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Summary: Fantastic Show
Review: I only recently started watching Sex and the City (when the third season began). I've enjoyed it so much, though, that I decided to purchase the DVD collection of the shows from the first season. It's great! Now that I've finished watching all 12 episodes, I'm ready for the second season! The comedy is fresh and lively. The second to the last episode had me in stitches. I must admit that I have enjoyed Ally McBeal, and I was surprised when Sarah Jessica Parker won the Emmy last year instead of Calista Flockhart. After seeing Sex and the City, though, it's easy to see why this is such a smash hit. It's much hipper than Ally. This show has something for all of us single women in our 30s (or any age). Other reviewers have commented on the negative quality of the DVD. I didn't see any problems - the picture was fine. This collection is well worth the cost. Big hint for the producers: We're ready for season two!
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Summary: Chronicles of a Modern Woman
Review: One of the BEST shows that HBO, or any television network for that matter, has come up with in...years! At last, us 20-somethings (heading towards our 30's), have a show to call our own! Superbly cast, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) give us characters to which we can all relate. Carrie, a NY-City paper columnist who writes provoking shorts about "sex and the city," is a witty, trendy, modern woman of the '90's--and a true romantic at heart. She wants the sweep-you-off-your-feet, love-at-first-sight type of romance which she seems to get from Mr. Big (Chris Noth)...but Mr. Big isn't ready to give back to her to the same degree (c'mon, we've ALL been there). Samantha, the most liberated and sexually adventurous of the four, is "a woman trapped in a New York City man's body"...and all she wants is a good time. As she so poignantly puts it, "I'm tri-sexual; I'll try anything once!" Miranda, a corporate lawyer, is the epitome of the hardened, jaded, suspicious 30-something woman with a razor-sharp sense of humor, and a heart of gold. And Charlotte, an idealistic, sorority-type prude, searches for a man with 3 qualities: money, looks, and an apartment on the East Side. Watch Carrie, and her three cronies, go from man, to man, to man in their never-ending search for "Mr. Right," while they often find, and settle, for "Mr. Right Now". This show is HILARIOUS, well-written, always versatile, quite witty, and a sumptuous eye-candy for the trend-addicted crowd. I rented it to see if it was worth to own...and my answer? YES, YES, YES! I'm buying it--and so should you! This is a piece of TV history, and an essential guide to pop-culture, and every modern woman should own a copy!
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Summary: It's a scream!
Review: Let me say, to start with, I did not want to like Sex and the City. I am NOT a fan of Sarah Jessica Parker (sorry!). Then, late at night during a bout with insomnia, I switched on HBO and found myself watching an episode of Sex and the City and was completely surprised to catch myself laughing out loud at 3 in the morning! So, I rented (and recently bought) the Sex and the City first season on DVD and what a treat it was! I'm telling you, you will not be sorry. It is one of the most well-written and witty programs on television now. Thank you HBO!
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Summary: Finally, Someone Who Understands Women!
Review: This is one of the most intelligent series of all time. Sarah Jessica Parker and her pals talk about things that would normally make me quiver, until I realize that I talk like them. The characters in this show are fab. They are smart and sexy. Two qualities I most look for in a man. Carrie's sexcapades in New York City are certainly worth paying to see. This show will appeal to average modern day women, and gay men. Believe me, this is something every fag hag can enjoy with her pals of both sexes.
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Summary: Good, but sound quality on DVD edition is lacking
Review: The sound quality on this DVD was lacking. My television has mono, and not stereo, sound, and so I get either left or right sound. Every other DVD I've played has balanced left and right sound, but when playing this one the sound quality is terrible and very hard to hear. When played on a new stereo system though, no problems! This is a warning for anyone with a mono television that buys this particular DVD.
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Summary: Bought the VHS - too cheap for HBO
Review: I finally get why this series is so popular, as a late 20's something, I can totally relate to the trials and tribulations of these single women... I think that this would be a great video for a valentine's day when you don't have a beau or just a night out with the girls... it is very thought provoking and true to form.. While I was not watching it on a large screen tv (only 20 inches) I found the quality of the VHS acceptable and clear. If you are dying to know what everyone is talking about, it is well worth the money. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: They're Gonna Make It After All
Review: Carrie Bradshaw, S&TC's narrator and main character, is reasonably hip and thoughtful, even if she's not what she thinks she is: the Cole Porter of sex columnists. Her most annoying habit (and one she apparently gets paid enough for to do no other work) is generalizing about New York and its denizens and telling the uninitiated just how wacky things are there -- the irony of which is that she and her cohorts would be far happier if they just got married and moved to Idaho. They're not really in love with New York so much as they're in love with the idea of being in love with New York. In their world, it's somehow de rigeur to be in love with the idea of New York, even if the reality of it - especially when it comes to sex and relationships - kicks these girls in the gut every single time. They're also in love with some nonexistent version of themselves that only they can see in which they are glamorous and enlightened urban women. The reality is grimmer. At its worst, Sex and The City is self-absorption and platitudes masquerading as wit and social commentary, and unfortunately, you see a lot of the series at its worst in these initial episodes. It took a while for S&TC to hit its stride. Once it did, it became pretty darn good TV. These days, S&TC is one of the best things on TV, and the seeds of that can be seen in the first season's episodes. While the show fails to deliver on its premise of risque content and urban insight, what it does provide is the stuff that all good sitcoms are made of: likable, recurring characters in goofy situations. (When they run out of ideas, maybe they can have Carrie and Samantha doing temp work at the conveyor belt of an adult toys factory, or show them on vacation at a Sonoma Valley nudist resort -- stomping on grapes au naturel.) That's because Sex and the City really has a lot more in common with I Love Lucy, or The Mary Tyler Moore Show, or Seinfeld, Friends or any other mainstream sitcom than it does with Penthouse Forum or Erica Jong's novels or anything by the Marquis de Sade. (Valerie Harper -- Rhoda -- even guested as Parker's boyfriend's mother in one episode, and for a moment, I thought I was watching Nick at Night.) The characters may be shallow, but they all manage to get mileage from the superficial and even to make us care about them. Like all good TV characters, they feel like friends: Parker's Carrie Bradshaw, the ponderous if not exactly brilliant beauty queen with a big nose; Kim Cattrall's Samantha Jones, a sexual jaguar still having fun at 44; Cynthia Nixon's Miranda Hobbes, who shows that being wretchedly uptight and getting a lot of action are not mutually exclusive; and Kristin Davis's Charlotte York, who's probably a lot savvier than her goody-goody goyish persona would have it. With their singular focus on themselves, the girls are all like different versions of the same person, and maybe that's why, in their totality, they manage to transcend their naval-gazing. It's a good formula and it works, and one can easily see in this first season's progression of episodes a movement from the merely trite and stilted to the trite, stilted, and endearing. It's fun to watch.
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Summary: Good content, poor visual quality on DVD
Review: It's a fine show, I'm writing to complain about the low quality of the DVD picture quality. If you already have it taped from TV and/or don't like terribly grainy film, don't buy this. It is distractingly bad in dark scenes. The show is a five on a good day and a four on a bad one, but the quality of the picture is two at best.
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Summary: DVD is for quality! SKIP THIS DVD
Review: We all buy DVD for one reason: crisp clear pictures. I own about 20 DVD movies. I have a 27 inch Sony TV with S-video. My other DVDs look WONDERFULLY CLEAR. This DVD collection from HBO is unacceptable! I cant even bear to watch it all. I love the Sex... series alot.. But , I find myself staring at the grainy picture..... I cant even stand to finish the first episode. I have old VHS that looks better than this... even recording at EP mode on a VHS looks more clear than this. One word= GRAINY. They ought to be ashamed to have released this garbage transfer. I am curious to know if the VHS of this is clear. Really, listen to us all.... SKIP THIS! you will be sorry!
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Summary: Finally, a show that's real!
Review: This show, with the four amazingly realistic characters, in odd, but more and more seemingly typical situations, is not only amusing, but provocative. The show is great entertainment, but some of the eposodes also deal with things that may hit just a bit close to home, making you feel completely normal in this wierd world that had come to be so diverse. Another great thing is how the 4 main charaters, (Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha) are all so different, but each has a characterisdtic that you can identify with. You see your problems being delt with and solved, right on TV. This show is great for any "mature" person.
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