I cried at the end of sex & the city

Wait, wait. Before you take that to be the most unsurprising statement of the year (and that’s calling it early, its only February!) let me tell you – I only started watching Sex & the City a month ago.

I steadfastly tried to ignore it – I’d seen bits and pieces of it on TV but dismissed it as a ‘novelty’ show. Perhaps I was a bit of a snob – whilst I was looking up to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sydney Bristow, or lusting after Fox Mulder – I thought the women in Sex & the City were one dimensional and materialistic.

Obviously on the outside looking in, and from all the risqué trailers (or teasers) shown on tv, I thought Samantha was too over the top, and nymphomaniacal and I’d never relate to someone like her, so how could I like the show? Miranda was too cold, and cynical. Charlotte seemed to be the stereotypical romantic, optimistic and overly perky character, prudish in Samantha’s company. Carrie seemed to be quite the balance and perhaps that was the reason that Sarah Jessica Parker is so adored, and fanatacised about! (Note, I didn’t mean fantasize – I mean FANATICISE!)

I just couldn’t fathom why so many women seemed to gush over the show, the fashion, the women – and the actresses that played these characters.

But now.. I eat my first impressions. I can’t quite put my finger on it. As I came to the final episode, on the last disc of the final season – I bloody cried! I even tried not to; still determined not to be like women en masse who talk about having more than once box set as the first is ‘overused’. (I’m looking at you Tiz)

As I mentioned in my last post, about how it doesn’t take a sad ending to make me cry but a happy one – I think the waterworks welled up as soon as Carrie returned from Paris, surprising her friends in the cafe where they’d spent all those years confiding in each other, and sharing each other’s lives.

The fairytale of the show, and the appeal certainly wasn’t one thing. Surely it wasn’t sex. Certainly it couldn’t be the fashion (though from an outsider’s point of view – that’s all it seemed to be!) and it wasn’t the dating – but it was the importance and value of friendship.

I think this one post will be branched out into a few – crazy outlandish fashions, first date blunders, which of Carrie’s beaux would you choose, and which fabulous New Yorker would you be? Watch this space..

P.S Oh, and just an example of how much I’m already relating – when I finished An American Girl goes to Paris Part Deux – it was 1am and I turned back on the lights, got out my laptop and started writing, ala our Miss Carrie Bradshaw.

http://www.candyishmakeup.com/ Candy

Epic! I'm so glad you finally watched it. I still cry like a baby at the end. Steve's mom mixed with Big showing up mixed with her return to New York is just a tear-filled cocktail.

JennaIsWriting

Yes, I also resisted it and paid out on it when it started. I'm still not one of those girls who thinks it is anything like my life (soooo not!), but it was a very enjoyable show. Snappy writing, interesting plots and excellent production values, including that out-there fashion. Glad you enjoyed it!

rishegee

There is nothing like the joy of digging out the SATC box set. Mine was one of my first purchases when I started working full time with a real paycheck – I shelled out two hundy of my hard earned for a massive pink cosmetic box from Target with the DVDs inside. I think it took my friend and I two or three months to make our way through it in its entirety. Season Five was a bit of a letdown with that IRKSOME Russian but there are some classic moments – I'm talking pyjama installation lady in the middle of the night and Lexi Featherstone “I'm so bored I could die”. We dressed up as them for a SATC themed hens night. There is no show like it – its basically a microcosm of all single girl angst EVERYWHERE. I am so glad you got into it – now you'll see it's like candy, drag out any episode, any time and sink your teeth in – its tastes sooo good.
PS As discussed, it's lovely how it all comes full circle with Big/John at the end but really… Aidan was too cute for words. And Berger. Yummmm. I happen to think the greatest love stories of the series are not Carrie and Big's – the issues are just huge – but Steve and Miranda, and Charlotte and Steve. Epic Epic romances. Now we need to get you to see the movie!!

Kimberley

Oh yes! That scene with Steve's mom was just.. oh man, and when they went to the apartment!! And Steve was breaking down. Oh man, I can't handle it when boys cry!

Kimberley

I think its a show I may be able to appreciate on more than one occasion, there is a lot more depth than originally thought – but they are not style icons to me!

Kimberley

It was my sister's beauty case set that I was watching the DVDs from – not my own! *hehe* Maybe the same?

I think it will be good for repeat viewings, because I think there was more depth than even I realised as I watched it.

Yes.. I never warmed to the Russian! Old! Boring! Blah! And he was rude to her friends! Red flag!

http://www.imsovane.com/ VANEWPC

i have watched every episode since the very first air date best show ever! The movie was good but i personally thought it was overkill and now feel that even more about a part 2! What more needs to be said? If there was still so much to these womens lives they could have spared me the heartbreak of ending my favorite show and squeezed out a couple more seasons. GREAT POST!

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