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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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