Sex & The City Episodes - Favorite Moments/Biggest Rants

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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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

"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.

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.

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.