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Summary: Funny, but not the greatest seson out there yet...
Review: I loved learning about the characters watching this season, but I didn't see the spark everyone seemd to be talking about until season two. This is a good purchase for fans of the series, but don't buy this one first if you're looking for that catchy writing and directing you have been hearing about from others.
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Summary: Highly Toxic and Habit-forming
Review: ...Why do I watch it? Because there's enough fun, fact, and female reality check to hook me. I have a shoe addiction, too, but I'm still trying to figure out how someone who writes a column for a newspaper can afford designer shoes, fabulous outfits, and salon hair and still pay rent in Manhattan. Those are just a few of the fairy tales of the show. A post-feminist, post-modern fairy tale is exactly what SATC is....If these women honestly want a man to have a real relationship with, why do they find glaring defects in the available men they meet? Either he's too young...or he doesn't make enough money or he doesn't like the right china pattern...it's Seinfeld! A more upscale, glittery crew than Seinfeld, but it's the same emotionally unavailable, incapable of having a relationship crew as the one on Seinfeld. The women on SATC complain about modelizers, womanizers, and every other variety of -izers, but they're just as obsessed with ideas of male perfection. It doesn't matter if the guy is sweet, kind, genuine, or otherwise acceptable. If they can find one thing wrong with him, he gets discarded. They're as shallow as the men they complain about. What are the chances that 4 women in NYC have their level of education and income, but not one of them is involved in a personal growth program? How is it that no one is in therapy or a 12-step program? God knows they need it-Carrie drinks like a fish and Samantha is a total sex addict. Even if 12-step is passé, therapy is de rigueur for Manhattanites. Not one of these chicks even reads self-help books. I'd like to see the post-September 11th season of the show. I can only hope that a huge event like that would inject some depth (and values) into the lives of The Fad Four.
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Summary: More dinner parties per episode than Frazier...
Review: Not having cable, this was my first exposure to this show. There are 12 episodes on 2 DVD's here, each episode being a relatively painless and pointless 22-23 minutes long. In case you haven't seen it, this show is all about sex and closely related topics (like "relationships"). There really are no other side plots of any significance. The "City" is merely a glitzy back-drop for all these beautiful and well-dressed yuppies. And while there is an attempt made to make you think the emphasis on sex is substantive rather than gratuitous, this is really a swindle. The whole thing is inane, if harmless. I'd call the show a sit-com if it had a laugh-track. Except that it's not funny. We're supposed to take the characters seriously (as in a documentary or a drama), but I couldn't even after a couple of hours of it. SJP is virtually impossible to look at IMO, and none of the other characters are at all believable or sexy. In fact, even though there's sex all over the screen practically all the time, there's nothing here that's in the least bit sexy. The male characters (Stanford and Skipper) are cardboard characters. The whole thing is missable. About the only episode worth seeing was the one on the baby shower.
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Summary: A SINFUL WASTE OF MONEY ON DVD
Review: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker)writes a weekly newspaper column about sex. And she's not starved for plot lines. All she has to do is ask her friends, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha. So what's a girl to do with her time in-between writing for the love-lorn and sexually starved? Fall in love with Mr. Big (Chris Noth - of Law & Order fame), naturally.
This series is one of my all time television favorites. It deals with the oft' taboo subject of sex with frank humor and down right crude legitimacy. The characters are well drawn and the plot lines are engaging.
Why then has HBO done such a lousy job in mastering the series for DVD?!? There is so much digital grit that the image quality on these discs is akin to watching a regular television signal through the worst blizzard of the century. Colors are muddy and weak. Contrast levels are horribly low. There are all sorts of aliasing, shimmering and edge enhancement problems. BOTTOM LINE: this is one of the worst examples of DVD mastering ever!
If you absolutely can't live without the series I suppose you'll have to buy it like this. But if I were you, I'd much prefer having my guilty little pleasures preserved in memory's eye from watching the series, as presented in considerably better quality, on HBO television.
*Aside: I usually don't comment on presentation but the packaging of the discs is equally pathetic. We don't even get a slip or booklet with the chapter listings or little blurbs or snippets about the characters and series. If I could have, I would have given this DVD set 'zero' stars.
**Aside Part II: The second season on DVD is a bit better in image quality than the first, but it's still lightyears behind most digital transfers available today. So as far as "Sex and The City" goes - JUST SAY NO!
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Summary: Im loving the "City"
Review: This 2 disk DVD pack has 12 great episodes that you con watch over and over again every day, and i do. I love this show and it is totally worth buying. Who needs HBO when you can buy all their DVD's?
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Summary: Amazing!!
Review: THIS IS THE BEST SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN!EVERYONE IS THIS SHOW ROCKS I LOVE SARAH,KIM,KRISTEN,CYNTHIA THEY ARE THE PERFECT PEOPLE FOR THE ROLES.THE FIST SEASON IS GREAT AND EVERY SEASON JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER BUY THIS NOW IT'S AMAZING."THE BEST SHOW EVER!"
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Summary: Frothy
Review: Interesting that one of the more negative posters here makes an issue of Sarah Jessica Parker's appearance. Kinda blows one's credibility, I'd say. Still, while it seems that most reviewers either love or hate this series, there IS a kind of middle ground, at least as far as this first season goes. It's all frothy fun: sharply written and very well acted, photographed and directed. But SEX AND THE CITY's first year falls a few notches shy of greatness. Maybe it's because, ultimately, the characters really are a little annoying in their shallowness--although like most people you get to know over time, you get to like them better after a while and forgive them their foibles, at least somewhat. I think the real problem may be the show's brevity. It probably doesn't clock in any shorter than any network sitcom, but it seems to be trying to say more, do more, be more. And that's hard to do in 20-some minutes.
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Summary: Didn't realize I wasn't missing a thing
Review: Is this supposed to be the typical life of a single girl in the city? I picked this up at the library wondering what the excitement was all about. The first few 'f' words were enough for me. It's scary that this is so popular - I guess it's a true reflection of our society. The characters are one-note, shallow and not all that attractive. No one I could ever care about. And why does everyone think SJParker is attractive? She looks like a horse someone dressed up. Maybe I'm getting too old, but when I was single my friends and I had better things to do than constantly yak yak yak about sex and and how cruddy men are. Sad, truly sad, that this garbage gets awards.
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Summary: WOW oh yeah lots of girl fun!!
Review: I have not met straight man yet that has enjoyed this show! Its pretty much a "girl thing". I love the way they categorize men, I have met a few of them! Working with men on a daily basis I sure appreciate the humor they imply on the show it keeps me snickering at the men I encounter! I love this show! BRAVO!!
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Summary: Even if...
Review: Call me cynical, but a show about women especially womens sexuality that is written by men loses all possible credibility. This show is the poster child for artistic restraint, graphic dialogue doesn't make this compelling. It is just for shock value, all of it. Every possible sexual maneuver and quirk is brought up and dissected ad nauseum. There's a reason this couldn't be on network tv, its garbage. I mean Will & Grace is much more funny and touching. It also does more to dispel stereotypes and squash taboos then Sex and the City could ever hope to do, SITC is just put your hand over your mouth television. "I can't believe they are talking about this." is about the best reaction they got out of me. If thats what they want then fine, but there is better, so much better stuff out there. By the way, I'm a guy, so I guess I just don't get it.
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