Sex and The City

Series one is completely different to the others. Maybe start the second series?

Surely it's not that unusual to be horrified you are pregnant but eventually decide to keep it? I have one friend who was absolutely going to have the abortion but didn't.

It did annoy me too though that every soap did the same. I was always mildly frustrated that no one ever seemed to go through with the abortion. But, as well as the actress being pregnant problem, it's also a plotline with a lot more story if she goes on to have the baby.

I loved it & still like it. Yes the characters are exaggerated for storyline purposes but what else can you expect. They are also flawed.

I can't imagine everything sitting through 5 episodes of something I'm not enjoying. I managed 1 episode of Emily in Paris before switching off.
I really enjoyed SATC at the time. I gave up on the sequel very quickly. Recently SATC has been repeated late on Saturday nights. I've been watching it and still really enjoyed it.

I think if you really don’t like it, it’s not worth keeping going. But in my opinion season 1 is the worst.

I loved it, but I always hated Carrie. They all had issues, frankly. But I watched for Miranda. Then the sequel ruined everything.

And yes, I did love Samantha. It was a groundbreaking show at the time.

I liked it but parts of it haven’t aged well and in hindsight I perceive many of the characters differently: Aiden and Steve are Nice Guys rather than nice guys. As in they both come across as toxic and young me didn’t see it at the time. And Carrie is a shit friend and a lousy girlfriend. Her and Big deserved each other really. But she annoyed me back then too. Samantha was the best character of all of them.

Good to know thanks. I haven't watched it and won't bother now.

Yes many, many people REALLY like it. It’s why it so famous

Its strange that we can all enjoy different things isn’t it

Yes the actress who plays Charlotte is terrible, and something weird is going on with her mouth i assume the actress has had plastic surgery
I hated the Miranda and Che story line but don't mind her character now she's kicked Che into touch it was all to try hard
I watch it becsuse I loved SATC it's OK but not great.

Yeah, but I find that weird. If you meet a friend's friend and you have loads in common and get on really well, you might form a group with them both. But if you have nothing in common and are seemingly opposed on all your views and beliefs, why would you keep hanging around them? Surely you'd be polite if you were ever both at an event with your mutual pal, but that would be the extent of the relationship. You wouldn't spend half your life hanging out with them, you'd usually hang out with other friends and probably be a bit irritated if your mate kept inviting her weird posse to lunch with you both. Yet we never see any of them having any other friends. Maybe because they're all so unlikeable?!

I liked it back in the day. But the new series is a total joke. Miranda is so off putting and the actress who plays Charlotte has completely forgotten how to act. It's actually very funny to watch her struggle.

I thought Miranda,Charlotte and Sammantha were all individually friends with Carrie and that's how they all became friend's?

I loved SATC. I could watch it on repeat. I didn’t have to think they were all excellent people always doing the plausible and upstanding thing to find it entertaining. Weird that you’d care so much.

I know, that's what makes it especially baffling. She decided on a whim to have a baby, even though she told Carrie minutes before that she hardly even had time to schedule the abortion.

I just don't buy that women decide on whim to have a baby if they have a surprise pregnancy. Even posts on here confirm this. Some posters come on here saying that could never have an abortion and so never even schedule one.

But Miranda is completely sure at the beginning of the episode that she does not want to continue the pregnancy and then decides during her appointment to make a life-changing decisions like having a baby. It's out of character.

Loved it then and love it now (maybe nostalgia but I’ve rewatched it all multiple times including a few months ago). It’s fine if it’s not for you. We all like different things, which makes life interesting

I watched them at the time, but never liked any of the characters. Can't stand Carrie, always found her really cringey. And none of the relationships made much sense to me, either the romantic ones or the friendships. Why would Steve want Miranda? Why would Baryshnikov want Carrie? Why would Charlotte be friends with Samantha, or vice versa? Didn't much like any of the clothes either tbh. But it was pretty watchable, and only short episodes. There probably was also an element of it being such a big deal it would be weird to not watch it. Haven't watched any of the reboot though as it looks dreadful.

I liked it for seeing New York, the fashion, the apartments and the stories.
I'd have liked it to continue so I could have seen Charlotte and Miranda bringing up their kids. Exclusive schools etc. Rather than them being toddlers and then straight to older teenagers.

This echoes exactly what I feel. I loved it and also AJLT.

I certainly never felt the need to pretend to like SATC. If I WAS one to feel pressured to like or dislike something, I'd probably have felt pressure to hate Carrie (but I don't, I rather like her- and recognize she's imperfect) or hate AJLT (but I don't, it works for me, and I really enjoy watching it).

It was just well-produced, easy on the eye fluff TV. Loved it in my early twenties, but it was never deep and meaningful: it was a fluffy chic treat for Friday night/weekend viewing! On a holiday in NYC, I even remember going to the Japanese department store that features in a couple of episodes, just for fun and to look at the makeup and pretend to be New York it-girls.

But it was hardly Dostoyevsky! Not sure why people think it should be, either — would you go to see The Devil Wears Prada and then complain that it isn’t Oppenheimer? There were always lots of annoying things about it, and about Carrie and so on; but it wasn’t meant as particularly serious, or realist, viewing. And when people complain about it not being up to date, well, the woke “progressive” aspects of AJLT haven’t exactly gone over particularly well. (Maybe, just maybe, the original series was actually not that bad in the way it presented gay and lesbian characters, compared to the heavy-handed gender ideology woo they’ve gone in for in AJLT.)

Edited to add that the films were absolutely awful, especially SATC2 which genuinely remains the worst film I have ever seen. I was stuck on a plane watching it and it was the only film working as the entertainment system was broken. FML 🤦‍♀️

I can see your point but some people do decide to continue with unplanned pregnancies even if they waiver over choices Miranda waa very organised and career minded, this storyline threw a curve ball at her.

I loved it!

But she had never even thought about being a mother. It had literally never come up until that point, and all of a sudden she was all about being a mother and how this could be her last chance to do something she had never cared about.

It irritated me, not specifically that Sex and the City did it, but that almost all shows with significant female characters did this. It was always the same shit. Actress pregnant so he character would have a surprise pregnancy, immediately plan an abortions because there were not ready or never wanted children and literally at the appointment would change their mind. It was always the same.

Yeah, and Carrie regretted that she had needed one. She felt stupid that she had not been more careful. The entire episode had a very judgemental tone about it. Aden got angry that he knew and argued that Steve had a "right to know" and ran a whole men's rights spiel of "men can't catch a break". Carrie judged Sam for having more than one abortion. And since Samantha's story lines are always a bit ridiculous, it was clear was clear that women who have abortions got judged by the writers of the show.

It was especially funny how Charlotte lost her rag that Miranda planned an abortion when she was all "I choose my choice! I choose my choice!" a few episodes before. And yeah, I know that she struggled to get pregnant herself, but her reaction was really out of proportion and judgemental.

Also recent at the time storyline, s had,had Steve having testicular cancer and Miranda having less than optimal fertility, so it's quite easy to see why she might have changed her mind about having an abortion, if her pregnancy with Brady was potentially the only chance she would get to be a mother.