The Modern Day Woman's Bible (Sex and the City)

Member Name: marnie_moo

Product:	Sex and the City
Date:	23/02/09 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Touches on relationships, sex, love, careers, friendship, everything a girl needs to know

Disadvantages: Prepare to get addicted then devastated when there are no more new episodes!

I have yet to find a woman who has not seen (and consequently fallen in love with) Sex and the City. And with good reason - Sex and the City has set the bar for a multitude of programs to come.

In it's most general sense it is centered around the lives of writer Carrie Bradshaw and her friends, told in a way where their relationships and experiences become the basis for Carrie's newspaper column in the New York Times.

Although each episode can work standalone showing a theme relating to articles in this newspaper, it is really only through watching the seasons that you begin to see how likable and relatable the characters are. Everyone I know compares themselves to one or a mix of the 4 main characters and this is what I feel keeps bringing the viewers back for more and more.

My favourite season is definetly the 1st, simply as it's told in a far more candid and inventive way setting it apart from most soap opera dramas. Here comedic opinions and statements (seemingly research for Carrie's column) are interspliced with the story and character development. The earlier seasons are also more about funny stories women have come across and less about character melodrama- the stuff of which set Sex and the City apart from all the other ladies' programs in the first place.

Having read snippets of Candice Bushnell's original column I think I much prefer Sex and the City's dramatization. Also controversially I did not like the film version as I felt it did not really add much to the storyline and only skimmed the surface of the what Sex and the City is all about.

I would recommend it to anyone, you will never look back I promise.

Summary: A televisual insight into women's minds and one of the best things the TV ever had to offer