Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0026359892424
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Home Box Office (HBO)
Manufacturer: Home Box Office (HBO)
Number Of Items: 11
Publisher: Home Box Office (HBO)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Running Time: 999 minutes
Sales Rank: 64133
Studio: Home Box Office (HBO)
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.
The fourth season is just as smart and sexy as ever, mixing caustic adult wit and sharply observed situation comedy on the mean streets of Manhattan, though this time the quartet of singleton city girls must endure even tougher combat in the unending war of love, sex, and shopping. Carrie finally seems to have found her ideal life partner when she is reunited with handsome craftsman Aidan. But can their relationship survive trial by cohabitation? Meanwhile Charlotte seems to have both her dream Park Avenue apartment and a solution to her marital problems with Trey. But when the subject of babies comes up, everything starts to unravel for her, too. It's not just Charlotte who has baby issues either: after what seems like an eternity of enforced sexual abstinence Miranda is horrified to discover she's pregnant. And as for the sultry Samantha, she's on a quest for monogamy, first with an exotic lesbian artist, then with a philandering businessman, with whom to her utter dismay she just might have fallen in love.
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The first four hilarious seasons that take a skewed female look at dating, mating and relating in New York.
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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:  - OVER-RATED!
This show has got WAY 2 MUCH attention, and while u can easily sit through it, it's not the kind of show that will have you hooked in the same way as NIP/TUCK or POPULAR. I definetly will not be spending my $ on this! Every episode has the same theme! All Samantha, Carrie, Charlotte + Miranda talk about is shoes (boring!), men, sex, + Samantha's out of control sex drive. U have to be dumb to buy the boxed set! The NIP/TUCK + POPULAR boxed set is worth buying though.
Rating: - DON'T BUY THIS SET!!!
DON'T BUY THIS SET!!! It's not a boxed set just 4 seasons in separate cheap packages. Don't be fooled in paying an extra $44 (at $207)for the 4 seasons when you can buy separately the same seasons for a total of $162 for the same website and maybe cheaper in some stores... I bought this set and I've been had, now I have to return the package for a refund minus shipping costs.
Rating: - Great show, cheap packaging.
This is a great series and it's wonderful that the show is available on DVD. However, the packaging of these DVD sets is horrible. I don't understand why HBO came up with great packaging for "The Sopranos" and "Six feet Under" and stuck "Sex and the City" fans with this plastic garbage. The DVD covers are made out of paper-thin plastic. I actually ripped the cover on my Season 1 DVD set just by opening the package for the first time. Enjoy watching Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda whenever you want to, but treat these DVDs like glass because they are INCREDIBLY fragile!
Rating:  - Sex and the City Guide Book
When I first encountered my first episode of SATC I never knew that before my eyes was a obession. A obession with wanting to watch four women with four totally different lives, and four totally different personalities come together and create a life lession in each episode that every single one of us can relate too, rater it be Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, or Samantha or all four of them. Each one of these lady brings something that we all either went through or know someone that went through it and that's a rear thing to find in television now. That's why I recommend the Sex and the City DVD collection for all women and MEN because even men can relate too some of the things that these four ladies go through and if not them you can relate to the men in the show who may not have the main roles but they get their roles across. If you buy just one Sex and the City season on DVD I guarantee you'll be buying all seasons afterward like myself.
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