Sex & The City Episodes - Favorite Moments/Biggest Rants

[MOXIEINTHECITY]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 7:02pm

While sick at home I find myself watching my SATC DVD's.

Some thoughts:

1. Was it me, or was Jack Burger a complete jackass?

2. Anyone else think "Serves her right" when Charlotte's first marriage tanked?

3. Shouldn't Mario Cantone have his own series??

4.Didn't Carrie pretty much sabotage her relationship with Aidan from the beginning?

5. Anyone else wonder how the hell Carrie survived living in Manhattan on her column salary?

Feel free to share others....

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 8:10pm

Well Carrie did write a book too...

[MOXIEINTHECITY]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 8:36pm

Yeah.....but not until almost the end of the series. How'd she afford to live the way she did before that?

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 9:17pm

What's with the deterioration of Steve's character?? When we first meet him, he's reading Hemingway, and then he's regressed to watching Scooby Doo? Thank God he redeemed himself in the last season.

I love Aidan - he's set "The Bar" for me.

Charlotte and Trey were doomed from the start (and could she BE any more annoying in the third season??) but I'm glad she wound up with Harry at the end. It just seemed so appropriate that Charlotte would forget about her "ideal man" characteristics on paper and find them in the bald chubby guy.

I find a lot of myself reflected in Miranda. I quote her all the time.

I still wish Carrie had wound up alone at the end though - the show seemed to be a celebration of being successful and single (with the help of your girl friends!) and while I'm happy with the other pairings, I found Big to be smarmy and unlikeable - I would've preferred Carrie to be skipping off alone in the sunset, being her fabulous self.

[MOXIEINTHECITY]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 9:25pm

Charlotte was desperate, shallow and boring. They couldn't make her interesting if they tried.

Miranda was my favorite because she called them all out on their bull**** i.e. the bull**** bagels episode. Carrie was tragically self-absorbed.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 9:30pm

I was never a fan of Carrie - can't understand why people would pride themselves on being like her--what does that mean?? Neurotic, "love"-blind, self-centered, histrionic and never learning from their mistakes?? (Hello, Big!)

Miranda was jaded, sure, but she was also right most of the time, and honest, down-to-earth and not man-obsessed. I cheered in that episode where she went off on all the girls for being educated career women with nothing better to talk about than men all the time, and walked out of the diner. (And my MSN message is her line, "Sexy is what I try to get men to see me as after I've won them over with my personality." )

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 9:49pm

I LOVE Miranda. Favorite character by far.

1. Berger ended up being an insecure jerk, and I so wanted to like him. I love the post-post-it note breakup episode where the girls smoke pot.

2. I think that anytime your offhand marriage proposal is met with, "Alrighty.," you're doomed from the start.

4. Aiden was always so, so wrong for Carrie. He's the perfect guy for someone, but certainly not for her. There wasn't enough common ground to make it work.

5. YES. I don't live in Manhattan or anything, but I think that her living in that apartment (and buying those shoes) on a writer's salary requires suspension of disbelief. Updated On: 7/15/06 at 09:49 PM

Posted: 7/15/06 at 9:59pm

...and her outfits and always eating out in fabulous places. I don't know how she did it either.


On Miranda, she may be the one to call everyone on their bs, but in one early episode she saw an ex with his new wife and she ran away like a liitle baby.

[shiksa_goddess]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 10:01pm

I don't know if Berger was a complete jackass, but he was certainly filled with insecurity and jealousy. He was well meaning and had his good moments, but I think his previous relationship left alot of "scars." He needed to get past those issues before trying to be in a committed relationship.

Aidan was perfect. I can't believe Carrie let him get away, but then again...they wanted different things. Aidan got his wife and baby, and Carrie got Big.

Mario Cantone was (for me) such a bitchy character. I didn't care for him at all. I love Stanford though...and Marcus.

Samantha is my favorite character. Despite her sluttyness I loved seeing her grow through the series. She is a confident and self-sufficient woman...but to a fault. Seeing her relationship with Smith and how he changed her was one of my favorite parts of the show.

If memory serves, Carrie was living in a rent controlled building and was paying 750 dollars for rent for the most part of the series. I don't know how she swung it when she was younger, but a columnist can make that. Then after the breakup with Aidan, Charlotte gave Carrie her wedding ring so Carrie could buy the apartment. Talk about getting by with a little help from your friends.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 10:03pm

Since when is TV required to be realistic? Come on, people; I love it, but this is a TV show. You know this isn't real. It's like the whole thing with Monica's apartment on Friends.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 10:06pm

People always bring up Monica's apartment as unrealistic, forgetting that it is explained as having been her grandmother's.

And no one on Friends had Manolo Blahnik collections.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 10:09pm

Right, but even though it was her grandmother's, she was still living in it illegally; her super just let her off.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 10:15pm

That's correct. So what's the issue?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 10:27pm

The characters on Friends didn't have Manolo collections, but they did live in a special pocket of the Village where they only came in contact with white people.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 10:29pm

That it was illegal and he could've gotten in trouble? I'm not saying I care, I mean, it's a TV show -- but that's how people can correctly claim it to be unrealistic that she'd be able to live in a place like that.

[MOXIEINTHECITY]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 10:30pm

I was so glad that they introduced Berger. This city has three types of guys:

1. The wealthy, prestigious, pompous D---- Bags - Big/Trey
2. The "Perfect" Guys that many shallow woman in this city pass by then wonder why they're still single - Aidan/Steve
3. The man-childs. The self-deprecating, dysfunctional guys who charm women with their humor while masking their dysfunction with one liners. - Berger

Aiden was never going to Big. That's why he and Carrie would never work. When it came down to it, Carrie was shallow and wanted the status-seeking guy because that's who she was.


Updated On: 7/15/06 at 10:30 PM

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 12:21am

1. Was it me, or was Jack Burger a complete jackass?

As handsome and funny as Berger could be, yes. Anyone who ends a relationship--especially with someone they proclaim to love--via a post it is an @sshole. An irredeemable, d_ck move.

2. Anyone else think "Serves her right" when Charlotte's first marriage tanked?

No.

3. Shouldn't Mario Cantone have his own series??

YES! YES! YES! Did you happen to catch Laugh Whore? One of the most enjoyable nights on Broadway I've ever had.

4.Didn't Carrie pretty much sabotage her relationship with Aidan from the beginning?

Yes.

5. Anyone else wonder how the hell Carrie survived living in Manhattan on her column salary?

Two words--rent control. A friend of mine is in a two-bedroom on Perry Street and is paying $1,000.


Updated On: 7/16/06 at 12:21 AM

[DivaBrigader]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 12:50am

Favorite quotes:

"No white, no ivory, no nothing that says virgin. I have a child. The jig is up." -Miranda

"I'm dating a guy with the funkiest tasting spunk." -Samantha

"We're talking up the butt. A cigarette is in order." -Carrie

"First time she [Natasha] saw me, I was standing there like freaking Annie get your clothes on." -Carrie

"Elizabeth Taylor got gang banged in the park?" -Carrie

"He raped my face!" -Charlotte

[MOXIEINTHECITY]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 10:54am

"No white, no ivory, no nothing that says virgin. I have a child. The jig is up." -Miranda

One of my personal favorites.

Along with:

Charlotte: Ewww....vagina weights!
Samantha: Honey...my vagina waits for no man.

I LOVED Bobby Cannavale in the funky spunk episode.

I had no sympathy for Charlotte when her marriage tanked. She was one of those people that had this idea that she "deserved" a certain type of guy. Well, she found him. And he didn't want kids. Something she maybe shoudl have asked him about before they got married. But she was so focused on the dress and having her special day she overlooked that. Which reminds me:

Charlotte: You guys! Don't do this! This is my special week.
Miranda: You get a day. One day.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 11:44am

No white, no ivory, no nothing that says virgin. I have a child. The jig is up." -Miranda

That episode re-ran last night. I think Miranda is my favorite.

[luvliza89]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 12:59pm

I've rewatched this entire series more times then I'd like to admit. So far this year I've watched the entire series 4 times.

Anyway, besides having no life, I have some thoughts. Aidan was never right for Carrie. He was "good on paper", attractive (esp after losing that weight), avaliable, but he was missing that spunk , that KKKKatie aspect, that Carrie herself possesed. There were signs that they were too different, from his cottage in the sticks to him not understanding how clothes and style mean to her (seriously you don't tell someone to throw out there clothes, when style is that apart of thier lives). I don't think it was because Carrie was shallow that she let Aidan go. She didn't want/wasn't ready for that kind of a life. Why should she be saddled with regret and a life she doesn't truely want? She broke his heart, yes, but I think she did so to save hers.

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 2:11pm

Miranda has always been my favorite, too, luvtheEmcee. I have affection for all of them, though Carrie has pissed me off the most. I remember seeing interviews with the cast, and they are all SUPPOSED to be exaggerated types. I thought they were all fantastic (even Kristin Davis, who was such a horrendous actress on Melrose Place, managed to find just the right role with Charlotte and do a great job) Cynthia Nixon wound up impressing me because she could've played the career-driven, commitment shy girl completely one-note, but managed to add all of these layers to her. I will never forget the episode where she had her panic attacks and called Carrie from the hospital, afraid she was going to die alone with her cat! And her last scene--with Magda--when she had taken on the responsibility of Steve's mother because she loved him so much--I'll never forget it.

[MOXIEINTHECITY]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 2:56pm

To me, Miranda was the only one to have a full character arc. Carrie stayed as self-obsorbed and neurotic as she was in the beginning of the series.