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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I would absolutely agree it has aged horribly but I would love to hear from others WHY -- why did it age so horribly?

My thoughts include
- Gay male stereotypes, cringe
- Lack of BIPOC, wince
- Obsession with affluence in a very pre-2001 way
- The obsession with men, dating, sexual experiences, etc is just embarrassing. [/quote]

I can’t put my finger on it but there are a lot of things that make the series really dated. I’m 35 so I watched some of the middle and later of the series on DVD in 2002-ish, and then watched the TBS edit when I was in college. Even in 2004 or 2005 or whenever that was, the early episodes from the late 90s were very dated. [/quote]

The technology makes it feel really dated, but not far enough back to be fun and retro (liked Mixedish). The depiction of females talking about and liking sex was so frank and fresh at the time but its such a charicature now when you watch it back. Samantha's character doesn't seem liberated, she seems kind of desperate to make sex her defining characteristic. Plenty of women sleep with whomever they want now but they don't let it define them, especially since she was the older one- like, B, you have more to do than constantly chase a random bang

I also thought the depiction of sex with them literally coming within 2 seconds of penetration to be insanely cheesy- it was the opposite of liberating and frank in that way.[/quote]

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