Introduction
Seven Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globes, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and rated one of the 100 best TV shows of all-time by Time magazine, Sex and the City is a TV pop culture icon. The show, which is based on the 1997 book of the same name by Candace Bushnell, first aired on HBO in June of 1998. A romantic comedy produced by Darren Star, Sex and the City follows the lives of four, thirty something women living in New York City trying to navigate the ever-changing landscapes of their sex lives. The show focuses on the vastly different perspectives of the four main characters. Tackling relevant and modern social issues such as sexuality, safe sex, promiscuity and femininity, Sex and the City explored the complexity of romantic …show more content…
Searching for acceptance, Bradshaw’s thought are narrated in a voiceover, “What if Prince Charming had never shown up? Would Snow White have slept in the glass coffin forever? Or would she have eventually woken up, spit out the apple, gotten a job, a health-care package, and a baby from her local neighborhood sperm bank? I couldn’t help but wonder: inside every confident, driven single woman, is there a delicate, fragile princess just waiting to be saved” (Sohn, 2002). Carrie, deep in her thoughts, raises many realistic questions women ask themselves today. That despite all that has been accomplished by women to bridge the gap in a society dominated by men: Would women trade-in their personal achievements for a male counterpart? Bradshaw’s thoughts provoke the idea that female achievement autonomous from men is “the next best thing.”
Conclusion The four main characters of Sex and the City are successful, professional women that thrive in their lives, which is why it’s so disappointing to see their prideful personas continually contradicted throughout the series. The endless pursuit of finding a husband through serial dating and the mood elevating affect and consequentially, power the men coming in and out of their lives seem to have on them is frustrating at
Seven Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globes, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and rated one of the 100 best TV shows of all-time by Time magazine, Sex and the City is a TV pop culture icon. The show, which is based on the 1997 book of the same name by Candace Bushnell, first aired on HBO in June of 1998. A romantic comedy produced by Darren Star, Sex and the City follows the lives of four, thirty something women living in New York City trying to navigate the ever-changing landscapes of their sex lives. The show focuses on the vastly different perspectives of the four main characters. Tackling relevant and modern social issues such as sexuality, safe sex, promiscuity and femininity, Sex and the City explored the complexity of romantic …show more content…
Searching for acceptance, Bradshaw’s thought are narrated in a voiceover, “What if Prince Charming had never shown up? Would Snow White have slept in the glass coffin forever? Or would she have eventually woken up, spit out the apple, gotten a job, a health-care package, and a baby from her local neighborhood sperm bank? I couldn’t help but wonder: inside every confident, driven single woman, is there a delicate, fragile princess just waiting to be saved” (Sohn, 2002). Carrie, deep in her thoughts, raises many realistic questions women ask themselves today. That despite all that has been accomplished by women to bridge the gap in a society dominated by men: Would women trade-in their personal achievements for a male counterpart? Bradshaw’s thoughts provoke the idea that female achievement autonomous from men is “the next best thing.”
Conclusion The four main characters of Sex and the City are successful, professional women that thrive in their lives, which is why it’s so disappointing to see their prideful personas continually contradicted throughout the series. The endless pursuit of finding a husband through serial dating and the mood elevating affect and consequentially, power the men coming in and out of their lives seem to have on them is frustrating at