The series is about four women in
New York City and their pursuit of love, sex, careers, and happiness, centered on
freelance reporter Carrie Bradshaw who writes about sex from the perspective of
a modern 1990s’ woman, using her life and friends’ gossip for inspiration.
Darren Star
created the show, coming off the successes of Beverly Hills,
90210 and Melrose
Place. However, writer Michael Patrick
King sort of took over the show’s creative responsibilities. Although, he
also wrote both of the awful feature films
that follow the series (and essentially kill all its goodwill).
The series stars Sarah Jessica Parker
(as Carrie), Kim
Cattrall, Kristin
Davis, and Cynthia
Nixon, while Chris Noth, David Eigenberg,
Willie Garson,
Kyle
MacLachlan, John
Corbett, Evan
Handler, and Jason Lewis
feature in support. A few other notable guests include James Remar,
Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Ron Livingston,
and Candice
Bergen.
Sex and the City is primarily
thought of as a show for woman, and while that may be the case it is also a
highly entertaining well-made series about people trying to find their place in
the world, which can and should be enjoyed by all (man or woman). It is easy to
dismiss the show as a comedy, and it is very funny, but personally I think it
is more of a drama (though on the lighter side), as each of these four women
must overcome multiple major struggles in their lives of the course of the show.
The series helped launch HBO’s brilliant original programing and the Golden Age
of Television. It is not to be missed for fans of light, funny dramas (I mean,
do you really want to watch its reboot/prequel The Carrie Diaries
instead?).
Trailer: Here
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