So, a while ago I thought I was grown up enough to watch Sex and the City. I needed the education and the humor as a 23 year old woman looking forward to conquering the big, bad, adult world. Men go to porn and women go to Sex and the City. It has smart women wearing great clothes dating different types of men regularly. What else can we women possibly want from a tv show? The USP of the show is not its clothes, its plotline or its stars. It is its unsentimentality. Unlike men talking about sex, women talking about sex (and everything else) as real issues was refreshing. Of course, I was yet to become a woman when this show originally aired. And, even though I have watched it now, I will truly be able to grasp the things it deals with when I am in my thirties. Will something better come along then? I don't think so. If we leave the humor and clothes(and shoes) aside, this is a fictional treatment of everyday emotions, without sentimentalism. Why should sentimentalism be such a bad thing? Well, because in a city like New York, when you are in your thirties and single, it is quite unlikely that you can be sentimental. Even Charlotte, with her naive optimism, still has her head on the ground. As it is with all women.
So, here's to a great show, which has given me enough food for thought, as well as greater amount of thought when it comes to clothes!
So, here's to a great show, which has given me enough food for thought, as well as greater amount of thought when it comes to clothes!
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