O Sexo e a Cidade

Sex and the City was one of the most successful television projects of the 90s and an incredibly successful business brand, where product placement had gradually been elevated to a new level of quality. The plot of each episode revolved, for example, around the problem of which brand of handbag to bring to a snob party... The series, based on the autobiographically-inspired columns of the well-known journalist Carrie Bradshaw, portrays the life experiences of four successful women from the American upper middle class, particularly their difficulties in building romantic relationships. It was an opportunity of a lifetime for the actresses, who, with the exception of Sarah Jessica Parker, were not very well-known but played their roles convincingly. This series doesn't have a message and, to be honest, its popularity partly relies on similar foundations as the famous Millionaire series from the 70s, thus on the desire to identify with successful idols and their status. Sex and the City is also (I'm not sure to what extent intentional) a caricature of the feminist movement, focusing on (pseudo) problems of wealthy middle-class mothers. The series has a light-hearted, slightly comedic tone, making it acceptable to a wider range of viewers. Overall impression: 50%. (18/01/2008)

I also know a lot about sex, but at the same time, I'm not afraid to relegate HBO hits to FX, Showtime, and Starz. Although as I get older, I've become more tolerant of this retro. Especially after a contrasting encounter with The Carrie Diaries. It would be a shame to consider the series worse than it is if one only knows it in passing. (07/02/2009)

Carrie Bradshaw knows a whole lot about sex and she isn’t afraid to ask! Lucky for her; I am afraid of asking why this foursome always wear such asexual, horrible clothes. Metropolitan forty-somethings, what can you do? You can’t explain to them that life isn’t about pulling a young buck, recalling better times, trying to hook Mr. Big and shopping for one-use-then-dispose high-heeled shoes. It’s watchable (once in a while), although, more than a series, this is an obvious commercial for Fashion TV in a slightly more bearable guise. And dialogs about the vagina, its crisis and their own problems (a great episode, by the way). An average show that went under because the producers didn’t know when to stop and so kept on giving us more commerci... um, episodes without there being any reason for their existence. Because Carrie Fisher told us everything she knows about sex and life in the first three seasons. And that was shamefully little. And with too few revelations. In fact, the constantly shrouded Parker is the biggest minus of the whole series. You wait and wait, but get nothing. (10/02/2022)

I admit that it terribly smells of feminism, but it is often unbelievably entertaining and each episode abounds with incredible lines from the controversial Samantha. Despite the fact that in most recent episodes it is usually only the main heroine Carrie who ruins it, paradoxically, from the group of ladies I probably like her the least, yet both her and the script of the others are full of accurate remarks that only reveal what a woman doesn't dare to say out loud. That is why it is so popular among women. And although I can agree with it for the most part on csfd, I am not surprised by the local rating. However, I am not surprised if they take those insights to heart so much, as a man, I would probably approach this series differently. But for me, it's a five-star rating. (18/08/2013)