View Full Version : "Sex and the City" deserves credit for the rise of HBO and TV anti-heroes


TMC
07-23-2013, 04:32 AM
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2013/07/29/130729crte_television_nussbaum

Before "The Sopranos," there was "Sex and the City," and Emily Nussbaum says "Sex" should get credit for also being a "brilliant and, in certain ways, radical show. It also originated the unacknowledged first female anti-hero on television" Instead, "Sex's" impact is now glossed over -- its reputation "shrunk and faded, like some tragic dry-clean-only dress tossed into a decade-long hot cycle."


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