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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀American comedy-drama television series HBO, created by Darren Star. The episodes aired from June 6, 1998 to February 22, 2004. A total of 94 episodes were filmed in six television seasons. One of the regular authors and directors of the series is Michael Patrick King.
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The series is set in New York and tells the story of the life of four friends in their 30s - they freely discuss issues of sex, love and career. The series also raises issues of safe sex, sexual orientation, promiscuity, feminism, the role of women in modern society, and many others.
The series is based on the book of the same name by journalist and writer Candace Bushnell.
Candace Bushnell
The main cast throughout the series remained the same - Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Christine Davis and Cynthia Nixon.
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Plot
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀In addition to storylines that directly affect aspects of the sexual and love nature, the series also reflects the main social, political, economic and cultural trends of the time. In particular, using the example of the lives of the characters in the series, one can easily trace the history of the development of the Internet and mobile communications, the rapid popularization of which began just at the turn of the 1990s and 2000s. The series also touches upon such unpopular topics for that time as cancer, impotence and masturbation.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The story of a New York journalist who writes a column on relationships in a modern metropolis was invented by The New York Observer columnist Candace Bushnell. More precisely, she actually wrote off herself: in 1994, she began to conduct the Sex & The City heading in the publication, three years later she released the book of the same name, and a year later the rights to it were bought by the famous HBO company.
“I liked the idea that these ironic, sometimes stinging articles, in which the author talks candidly about the sexual adventures of his friends, ultimately help the writer understand himself better,” says Star.
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Miranda, Samantha, Charlotte and Carrie
The series has become loved by millions of fans around the world, and has also received positive reviews from critics and many awards and nominations for prestigious awards.
Series writer Darren Star
Darren Star
Series writer and executive producer Michael Patrick King
Michael Patrick
King
King
June 6, 1998
The premiere of the series took place
Kim Cattrall
as Samantha Jones
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Sarah Jessica Parker
as Carrie Bradshaw
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Cynthia NIXON
as Miranda Hobbs
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Kristin DaVIS
as Charlotte York
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Jason LEWIS
as Jerry "Smith" Jerod
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Chris NOTH
as Mister Big
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Evan HANDLER
as Harry Goldenblatt
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David EIGENBERG
as Steve Brady
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Willie GARSON
as Stanford Bletch
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John CORBETT
as Aidan Shaw
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Kyle MCLACHLAN
as Trey McDougal
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Mario CANTONE
as Anthony Marantino
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of the series
Cast
Now, twenty years later, it is clear that everything is not so blissful. For example, gays in the show are shown extremely caricatured: they are completely mannered, adore fashion, speak in squeaky voices, and their roles are reduced to the roles of "girlfriends" of heterosexual heroines.
⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀Yet it can be said that it was in part Sex and the City that paved the way for TV shows like The L Word and Queer As Folk, pioneering the format and encouraging the community to speak up.
It seems that the heroines have no taboo topics: they mock feelings, relationships, sex, death and modern romantic cliches. Many jokes from "Sex ..." were sold into quotes, and this is perhaps the main evidence of the enduring love of the people.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀When the series first came out, it seemed unprecedentedly loyal to homosexuals. The protagonist's best friend, Stanford Blatch, is openly gay, as is Charlotte's buddy Mario (in the second feature, the two get married). In the fourth season, Samantha begins an affair with a woman, and Miranda in the first tries to make friends with her lesbian colleagues.
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⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀Humor is one of the main strengths of the series. Here he is quite thin, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes frankly black. Tom Grochowski, media and English professor at New York University and Woody Allen art specialist, likens Sex and the City to Allen's work and calls it a "neurotic romantic story."
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⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Despite the fact that, in general, Sex and the City can hardly be called body-positive - all the heroines there are slender and quite meet the glossy standards of attractiveness - he was one of the first (if not the first) to start talking with women about relationships with their own bodies. Carrie and her friends do not hesitate to discuss their sex life, orgasm and other sensations during sex. They learn to know and not be ashamed of their own body - which is worth at least an episode in which Charlotte for the first time in her life decides to look in the mirror at her vagina.
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Style
Unrepeatable series
⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀Costume designer Patricia Field meticulously thought through every detail - from evening dresses to jewelry. We can say that the series legitimized and returned to fashion large, bright and sometimes inexpensive jewelry.
The series features a variety of exclusive designer suits and dresses. So, when she married Trey McDougal for the first time, Charlotte wore a dress from Vera Wong, at the wedding with Harry Goldenblatt - from Badgley Mischka.
"Sex and the City" is a series with one of the strongest fashion components. In terms of the level of thoughtfulness of the images of the main characters, he can only be compared with "Gossip Girl" and "Mad Men" - shows that started already in the 2000s. Critics even called fashion the fifth protagonist of "Sex ...". As the journalists calculated, over the six seasons of the show, certain brands were mentioned at least 70 times.
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Costume designer Patricia Field meticulously thought through every detail - from evening dresses to jewelry. We can say that the series legitimized and returned to fashion large, bright and sometimes inexpensive jewelry.
Patricia Field
Costume Designer Patricia Field
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Fashion and
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀If fashion is the fifth hero of the series, then New York is definitely the sixth. Sex and the City is a real ode to the Big Apple. Carrie does not get tired of confessing her love to the city, outside of which - whether in Paris or in the countryside - she feels unhappy. In the fourth season there is even an entire episode entitled "I love New York", and New York guides of "Sex ..." were published in every self-respecting travel publication. Even in the city itself, you can book a thematic tour of the main places of the most New York TV show in the world.
At the same time, the main tragedy of the city - the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 - is not directly mentioned in the film. Their splash screen image has been changed.
According to the script by Carrie Bradshaw, of course, she lived in the West Side, but they rented her house in a quieter neighborhood - West Village. Fans of the series began to take excursions to these famous steps, but the locals did not like it. They filed a complaint and soon after, official tours were banned. However, no one bothers lonely tourists. True, there is a polite sign on the porch asking not to be photographed at the door.
Carrie's house
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The series has become incredibly popular with viewers. For example, after the finale of the series, a bus tour of New York was launched, the participants of which visit the most famous places shown in the series.
Six Emmy and eight Golden Globes, plus 36 other awards. It also became the first cable show to win an Emmy award.
⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀Sex and the City became so popular that many countries began filming their own versions of the original series. So, in Brazil there was a TV show Sexo e as Negas ("Sex and Blacks"), which tells about the lives of four female actress friends from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, and in India, the series inspired by "Sex ..." Simply Sapney ( "Simple Dreams") about girlfriends - employees of a prestigious hotel. Russia, too, did not stand aside: based on the HBO project, they filmed the series "Balzac Age, or All Men Are Their Own ..."
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February 22, 2004
The final episode was released on television
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"And just like that" is an American TV series, the sequel to Sex and the City and its two film sequels. The first two episodes premiered on December 9, 2021 on the HBO Max streaming service.
Actress Kim Cattrall flatly refused to shoot in the continuation of the series
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀The series has one prequel - the show "The Carrie Diaries" based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell - and two full-length sequels. In the first, Carrie (on the second try) marries the man of her dreams; in the second, she learns to cope with the routine and passion that inevitably fades away in marriage. Both films did a good job at the box office, grossing $ 415 million and $ 294 million, respectively, but received, to put it mildly, conflicting reviews from critics.
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Full-length movies
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Prequel
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