Sex and the City TV Show

I was never a huge fan of the TV show “Sex and the City.” Not that it wasn’t smart and clever and funny and all that - it probably was. I just never got swept up in it. I watched it a few times and listening to women talk about shoes and labels and guys’ flaws in bed and badmouthing other women wasn’t my idea of a good time.

So I popped the “Sex and the City” DVD in with more a sense of obligation than high hopes, and you know what, I kind of liked it.

Even if you’ve never seen the show before, it doesn’t take long to figure out what each characters all about because they’re like giant cartoons. Macy’s Day parade floats really.

Cynthia Nixon plays Miranda, the tough-as-nails type-A personality trying to balance it all. Kristin Davis’s Charlotte is the prissy Upper East Side prude who’s blessed with good fortune. Kim Cattrall’s Samantha is the drag queen-looking one with an insatiable sweet tooth for hunky guys. And Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw is, of course, the constantly-jilted writer who’s the glue that holds the posse together.

Together, they take on the world like mascaraed, Missoni-clad musketeers. And now that they’ve been bumped up to feature-film length, their problems are all supersized too.

Miranda and Steve have broken up, Charlotte’s got an adopted kid, Samantha is feeling weighed down by the ball and chain of monogamy out in Los Angeles and Carrie gets engaged to Big, whose feet are extremely cold.

Some of these storylines are more engrossing than others, but the stuff that fans of the show love are all there: the labels, including a Louis Vuitton bag that may as well be the fifth lead, the painfully-coined catchphrases, the four friends’ sisterly bond.

Sure, maybe the “Sex and the City” movie doesn’t feel like a lot more than just watching two hours’ worth of episodes of the TV show. But now that it’s gone, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

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