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Carrie Bradshaw - A CF, right?

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Nikhedonia · 29/11/2020 20:09

She's a pretty self-obsessed shit friend, but a CF too, right?

I rewatched an episode the other day where she needed to buy her apartment and she expected Charlotte to sell her engagement ring to fund the purchase Shock

I reckon if SATC were real, Miranda or Charlotte would be on MN gushing about their best friend being incredible and everyone would be calling Carrie a CF and advising them to go NC.

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Nikhedonia · 30/11/2020 10:59

@HmmSureJan

She shakes her head or something at her and is like "no Steve". She's such a bitch.

Because Miranda told her to. Whenever anyone gets excitable Miranda looks at Carrie to stop them.

Was Steve showing emotion really him being "excitable". I felt it was just Carrie over stepping boundaries as ever!
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Nikhedonia · 30/11/2020 11:03

@EachandEveryone

That's a pretty ignorant post.

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EmeraldShamrock · 30/11/2020 11:05

I loved it at the time as it did represent the different dynamics in some friendship groups, we had a Samantha my younger Dsis was our Charlotte.
Charlotte was comical.
I agree Carrie was selfish particularly one episode on the phone to sleep deprived new mum Miranda.

HmmSureJan · 30/11/2020 11:05

Because Miranda told her to. I get it you dislike Carrie but I watched this episode just yesterday and each time Miranda looks at Carrie and indicates she should put a stop to it.

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Nikhedonia · 30/11/2020 11:09

@HmmSureJan

Because Miranda told her to. I get it you dislike Carrie but I watched this episode just yesterday and each time Miranda looks at Carrie and indicates she should put a stop to it.
Yeah my friends can't convince me to act like a dick to other people on their behalf
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HmmSureJan · 30/11/2020 11:11

So you'd ignore the wishes of your pregnant friend in labour? Fair enough. I just don't agree that in this particular instance she was at fault for doing exactly what Miranda, her best friend? asked her to do,

mumduty · 30/11/2020 11:14

I wish I watched this when I needed it most in my 20's. I was probably early teens when it first came out and no way was I ever allowed to watch it. I've seen the movies and through gossips mags, I've never really understood the hype of SJP.

GlummyMcGlummerson · 30/11/2020 11:15

I'm with Miranda on the Labour issue. It's the one time women are allowed to dictate how other people in the room behave. And a crying mess when you're in pain is just annoying AF

DillonPanthersTexas · 30/11/2020 11:21

It's a very hard show to like given that the vast majority of characters are just spoiled brats. Somone alluded to it up thread how it did have a negative impact on some people insofar as the 'I deserve it' mantra when it came to shopping. Certainly I saw some behaviours in a few of my peer group that mirrored the show, especially the must date the super wealthy city type blokes.

kwiksavenofrillsusername · 30/11/2020 11:33

I think her worse moment for me was towards the end of series three when Natasha walked into the restaurant where they were eating and she gave Carrie a dirty look and walked out and Carrie felt completely sorry for herself that someone could hate her that much!

OMG, you've reminded me of another episode I absolutely hate, where she meets the woman who dated Aiden after she cheated on him. Aiden was, understandably, pretty messed up, so new woman was a bit abrupt with Carrie. Then Carrie goes on a fucking mission to run into this woman and set her straight. Honestly, why would you do that? Just admit to yourself that you were an idiot and people are going to be a little bit judgemental about your choices.

The engagement ring thing is annoying too. The original ring was fine IIRC. But it was yellow gold, which I remember Carrie saying was 'ghetto fabulous' (which is a comment that has aged SO badly). And then she gets the ring she wants and doesn't even wear it.

MarchionessofActon · 30/11/2020 11:41

When she’s whining at Aiden ‘you have to forgive me. You HAVE to forgive me. You have to FORGIVE ME’

He really doesn’t HAVE to do that at all!! She was such a twat. She never learnt a single thing the whole time the show ran. In the second movie when she kisses Aiden because she thinks the romance with Big is dead because he bought a nice TV for the bedroom 😂 then has a crisis about it and end through the hotel suite going ‘I NEED EVERYONE! I KISSED AIDEN!’ like a melodramatic 17 year old might.

HmmSureJan · 30/11/2020 11:44

Aiden should never have taken her back. He was way too good for her. However, he was pretty nasty to her, there's this one bit where she asks him to help her put her nicotine patch on and her slaps it on really hard and hurts her because he's angry that Big had called. If someone came on here and said her male partner had done that we'd all be shouting "abuse!" and LTB.

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Nikhedonia · 30/11/2020 11:46

@HmmSureJan

Aiden should never have taken her back. He was way too good for her. However, he was pretty nasty to her, there's this one bit where she asks him to help her put her nicotine patch on and her slaps it on really hard and hurts her because he's angry that Big had called. If someone came on here and said her male partner had done that we'd all be shouting "abuse!" and LTB.
Oh yes! I forgot about that Shock
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MarchionessofActon · 30/11/2020 11:49

Yes Aiden was quite subtlety a dick some of the time for sure. Only the second time around, because he really hadn’t forgiven her. Like saying he was going to fuck the waitress in the bar as retaliation or something like that.

EachandEveryone · 30/11/2020 11:52

Im not being ignorant Im just saying that transvestites (as they were called then) and drag queens and the gay scene was portayed positively and it was ground breaking its just one instance were it hasnt aged badly at all because now its perfectly normalised as it should be. Drag Queens are on tv and are pretty mainstream now. SATC was one of the first mainstream shows to put them out there. So, sorry if you took it the wrong way or I didnt read back properly.

Or is it the the actual story of Bobby Shine you are objecting to because Im quoting the actual story. I cant change that

formerbabe · 30/11/2020 11:59

Remember when Carrie and Aidan are in the street and Aidan shouts "you broke my heart"! Honestly I've never seen dh laugh so much...what man would ever say that let alone shout it out loud in the street?!

MarchionessofActon · 30/11/2020 12:02

Yes and then Carrie does a very affected run off down the street and a couple are walking past like ‘wtf Hmm’ Grin

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Nikhedonia · 30/11/2020 12:04

@MarchionessofActon

Yes and then Carrie does a very affected run off down the street and a couple are walking past like ‘wtf Hmm’ Grin
She's so bloody dramatic GrinGrinGrin
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AlexTheLittleCat · 30/11/2020 12:04

It hasn't aged well, in some ways it's more out of date than some 70s and 80s shows. I used to like it until I watched all of the series in sequence about ten years ago. When you watch the odd one, it's not annoying. When you watch them all, you see how irritating Carrie is. I always thought Big was the arse until I watched it in sequence, then I saw how Carrie tells him at the start she only wants a fling...then proceeds to spend the next few series complaining that he only wants a fling too!

I also got annoyed at how they went on about being modern, liberated women, then spent the whole time talking about men.

EachandEveryone · 30/11/2020 12:05

Oh, Aiden was not my type. They way he made her give up those Marlboro lights. Has anyone been to NYC and seen the stoop at her appartment? The neighbours got so pissed off they put up a barrier😃 i love that area of New York. As if she woukdve had a rent controlled appartment there.

AlexTheLittleCat · 30/11/2020 12:06

The Carries Diaries was the teenage version. I'm not sure who it was aimed at, surely teen girls wouldn't have been interested in SATC in 2013? It was better than SATC and Carrie was much less vapid. It only got two seasons before being cancelled.

MarchionessofActon · 30/11/2020 12:06

To be fair to Aiden he set out his stall from the very first date that he didn’t want to date a smoker.

BabyMilkMonster · 30/11/2020 12:13

Agree, this was an addictive show- so good but so bad at the same time! Carrie SO selfish and dramatic!! Quite emotionally manipulative behaviour when you actually unpack it. I dread to think how much her behaviour influenced my behaviour with men, watching this as an impressionable teen and early 20's! Mind you there have been a string of emotionally manipulative and entitled female characters whose behaviour has been normalised, eg Lena Dunham in Girls and don't get me started over Joey in Dawson's Creek!! So many games being played!

I remember one SATC when Carrie dated a guy who later mentioned he'd had a fling with a man in the past. She came over all homophobic and prudish and dumped him. It was not a nice character trait.

YellowandGreenToBeSeen · 30/11/2020 12:18

I thought Aiden was deeply unsexy. All those weird ‘Oh Yeah’ noises and general irritations. Found him very needy too.

Would have fancied Big. Actually always thought he was pretty honest with Carrie. The scene when he was watching the baseball and she is all over him - he’d said ‘sure come over but I am watching the game’ and then she gets angry at his lack of attention - makes me want to punch my telly.

Loved Harry. Would have married him in a heartbeat.

Love Sam too. Emotionally honest woman played by a good actor.

Carrie is a dick.

GlummyMcGlummerson · 30/11/2020 12:22

I used to love Aidan but looking back in my 30's he was very pushy and passive aggressive with Carrie. She so clearly didn't want to get married and he pushed and pushed her.

I mean she treated him like total shit but still he didn't help matters.

Don't get me started on the Russian Angry

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