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"The most vacuous, tedious and boring few hours of my life."

Having to endure that Sex and the City night on Friday. Luckily I had my precious laptop to play with, but I could still hear it, which I suppose is only half as bad. First up they had that "slap-on-the-back" show, where they had cast and crew, D-listers and bints from America jabbering on about how much it "re-defined the modern sitcom", and other stupid quotes like that. I mean, come on, the most radical part of the show was that it had small amounts of nudity. If that's enough to redefine the modern sitcom, then Channel 5 is the pinnacle of modern televisual entertainment.

Sex is nothing new in a sitcom. Seinfeld (one of the original and best American sitcoms) tackled such issues as porn, masturbation, oral sex, threesomes, all this at primetime, and it still remains one of the funniest shows on TV, even though the repeats are over ten years old! Friends, which was never really up to the challenge of Seinfeld and constantly stole plots and jokes from it, was all about a group of 20-somethings having sex and relationships.

I already knew the outcome of the final show - I actually read an article about it in a newspaper, because I'm such a good boyfriend and take an interest in my girlfriend's stuff. I'm an even better boyfriend because I didn't ruin it for her (even though I threatened it a few times). It was pretty obvious really. The stupid one with the laptop ended up with the jock, thereby obliterating the notion of remaining single and happy in "the City", which was the point of the show. It could have been written by a GCSE English student.

Electrum wrote:
> beautiful post there Very Metal

cheers...
i rant therefore i am :)

And Sarah Jessica Parker is a bit rough too.

I saw a few minutes of it, and it bored me. I shalln't mourn it's passing.

beautiful post there Very Metal

Sex and the city coaxes the same response as Bridget Jones; a bunch of women staring blankly in disbelief, convinced that this "is SO like my life".. yeah, except for the men and the money and the success and.. well, you get the idea.
it`s a gratuitous $lut-fest, aided along by the constant "morning after breakfast meetings" where they all get together and compare notes.

the only thing it`s been good for is doubling the size of womens magazines for a few years with enlightening articles about what to wear/not to wear and who`s dared to gain the slightest bit of weight or cut their hair.

Sex and the city = Cosmopolitan: the tv show
Briget Jones = Cosmopolitan: The Movie
Cosmopolitan = biased, hypocritical (page 5: "why you`re better off single", page 16: "how to land your dream fella", etc...), rose-tinted rubbish.

if this is what women are being told is the highest plateau of existence then we can only watch with bemused horror as the whole female population orders themselves a fat-free latte and applies for the same job.

in itself it`s a good idea for a good show, but the way it plys its story and the underpinning messages are sometimes questionable at best.

*sits down to type a philosophical self-awareness quote on a lap-top*

*shrugs* I've never watched Sex and the City before this last series (just bought a house, can't drink in the pub every friday like I used to) and found it quite entertaining.

Some well written and moving scenes (whaddaya call her, Samatha? doing the cancer speech and removing her wig), some good dialogue, some subtle and imaginative direction.

I've seen far, far worse. Yes, I am a bloke.

I heard somewhere on the telly somewhere with the woman playing the main character saying how it had a really big twist at the end. I watched it for this 'twist' only and i have to say. Pah. Who the hell wrote that crap and why the hell would you call that a twist.

In summary

Women: "The most groundbreaking show in years."
Men: "What the hell is this guff? *Flicks channel*"

What's worse is that most girls seem to take the show to be the pinnacle of wit and as some sort of reference for their lives to capitulate to. Not only does this decapitate their notion comedy, but also the notion that chastity and love are just as beautiful as meaningless sex.
Even my little sister of 14 watches this show, im sure it has done a deal of damage to her malleable adolescent brain, when a culture such as this takes the characters of the show to be the sophisticated female archetype then we dont have a lot to look forward to in the new generation of 'grown up' women.
The show has never entertained me for a minute, and I really tried to give it a chance, honestly.

I'm just glad it's over. I saw a bit of it once, it was just an excuse to use as many sexually explicit taboo words as possible in the time given, without showing their working.

El Blokey wrote:
> I loved how the slutty one had to get them out one last time in the
> emotional final montage.

Yeah, i think that was the pay-off for the 80% of viewers who watch just to catch a bit of gratuitous nudity.