Tag: Sex and the City
Sensitive Skin: If Samantha Jones Were Daintier And In A Show Making A Statement About Toronto Gentrification
More so than Sarah Jessica Parker, it has been challenging to view Kim Cattrall as anyone other than Samantha Jones in the wake of her [Read More…]
Abbi & Ilana Are Bringing Sex and the City/Broad City Fan Fiction Alive For Season Three
In a parallel universe, it’s possible to imagine Carrie Bradshaw being shocked at what twenty-something New York City women have become since her heyday (even though [Read More…]
Girls May Be Ending, But the Damage It Has Caused Will Last A Lifetime
With the fresh report of Girls being cancelled, those on either side of the love/hate relationship have expressed their viewpoints on the matter, with fans in [Read More…]
Identifying With Carrie’s Writing Failure in SATC 2
Although Sex and the City 2 was even worse than the first movie, and served largely as a tourism campaign for Abu Dhabi, there is [Read More…]
The Many Ways in Which Golden Girls Was a Predecessor to Sex and the City
Although a majority of viewers have found Sex and the City to be the beginning of innovative television in the female-geared world, the Darren Starr/Michael [Read More…]
Lexi Featherston, Predicting New York City’s Demise Since 2004
New York City has been dying a slow death for a long time. Circa what year, exactly, depends on who you ask. For some, the [Read More…]
Barbra Streisand Was Railing Against Basic Bitches in The Way We Were Long Before There Was a Term For It
As Carrie Bradshaw once pointed out in the finale of season two of Sex and the City, “The world is made up of two types [Read More…]
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.: The “Girls” of the Literary World
There’s something about describing Brooklyn in any way–it doesn’t seem to matter how generic or thoughtless–that gets people, to quote Shane Black, “wetter than Drew [Read More…]
How Square Pegs is More of A Prequel to Sex and the City Than The Carrie Diaries
A story about a gawky teenager yet to find her confidence may not sound like any sort of precursor to Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and [Read More…]
The Evolution of the Single Girl From Marlo Thomas to Tina Fey
The single girl archetype in television most logically began with That Girl. Marlo Thomas’ role as the plucky Ann Marie gave rise to a new [Read More…]