TMC
04-09-2019, 02:44 PM
https://www.ceros.com/originals/sex-and-the-city/
Two decades after it premiered on HBO, Sex and the City maintains such a cultural currency that it feels like it could have been broadcast yesterday, anxious voicemails and a lack of Tinder notwithstanding. Over the course of six seasons, the first of which debuted 21 years ago, SATC not only reconfigured the country’s perceptions of single 30-something women from Bridget-Jones-pitiful to Carrie-Bradshaw-chic, but also created a phantasmagorical New York of fashion and romance that viewers wanted, and will seemingly always still want, to inhabit.
“It’s an absolutely aspirational lifestyle, but it’s based in reality,” says Jennifer Armstrong, author of Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live and Love. (Armstrong last assisted us with parsing Seinfeld, which she explored thoroughly in her book Seinfeldia.) But to Armstrong, even Seinfeld doesn’t compare to the cultural meteorite of Sex and the City, whose mores and narratives continue to guide us. “To this day, it’s why women still move to New York.”
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Flatiron District, we analyzed every script of every episode. Here’s what we learned. And if you don't believe us, check our findings for yourself; it streams on HBONow and HBOGo.
Two decades after it premiered on HBO, Sex and the City maintains such a cultural currency that it feels like it could have been broadcast yesterday, anxious voicemails and a lack of Tinder notwithstanding. Over the course of six seasons, the first of which debuted 21 years ago, SATC not only reconfigured the country’s perceptions of single 30-something women from Bridget-Jones-pitiful to Carrie-Bradshaw-chic, but also created a phantasmagorical New York of fashion and romance that viewers wanted, and will seemingly always still want, to inhabit.
“It’s an absolutely aspirational lifestyle, but it’s based in reality,” says Jennifer Armstrong, author of Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live and Love. (Armstrong last assisted us with parsing Seinfeld, which she explored thoroughly in her book Seinfeldia.) But to Armstrong, even Seinfeld doesn’t compare to the cultural meteorite of Sex and the City, whose mores and narratives continue to guide us. “To this day, it’s why women still move to New York.”
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Flatiron District, we analyzed every script of every episode. Here’s what we learned. And if you don't believe us, check our findings for yourself; it streams on HBONow and HBOGo.