. So distracting. They tried to divert our attention away from her lack of beauty with pretty stylish clothes.

When the slutty one got cancer the show took a depressing turn. ://

The red head had zero sex appeal. Only later learned she was a lesbian. Something was always off, never bought in to her relationship drama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:she should’ve married the French guy or whatever he was.. he was popping

You mean The Russian (mikhail baryshnikov)?? That pairing was a flop, they had zero chemistry.

they were supposed to have zero chemistry. it was a cerebral relationship.

Carrie? Cerebral?

+1

[Anonymous]

I know this is derailing the thread but I happened to watch the SATC episode last night where Carrie said that her dad left her and her mom when she was 5. It was implied that she never really saw him again and she never mentioned her mother dying in the episode.

I never watched The Carrie Diaries but thought it was about her mom dying when Carrie was a teen and Carrie living with her dad. Is that right? Did they mention that her dad was coming back into her life after long absence? Was curious if this small storyline from that one episode was inline with the story in The Carrie Diaries. That one episode was the only time I remember Carrie mentioning her family at all.