To ask your opinions on Sex and the City?

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I saw something on tiktok today that said 'Carrie was to Big what Janice was to Chandler' 👀👀😬

I rewatch it all the time tbh, it's my fave show but now that Gen Z have found it, there are a lot of hot takes available online

What do people think of Carrie, now that 20 years have passed? Who's your fave? x

Loved the series at the time, liked the first movie, hated the second. On reflection Carrie's self centredness was astonishing.
Now watch ajlt out of curiosity
Hate what they have done to Miranda who was always my favourite.

Oh wow, didn't make that connection re sjp being s producer and sabotaging Samantha's character!

I did believe what Kim said that sjp treated her badly though, I can imagine a mean girl vibe

I feel like, yes she's a tomboy, and Cynthia is a lesbian in real life but they didn't need to make miranda a lesbian

Hated che

Loved it at the time it was on, but I was in my teens/early 20s and living a dull life in a rural area, so the idea of going on dinner and cocktail dates with men in Nee York seemed impossibly glamorous and aspirational. Once I’d moved to a city and done a bit of dating I went off the idea 🤣 and these days, older than the characters were, I am very over it. The sequel And Just Like That is terrible.

Never got the hype at the time despite being the target audience. Watched a few episodes and thought ‘meh

It was of its time, loved it then but hasn't aged well, didn't like the movies

Very much of its time
Still watch it and enjoy it but it's proper cheese - Big was gorgeous though wasnt he

Just like that is terrible but can't help watching

So glad someone else noticed this! Made me furious. Steve shagged someone else, oh well it’s probably because you let your pubes grow.

(There’s a World’s Strongest Man contestant called Trey Mitchell III. Do you reckon they went through the generations again? 👀)

Anyway - enjoyed SATC at the time as a bit of fluff, but no desire to rewatch after the films and then about two episodes of AJLT.

I thought it was brilliant then, and I still think it is now. Yes, it has dated (as everything does) but brilliant writing only dates so much. Yes it is about privileged women but it also contains a lot of relatable truth.

disagree about Carrie not being the love of Big’s life. She was. He was just selfish and arrogant so it took him a while to realise. Aidan was and is awful and wrong for her, and he’s one of many things that is wrong with the terrible reboot.

I like Lisa, Seema and Anthony in AJLT.

Kirsten Davies has forgotten how to act (and it’s nothing to do with the filler). The character of Miranda is now awful and her sex scenes (especially her solo) made me cringe. They’ve destroyed Steve and Harry.

Aiden seriously gives me the creeps and I don’t believe in the relationship at all. Sam would have slapped sense into Carrie about it.

I bought the boxset in 2007 and watched all the seasons back to back. My Ex left me, and I was in a dark place. Samantha was my favorite character.

The Carrie diaries is much, much better.

i never got satc, bunch of whinging whining women. Nothing was ever good enough for them

I've been thinking that Steve to miranda was carrie to big (if you think that big didn't really want csrrie)

She settled for him and that's why they're divorced in ajlt - I thought she'd be better with another lawyer as that seemed important to her

😄😄 😬😬

It's my guilty pleasure. It's basically ridiculous and I have never moved in circles where people sleep around like that, so I find that peice fascinating
I identify most with Charlotte. I'm an adoptive mum too. My favorite character is Samantha. I love how strong and true to herself she is. She just does exactly what she wants to do. But she's also loving and loyal to her friends.

Aww, hope it helped you get over your ex

It's helped me as well as I started watching it when I had only me and dd

Loved it then and still do, Samantha was my Queen though-Carrie was just needy and horrible.

Carrie was always such a bad friend , but I watched it when it originally aired and loved it . Samantha was such a great character I loved that they all had flaws and at the heart of it was friendship even if carrie was a bit of a shitty friend

I watched it a few times, hoping that it would get better. I was happily single and going through a fuck buddy stage. I was very disappointed that they were chasing marriage and allowing themselves to be treated badly, being shamed into fashionable grooming/sex acts etc. I thought that it was going to mirror mine and my single friends (all 32-38 years old) lives. I didn't understand why people couldn't see the issues in SITC and Friends.

Yeah aiden was never right for her and seems like he wanted to punish her

It was also weird how csrrie was like 'was i wrong about marrying big'. Like huh?

I can't stand Charlotte's kids, they're so so spoiled

Thanks for the reminder! It's currently free to watch on ITV catch up tv.

I love it (not AJLT) and still rewatch it because but a lot of it’s cringe.

Carrie’s a self-absorbed pain in the arse. She forced her relationship with Big; romanticising it and making it seem like something it wasn’t. I don’t think it was realistic that they ended up together.

Pretty much all of the sex scenes and even the discussions about sex felt like parody.

It was very obvious when SJP became the producer she made every effort to make Sam (and Kim Catrall) a ridiculous caricature.

Aiden gives me the boak.

Despite all of this, I still find it very watchable. There are some lovely, funny moments and of course the fashion. It makes me feel nostalgic for a place I’ve never been.

I found them all incredibly childish, materialistic and needy.

Awful programme.