Anonymous wrote:Whatever. Living the life in NYC! I'd be her any day.

No real life depiction of life in NYC.
Life in NYC as a single female is no SITC unless you count your arsenal from Babeland, or you have a weak moment and hook up with someone that you will groan about internally for the rest of your life. And there's no brunching and heels either.
There are little slivers in there that are very true about living/dating in NYC, but not enough to get on the basic bitch wagon over.

Anonymous wrote:Vapid and self absorped. With terrible clothing. Never got why she was supposedly the one with fashion sense.

I love Carrie's looks, but the dialogue, OMG shoot me.

is YOUR face on the side of a bus? I think not

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Anonymous wrote:Oh man...
I was in my 20’s doing the New York thing 2000-2008.

That show was like watching a terrifying docudrama on what could happen to you if you don’t grow up.
Nothing depressed me more than sex and the city.

Tell us more! Did you also sleep around while changing designer outfits three times a day??

I was changing OTHER people’s outfits, doing wardrobe on broadway. It was a special time for me for sure.
I had zero debt, and made good money.
I had a 2 bedroom WAY uptown, for under 1000... sigh.
My personal wardrobe wasn’t too shabby either.
Maybe I should have slept around more.
But I did escape without an STD.
So that’s something!

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.

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Anonymous wrote:The show was glorifying degeneracy, mindless consumerism and perpetual adolescence. A clique of childless, bored, purposeless 30-something yentas gossiping about the next hookup, a hot party, a great brunch. It successfully brainwashed a lot of young women – who chased those hollow thrills and ended up married to men they can't stand and spending big money on IVF. "Sorry you don't have siblings, sweetie, mummy wanted to be Carrie Bradshaw in her 20s and 30s."

I remember reading blogs and articles about women who moved to NYC thinking they were going to live the SATC lifestyle, be fabulous and marry a Big, only to throw in the towel and leave because it was way too expensive or if they stuck it out remained single because a Big or anyone else never wanted to marry them, or they ended up in debt.

That's on them, not the show. Anyone who would move to a ridiculously expensive city without a plan and/or just to find a man is an idiot.

Anonymous wrote:It was based on a series of articles in the NY Observer written by Candace Bushnell and from the late 80's or early 90’s. NY was a very different place at that time.

I read the Candace Bushnell book where Carrie appears a long time ago - I remember it actually being good. Now off to check if she still writes...

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

I love the Golden Girls.

Also: I think it's true that SATC hasn't aged well. But at least at first, it was - I think - a genuinely good and interesting show. Carrie wasn't a loser - none of them were - and she did actually grow up over the course of the show. You might have settled down young but she didn't - and also her job (which, as a writer myself, LOL at being able to write one column a week) was to go investigate New York's nightlife, subcultures, sexual habits. So it makes sense she was out. I guess it probably doesn't compare to being a BigLaw junior partner but it's still a real way to live.

I was living in New York during some of the period that the show was on, but never played that "which SATC character are you?" game because I wasn't any of them. I thought they were good characters who seemed to be living real - for them - lives. At least for a few seasons. It got weird toward the end. What was with Baryshnikov? And the movies were awful. Anyway...

Anonymous wrote:The show was glorifying degeneracy, mindless consumerism and perpetual adolescence. A clique of childless, bored, purposeless 30-something yentas gossiping about the next hookup, a hot party, a great brunch. It successfully brainwashed a lot of young women – who chased those hollow thrills and ended up married to men they can't stand and spending big money on IVF. "Sorry you don't have siblings, sweetie, mummy wanted to be Carrie Bradshaw in her 20s and 30s."

I remember reading blogs and articles about women who moved to NYC thinking they were going to live the SATC lifestyle, be fabulous and marry a Big, only to throw in the towel and leave because it was way too expensive or if they stuck it out remained single because a Big or anyone else never wanted to marry them, or they ended up in debt.

Anonymous wrote:I thought that was the whole point of the show: a cautionary tale.

Are you fo' real? A cautionary tale?
The whole point of the show, just like every other show on air, is to entertain the audience. And the first couple of seasons were entertaining as hell! Early characters and their lines were witty and tremendously funny. But - like a wise PP noted above - the show went downhill once the writers started trying to bring more drama into it.

Anonymous wrote:Oh man...
I was in my 20’s doing the New York thing 2000-2008.

That show was like watching a terrifying docudrama on what could happen to you if you don’t grow up.
Nothing depressed me more than sex and the city.

Tell us more! Did you also sleep around while changing designer outfits three times a day??

Anonymous wrote:The show was glorifying degeneracy, mindless consumerism and perpetual adolescence. A clique of childless, bored, purposeless 30-something yentas gossiping about the next hookup, a hot party, a great brunch. It successfully brainwashed a lot of young women – who chased those hollow thrills and ended up married to men they can't stand and spending big money on IVF. "Sorry you don't have siblings, sweetie, mummy wanted to be Carrie Bradshaw in her 20s and 30s."

Oh calm down, Clara. It didn't brainwash or make anyone spend money on IVF hahaha you sound insane. Maybe you should have chased more "hollow thrills" and gotten the stick out of your bum.

News flash: not everyone wanted or wants kids. And maybe the only one married to a man they can't stand is you, because you sound super bitter.

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.

The show was glorifying degeneracy, mindless consumerism and perpetual adolescence. A clique of childless, bored, purposeless 30-something yentas gossiping about the next hookup, a hot party, a great brunch. It successfully brainwashed a lot of young women – who chased those hollow thrills and ended up married to men they can't stand and spending big money on IVF. "Sorry you don't have siblings, sweetie, mummy wanted to be Carrie Bradshaw in her 20s and 30s."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don't think the idea of the show was ever supposed to be that we want to be them. It was really (originally) supposed to be vignettes about the awkward realities of modern dating and sex.

But we could relate to them. I remember the intro making me so excited, and the final words of wisdom (or question) Carrie asks being like a thump, yes that's how I feel, or what I wonder! It was like a sisterhood.