Tag: Sex and the City
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…]
Why Carrie Bradshaw Will Likely Always Maintain “Icon” Status
It may have once been emphatically said that “Carrie Bradshaw knows good sex (*and isn’t afraid to ask),” but, in retrospect, it wasn’t her sex [Read More…]
Unlikely Female Friendships in TV
They say opposites attract. But this trite chemist’s platitude rings truer for friendships than relationships. For as generic and formulaic as most shows can be, [Read More…]