Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0026359913020
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 8
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 999 minutes
Sales Rank: 77861
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 06, 1998
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Sex and the City is based on Candace Bushnell's provocative bestselling book. Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Carrie Bradshaw, a self-described 'sexual anthropologist,' who writes 'Sex and the City,' a newspaper column that chronicles the state of sexual affairs of Manhattanites in this 'age of un-innocence.' Her 'posse,' including nice girl Charlotte (Kristin Davis), hard-edged Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and party girl Samantha (Kim Cattrall)--not to mention her own tumultuous love life--gives Carrie plenty of column fodder. Over the course of the first season's 12 episodes, the most prominent dramatic arc concerns Carrie, who goes from turning the tables on 'toxic bachelors' by having 'sex like a man' to wanting to join the ranks of 'the monogamists' with the elusive Mr. Big (Chris Noth). Meanwhile, Miranda, Cynthia, and Samantha have their own dating woes.
The second season builds on the foundation of the first season with plot arcs that are both hilarious and heartfelt, taking the show from breakout hit to true pop-culture phenomenon. Relationship epiphanies coexist happily alongside farcical plots and zingy one-liners, resulting in emotionally satisfying episodes that feature the sharp kind of character-defining dialogue that seems to have disappeared from the rest of TV long ago. When last we left the NYC gals, Carrie had just broken up with a commitment-phobic Mr. Big (Chris Noth), but fans of Noth's seductive-yet-distant rake didn't have to wait long until he was back in the picture, as he and Carrie tried to make another go of it. Their relationship evolution, from reunion to second breakup, provides the core of the second season. Among other adventures, Charlotte puzzles over whether one of her beaus was 'gay-straight' or 'straight-gay'; Miranda tries to date a guy who insists on having sex only in places where they might get caught; and Samantha copes with dates who range from, um, not big enough to far too big--with numerous stops in between.
The third season was the charm, as the series earned its first Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series to go along with its Golden Globes for Best Comedy Series and Best Actress (Parker). One of this season's two principal story arcs concerned hapless-in-love Charlotte and her pursuit of a husband; enter (if only...) Kyle McLachlan as the unfortunately impotent Trey. Meanwhile, Carrie has a brief but memorable fling with a politician who's golden, but not in the way she anticipated. She then sabotages her too-good-to-be-true relationship with furniture designer Aidan (John Corbett) by having an affair with Mr. Big (Chris Noth), who himself has gotten married. Like I Love Lucy, the series benefited from a brief change of scenery with a three-episode jaunt to Los Angeles, where Carrie and company encountered, among others, Matthew McConaughey, Vince Vaughn, Hugh Hefner, and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
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Rating:  - Oh great irony!!!
After making me watch Sex and the City with her, my wife astutely observed that at the heart of this show is a great irony. Touted as a "breakout show" lauding feminism and female empowerment, Sex and the City ironically only managed to portray women as more shallow, superficial, petty and empty-headed than virtually any other television show in history (thank creator Darren Star). Far from challenging whatever backward notions might remain that women are not men's equals, all watching this show would actually do is effectively confirm everything about women that misogynistic chauvinists unfoundedly believe, especially but not limited to the beliefs that women are silly, adolescent, juvenile and totally unencumbered by any burdens of logic, adulthood or maturity. Great progress.
Tiring quickly of Carrie Bradshaw's infantile and meaningless ponderings--"Is New York all about change?" "Are new myths required for singles?" "Is life in Manhattan like a bagel with cream cheese?" Here's one: "Is life really all about perpetually asking meaninglessly vacuous questions and then posing witty but ultimately arbitrary responses?"--one is left to wonder what exactly happened to her in childhood that so effectively stunted her emotional development, seemingly forever cementing her personality at about a sixteen/seventeen-year old emotional age. Are we supposed to pity her that "Big" treats her like a little kid, regardless of the fact that she disturbingly acts like an unbalanced little child? I ... Read More
Rating:  - Sex, Fashion and Martinis
I can never get tired of watching Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda with their great humor and many hot one-night-stands and short relationsihps and sometimes even a Wedding. Hot Sex in the City every night, Sexy men every day and the Fashion of Tomorrow. These 4 inspiring Ladies will become your great new friends, which might sound a litlle weird, but once you start watching Sex and the City you'll want to see them over and over again. So if you're considering test-watching Sex and the City, please do! I'm sure the girls wont disappoint you. And if they do, the hot Guys definently wont!
Rating:  - Price
Sex and the City is a wonderful series, but it's much cheaper to buy the DVDs separately from amazon than in this set.
Rating: - Terrific show
This is one great show!! If you have missed it on HBO--you are truly missing out!! It is provacative, funny, clever, smart, & heartwarming all at the same time. If you don't have HBO, I recommend buying the DVDs or renting them!!
Rating: - Adulterous, immoral, sacrastic, but absolutely funny
I had not seen it on TV, largely because the TV authorities here cannot tolerate that much sex scenes, implicit and explicit. However, the word of mouth had been so good that I bought it and really got carried away. I just took 2 full days to complete the nine DVD discs of the whole three seasons. It's just so humorous and funny, and I just could not stop until I had finished them all with a little headache.
Though I really cannot agree with the lifestyle of these gorgeous, self supporting, well educated women in Manhattan who always put sex before love so casually, I find the stories real, full of black humor, sometimes touching, but very informative or even educational for those who wanna improve themselves in a love relationship. Though I doubt very much why the ladies in the drama were still free of AIDs when they just technically had a different sex partner in each episdode, in consideration of only the entertainment factor, and disgarding its negative influence on social morality, it's a definitely a strong buy on investment term.
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