Sex and the City - The Complete First Season

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Summary: great series
Review: i love the episodes of sex and the city, but i wish there were more of them on this dvd. there were only 12 episodes in this first season, while non-HBO shows have 22 or more episodes in a season. i just wished they made more!!! also, the day the package came in the mail the flimsly holder for the dvds broke, so I just hold them in regular disc-holders now. more durable cases, more episodes!!!

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Summary: The beginning.
Review: The first season was just ok, it had more of an unfocused feel to it. The show also had more of a grainier texture to it. The first season really doesn't deal with relationships that much, it focuses mostly on random dating, which makes it hard to get a reading on these women aside from their generic label (the sexually adventurous one, the cynic, the uptight one). Only SJ Parkers character is explored deeper, even though her character is mostly negative, self-absorbed, neurotic and prone to relationship sabotage. As for people who critize SJP looks, she isn't supposed to be a model she's supposed to be a normal woman who is comfortable with her looks, a woman normal women can relate to. Overall an ok season. EP

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Summary: PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL DRIVEL!
Review: (...)This reveals exactly why the terrorists hate our country. Shallow, materialistic, decadent, pseudo-intellectual drivel. I remember hearing one sentence of the show (before throwing the tv out the window) where the main character said "I finally realized" followed by some pseudo-existential "witticism" with a straight(dumb)face. The only positive aspect of this show is to teach kids to stay in school.

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Summary: Before you start your collection...
Review: Take note:
HBO Video plans to release a "super-premium" Sex and the City collection before Christmas. Although all seasons for the show are now available, according to an HBO spokesperson the premium set will feature the complete series along with additional content and DVD extras not available on the originals. Also look for new disc art and lavish packaging that is being developed with "an eye for the collector."

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Summary: Absolutely AMAZING!
Review: This is where the best comedy series started! I'm just gonna save up the encouragement of encourage you to buy this DVD, i'll just say that if you're looking for some great comedy series, this is a series that you should NOT miss!

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Summary: Starting to know our Girls.. SATC First Season
Review: I've never watched this show before buying this DVD back 2000, I had heard about it, but never actually watch it, and let me tell you the minute a saw the first one I could not stopped until going thru the whole 12 episode that contains this DVD.

It is obvious that the first episode was shooted way early than the rest since is very different, in looks and style from the other 11, but let me tell you that all the difference were to improve the show, I did not the look Sarah Jessica Parker has om that first episode, she looks kinda cheap, but begging the 2nd episode she stared to look way better and the rest of the girls too.

In this first season they were using the trick to talked directly to the camare when they staring analysis the topics' of each week show. This were dropped later and also for good use.

I gave this season 4 stars, because in this season they starting to correct errors and make it more of a continue story, if you waych the first and the twelth episodes you see a very different look and way to narrate the story.

This was one of the first sitcoms (if not the first) that has no male leads and let the girls talked in whatever way thet wanted to, using terms that being in HBO let them use, it seems there were no limits or bounduries to them, that was part of the appealing that they show has with the audience.

Hihglights of this season:
Carrie.- Meets Mr Big... is Mr Big girlfriend... Brokes up with Mr. Big.
Samantha.- The wild one, goes throu a lot of guys and ends the season with a guy with a tiny.. deffect.
Charlotte.- Starts with the worries about if she evr gonna get married or not.
Miranda.- The more cynical one, has a romance with a guy named Skipper.



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Summary: Toe Lint
Review: I would rather collect toe lint and put it into a small purple box than ever watch another episode of Sex and the City. The ladies are pretty though. This is NOT for us... Males in their 20's. It's for lonely chicks.

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Summary: Carrie Bradshaw begins exploring "Sex and the City"
Review: Now that the "Six and the City" girls are living happily ever after and we know how their stories end, going back and revisiting the complete first season reminds us of their respective starting points. In the beginning, at a thirty-something birthday party for Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon), the birthday girl, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) decide that they are going to start having sex like men (i.e., without feeling), an idea that Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) rejects. By the end of that first episode it becomes clear that each of the quartet has their respective roles, which establishes a series of key oppositional pairs.

Miranda is the pessimist, while Charlotte is the eternal optimist. Charlotte is interested in falling in love and having it all, while Samantha is only interested in really great sex. The impulsive Samantha is interested in trying just about anything as soon as it pops into her mind, while the analytical Carrie has to think things through (and turn them into a newspaper column) before she can determine the proper course of action. Carrie is willing to try and make things happen, while Miranda is just watching life pass her by. There are more oppositional pairs to work out, but you get the idea how "Sex in the City" is always positioned to look at everything from at least two sides. In fact, it does not seem right if we do not discover that what is happening to each of the four characters in a particular episode does not touch upon a common theme. For example, in "The Drought," if Carrie's relationship with Mr. Big (Chris Noth) is entering a less physical stage then it will turn out that the man Charlotte is dating is not interested in having sex, that Samantha discovers not having sex is erotic, and Miranda has not been having sex for months.

The recurring element for "Sex and the City: The Complete First Season" is the process of elimination by which Carrie and her friends come to terms with what they want in a man. Specific episodes help them decide that they do not want a "modelizer" or a "twenty-something" guy. Even in the early stages of her relationship with Mr. Big, Carrie focuses more on what she does not want (e.g., not to be a "secret lover" and not to be told that he is not interested in every getting married again) than on what she does. I want to reconceptualize the entire six season run of the show as one of those logic games where you are told things like the person who drinks coffee lives next to the blue house and you have to figure out which person lives in the green house and which person eats pancakes.

The other interesting thing is that at the start the other three women are all more Carrie's friends than they are each other's. Charlotte might invite Samantha over to spend the night, but their views on the world are not exactly compatible. The constant thread from the first episode to the last is obviously Carrie's tortured relationship with Big, but while we are watching those fight the inevitability of their feelings for one another, Carrie's friends start to strengthen the ties that bind them to each other. Still, notice how often Carrie serves as a buffer between them and how long it takes for some of these dyads to reach the point where they can exist on their own.

The only serious flaw with these first season episodes was when Carrie had to deal with faux issues such as a fake marriage to Stanford Blatch (Willie Garson) or a pregnancy scare, but simply because those are rather standard plotlines for shows about single women. Fortunately, even when the series takes a misstep and covers old ground in does so in a fresh way, mainly because Carrie and her friends are willing to talk about everything from fetishes to the Rabbit. It is that boldness and audacity that made "Sex and the City" stand out right from the beginning.

That is why the idea that HBO would forget about showing theatrical films and just devote itself to producing television shows and movies has so much appeal to me. I already watch more shows on HBO than any other network and when I list the top 10 shows on television they always have at least half of them. Now, if only their DVD sets for these series would stop being the most expensive ones on the market.

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Summary: wonderful!
Review: It is so refreshing to hear women actually saying what most women are thinking. The show is awesome. The characters are totally awesome and I wish these shows would never end. Thank you to all who make Sex... wonderful!

I also Recommended the book Sex and the perfect lover by Mabel Iam.


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Summary: Absof***inglutely fabulous
Review: My sister bought the first season of sex for me for christmas, since I can't afford it myself. I have a weakness for purses like Carrie does for shoes.
Well I love it. The first episode is sort of bad quality but who cares, the rest are fantastic and fabulous.

Easy to use episode selection menu, you can pick which episodes you can watch over and over.

A+