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[quote=Anonymous]The show wasn't supposed to be about her career.  It was supposed to be about sex.  And at the time, there wasn't anything quite like it: a show that actually had lead female characters being brutally honest about sexual relationships and dating in a way that wasn't fixated on marriage or even necessarily romance.

The first season, IMO, was the best.  I didn't watch the movies because by the last season, it had really gotten off track of what it was supposed to be.

They dealt with a lot of sex-related things from a woman's perspective in a very comical way.  Carrie Bradshaw's character was supposed to be a kind of modern-day female libertine, and from that vantage point, the show was able to show female sexuality in a different line and kind of give unromanticized snapshots of dating and sex.  I think it should have stuck to that, but because it was so popular, they did a bunch of seasons and took the story lines in other directions.  I don't think it worked well for that.

The first season was Seinfeld-esque.  And I think it would've been better to stay that way.  No one expected any of the characters on Seinfeld to be noble or represent figures we aspire to be.  They were meant to be launching off points to deal with all of the bizarre letting human things we all notice but never really talk about.  Sex and the City was supposed to be that but for sex and dating.  Carrie was supposed to be a kind of female Seinfeld -- a forever bachelorette character through whom we could explore all of the awkward and less talked about things in dating and sex.

IMO, what the show got wrong was trying to give the characters more depth.  Not every show has to be serious.  [/quote]

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