In 1986, Newsweek addressed a generation of women with a cover story quoted by Nora Ephron in Something to Remember: “A woman over forty is more likely to die in a terrorist attack than to get married.” The graphic, they made a graphic because for one To give credence to nonsense all you have to do is place it on a coordinate axis, it was wrong – I hope – but it paved the way for ’90s romantic comedies in which attractive and successful women behaved like idiots you can take any idiot to the altar . Sex and the City itself was a consequence of this battle against the doomsday clock (of dating). A mere Macguffin, because what was cool was the bond between them, their unbreakable friendship was the true wonder of Sex and the City, and the lack of an old rental in the Village.
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It wouldn’t be too far off the mark to say that the hardest thing after 40, let alone 50, is making new friends. Real friends you can ask for help with a stuck diaphragm. The kind of friend Samantha was. She, and not Mr. Big, was Carrie’s real loss. Sam, Ms. Jones, Pollicienta, Follestein…deserved a more dignified exit, a NASA experiment to study weightless orgasms? It’s no more incredible than distancing them from the group for economic reasons, what happens to Belén Gopegui’s characters, not Candance Bushnell’s.
The spirit of one of the series on which HBO built its reputation lingers, as does the title: nothing. We can’t say we were fooled. In And just like that… sex is scarce and seems more of a mere formality or justification for plain jokes, and the city is almost gone, at least the real city. Sold by dozens of “Tours,” the “Bradshaw Experience” was affordable, for as little as $5 you could sit in Bryant Park with a cupcake and feel like a successful New Yorker, as long as you didn’t wear a ponytail. Few more will be able to emulate the lifestyle of women having lunch in a bar where bags have their own stool. The friends who thought it was an event to sneak into a pool with fake ID are now attending the Met Gala. Even with their clothes, another hallmark of the series that has lost its identity, they all look like a living New York Fashion Week catalogue.
To adapt to what social networks call the new times, they incorporated a cast full of racial and sexual diversity, an anomaly in a fiction whose protagonist fled in fear from a party where there were bisexuals as if she had Reverend Jim Jones seen preparing the cocktails. I was hoping the entirety of last season was Carrie’s bad dream. If it worked for Dallas and Los Serranos, why not here? Unfortunately, Seema, Lisa, and Nya are still around – don’t ask me who’s what. Will we remember their stories five decades from now as we remember Mr. Semen Agrio today?
Despite the fact that there are many bodies on the screen, the protagonists are alone. While in last season’s finale no one accompanied Carrie to Paris to say goodbye to the love of her life, as the new season begins they are all unaware of their new romance; Also, no one advised Miranda to stay no closer than three feet to Che, that tiring version of Hannah Gadsby, if it’s even possible to be more tiring than Hannah Gadsby, just as they ignore their alcoholism — come on, Michael Patrick King, that one Women When they operated on Charlotte to cure her of her vibrator addiction, they would never have left Miranda alone. The once-cerebral advocate is unrecognizable, perhaps the writers should be reminded that being a lesbian doesn’t force you to behave like Harrison Ford in About Henry, you don’t stop being a functioning adult. Charlotte is confirmed to be the only one staying true to herself, and her relationship with Harry – please what caused them to suffer from gastroenteritis in a house with only one bathroom, don’t separate the script room – seems that only real thing about a series that’s even fancier in its second season.
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