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11 moments that prove that "Sex and the City" was great
Despite exaggerated gameplay displays, jarring messages such as portraying sexual harassment as legitimate interactions, lack of ethnic diversity and problematic treatment of the LGBT community - "Sex and the City" survives the test of time, and does so with wit, courage, wisdom and sensitivity.
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Kim Cattle
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 00:00
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Founded the female TV.
"Sex and the City" (Photo: Giphy)
The news of the renewal of "Sex and the City" for another season drew a host of reactions.
Most of them included raising an eyebrow due to the decision to film the new season despite the refusal of one of the four stars, Kim Cattle (Samantha), to participate in it.
Others argued that there was no need to destroy the classics.
To remind you, this has already been ruined enough in the movie "Sex and the City 2", which has no trace left of the beloved series other than a pale shadow of thin manolo heels.
Maybe it's the collective scar from that movie, and maybe it's intolerance of "girls'" series, but it seems that over time "Sex and the City" has been classified as superficial and old-fashioned nonsense.
Some would say that her honor is in place, but only thanks to her contribution to the establishment of female television, since without it we would not have won the "girls" and series of women born in her wake.
While it has some exaggerated acting, melodramatic choices and jarring messages to the millennial ear and eye, like portraying sexual harassment as legitimate interactions, lack of ethnic diversity and problematic treatment, to say the least, for the LGBT community. But in other respects, you will be surprised and does so with wit, courage, wisdom and sensitivity.
spy on her return later our screens with the series continued, received the greatest moments of "sex and the city", illustrating why it is worth watching even more than 20 years after the outbreak of our lives.
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Totally worth watching even after twenty or so years.
"Sex and the City" (Photo: GettyImages)
1. Carrie farts in bed next to Mr. Big.
Thank you for fulfilling the nightmares of us all, and it's amazing that so many years since this scene, female farting is still a taboo that can wreak havoc on your elegant and collected image.
2. "He's just not like that in your section."
The iconic insight lands on Miranda like thunder on a clear day.
Shaken by the revelation, she spreads the gospel to all the women of Manhattan, and not in vain;
In retrospect, it is clear that this simple insight is one of the most important given to the female sex.
If he's not investing enough in you, if he's gone, not clear, sending conflicting messages and texting meetings - leave: he's just not like that in your section.
It's not pleasant to hear, but it's always true.
Did you hear, Iris?
In the second season of "Rehearsals", we by no means want to see you continue to waste time on Tomer.
He's just not like that in your segment, and exciting monologues he will leave for the Acre Festival.
3. Carrie's shoe tragedy.
Well, this is not really one scene, but rather an entire episode (9, season 6) of sheer genius.
Named "The Woman's Right to Shoes", it deals with a woman's right to live her life in worship of beauty and fashion, a feature that characterizes "Sex and the City" as a whole and its protagonist in particular.
The story: At the end of a baby shower party at the home of a distant friend, after she is forced to leave her manolo shoes at the entrance to the house, Carrie discovers that these have been stolen.
To her amazement, the party owner not only does not apologize, but also takes the opportunity to criticize her for her extravagant shopping habits.
According to the hostess, Carrie's addiction to buying designer shoes is superficial, silly and characterizes women who "have no life."
Carrie, hurt and oppressed, comes out of the party with a shaky insight: Couples are constantly celebrating the choices of their lives: marriage, pregnancy, childbirth.
Single women are never allowed to celebrate the choices of their lives, let alone receive gifts for them.
Carrie accurately articulates the unfairness in that bachelorette shopping is considered ridiculous and unnecessary, while married mother shopping is given social justification.
Spoiler, but a great spoiler
: At the end of the episode, Carrie leaves her friend a voice message that she is getting married - to herself.
And just as the same company left a list of gifts in a baby product store, so too did Carrie leave her friend a list in a Manolo store.
The company understands the message, and Carrie wins her favorite pair of shoes again.
Brother, the sweet victory.
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4. Just before Mr. Big leaves for Paris, Carrie realizes it's over.
Looking back, it is clear that this connection is lost from the first moment.
Still, even the cynic in the audience felt a pinch in her heart when Carrie did the impossible, releasing the guy she was fucking on.
5. Samantha is invited to experiment with two gays in bed.
They are not attracted to women and have never been with a woman, but curious to find out how it feels.
Samantha like Samantha does not hesitate to become the guinea pig of their attempts.
"It's the year 2000," she tells Carrie before embarking on an adventure.
"The new millennium will not deal with sexual identities, but with sexual experiences. It does not matter if you have sex with a man or with a woman - you will have sex with individuals. Soon everyone will be heterosexual."
2021, and Samantha is still ahead of her time.
Later in the scene it turns out that she's ahead of David and David's time too (yes, and they also look the same, like they were my son and son), and what begins with an incredibly horny threesome ends in disappointment.
Despite the liberalism and openness to new experiences, Samantha's guests find that defining their sexual identity is quite rigid.
6. The friends go to a tantra class, where one of the participants accidentally ends up with Miranda on the face.
Ugh, and wow.
At the time, such graphic sexual expressions in "Sex and the City" were groundbreaking, but even today the squirt on TV (and in life) does not easily get down my throat.
He who is disgusted is right.
It's really disgusting, and funny every time again.
7. Samantha discovers she has breast cancer.
What an excellent and painful scripting choice, to hit straight at the female front of the sexiest-maniac woman on screen.
It was a good opportunity to allow Samantha to know herself beyond her liberated sexual identity, and to discover her nuclear, non-removable power in surgery.
In retrospect, Samantha stands out as the most advanced and impressive figure of the four, and has more than once brought to the screen issues that have not yet been openly discussed.
On the one hand all this is exciting to discover, and on the other hand it further undermines the expectation of a season without it.
8. Miranda is sexually harassed on the street by a hot dog doll.
"He did not say it in a sandwich way, he says it in a sexually harassing way," she protests, and a moment later, falls in love with him.
Strict feminists will say that there is a failed preoccupation here with sexual harassment, and its cursing in favor of the outdated values of romantic comedy.
I see something else here: in one scene, we get a comprehensive and accurate look at how minimal street interactions affect us here or here.
On the tip of a tone of voice, sandwich or not, the same remark can be construed as an invitation to a meal from an innocent hot dog or as an obscene sexual offer by a malicious phallic figure.
The female worldview is all subtleties, and the writers of the series managed to distill it into this simple and wonderful scene.
In general, there is no doubt that the attitude of "Sex and the City" to harassment and sexual assault is flawed to the point of disgrace.
On the other hand, what series from 20 years ago does not suffer from this problem?
This detail must also be remembered in order to re-watch an innocent series like "Friends".
As for the sausage, she would later turn out to be Steve, who would become Miranda's sweet partner.
9. Carrie goes to church to track down Mr. Big and his mother.
Excessive, stocky, obsessive and painfully familiar to anyone who has fallen in love with one who does not count her.
10. Charlotte becomes Samantha, or so her pious friends from the college fraternity think.
After three martini drinks, the secrets begin to spill out of her and she shares around the bourgeois table her frustrations with her husband's sexual function.
These abominations are unwelcome, and Charlotte, for the first time since the beginning of the series, is disgusted by the conservative beautification of her old world.
How satisfying is that moment, when Charlotte stops acting like a Disney princess in church and remembers that she's a mature woman in New York.
11. Carrie's partner says goodbye to her through a post-it, i.e., a yellow note.
If only she had been told that in about a decade most of the short-term relationships would end in WhatsApp, there is a situation where she would have appreciated that gesture a little more.
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