4 Reasons Why "Sex and The City" Didn't Do Justice To Their 4 Main Characters
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4 Reasons Why "Sex and The City" Didn't Do Justice To Their 4 Main Characters

Who needs a man when you're a successful woman with a closet filled with Manolos.

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4 Reasons Why "Sex and The City" Didn't Do Justice To Their 4 Main Characters
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As a teenager, I loved to watch Sex and The City reruns, even though I wasn't allowed to watch it in the first place for obvious reasons. When I was younger, I thought that these four women, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda, were the most fabulous people ever. Four best friends living in New York having brunch all the time and gossiping about men and people. I thought that was the best thing ever, I believed that this show was the best show to ever happen to TV.

Recently I decided to rewatch the whole series from beginning to the end. As a twenty-something-year-old woman who knows some things about men and dating, I saw the series very differently now. The women who I thought were fabulous I now see them as sad women. I thought this show was about four independent successful women living their lives and dating men throughout the moments, but it's not what I see anymore.

1. Charlotte

Charlotte York was your typical good woman who had an amazing job in the galleries. She's a beautiful lady and you'd think she be comfortable enough with herself being single. But throughout the series, she was so desperate to get married. I think a woman like Charlotte should be able to be patient and wait for the right man.

She kept trying to force the right one to happen. She practically forced her marriage with Trey and I believe that's why it didn't work out. She pretty much used Trey's mother Bunny's technique to coerce him into marrying her. The moment she pretty much stopped really looking for love, she fell in love with Harry.


2. Samatha

Samantha Jones, PR. Samantha was known as the wild one in the group. She loved her men and she loved to have sex. Unfortunately, that is the only thing they focused on in the show.

They didn't care that Samantha was a badass who fought breast cancer or ran a successful Public Relations company. No, they just focused on how she loved to have sex with whomever she wanted. Sometimes she would want to have sex and then change her mind in mid-coitus, she would still let the men finish even though she wasn't feeling it.

I think as a woman, she should have the right to say no and that she isn't feeling it anymore. No, they just made her lie there and wait till the men were done with her. They made her seem submissive and I think a woman like Sam would be anything but submissive.


3. Miranda

Miranda Hobbes, the power lawyer who made partner at her firm. A woman with a great career and they made her so cynical towards life and men. She had a great job and great friends, what more did she need?

She didn't need a man in her life, but they made her seem like a pathetic woman who did. The episode where Miranda had her panic attack about checking the single box on an application had to be the worst episode for Miranda. Life is so much more about being married and claiming to be married. She was a great lawyer, she's amazing with or without a man.


4. Carrie

Carrie Bradshaw, the person this show revolves around. Carrie started out as a columnist for the New York Star and then became a famous book author. As a columnist, she used to write about her dating experiences and the men she's been with. She was a great writer with an amazing rent-controlled apartment filled with Manolo Blahniks in New York. Like what more can you want?!

But they made her seem like a floozy gal jumping from man to man in New York. And the moment she found an amazing guy who loved her, they had her cheat on him with Mr. Big. Aidan deserved so much more than Carrie. And yet they wrote them back together when she and Big had a fallout. Carrie's character deserved so much more justice than what she got.



Rewatching "Sex and The City" really opened my eyes. Four women in New York with successful jobs shouldn't be seen as desperate lonely women looking for a man, they should be embraced as independent women. The producers and writers could've done better. These are just my thoughts though, I'm still going to watch the show when reruns pop up on TV.

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