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Sex and the City - The Complete First Season (1998)
Please bludgeon me with this platform shoe.
Ughhh....OK, I HATE this show. I know the women love it, and so do most of the gay boys. Well, I'm a gay boy, but to me this show is like the straight female version of "Queer As Folk" - i.e., a relentless pandering to the stereotypical stupidities of a particular demo. To mention only one minor point: no straight man would ever be interested in any of these women, so the "sex" part is immediately suspect. But of course this show isn't actually about sex - it's about clothes clothes clothes. Which brings up another point: why do women feel that it's empowering to be represented as vapid label whores?
What's worse, this show has allowed people like Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrell to actually think that they are hot stuff, so now we'll have to look at endless shampoo commercials in which they try to appear "sexy" (or something) for the camera. I swear, the next time I see SJP on a magazine cover looking like somebody just smacked her right in her ugly mug (her version of "sexy"), but obviously really just modeling her several thousand dollars in threads and bling, I'm gonna barf on the newsstand. Besides, I'm pretty convinced she's a drag queen - like a bad one, like the kind you'd see drunk on the bus at midnight - in spite of her alleged children with (the obviously gay) Matthew Broderick. Then there's Cattrell, who is like some kind of dessicated blond debutante that probably turned heads once, you know, sometime back in the eighteenth century. Again, only her gay fans find her attractive, and that's more of an academic thing. But of course, the very mediocrity of their looks is one of the true reasons these women are such a hit with women. The SITC "girls" all have a steady stream of hot young studs pandering to their vaseline-lens fantasy of themselves as liberated, desirable women, and the female viewership feeds off this vicariously. To the effect that you really are more likely, in this post-SITC world, to hear a throng of middle-aged women at the next table cackling loudly over the poor sexual performance of their respective mates, as an occassional break in their otherwise nonstop dissection of the latest Dolce & Gabbana catalog.
Sorry, but "IMHO," this show does nothing positive for women. Actually it makes for a fairly airtight explanation of the historical ascendancy of men - we rule the earth because you're too busy matching obscenely overpriced handbags with grotesquely expensive shoes. Not that I really think this of women (necessarily), but just as "QAF" would leave you with the impression that all gay men are conceited, puerile, sexaholic idiots with recreational drug habits, "SITC" firmly entrenches females in the old stereotype of shallow, catty, emotionally stunted fashion plates whose sole idea of "empowerment" is to be lit well as they pounce victoriously towards the camera swathed head to toe in somebody's Name. Sigh...
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