The original post: /r/television by /u/inherentinsignia on 2024-09-06 19:34:12.
SATC came out way before my time (I was 6 in 1998, when the show premiered), and somehow I never got around to watching it, even though I’m a huge HBO afficienado. I turned it on after finishing a Hacks rewatch, and was pleasantly shocked at how much of a time capsule the show is, and how much fun it is. Some thoughts, though:
- Weirdly, I almost feel like this would have worked really well as a movie, like the rom-coms that were popular at the time. Obviously, it went on to become a huge classic/hit in its own right, but I feel like a SATC movie based off the first three episodes would have been a bananas hit.
- As someone that typically can’t stand SJP in other things I’ve seen her in, she’s so good as Carrie in this.
- I have a weird nostalgia for New York around this time period (the late-90s/early-00s era), and the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies were my crack back when I was a kid. Revisiting this era feels like such a brain massage.
- The gay best friend thing is such a stereotype, but also, it’s the archetype, really, and I have to give it some slack for that.
- I know this was based off a real-life advice column, but I kept feeling like I was watching a modern retelling of Lysistrata, the ancient Greek comedy where the women of two cities get together and decide to start withholding sex until their husbands end their war against each other. I feel like that premise alone could have carried this show beyond the pilot.
Anyway, there’s my two cents. Can’t wait to keep watching. Really fun to find a show that clicks almost instantly.