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!

I mostly can’t get over how terrible Carrie’s column must have been. I don’t know how she funded her lifestyle on such painfully bad writing.

The episode where Samantha dated a black man and was objectifying him based on racial stereotypes is cringeworthy.

Gay stereotypes abound, but weren't half the writers room gay men?

I don't think I could be friends with Carrie, she is so selfish.

It incredibly unrealistic in terms of the lifestyle a writer of a weekly column could afford.

I love the clothes though, even now. And it was groundbreaking at the time in terms of having a female perspective on sexuality at the centre of the story.

I thought they were arseholes, the shoe obsession was tedious and they never convinced me as a friendship group.
But my housemates and colleagues loved it so I just figured I had weird taste.
Agree that there was much more risqué content in other programmes of that era.

@TakemedowntoPotatoCity probably should have said selfish... although not a fan of her clothing style either.

I loved SaTC at the time but disliked how it was so Carrie-centric.

I was late teens when it started. I thought it was absolute and utter shite.
I still do.

I never watched it when it first came out, only saw a couple of episodes later on, in my twenties, with a friend who had the entire boxset and I didn't think much of it.

Then the first film came out and as it happens I was traveling with another friend who loved the series, so we went to see it on our first day into our holidays. It was either very boring or I was very tired because I fell asleep and don't remember much about it.

Then, when I was mid-pregnancy, years later, that same first film was on TV so I decided to watch it, as you do. And it made sense to me! I empathised with the cardboard characters while thinking how these supposed thirty-something women were acting like brainless teenagers. That's when I decided that pregnancy hormones are really bad for you (but I watched it through, simultaneously liking it and cringing internally). It was truly odd.

I love it still for a bit of escapism. SJP said recently she thinks Carrie actually invented the three other women for her column as it was impossible for them to exist! I’ll find the link to the article...

i didnt' like it at the time when i was in my early 20s but loved it when i saw it in my 30s. now i'm nearly 50 and still watch the re-runs. it is just escapism

I loved seeing the different restaurants, cafes, parks and parts of New York. I even did the bus tour went I went to the USA.

Interested to see the article where SJP suggests the other three women were fictional creations of Carrie. That would make sense given they never had a problem with her publishing intimate details about their sex lives in real time using their names...

Also they were all so different it was hard to believe that they would really be close friends. I don't know many 'charlottes' who are friends with 'samanthas' for instance.

I wonder what the other actresses think of SJP relegating their characters to figments of her character's imagination! Wasn't there some dust up between her and Kim Catrall?

Never liked the series as I found them all totally unrelatable and boringly obsessed with shoes. SJP as a fashion icon? Nah! I thought she looked weird most of the time.

If you think the series is bad for stereotypes then the 2nd film was the absolute nadir . I've no idea how it got made.

When it was on years ago , I used to find Miranda really annoying Now when I watch the re-runs , she seems the most realistic and least annoying of them ..

On a previous thread about SATC, someone posted that SJP had said something about not realising that there was a lot of Carrie dislike. Now, she seems to have changed her tune.... (despite being a producer on the show at the time!!!!).

I guess SJP got caught up in the hype.

The show is brilliant - I’ve been watching it recently and it is still laugh out loud funny, so well written, everything just flows, no wonder it was so popular 20 years ago.

Although the characters can seem unrealistic and unrelatable and I don’t wish I had their lives (although going to new bar/resturant launches every week sounds fun ) take it for what it is - a 30 minute comedy series based on 4 singleish New York women in their 30’s - I love it more now than 20 years ago. 😘

Exactly the same as you, OP.

Came out when I was in my teens and I absolutely LOVED it! Was so excited to watch every week, but yeah, it's certainly not timeless.

The gay stereotypes worked both ways actually. Don't know if it's already been mentioned, but the episode when Charlotte starts schmoozing around a group of artsy lesbians and pretends to be a lesbian to fit in, is awful! When they find out she isn't a lesbian, or "not going to eat pussy", they boot her out! Because lesbians will only hang out with other women, if they're a fellow lesbian

Carrie was very annoying and I blame her for my Marlborough Lights addiction Been off them for a decade now though, thankfully!

Also, just realised that my username would have been a subconscious SATC inspiration I'd never heard of them before the show, but after it started, I would only drink cosmopolitans when I went out. I was so glamourous haha!