Carrie Bradshaw is a loser

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NEWSFLASH!!!! OP IS A LOSER!

IT IS 2019!!!!

IT ENDED 15 YEARS AGO!

A Golden Girls thread would be better than this.

#Snoozeville

Yes, and it's easy to judge SATC in hindsight. At the time, everything made sense and we wanted to be one or all of them.

This! I didn't know what Manolos were!

I remember when my cousin and I graduated high school in 2001 she was obsessed with SATC. I remember she got a box set and special high heels as graduation presents. I had never seen the show because I didn’t have cable television nor was I cool enough to care about a show like this.

So it’s been 17 years? My cousin still acts like Carrie Bradshaw best I can tell having never actually watched the show. She for sure dresses like her which is weird because I feel like the rest of the world’s moved on. It’s intersting how a teenage obsession can influence the rest of your life.

x10000

Yup. It sure does. Look around.

[Anonymous]

Carrie was arrogant as all get out and never truly paid for her bad choices. She had the nerve to be shocked when Aiden didn't outright give her 2 apartments when they broke up!
I wish Charoltte didn't lend her the money (which we never saw or heard about her pay back) and she did have to part with her stuff to keep it.
Also I wish Natasha had knocked her and Big the f*** out but she was way too classy. I'm not. Even with a busted tooth we both would have needed medical attention after I catch you lounging around my house half naked after sleeping with my husband.

[Anonymous]

To me the show was enjoyable because Carrie was a flawed protagonist. I always felt she was immature and annoying, but that made her relatable - we all had that friend! Who wants to watch a show about some perfectly behaved Mary Sue who does everything right? No drama in that!

The problem is that Carrie was a bad friend. She was completely self-involved. There's no way a person that awful could be the glue of a friend group.

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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!

Not to mention club hopping well into her forties and coming home drunk every night gets lame past 21.

There should have been an after school episode where one of them had a herpes flare up that got into their brain. Charlotte had crabs one episode. That was it.

Hey, Miranda had chlamydia! But they likely all had hpv at the very least.

Um, almost everyone who has been sexually active with other sexually active people has had HPV. It's not really a marker for anything.

I know, we're saying the same thing. Just seems like something they could have at least touched on during the show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was 28 and newly married when it came out and loved it! It was our Sunday night ritual to watch.

My brother and husband’s best friend were NYC bachelors at the time and we used to take the train up and go out with them a lot.

I feel like I was experiencing SATC through male eyes because I was always out with a bunch of guys. And, some of the guys were horrible and some had hilariously funny stories.

But, I don’t think it translates well to 2018. For one, people didn’t online date back then and millennials are having a lot less sex. It was a very different culture/time.

A lot of the episodes had issues that were “of the time”. For example, Brazilian bikini was new—most women tried it after seeing that episode. A lot was taken from the current culture off the streets which made it relevant. I also feel it was at a time when people married much later and had kids later. I think there has been a shift of people starting early 30s, instead of waiting until 35.

You must not know many millennials, they screw around like it's nothing. Jeez, even teens are doing everything like it's no big deal.

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Anyone who would move to a ridiculously expensive city without a plan and/or just to find a man is an idiot.

Their plan was better than yours.

Ha! I got the big city, the hot guy, and a career that gives me all the money, thank you very much. How's mom life going?

Yeah right. Your husband has a mistress, you are probably addicted to pain killers and shopping to fill the empty void in your life

HAHAHAHA no wonder you watched the show, you love drama, sweetie! You know nothing about me but from your posts we all know you're a miserable person. Sorry you're so bitter towards anyone with genuine happiness.

[Anonymous]

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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?

[Anonymous]

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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?

Agh my GIF didn't go through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tried to watch a few episodes the other night and couldn't get past Cynthia Nixon and her bartender baby daddy. Two of the most painfully gross and annoying characters ever.

Totally. Steve's character was just ... ugh. It's like Miranda had another child to care for. She more than wore the pants in that relationship.

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

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!

Wow you must have had a picture perfect, 2.5 kids in your twenties from missionary sex life. Great job!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was 28 and newly married when it came out and loved it! It was our Sunday night ritual to watch.

My brother and husband’s best friend were NYC bachelors at the time and we used to take the train up and go out with them a lot.

I feel like I was experiencing SATC through male eyes because I was always out with a bunch of guys. And, some of the guys were horrible and some had hilariously funny stories.

But, I don’t think it translates well to 2018. For one, people didn’t online date back then and millennials are having a lot less sex. It was a very different culture/time.

A lot of the episodes had issues that were “of the time”. For example, Brazilian bikini was new—most women tried it after seeing that episode. A lot was taken from the current culture off the streets which made it relevant. I also feel it was at a time when people married much later and had kids later. I think there has been a shift of people starting early 30s, instead of waiting until 35.

I think this PP and I may agree on a lot. It may not have aged well but I watched this series originally as a single 20-something fresh out of college, working in a city (not the city). It was a big deal at the time for a few reasons IMO. For one I think it was an early non-network TV show, so that was still a new thing and it allowed content that wasn’t on regular TV at the time. It was pre-smartphone, pre-Facebook, pre-Tinder, etc. The dating landscape looked a lot different as a result and a lot of the ideas were very relatable. The main characters were all women and none of them were “the wife” or “the girlfriend” - they were the main characters, they weren’t perfect, and they messed up. And they talked about sex. Not just love or getting married. No show set in NYC ever really has realistic real estate or wardrobes per the characters’ jobs’, but the plots here were relevant at the time to me living elsewhere, without access to the fashion on the show.

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

DP. The problem with Samantha isn't that she doesn't want kids. It's that she leads a vapid and empty life of sexual thrill seeking without any emotional connection. That is sad and pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Loved that show. It's fiction OP and 20 years after the fact...so maybe get a life.