Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on August 15, 2006 at 16:33:35

In Reply to: Behind the curve I know: saw "Sex and the City" FIRST TIME. posted by .Guy on August 11, 2006 at 01:37:44:

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.