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Board,I'm out East and it's definitely WEST. At any rate, while watching it I felt like I lost mine the first time (!)
I'm sure this T.V. series - if it's still going on - has been discussed and dissected to death by pundits and sociologists. I saw a few episodes on H.B.O. If I can weather a bunch of neurotic N.Y.-er women, I guess H.B.O. has the whole series for my viewing.
I'm wondering a couple of things:
1. what's the demographic-watching public on this? More women to men, I imagine (!)
2. the lead actress (a kind of Streisand make-over): was she famous before this series? I ask because while her acting is good enough, she's no big deal in any other way. Was she chosen based on previous fame OR purposely for her lack of - ahem - appeal?
Lastly, it's so New York. Too unself-consciously N.Y.
Guyesqueness.
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I saw it twice or 3 times...and I have a couple friends who really liked it. It was a HUGE hit for HBO. I like Entourage better.Sarah Jessica Parker had a moderate stage/screen career going, especially in character parts, but this was the show that made her a star. (She was Robert Downey's first girlfriend and is currently married to Matthew Broderick.) I don't think she's unattractive - she has a strong face with character. Ordinary women could relate to her very easily, probably one reason the show was such a success.
Being a forty-fifty something female living in suburbia instead of a thirty-ish single female living in NYC, I didn't exactly identify with the show. Not much relationship to real life or relationships as I know it. The one episode about the baby shower for the friend who moved to the burbs was pretty funny. The rest was same old same old.
The appeal to women (especially 20-30 YO women), however, is easy enough to understand.
Watch enough episodes and many women will see (or think they see) a male character that matches a former/current boyfriend or husband/ex-husband or hear a line they've have said to a girlfriend one time or another. And I think lotsa gals liked the clothes (especially the shoes). And they could fantasize about living large in NYS. And they maybe dug watching a show with "sex" in the title.
Noth was the best thing on the show IMO - I could never understand why he was fired from Law and Order for not being young/sexy enough - his subsequent stardom on SexCity surely made that decision look stoopid.
Me, my favorite HBO series are The Sopranos, Rome and Entourage - mmmmm yumyum love Jeremy Piven and so happy to see him playing something besides John Cusack's side-kick.
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I mean Martin Tupper's adventures were far more entertaining and you got to see boobs.
Ex nihilo, nihil fit . . .
I never cared for the show and found it unrealistic. I did not find any of the characters likeable. I find it sad that this show seemed to have such a big impact with women.
The series ran on HBO for seven seasons and exprgated reruns are now running on other networks. Each episode is formulaic: each meets or continues a relationship with a man and he is gay/oversexed/a momma's boy/kinky/cruel/you name it. It being a celebration of the friendship of four women naturally the semographic is women of all ages. The star. Sarah Jessica Parker, has made feature films but is best know for her role here as carrie Bradshaw. I find her at times very attractive and at others almost ugly. Chris Noth has a recurring role as "Big", Carrie's true love, a rich guy who drops in and out of her life. New Tork City is like a fifth character throughout. Notice that while all the three others are occasinally topless Parker never is, something David Mamet parodied in his film "Stae and Main" where Parker played a film actress who refused to do a nude scene.
Never seen it, don't plan to.
I'd imagine your guess on who watches the show is right. As for the women on the show, maybe more men would have watched if the women were more attractive. May sound sexist, but that's the way it is (the reverse would be true). And no, I wouldn't be included in that (never watched one episode of Baywatch for example), just stating a fact about people in general. IMO, the only one on the show half decently attractive (repeat half here) is the brunette.
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