If you were a teen/young adult when Sex and City aired on tv..

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What do you think of them now?

I was a teenager when it was originally being aired on tv and I thought they were awesome with lives I'd love to have when I would be in my 30s.

Now I am in my mid 30s, the ages they were during the series, they look really.. well quite sad I suppose.

Whilst I still enjoy re-runs of the show because it was amazing and I do realise how groundbreaking it was at the time, all that drama and whining (I'm looking at you Carry) and all those different relationships/men just makes them look like teenage drama queens rather than sophisticated career women in their 30s.

It's funny how I used to think they were so cool yet now I'm their age I wouldn't want their lifestyles at all now.

Samantha was great though!

OP I'm in my mid-30s too and I agree it hasn't aged well at all.

I thought Carrie was so unique and offbeat (and the clothes!!) but on rewatch she mostly just comes across as overly dramatic and shrill.

Thought I was pretty angry at her for Aiden even at the time.

I always hated Carrie. Hated her more in the second film when she was vile to Charlotte, cheated on Big and then interrupted Miranda and Charlotte having a mum chat with her self inflicted drama. What a nightmare.

I remember watching the first episode on TV in my early 20s back in 1999.

It was utterly groundbreaking at the time in a way that's quite difficult to comprehend now. It was a real shock to see women portrayed talking in ways that I did with my friends. That just didn't happen on TV and film before sex and the city.

It wasn't so much about the sex conversation, but more the representation of how single women lived. It was in the small details, like Miranda spending an evening with cream on her hands in front of the TV.

I recently rewatched it though, and it drove me bonkers. From the perspective of a 40 something, they seem so shallow and materialistic, and angst-ridden.

But I suppose that was the mood of the time. Neuroticism was the plague of Generation X.

I liked it (early 20s).
But I wondered why they never got chatted up or hassled by bin men/shop assistants/builders i.e regular guys.
Always loaded blokes. They varied it a little with Sam's gorgeous model toyboy, but that was more to show her attraction/power as an older successful lady. Rather than the regular guy aspect.

To be fair Steve was a regular guy. In fact a whole point of Miranda and Steve's relationship was the imbalance in their earnings and background.

I loved it in my late teens/early twenties. I'm 30s now and haven't watched it in years apart from the films. Its dated but I still enjoy the humour, I also like the friendship they have, having never really had good friends in my own adult life. I never liked Carrie or got her dress sense. It's all a bit of suspended reality I think, the kind of life I might dream of but not want in reality if that makes sense.

I hated Carrie then and I hate her even more so now. She was just so bloody whiny!!

Aside from Carrie I actually still think the show is good, I just try and block her out.

I loved the show when it came out. I'm 37 and love it still, but Carrie comes across so differently now that I'm married with DC. I don't like her one bit and in the movies I like her even less.

Miranda aged perfectly; she's juggling, she's honest, she's flawed and even the schmaltzy shite with Steve was more raw and honest than most relationships on there. For me she's aged the best.

I'm 43 and loved it at the time. Although I could never get on board with Carrie's dress sense and nearly threw in the towel completely when she went to a fancy club wearing a fucking nurse's cape

The films are an abomination.

I remember the guy who took Carrie to a beautiful cabin in the woods, she freaked out at a squirrel, screamed like a 3 year old and had a strop because there were no shops and it wasn't suitable for her stupid heels.

I cringed so hard. That episode should have come with a disclaimer at the end: Please note, actual women are rarely this pathetic in real life.

I still love them but agree they're very much of their time.

Remember being utterly baffled by the circumcision ep!

They've dated!

Migthepig and the fact she invited her ex boyfriend who she had cheated on her current boyfriend with to the cabin and ignored said currents boyfriends unhappy feelings about this by saying "but he's a friend.."

Other things I hate about satc:

• the way that during their coffee house chats one would start a conversation and another would immediately turn the conversation back to themselves and their situation/love life. Probably annoyed me so much because I have a friend who does it all the time 😂

• Carries stupid pout.

• The ridiculousness of taking your ex who you cheated on your current partner with on holiday with you.

• The stereotypical gays.

• The non friendship between the other women so it was as if they were all only friends with Carrie but we rarely got to see any dynamic between say Charlotte and Samantha.

I think there was an episode with Miranda being hassled by builders..

I remember watching it when I was teenager and wanting to be like Carrie when I grew up. Now I’m in my early 30s and I still want to be like Carrie when I grow up

I know she’s annoying and very self-absorbed. But she’s also cool, stylish and funny, and her character is a lot more human and fleshed out than Charlotte or Samantha.

But then I clearly have very unpopular opinions, as Carrie is my favourite SATC character and Ross is my favourite Friends character

People tear apart Carrie and Ross for their flawed personalities and the shitty things they’ve done. But it would be boring if they acted perfectly all the time wouldn’t it?

I agree with PackingSoap. It was absolutely & utterly groundbreaking for its time, in a way that it’s hard to explain now. I know it’s considered very ‘woke’ to criticise programmes like SATC nowadays and the way issues like, for example, bisexuality were treated but you need to understand that these issues were barely mentioned at all by other popular, highly rated shows at the time.

If you want a programme that’s reflective of current values, then you need to only watch current programmes 🤷‍♀️

But then I clearly have very unpopular opinions, as Carrie is my favourite SATC character and Ross is my favourite Friends character
^ This is just wrong on so many levels! So many many levels.

I was in my early 20s when this came out. I'm from N Ireland and all I remember at the time was that the DUP (or maybe their friends the Free Presbyterian church) complained and wanted it banned. They thought it would give women 'ideas'.

I never really liked it much though, I thought all the characters were very false and vacuous, and I couldn't imagine them actually liking each other. And I had a horrible colleague in work who seemed to imagine herself as some sort of Carrie Bradshaw character despite living in a small N Ireland town and thinking that Next was the height of fashion. She made me cringe.

I watched it in my mid twenties and enjoyed it but always knew it was escapist tosh. I still sort of hanker after that lifestyle because I love Manhattan so much.

The first series always struck me as being written by gay men about gay men, who just happened to be wearing frocks. That’s why we’d never seen women on TV behaving like that. Fun, entertaining, interesting, but not remotely authentic. As time went on it got more female writers and developed a more recognisable link to the world as experienced by heterosexual women but I still had a slight expectation that the final scene of the final episode would be of a a teenaged boy in Boise, Idaho waking up from a dream about his four fabulous imaginary friends.

I remember thinking at the time that their portrayal of adults in their 20s was more like teenagers.

Still love the dynamic between the 4 of them. Still love Miranda.

I mean when they go to the hamptons and have parties on the beach and say everythinh is excellent!

I was a teen. I thought it was daft, I only watched it for the sex references!

I remember two friends (one gay male, the other straight female) telling me about it and how it they 'talk just how we talk'!

I tuned in expecting it to be all low-fi and a bit mundane - really baffled by all the squealing over shoes and cocktails - and, if I'm honest, it made me feel a bit inadequate

I really hated it for ushering in that whole 'women all love shoes and bags' crap that took an age to die..