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Social Science Sex and the City - Rate or Hate it?
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Good back in the day.
Too bad SJP was already reaching her absolute age limit of any beauty she had before it had even started filming. Striking Distance
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Movies = horrible
Too bad SJP was already reaching her absolute age limit of any beauty she had before it had even started filming. Striking Distance
lolMovies = horrible
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I liked the show when it first started out, then as it progressed I lost interest in the later seasons. Then the movies were terrible. Carrie has to be one of the worst decision makers to grace a tv screen. Comparable to californication... entourage not so much.
Why? I actually tend to find the opposite - but then I prefer 'girly girls' who are into all that fashion and stuff.The only good thing about this show is it's a good chick filter. If they like it, they're a waste of time. Pretty simple.
When I said comparable to Entourage I just meant in the way that they're both sort of gender-based buddy-fantasies. They're obviously fairly different shows.
So women who don't like satc aren't girls and don't like fashion? I don't think so. The main characters of satc are 4 of the boring dull women I've seen in a show, rendering it unwatchable.
I didn't say that at all. All I said is that it's a show that tends to attract girly girls who like high end fashion.
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Just personal preference I suppose. 'Girly girls' are fine for a fling but tend to lack the rationality and ability to compromise required to have successful serious relationships these days. I know it's a bit of a generalization to say being girly and being rational are mutually exclusive, it's just a pattern I've noticed in my dealings with 'girly girls'
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Never seen the movies but the TV series was decent. However, I would never sit down and watch it all.
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I watch it when there's nothing else on TV, probably seen about 10 episodes in total. I think it's pretty good, but not something I would buy on DVD or really want to watch a second time.
I don't like the 'if she likes it = not good for a relationship' etc. sort of comments though, it's so simplistic to assume that simply liking a show will make or break their ability to be decent in a relationship. Some girls like these shows because they're a nice, simple way to relax, I don't see the harm in that.
I don't like the 'if she likes it = not good for a relationship' etc. sort of comments though, it's so simplistic to assume that simply liking a show will make or break their ability to be decent in a relationship. Some girls like these shows because they're a nice, simple way to relax, I don't see the harm in that.
'Harmless' is not the word I would use to describe SATC.
Give this piece a read: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/hull1.html
Give this piece a read: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/hull1.html
'Harmless' is not the word I would use to describe SATC.
Give this piece a read: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/hull1.html
I stopped reading up to here because this is all that needs to be said "In six sexy seasons, those responsible for "Sex and the City" have provided next to nothing in terms of character development"
It's the lack of character development that make this show incredibly boring. I like gossip girl, even though it's rubbish it's still alot of fun but sex and the city gives the illusion it offers more and doesn't. It's just a boring show. If i want to watch manhattan's elite i'd watch gossip girl over satc.
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It's the character development (and the allowance for that to happen from the network) that made the show what it is. The four women didn't really become who they were fully until about half way through the series. That's part of why (along with being utter garbage) the copycat series that followed (Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle) failed, because they tried to force the characters upon you without letting them naturally grow and having the audience grow with them. How much of that is due to network pressure (wanting an instant hit, and not allowing a show the time and space to slowly develop its characters) or just impatient/poor writing I don't know, but Sex and the City (like other popular series such as Seinfeld) really took a couple of seasons for the characters to become as well known and iconic as they became. The writers of the show were afforded the time and the space to allow slower character development, to give the audience a reason to care about the characters, instead of just thrusting them upon us already developed, and that's a big part of what made it so enduring.
There were far more important points made in the piece I linked to than how 'boring' the program may or may not have been.
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Honestly say I've never watched it, it never appealed to me
When did you join the "media is corrupting our children" brigade?'Harmless' is not the word I would use to describe SATC.
Give this piece a read: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/hull1.html
Didn't look right when I wrote it, cheers!Aleksandr......
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Just because the copycat shows were worse with character development than SATC, doesn't make satc any good. If my options are to eat vommit or shit then i'll read a book.
I once saw this show for a minute or 2 and all it was about is these old women trying to find people to have sex with. I dont understand why people like the show.
And like someone mentioned before if a show like this was made for men then it would be classed worse than this show.
And like someone mentioned before if a show like this was made for men then it would be classed worse than this show.
Ease up on the strawmen, bro.
I'm happy to hear any criticisms you have to make of the piece I linked to, though.
Again, I'd love to hear genuine criticisms of the piece I linked to.
Ease up on the strawmen, bro.
I'm happy to hear any criticisms you have to make of the piece I linked to, though.
Again, I'd love to hear genuine criticisms of the piece I linked to.
I'm not interested in dissecting the essay nor am i interested in discussing how satc is bad for feminism etc.
I like art for arts sake and don't give a sh it about political groups. Basically satc is a shit piece of art. bang.
