One of the best channels on television is HBO. Most satellite TV packages include this wonderful channel, and a lot of them carry several versions of HBO such as HBO HD and HBO Comedy. HBO is such a great channel because it has something for everyone to enjoy, and one of the most loved shows on HBO for women has been Sex and the City.
Sex and the City was on the air for six seasons and has lead to a movie sequel and a second movie sequel currently in the works. Its immense popularity doesn’t just rest with the female population, but most of the viewers are female to say the least. In the show, we follow Carry, who is played by Sarah Jessica Parker, and her three best friends Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda who are played by Kim Catrell, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon respectively.
The show is set in New York City and the girls all have vary different careers and a lot of the same problems dating men. Carry is a columnist for the New York Star, and her column is of course called Sex and the City. Samantha is a high-powered PR representative, Charlotte is an art gallery manager and Miranda is a lawyer. They all have very distinct personalities and all of these personalities play into their different sex lives. For instance, Samantha has a very strong sexual appetite and treats men as if they were objects. She is very self assured, but by the later seasons has settled down a few times, once with a much younger actor who she single-handedly made famous and a wealthy businessman who couldn’t stay faithful to her in the end.
As for Carry, we watch her go in and out of relationships, but there is one man who she calls Mr. Big who she remains infatuated with through the duration of the series. He doesn’t treat her very well, including leaving her at the alter and marrying another woman, but in the end he realizes how much he loves her and they end up together in the end. Charlotte is the most conservative of the four friends and idealizes love and marriage. She envisions having a perfect life and husband, and her perfect life and husband includes the most traditional family life and a white protestant man. She finds her supposed ideal man, but then realizes that their marriage is less than perfect and that they really aren’t meant to be together after all. She ends up falling in love with her divorce lawyer, who is Jewish, crude and somewhat of a slob. Even though he’s not the man she envisioned herself being with, she realizes that she’s in love with him and it doesn’t matter who or what he is. Miranda is a tough nut to crack and is always very defensive with men because she believes that they are all playing games with her and don’t really love her. But in the end she meets Steve, who is sincere and honest with her, and they fall in love.
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