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I'm watching the first season of Sex and the City. It started off so well.

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Lighthousekeeping · 23/02/2013 22:56

I haven't seen the first one for years but, there's just been a show about it on that intelligent channel E! So I thought I'd revisit. I think the first season was brilliant and that new show Girls isn't much different really. Except less flash.

God, I'm 31 again.

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daisydalrymple · 23/02/2013 23:16

ahh, nostalgia Smile I got the box set for Christmas, and keep putting off starting it incase a) it's not as good as I remember and b) I actually get pregnant and can then watch the whole lot in the last trimester Grin - (we got twin peaks in a nostalgic fit last year and it was quite a let-down rewatching after 20-odd years, and secondly, I'm yearning for DC3)

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Lighthousekeeping · 23/02/2013 23:19

Oh, it was good in the beginning. Charlotte and her rabbit addiction, Samantha in love with James who has a penis the size of a gerkhin, Miranda and the catholic guy who showers after sex. Carrie was the only one that got on my nerves right from the start.

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IamMummyhearmeROAR · 24/02/2013 08:31

I was 27 when it started. I remember the huge billboards all over town. Watched it,loved it- never missed an episode, if only to scream at Carrie about Aiden. (WHY CARRIE??). Love affair was on the wane by the last season because of Russian storyline and was ended by that awful first movie.never bothered with the second.

diddl · 24/02/2013 09:54

Carrie -yup, she ruined the whole thing!

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Lighthousekeeping · 24/02/2013 11:53

The Russian was a huge mistake. I don't know why SJP never saw that considering she was running the show by the end of it.

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HollaAtMeBaby · 24/02/2013 15:09

I loved the first series! Especially that thing they used to do with random women talking to the camera. I wish they'd kept that going!

BoringSchoolChoiceNickname · 24/02/2013 15:16

I didn't like the first series actually - I had a theory that it started off being written by gay men about gay men, and only became recognisably about women in series 3 onwards once the leads got their teeth into the roles. Went horribly downhill when Carrie went to Paris though, and we do not mention the films.

Allofaflumble · 24/02/2013 16:26

I bought the entire series on Amazon (second hand) for under £15.00.

I never saw all the episodes so wanted to see it all the way through. Two things, I thought Aiden was totally gorgeous the odd episode I saw, but after watching it again, I thought he was too much. Always looming over her and invading her space.

And then the Russian! What a ghastly ferrety little man he was.

The best looking guy any of them "had" was that gorgeous black doctor who moved into Miranda's apartment. Oh yes, I would also find Steve attractive.

Allofaflumble · 24/02/2013 16:27

PS the film where they went to Dubai was totally embarrassing and cringeworthy. Crude and lewd, they were lucky not to end up in prison. Totally disrespectful to the customs of the country but that's Hollywood!

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Lighthousekeeping · 24/02/2013 16:29

The doctor was too smooth for me. I hated Aiden and his quietly controlling ways. I won't mention the Rusdion. I liked Steve all the way through. Miranda was my favourite. I loved SJP's make up and hair throughout. They hardly aged did the physically I wonder why?

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sailorsgal · 24/02/2013 17:04

I loved the russian! Blush

Agree the first series was a blast but I loved the whole thing. The first film was great but the second was indeed rubbish.

It is my guilty pleasure. Grin that and haagan daz ice-cream--

lovelychops · 24/02/2013 21:41

Allofaflumble "the Russian! What a ghastly ferrety little man he was"

That is genius!!

I always thought the series improved with age as the characters developed more. But there was a dip in (I think, series 5?) when Carrie was with Jack Burger. A horrible and pointless man.

We do not talk of the films.

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Lighthousekeeping · 24/02/2013 22:02

No, the films are erased from my mind. I still think they could've had a break fr afew years and come back with another season. I thought it was beautiful how they portrayed Steve's mother having Alzheimer's. Miranda really softened. I think they should've left Carrie single but content.

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lovelychops · 24/02/2013 22:17

Totally agree with your point Lighthousekeeping Miranda was great with Steve's mum, the scene where she's helping to wash her in the bath makes me cry.

I thought Carrie and Big should never have got married. In the film where he asks her again - she should have said no. They were fine as they were. Being married ruined it. See film 2 - the one which must never ever be mentioned.

FamiliesShareGerms · 24/02/2013 22:23

How on earth can Mikhail Baryshnikov be described as ferrety!! He was (is) amazing! Though the whole Paris storyline was starting to jump the shark...

I liked the first couple of series and loved the third one onwards. Carrie not so much, but the others were great and some lovely story lines in amongst the silly ones.

I also liked it better once they dropped the "talking head" interjections, I think after two series.

Dozer · 24/02/2013 22:38

Yy, ferretty!

Loved Carrie's Paris wardrobe though.

First film was a travesty, have avoided the second.

nurserytea · 25/02/2013 14:29

Carrie was a PITA. I remember one episode where she reacted to the idea of wearing a scrunchy in your hair as if it was akin to going out with your curlers still in. I just thought 'oh get over yourself' and realised what a very shallow and sad character she was.
Also, some of her clothes were ridiculous. She often looked like a toddler who had been left alone with the dressing up box.

JackieTheFart · 25/02/2013 22:37

I loved all series bar 5. I had them all on video, they cost me about £40 EACH boxset!

I'd love to get them on DVD.

Not sure who I liked best, sometimes it was Carrie but there was a lot that annoyed me about her. I liked the first series, but not the first time I saw it.

Sneepy · 25/02/2013 22:46

I don't think you were ever supposed to like Carrie. She was the engine of her own destruction, unable to see herself a complete person without a man attached. She couldn't hold a relationship together because she didn't WANT to, really. She had a pretty fabulous life and any permanent addition would have ruined it--see Aiden trying to move into her apartment, how could that ever have worked?

I kind of think that the other 3 were just aspects of Carrie, figments of her imagination, who just existed to reinforce her own narcissism.

Allofaflumble · 26/02/2013 08:27

Just thought I should make myself clear that when I said "ferretty" I was referring to the character of Alexander and not Mikhail Barishnakov (sp) who I think is rather cute looking. No, it was the character who was so "heavy", passive aggressive and so selfish that I loathed, not the actor.

AlanMoore · 26/02/2013 08:37

Miranda and Charlotte are my favourites - I think Kristin Davis was hugely underrated in that show, she was excellent.

Allofaflumble · 26/02/2013 09:10

Miranda and Charlotte were my two favourites also. I loved the two gay friends also, especially the bald one, but the friend of Charlotte's was sooo outrageous.

Also highly amusing the menage a trois of Charlotte, Trey and his mother Bunny.

SilentMammoth · 26/02/2013 09:22

Carrie should NEVER have ended up with Big, thats where it TOTALLY lost it imho.

Never felt tempted to watch the films, they looked like drivel.

Watching them as a thirty, rather than twenty something, I am struck as to how massively self obsessed Carrie is, it's all mememe.

Jack Burger thoroughly pointless character, but iirc that series was poor.

Even dh thought she was an idiot over Aidan (he was well shot though)

limitedperiodonly · 26/02/2013 10:03

I fell out of love with it at the end but I used to love it.

All the articles written by angry men against it made me laugh. I used to think (a) you've obviously never watched this because it's not just about fashion and (b) if it threatens you that much turn over and watch Top Gear.