Let’s Talk About Sex and the City
Listen, I know the shows been out for like 24 years and everything that probably needs to be said about them has already been said but it’s my first time watching this and I need to throw my 2 cents in.
Samantha Jones carries the show. I love her and I’m obsessed with her. She’s a confident, self-assured, and secure woman who knows what she wants. She isn’t ashamed of who she is and is proud to be herself. Samantha, unlike the other women, doesn’t have a single thing she would change about herself. She likes who she is and how she looks. She is the type of role model I wish I would have had in my early 20s. Sexy, intimidating, girlboss.
Charlotte York is just about Samantha’s opposite. Where Samantha is all about freedom and confidence, Charlotte is all about finding a man to complete her. I really didn’t like this part of Charlotte because it just pushes the patriarchal notion that women only matter if they’re tied to a man, and if I’m honest that was really her entire character throughout the show. Her desperate to get married, her getting married after knowing the guy for a couple months. Her divorcing him, and immediately marrying her divorce lawyer. That is all fine and good, but her character just screamed insecure and her segments were really not my thing.
Miranda Hobbes on the other hand is a badass lawyer woman who went to Harvard Law. She’s not as internally misogynistic as Charlotte but she’s not at Samantha’s level either. This one was actually an interesting character (unlike Charlotte). That being said, we’re not really brought to love her story like we are with Charlotte’s or Carrie’s. Her character had so much potential that I think the writers really waisted. She was such a smart and strong character.
Moving on to Carrie and her relationship with Mr. Big. Carrie is the star of the show, yet I disliked her the most. She is a toxic, insecure, borderline-narcissist, that doesn’t actually like other women. Her relationships romanticizes her anxious attachment into something that’s desirable?? Especially with Mr. Big, that man is a classic avoidant attachment type. He has dogged her, lied to her, disrespected her, and she still allows him into her life at all?
She is the antithesis of a strong feminist icon. She makes fun of therapy (even though she…
