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Sex and the City - The Complete First Five Seasons (5-pack)

Sex and the City - The Complete First Five Seasons (5-pack)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: amazing show
Review: this show is amazing. that is all there is to say. its clever and smart and funny, you wont want to stop watching it. Exploring the world through carrie bradshaws eyes and seeing the way of life of these upper east side women. i reccomend this to anyone and everyone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Hottest
Review: This show was the hottest thing on Television, and this DVD collection is tied with "New Sex Now" as my hottest purchases from Amazo n and the hottest disks in my dvd collection.

Treat yourself to some great sex~!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Essential
Review: What can I say - Sex & The City speaks for itself. You can't fail to love the show, and you can't watch it too many times. It's incredible to see the progress of the show throughout the series and how much the characters deepen and develop, to the point where you feel as if you know and care about each one of them. It's got the feelgood moments, the weepy moments, the hilarious moments and those cringeful moments we can all relate to!

Extras on the DVDs are sometimes wonderful (e.g. commentry by Michael Patrick King - just on a few episodes) and sometimes disappointing (e.g. hackneyed information about the achievements of the cast members). But nevertheless I had to give it 5 stars for making me very happy for a very long time!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Essential
Review: What can I say - Sex & The City speaks for itself. You can't fail to love the show, and you can't watch it too many times. It's incredible to see the progress of the show throughout the series and how much the characters deepen and develop, to the point where you feel as if you know and care about each one of them. It's got the feelgood moments, the weepy moments, the hilarious moments and those cringeful moments we can all relate to!

Extras on the DVDs are sometimes wonderful (e.g. commentry by Michael Patrick King - just on a few episodes) and sometimes disappointing (e.g. hackneyed information about the achievements of the cast members). But nevertheless I had to give it 5 stars for making me very happy for a very long time!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Memorable characters
Review: When "Sex and the City" first aired on HBO, I was still attending public high school and living with my parents. Needless to say, the series did not immediately grab me and hold my interest. Now that I am a twenty-year-old man living on his own in the urban sprawl of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I have finally been able to go back and appreciate this noteworthy television series. Through these five years, "Sex and the City" has gone through a slow and steady transformation, a transformation that may indeed reflect the changes dating women experience between the ages of 35 and 45. Watching episodes pulled from the first and fifth seasons quickly reveals a dramatic change between the flirty and fun, sex-loving characters of old and the cynic, unappealing, but ultimately wiser women they've become.

Season 2 of the series, in my opinion, describes the crystallization of style the first season attempted to reach, with thematic plots differing from episode to episode to follow Cory's most recent article. Cory seems to have an unnatural gift with words and finds a way to include each of the four characters' escapades into the focal concept of an episode. The overall style is busy and lighthearted, and Cory herself remains the only character especially affected by the tragedies of love. By season 3, however, Cory's complicated love life is beginning to crumble her resolve, and both Corvette and Mirabel have fallen into equally committed relationships with Tom and Jerry. Once Semolina begins to experiment with monogamous relationships, the transition is unarguably complete. One can also witness a parallel evolution in style and cinematography, such as scene length and method of cuts between one scene and its parallel. By the third season, interviews with passersby have vanished: a flag that may indicate the disappearing universal application of episode themes to our own lives and the increasing specialization of character development and history within the plot.

"Sex and the City" of today is not what it once was. Like all middle-aged females, the women of "Sex and the City" must learn to move on from sexual promiscuity and hide behind the security of committal relationships or die alone and unloved. I fervently await the release of the next and final season 6. I know somewhere deep down that everything must work out for the best for Cory, and for all of the girls.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Erratic, but funny
Review: When this series started, it was quirky, funny and different. The sexual candor was startling but riveting. In the back of your mind, as with the Seinfeld characters, you perhaps had one qualm, namely about how this was a bit horrific after all. The constant refrain that this was about real women and how they really acted and spoke was kinda scary, and enough to keep some men bachelors forever. Did Princess Charlotte, convinced in fairy tales, make an attractive mate? Or maybe man-averse, chip-on-her-shoulder Miranda? Or slutty Samantha? Carrie seemed the normal one, but as time went on we discovered that she had a Peter Pan complex--inability to commit, setting the bar too high for unrealistic reasons. She dumped Aidan for no reason. In the finale (not on this set), she agrees to accompany Mihail to Paris knowing that he has his most important exhibition of the latter part of his career, a make or break exhibit. She whines constantly about him working rather that squiring her around, even though he's under tremendous stress and she knew he'd have to work. He's such a cad--free trip to Paris for her, wander around and have fun, while he works desperately to save his career. What an awful guy--according to Carrie. In Carrie's little faux-feminist world, her Self has been vindicated. Others might wonder...why bother? When you see a Carrie coming, run hard and fast in the other direction if you're a single man. As this series wears on, it grates more and more and becomes less and less funny. Samantha suddenly becomes a lesbian? SAMANTHA? C'mon. The last two years of the series were little but tedious as it ran out of steam. But there's good news on this set: all of the early seasons are here and they are hilariously funny, well acted, and exuberant in their vitality. As the set wears on, you may become less thrilled as the edge wears off and turns into reality, but...enjoy the glory years.


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