Sex and the City...Berger.

[LucilleBluth]

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What the hell does she see in that Berger, I mean she's no picnic but he's awful. I've known men just like him.

how did she afford all that food out? She never cooks (uses her oven for storage).

Takeout is cheap in NYC. A lot of people in Manhattan live in tiny apartments and basically don't have functional kitchens.

I love satc it reminds me of a more glam version on my life i loved miranda the most. I hate charlotte the most. She had a good job in a gallery which are hard to get into yet she was a prudish childish little wimp?!

They were all twats. Including Big. Especially Big!

Big had no personality at all. I agree that Harry was the best, and Steve, until he cheated.

I would so marry Harry. He was adorable.

I always kind of liked Big. He was very honest about what he wanted. But Carrie always felt she could change him. Felt sorry for him in the second movie when he wanted to occasionally watch telly in bed or slob around and Carrie got all pissy with him.

Harry is great. Berger is a dick. If Steve doesn't cough, clear his throat a stop using his mouse voice I'll flip.

I used to love Big but as pp said, what was it about him that was so good? Re watching it has made me realise that I didn't really understand it.

I never liked Steve, no idea what Miranda saw in him

I recently had a rewatch because I needed something to watch that didn't require concentration. A friend suggested it and I said "ooh, I bet that's badly dated now" and she said "no, it's still enjoyable".

Actually I am finding it quite irritating! I don't think it's lasted well at all. I started with season 4 and was particularly struck by the casual treatment of sexual harassment by the guy at Vogue.

I used to think Steve was so sweet and lovable but he's actually pretty awful, isn't he?

Miranda was this hard working, ambitious woman who has a plan in life and he always made her feel like there was something wrong with her.

Then when his knackered wife doesn't make his penis her number one priority he goes a fucks someone else.

I would have thrown him off the bridge.

I loathed Carrie as a character but she deserved better than Berger, what a total yellow bellies twunt he was.

I love the episode after the post-it where she screams at his friends in the bed place

I always liked Miranda. Still do. I always thought the point of the series was their friendships. The city and the clothes just add glamour.

We forget how groundbreaking it was at the time, so we think its aged badly but really our perceptions have changed because it was so good at the time. Does that make sense or am I talking bollox?

Nored you're right at the time women didn't really have anything for themselves, and certainly no shows talked about sex and promiscuity. I still enjoy the episodes immensely and I adore Miranda, she was hugely underused and underrated

I still think the depiction of friendship is great - and actually we don't have enough shows about friendship, I think.

Steve was always so pathetic and Miranda didn't seem like someone who would be attracted to him.

Berger was vile, but so was Carrie. Imagine reading someone's book and then putting them down because one the characters wore a scrunchy. talk about tactless!

He's Carrie in male form.

Love this thread! Do we know why Carrie and Berger broke up? They had decided to stay together and he was being silly being jealous and then the post it! Was it just jealousy over Carries success?

Berger is absolutely Carrie in male form. I loved them both first time around. Now they both make me so bloody cross.

Watched all 6 series this year- am now in one tiny part of my brain, madly in love with Big for his debonair detached and ultracool demeanour, but realise that actually, honestly Harry is the one for me.

18 year old me watching this for the first time, would be appalled

I used to love Carrie when I was younger but now I relate to Miranda. Berger was just awful, I loved Petrovsky but I think I’m in the minority

@CallMe

I’ve been out with a couple of Petrovsky types (including a conceptual artist who used to “rescue” me from bars all over London at 4am, high as a kite) and an artist who worked in an architectural medium - who is also the father of my son)

Both older, both handsome, both eccentric... one terribly wealthy (sadly not the one I had the baby to)....

Both FUCKING hard work 😬

Carrie was just absolutely dreadful. Self absorbed, whiny and a terrible friend. The episode where she had no money to buy her flat as she’d spent it all on shoes, then went nuts at Charlotte (who’d been through a divorce) who wouldn’t lend it to her made me die inside a little

I loved this back in the day and have rewatched it to death. No desire to rewatch now as I don't think my current self would like it. Agree the best things about it were the close friendships and the idea that promiscuity was, or can be, ok. Sam was my favourite character. None of them really had any family though did they? I mean parents or siblings which was odd.

I'm just head into the Petrovsky era. If anything she is punching above her weight with him. What would a world renowned artist want with Carrie really.

I couldn't stand 'The Russian'. He was so smarmy.
Miranda and Samantha were my favourites for different reasons. Miranda for her working mum, down to earth thing and Samantha because she just didn't care!
I didn't like what they did with Samantha's character in season 6. She was more subdued and it wasn't as funny in that last season. Coinciding with SJP getting exec producer rights no doubt.

I'll go against the grain and say I love the first film but the second was unbelievably dire. Really awful.
I like the wrapping up at the end of season 6, especially Miranda and Steve's mum.

I thought the first film was ok too and liked the end of the final series (after all that stupid Paris loneliness crap!). The second one was incredibly dire.