To think Carrie Bradshaw has no redeeming qualities?

[losercruiser]

I just finished the episode where she invites Big to stay with her and Aidan in their cabin in the woods.

Now if my boyfriend cheated on me (not just a one off but had a full blown affair with a married woman) and we had got to the point where I had somehow managed to forgive him and we were trying again. If we went on a weekend break and he invited the other woman because she was having boyfriend problems and they were good friends - I'd think fuck that!

I know Aidan didnt have to put up with that but there are many other examples of her not having any redeeming qualities -

Berating Charlotte for not offering to lend her thousands of dollars.
Always talking about herself - I remember when Stanford called her out on it.
Letting Aidan propose to her when she obviously didnt want to marry him.

time. Then for some reason (can't remember why) the nanny is caught in a sprinkler system in a white vest so runs laughing around while her boobs bounce

I don't remember that?

I remember her and Harry bathing the little girl and then she sprays her with water and they just all laugh.

When is it on the tv anyway and what channel? I luuurve this show tho I agree with you all - don't have to like characters to love the show, after all.

Carrie was an incredibly annoying character. I got so annoyed at all her 'oh poor me' over Big. He was always honest about how he felt and she was so needy and finding fault where there wasn't any. I'm surprised he put up with her.

Loved Miranda and her relationship with Steve, Charlotte needed her happy ending but I wish they'd left Samantha and Carrie single and happy.

I always thought the show was racist...ANY person of non white origin was shown in a bad.light.

as a fictional character, she was everything bad: self-obsessed, expected the other girls' lives to revolve around her, was patronising to them, a smug know-it-all, only had superficial relationships, was materialistic, tried too hard to be cute, and what's more - a terrible journalist (who would never had been published if it was RL)

the most 'real' values on that show were the ones around Charlotte and Harry's relationship

CB really was pretty shallow. I never saw her in an outfit I'd wear. I liked the other 3 characters a lot more than Carrie.

she wasn't meant to be perfect -just human. Aiden was annoying- such a doormat.

I think she was likeable but with obvious flaws. Human, I just don't understand the ire she provokes in some people. Tony Soprano murdered people and doesn't get half as heated a reaction.

Oh and I'd wear that punk oscar de la renta dress that petrovsky gave her in a heartbeat,

That was meant to be 'pink' - dang autocorrect,

Absolutely no redeeming qualities. I just remember thinking at the end of each episode that she writes up her column in a pensive and contemplative mood - that her life exists purely for the column. She doesn't have a life at all, her life is played out for the purpose of her writing.

That's why she has no redeeming qualities, everything she does is 'because it makes a good story'. Of course she didn't tell Big to fuck off with his sad ex girlfriend at the cabin, that wouldn't give her anything to write about. Staying and agonising over it is far more interesting (to her).

Sad really. But I would go for a Sushi with her, she does seem like a good laugh.

Loved the show. Could have done without Carrie.

My sister was always filled with rage at how Carrie always spoke with hand splayed over breastbone.

I liked the show and the first film. The second one fell flat. I have them all on DVD.

She said in an interview last week that there won't be a third film.

Agree. Carrie was absolutely horrible. So unbelievably selfish, having tantrums about everything that didn't go her way.

When I visited my friend in New York at the height of the show's popularity, she was shocked that I didn't choose Carrie in a 'who would you like to be' conversation. She said all her friends loved Carrie!

Still liked the programme though even if the main character was hateful!

Also agree with whoever said the clothes were mostly awful too. Really eighties power dressing type stuff.

Loved the clothes, especially carrie's, though she was very self obsessed and needy by the end.
When I first watched it, i was in my 20s and didn't really get it, but I watched it again as a single woman in my 30s splitting my time between London and New York and I loved it. It was really clever and funny. And the scenes where Steve and Miranda struggle with their marriage and raising their child and steve's mother's Alzheimer's, were really moving I thought.
Aidan was creepy though!
The films are awful. I should never have watched them.

I got angry about Miranda and the way she talked with her mouth full.

Never watched it when out originally. Tried but hated it. I felt you had to be a certain age and certain type to enjoy tbh. Bridget jones was similarly awful.

See I was the other way round. I watched it first in my 20s and related to it a lot more.
Watching the reruns now in my 20s/30s I find them immature and shallow.
Aside from Miranda they act like girls rather than women and the older they get through the series the more grating it gets.

I remember watching and enjoying it back then, although I did think her central role grated a bit.

Now it's been ruined by the film I wonder what the series was actually like, I haven't seen it for ages.

Really eighties power dressing type stuff I think you're thinking of Dynasty or Dallas?

I think the characters were all good as a group, that's what I thought was special about it, showing female friendships in a fairly true to life and positive way.

Carrie's name was also wrong. SJP is of Jewish descent. A lot of her appeal is in that NY directness and humour is directly inherited from the great Jewish comics. Why not let her be Jewish and let that be part of her identity? Why 'white' her out with a pseudo anglo-irish name? The others are all clearly representative of the non-Jewish population. There's something slightly amiss about her persona, or perhaps that's me projecting a subconscious need for stereotypes.

Berger was a total whiny knob aswell, he had the makings of an emotionally abusive husband, bitchin about his wife's success.

Carrie did go on and on and on about the faults in his novel rather than focusing on the good bits (assuming there were some).

So the main character was wearing scrunchie? Who. Fucking. Cares?

SJP is not Jewish from her mothers side where it counts so I don't kno whys you mean? She has a house in Ireland so maybe she does have Irish connections ? What name did you want her to have exactly?