Sex and the City

I missed the boat with Sex and the City. I didn’t watch it back in the day—mostly due to being a literal fetus when the first episode aired in 1998. As an adult, I think I’ve subconsciously been delaying diving into Sex and the City because…

At the end of season two, there’s that scene where Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte are sipping Cosmos at a bar around the corner from Mr. Big’s engagement brunch to Natasha at The Plaza. The girls liken Carrie’s situation to…

In season 3, episode 17 of Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw does the unthinkable. Bradshaw ambushes Mr. Big’s wife, Natasha, to admit to and apologize for her affair with Big. It’s one of the most memorable scenes of the entire series not…

Twenty-five years ago this month, a fictional columnist named Carrie Bradshaw introduced us to her corner of New York. It wasn’t the real New York, of course, but the New York everyone wanted to move to: a city full of women in Manolos. Men…

I like to picture Samantha Jones leaving Manhattan in a cloud of fury and Creed perfume, loudly declaring “New York is over – O-V-E-R” to her fellow first-class Virgin Atlantic passengers before casting around for someone to re-up her…

With her flighty effervescence, charm, razor-sharp sense of humor, and eclectic style, it’s impossible to imagine anyone other than Sarah Jessica Parker playing the incomparable Carrie Bradshaw. But now, two of the actor’s Sex and the City…

The news that Kim Cattrall will reprise her role as Samantha Jones—albeit only for a brief cameo—in season two of And Just Like That sent the internet into a tailspin last week. A famous “try-sexual”—as in, “I’ll try anything once”—Samantha…

I’ve seen Sex and the City from beginning to end more times than I care to admit. Like many superfans, I grew up watching the series and wanting to be like the characters. More than any other film or television show, the women of SATC had a…

It’s somehow the 25th anniversary of Sex and the City, which makes no sense to me, because it feels like just yesterday that I was watching the infamous “Rabbit episode” and having my mind blown as a, shall we say, loosely supervised…

I remember watching it for the first time when I was much too young, feeling the rare and blissful feeling you get when both the complex and superficial parts of your inner life are reflected back at you by actual characters speaking aloud.…