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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never got the vibe that Carrie wanted kids but did very much get the vibe she wanted a committed relationship with a high status man and all that that entails (socially, financially).

I'm rewatching SATC now and in the middle of season 4. It's interesting to watch as an early 40s mom of teens as opposed to an early 20s student.

My take now is:
- Carrie is suffering from a type of arrested development where she can't escape shallow impulses and isn't emotionally mature or secure enough to be healthy or functional enough for a "real" relationship. I don't sense any desire to be a parent from her. She is pretty insufferable and while she's a good friend, she's also a very flawed and selfish and immature person. Hard to watch. 
 - Samantha is also tragic, but she is pretty self-assured and confident. I actually could see her as a mother, if she finds the right person (but also recognize she doesn't want that). Unrelatedly I didn't realize until recently Kim Catrall is British-Canadian!
- Charlotte is fairly what you see is what you get: a classic uptight annoying princess, unwilling to accept reality and settle until later in life: we see this all the time. Her trajectory is typical. Eventually, she comes to grips with reality and is able to be content and grow as a person and in a relationship. 
- Miranda is an unbelievable exaggeration of a career woman trope: I find her character the least relatable in a way, because in real life I think most women in her position would have acted more authentically rather than shunned Steve or beat up on themselves constantly. But maybe her behavior is explained by the current season(s) with her character being gay, which is why she doesn't quite function typically in heterosexual relationships.

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Funny, I’ve been rewatching too. I’m 35 and a mom of two (pregnant with my third.) when I used to watch the show, I was so turned off by samantha, but as an adult, I love her. She is confident, beautiful, funny, smart, successful and is a loyal friend. She is my favorite as an adult. I don’t think samantha is stunted, i think she just enjoys being single. She knows what she want and doesn’t want.

I related most to Carrie in my early twenties, but in my thirties, she’s hard to watch. In fact, it’s hard to imagine why Charlotte or carrie would be single in their mid thirties. What strikes me about the show now is how much it reads like my mid-twenties to me - not my thirties. I wonder what all of them (besides samantha, who is single by choice, and maybe Miranda, who was presumably slaving away as a big law associate) were doing or dating in their twenties. [/quote]

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