Dana Stevens on "Sex and the City," with thoughts that pretty much mirror my own:
For me, the series functioned as a guilty pleasure that was truly guilty: I would rent a few episodes on DVD on nights when I was home alone and not up to the intellectual challenge of watching a good movie. The show's values are reprehensible, its view of gender relations cartoonish, its puns execrable. I honestly believe, as I wrote when the series finale aired in 2004*, that Sex and the City is singlehandedly responsible for a measurable uptick in the number of materialistic twits in New York City and perhaps the world. And yet … and yet …I never hated the show- in fact, any movie or TV show that photographs New York as well as it did just naturally appeals to me. But I just didn't like the effect it had on women, especially in Manhattan during the years it was on.
Materialistic twits? I think they were off by a letter.
Posted by: LilB at June 3, 2008 02:41 PM