The show was well written and well enough acted. Its characters were endearing in their own way, and their flaws were readily apparent and fully exploited. The lives and lifestyles of these women were not really glamorized.
If you regularly watch just about any show, you will probably grow to like the characters and look forward to taking a peek at their lives every so often. That happened to me with this show.
But it's just a show and I am not all gah-gah about the movie. Some of the cable TV episodes were very funny. Those of you who have refused -- on principle or for other reasons -- to watch the show or see the movie just might be missing something you would have enjoyed.
CAVEAT: This show is for mature audiences, as the dialogue and themes are often sexually very explicit.
“CAVEAT: This show is for mature audiences, as the dialogue and themes are often sexually very explicit.”
Gee, how exciting, “mature” audience you say, understatement of the year....you mean they use four letter words, and refer to men’s penis, in vulgar terms...wow, really big time stuff....upchuck!
I saw the SITC movie this past weekend week end with one of my best girl friends and we loved it.
I have to admit I liked the series although I didn’t at first and I didn’t always agree with or even always like the characters or some of the choices they made and it’s definitely adult fair and not everyone’s cup of tea.
But I think that people who never watched the show make blind assumptions that it’s just all about wealthy women living in NYC, having indiscriminate sex with any man who comes along while wearing fabulous designer clothes and shoes and going to chi chi restaurants and how men can sometimes be cads. Well admittedly, there was some of that going on and some of it is played for humor or for irony, but if that’s all one got out of it, they never really watched it or one totally missed the point, at least the one I got from it.
The show and the movie wasn’t really about sex or even men, but about the close and sometimes difficult and sometimes brutally honest but long lasting and supportive relationships that women have with one another as they go through the many stages and joys and some mistakes of life – dating, career, marriage, children, infertility, infidelity, divorce, illness, menopause, reconciliation…. I can tell you that when my very best girlfriends and I get together we tell each other everything and I mean everything. The raunchy and boastful conversations that men have in the locker room have nothing on the casual but very honest conversations that women can have with each other over a sandwich and salad at Panera Bread.
And I really liked how the movie ended. In the end it wasn’t at all about fashion or materialism or man bashing and in fact the way I saw it, the end of the movie was a bit of a statement about how material things and possessions really aren’t that important. The last scene in the move ends in a simple greasy spoon diner, very far from being a chi chi restaurant with three of the gals happily married to really great guys, some of them with kids, and husbands who have shown that, while not perfect stereotypes of the picture perfect man; are still really great guys and worth committing to. In the end, husbands and family and good friends are more important than the clothes or really great hand bags or shoes or fabulous penthouse apartments.
Is this a good enough reason?
If you regularly watch just about any show, you will probably grow to like the characters and look forward to taking a peek at their lives every so often. That happened to me with this show.