Lord, lord, lord. Not what I expected at all!

Wasn't it sweet how Carrie needed all that support in her time of need? Oh wait, it wasn't her time of need at all, really.

And is no one going to hug Charlotte and tell her that it's all going to be okay? Nice bunch of friends. "Oh, this baby stuff doesn't interest me at all. Please find a new friend to talk about it with. We only want to hear about the sex part. But you can sit there and listen to me whine about my inconsiderate boyfriend who won't let me sleaze around with my ex."

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

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Response to Sex in the City (spoiler)

I have to say this:

though I missed all but the last scene, PLEASE.

Deliver me. Miranda's pregnant by the Uniball Steve? Hannah Beth called it - this show has jumped the shark. It has become "Thity-Something", set in Manhattan.

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Response to Sex in the City (spoiler)

(Disclaimer: don't have HBO, have been relying on the MBTV recaps, the EW recaps, and others.)

Charlotte and Trey should not, not, not be having a baby. Their situation reminds me of a friend of mine who has another friend who just suffered a second miscarriage. When I expressed sympathy for Friend-of-Friend, Friend said that he was pretty much out of sympathy for her, since (a) she really isn't in a financial or emotional position to have a baby right now and (b) she just broke up with the would-be father (both pregnancies were deliberate). He describes as her dodging a bullet, twice, and still putting himself deliberately in the path of the gun.

I have to say I don't really understand why this show is going where it's going, in that we're not supposed to have sympathy for the characters anymore, except for Steve and Miranda. (And isn't this baby plot a complete reversal of last year, when he wanted a kid and she couldn't stand their puppy?) Carrie is a cheating brat, Sam is a one-note character (isn't there a way to portray a sex- positive, it's-sex-not-love female character without making her repugnant?) and I can't believe they actually want us to root for Charlotte and Trey. We're not supposed to laugh with the characters anymore, but at them, and I don't see that as a compelling enough reason to watch, even if I did have HBO.

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Response to Sex in the City (spoiler)

On the one hand, I think it is realistic, for a show about women who have as much sex as these do, to deal with abortion.

On the other hand, it's really not what I've come to look to Sex and The City for. I expect it to be unrealistic. And it is unrealistic (a waiter at the same restaurant for 13 years?), so why pick a realistic topic? I don't know. I felt like they were blaming Charlotte for mentioning her infertility- but it's not like she KNEW Miranda was pregnant. Ugh.

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Oh my God, y'all, I just looked at the fashion slide shows.

What are they doing to these poor women?

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

WG - you should have seen what she wore to dinner with Big three weeks ago (yall remember the green satin micro-mini and white top?). I have never seen anything more whorish or un-fashion-forward in my life. It burned my retinas. When she stood up from the table I almost retched.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

I think that was better than the plaid mini and white stilletos. White stilletos?

And I guess shoulder pads are back. Whee.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

Pineapple, you have to point out the fact that the back of that mini was RUFFLED PANTIES. WHITE RUFFLED PANTIES.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

So that was the "ruffleskirt" they were making fun of at MBTV. I'm sorry there aren't photos.

Y'all, why do they do this? I don't get it. I know the flower thing became a hit after it showed up on SitC (much to fashion's detriment, I think) but I just don't understand all the fashion don'ts.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

You know, I've been watching them trying to make that big silk flower thing a trend for a long time. I remember years and years ago when they were trying. I still haven't seen one person in real life wearing one. I see them for sale, and then I see them on sale, because no one buys them.

Did you all see the scrunchy in her not-quite-I-Dream-of-Jeannie pony tail on Sunday? I'm not going to bring up the rest of her peasanty-something outfit with spandex. Does anyone else see this Cyndi Lauper-esque trend going on with Carrie? "Find me the ugliest, the tackiest, and I will make it fashionable." Except, it's not.

And, I'm not quite sure, but the MIGHT be trying to push those bags. Birkin? Burton? That big ugly red purse. I mean, I might be reading them all wrong, but they just might be trying to do a little product placement with that purse. Just a little.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

Generally speaking, SaTC is really fashion forward. Most of the things you see on that show will be in Express a few weeks after, and that's because Express has the _fastest_ trend turn-around I've ever seen. They can do it though, as their products are meant to be worn a few times and then discarded.

But they just push Carrie to the extreme extreme and throw like 25 trending things on her at once so she always ends up looking like a clown.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

I should add that my co-worker met Sarah Jessica Parker (he was at a bar where an episode was being filmed) and talked to her for about ten minutes. He said she was very sweet.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

Okay. You know what? That was the worst episode ever.

Charlotte is intolerable. Carrie? What the fuck was that? It's like she wanted to say yes just to prove she was the marrying type. Uh, she and Aiden have been back together, for what, three or four months, tops? Blah. He needs to run far away.

Only Miranda makes this show watchable.

And, who didn't see Samantha sleeping with the hotel magnate as soon as we saw him three episodes back?

-- Anonymous, August 13, 2001

If any of y'all are interested, there's a review of SATC in today's New York Times (the Living section). Except I can't post a link, because I forgot my login and password and I'm too lazy to re- register.

-- Anonymous, August 13, 2001

Because I am a complete freak, I devoted a journal entry to a hypothetical SaTC episode set during September 11th and the days after.

I assume HBO isn't planning to pull and refilm the six remaining eps, but I wish they would.

-- Anonymous, October 04, 2001

Speaking of, there was a really interesting article in the NYT on Sunday about the drastic mindset change of many +30 singles in NYC post-9/11. Excellent future SaTC episode fodder.

-- Anonymous, October 04, 2001