Sex and the City

Sex and the City (France) or Sexe in New York (Quebec) is a American Televised series in 94 22 minutes episodes, created by Darren Star and diffused between on May 31st, 1998 and on February 22nd, 2004 on HBO. In France, the series was diffused starting from August 28th, 1999 on Téva and of October 18th, 2000 on M6. With the Quebec, the series was diffused on Séries+. The turning of film started with the autumn 2007 and it will leave to France on May 30th, 2008.

Synopsis

Drawn from a collection of chronicles written by the journalist Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City brushes the portrait of four New Yorkean, thirty year and unmarried friends: Carrie, journalist holding a heading in which it dissects the relations man-women; Charlotte, naive and romantic galerist; Miranda, cerebral lawyer and Samantha, press attaché nymphomaniac. The original account is darker and cynical that the televised series which have, inter alia, removed allusions to the hard drugs.

Distribution

Recurring actors

Guests

As the series gained popularity, a certain number of celebrities made an appearance in the series, playing their own character or not:

Rewards

  • Emmy Award 2002 : Better realization of Michael Patrick King for the episode Narcisse
  • Golden Globe 2003: Better actress in a supporting role for Kim Cattrall
  • Golden Globe Award 2004: Better actress for Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Emmy Award 2004: Better actress for Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Emmy Award 2004: Better actress in a supporting role for Cynthia Nixon

Characters

Main characters

  • Carrie Bradshaw : “It is almost impossible to find a person who will love you for you. I was enough lucky to find three of them. ” ( “It' S nearly impossible to find one person who will coils you for you. I was lucky enough to find three. ” )
It is the voice of the series because each episode is structured around its thought while it writes its weekly heading, Sex and the City for the factitious newspaper, The New York Star . Being a member of the jet set of New York, she assiduously attends the clubs, bars and restaurants of the city. She is recognized for her one way of the mode, mixing together various vestimentary currents in the same behavior (it is not rare that she gets dressed by mixing vintage and high-seam). Proclaiming itself fetishistic of the shoe, it devotes the major part of its time (and its bank account) to shoes of creator, mainly of the Manolo Blahnik, although it is also known to carry Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo. Often exceeding its financial limits at the time its shopping, he is not really explained in the series how the modest income of chroniqueuse could support such leaning, but in the posterior seasons, she gathers her tests in a book and she is freelance journalist for the magazine Vogue , to 4,5$ the word, which ensures him of the complementary incomes. Another source of pride is its apartment, a place with a room in a building of the Upper East Side, which it will end up buying at the time of its separation of with Aidan. Purchase that it successful to carry out thanks to the money which Charlotte lends to him.

  • Charlotte York : “I have appointments since I am fifteen years old, I am exhausted. But where is it!? ” ( “I' ve been dating since I was fifteen, I' m exhausted. Where is He!? ” )

It is commercial of art having received the middle-class education of the Connecticut. It is that which has the most taboos and which with the way of thinking most traditional of the group. It stresses most of the time the love in opposition to the lust, and on the search for sound Prince charming. Often in conflict with the actions plus libertines present in the series (mainly those of Samantha), it adopts a right attitude about the reports/ratios in love and sexual, based on rules of the love and appointment. In spite of its preserving ideas, it made concessions (when it was married) which even astonished her friends, sexually freer. It gives up its career little time after its first marriage, divorce because of irreconcilable differences around the question of the In vitro fertilization and receives an apartment on Park Avenue in the payment of the divorce. It remarie thereafter with the lawyer who dealt with his divorce, Harry Goldenblatt, after being itself converted with the Judaïsme.

  • Samantha Jones : “I Kisses badly once, shame on you. Badly twice kiss me, shame on me. ” ( “Fuck me badly ounce, shame one you. Fuck me badly twice, shame one me. ” )

It is oldest of the group. It is press attaché, independent and proves to be an unconditional seductresses who avoids implying herself with her partners, by maintaining her relations with them at the sexual level, while satisfying each possible and conceivable carnal desire. She believes that she had hundreds of soul mates and insists that its sexual partners leave in the hour after she reached the orgasm. In the third season, she moves of her apartment located in the Upper East Side, for a loft of the Meatpacking District, district becoming with the mode. During the series, it has some true love affairs, but they are less conventional than those of his/her friends. In spite of its light side, Samantha hides weaknesses which one sees appearing at the time of the last seasons; thus, when Miranda loses his/her mother, she is confronted with a true dilemma: how to present its condolences to his/her friend, it which never says anything serious… In the same way, whereas it is presented without complex and open to any sexual experiment, it is noticed that it has limits nevertheless: she refuses sadomasochism or will be shocked when a teenager acknowledges to him to practice certain sex acts since the eleven years age (Samantha will then be pleased nevertheless to have had a true childhood). And it is only in the last season that it will find really the love under the features of Smith, a young actor.

  • Miranda Hobbes : “I cannot allow myself to have a baby. I hardly found time to program this abortion. ” ( “I can' T cuts has baby. I could barely find time to schedule this abortion. ” )

It is lawyer E and its career in the most important place in its life. It has from the extremely cynical points of view on the love affairs and the men. Graduate from the University of Harvard, it comes from Philadelphia. It is the best friend, the confidante, and the voice of reason of Carrie. In the first seasons, it is described as being male and practically misandric, but this image disappears during the seasons, in particular when it falls pregnant from her ex-small friend, Steve Brady, with which it ends up marrying. The birth of his/her son, Brady Hobbes, brings it towards new prospects (it is a addict work): it finds soon a manner of balancing its career and its maternity. Of the four women, it is the first to buy an apartment, and has later a house in Brooklyn. Miranda is obsessed by a Soap operated imaginary in the series: Jules and Mimi . He appears in the second episode of the sixth season.

Recurring characters

  • Stanford Blatch : He is often indicated like The Fifth Lady (the fifth girl of the group). It is the best friend of Carrie apart from the group of the three women. It is a gay agent of stars with a lifestyle similar to that of Carrie. The spectators have the impression that they know each other of long time, that them relation began when they were younger, when they were carefree and attended the clubs and the bars of New York. It is the only supporting character whose personal life is shown in the series. It represents the gay point of view of the series. In the two last seasons, it forms a couple with a dancer of Broadway, Marcus Adente.

  • Anthony Marentino : Gay designer, it produces the wedding gown of Charlotte at the time of his marriage with Trey Mac Dougal. He very quickly becomes very a good friend of Charlotte, a confidant whom she appreciates for her sensitivity and her audacity.

  • Magda : Cleaning lady then nurse of Brady, it is initially enough horripilante and strict on morals, seeking to marry its owner then becomes close to Miranda and, without to much speaking him, supervises it and becomes for it like one second mother.

Boyfriends

All the main characters have love affairs or sexual with characters who appeared in only one episode, or of the relations more pushed in two or three episodes, but the characters enumerated below are in the center of relations having lasted a certain moment.

Boyfriends of Carrie

  • Big : indicated by Carrie and its friends simply under the name of Big , it excites and attracts Carrie all along the series: she sees in him her ideal man, but, with many recoveries, he cannot satisfy his emotional needs and desires. The relation between Carrie and Big is not stable: in the first season, they are together but they are left before the end of the season and once again remake it in the second season. After two years of a more or less concrete engagement and an emotional unavailability, Big Marie with a framework of a score of years which works at Ralph Lauren, it is called Natasha, the girl of one meter four twenties (interpreted by Bridget Moynahan). But after seven months of marriage, it starts to wish Carrie ardently and to have secretly a relation with it. In spite of the fact that it is with Aidan, Carrie succumbs to temptation but ends up pushing back it. Once Big divorced Natasha, it approaches Carrie and both maintain then a true friendship, always somewhat ambiguous. He moves in the Napa Valley in California, but Carrie for its book goes to California and they are seen. It returns to New York one year afterwards because of a Angioplastie. At the oddment, it will see Carrie to say to him that it is finally ready to be put with it, but it is brutally pushed back. It does not give up, and, after the blessing of Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda, ressaie another time at Paris where Carrie is. At the oddment, both start a healthy relation in New York. The authors use a pseudonym instead of a real name to symbolize the emotive unavailability of the character. To the oddment, whereas Carrie goes in the jungle of New York, its true name is indicated on the cellphone of Carrie… and it is John.

  • Aidan Shaw : another small-friend of Carrie, their relation lasted one moment. He is a nice designer of pieces of furniture and the opposite of Big compared to his emotional behavior. At the beginning, Carrie is not very implied in their apparently perfect relation, but with time, it solves its emotional problems compared to Big. However, Aidan breaks when it finally made the mourning of its relation with Big and solicitor to have misled it with that Ci. They go back together a year after, live together and it accepts its proposal for a marriage before it realizes that it cannot satisfy its needs. Finally they put an end to their relation, after having passed only one and single night on other side of the wall. It is stated later that Aidan married and has a son, Tate.

  • Jack Shepherd : Shepherd is, just like Carrie Bradshaw, a writer. With the detail close its novels are failures. After a beginning of perfect relation and almost teenager, the Mister felt devalued when Carrie becomes a genuine star thanks to his book. Blow it plates it on a post-it!

  • Aleksandr Petrovsky : Still another boyfriend of Carrie! The relation with this man is the last of the series, in spite of the many difficulties which remain between them two. The man in question is Russian of about fifty years and painter who adores to travel to Europe, but he already was married and had a girl of the one of his preceding marriages, also considering his age he decided " to close the usine" reproductive spermatozoa. Carrie which would like a newborn knows that to make. Aleksandr which cannot carry out its wish proposes him to come to settle with him in Paris. Proposal that Carrie will end up accepting. Their relation is solid and Carrie, thanks to this man, completely forgot Big! Until…

Boyfriends of Miranda

  • Skipper Johnson : It is a friend of Carrie, he is presented officially to Miranda in a bar. Too much nice nature the girls remains only little of time with him. They will break and recover together several times before Miranda is not wearied of this very nice fellow with a profile of victim proven.

  • Steve Brady : The relation of Steve and Miranda is rather complex. Indeed, they had a child by error whereas they had separated. The advertisement of the arrival of the baby gives desire to Steve for turning over with Miranda, but she refuses. They leave each one on their side then and find boyfriends respectively again. It is only at the one year of the baby, Brady, that Miranda will acknowledge its love with Steve; because it continued to like it, and this in spite of their rupture. They recover together and form a happy couple; they finally decide to marry.

  • Robert Leeds : This man is initially a neighbor of building before being the boyfriend of Miranda, after the rupture of the latter with Steve. This relation only lasts very little of time, because Miranda decides to turn over with Steve. A malicious play is set up then because Robert, who lives in the same building that Miranda, tries to avoid it!

Husbands of Charlotte

Believer of all its forces to the prince charming, Charlotte married twice.

  • Trey Mac Dougal : Trey Mac Dougal is a famous surgeon who meets Charlotte whereas the taxi of this one misses reversing it. She very quickly marries it, before even sleeping with him, and will discover thereafter that he suffers from serious problems of erection. After a short separation, they solve their sexual problems. Their marriage will end for good when they are found vis-a-vis the difficulties of procreation by the method of in vitro fertilization.

  • Harry Goldenblatt : Harry Goldenblatt is the lawyer of Charlotte at the time of her divorce with Trey. It falls very quickly under its charm, but Charlotte sees in him only one skilled. Whereas it is its opposite (awkward, unbalance and inevitably very not distinguished), she finally lets herself charm, Harry having a humor with any test, a great sensitivity and much of tolerance. Harry, Jew, had promised with his late mother, to marry a Jewish woman. Thus Charlotte will convert with the Judaism by love and for finally marrying the man of her life. But an argument will separate them. At a meeting in a club of meeting for Jewish New Yorkean single people, they will take again their relation and will remain together definitively.

In love with Samantha

  • James : met in a club of jazz it will be the first in which Samantha will stick, at the point to make abstraction during a certain time of their sexual problem (it has a micro penis). With final it will break with him wearies to have relationship only with one man having a “micro tail”.

  • Maria Diego Raez : Maria is a homosexual artist who succeeded in alluring Samantha. She wants to base their relation on the communication and complicity. However, Samantha starts to regret the men and the exits in connected places. Maria becomes very jealous of the old male conquests of Samantha, which then decides to break.

  • Richard Wright : Owner of Samantha, it is one of the rare men to have made it in love. He covers it gifts bought by his assistant, takes along it in weekend on board his jet. But Samantha will realize that Richard is unable to remain faithful. Then, exhausted to follow it to take it in red-handed, it leaves it at the time of a weekend with Atlantic City.

  • Jerry Jerrod/Smith Jerrod : Jerry is waiter in a restaurant bio, and Samantha will be in competition with much customer to bring back it in her bed. She makes profitable her talents of press attaché to make of him a film star. She renames it then Smith Jerrod. Finding a little too young person and immature, she does not want to stick to him, but when it supports it during its disease (she has a breast cancer), Samantha cannot deny that she starts to have feelings.

Episodes

See also: List of the episodes of Sex and the City

Comments

The series was an immediate success as of its first diffusion in 1999.

The characteristic of the series rests on the fact that, for the first time on the small screen, about the women speak very crûment about their sexual life. In addition, heroins, and in particular Carrie, seem icons of mode, going even until launching new tendencies. Far from incarnating models of perfection, one can be easily identified with each one of enters. And it is also that which makes the success of the series: awkwardnesses of these thirty year in research of the ideal man touch us. We vibrate with them at the rate/rhythm of their sentimental vexations, often asking us the same questions.

One can note that all heroins show their chest with the screen except for Carrie Bradshaw which will explain have no possibility to do it because of its decency.

Sex and the City was criticized for its easy characters, of white color and for its ignorance of the New Yorkean population of color, poorer as those which live in the poorest districts of New York. The characters themselves were shown to be élitistes.

The creator, Darren Star, is also the author of Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, with Heather Locklear, and it produced the series Miss Match , with Alicia Silverstone.

One counts with the number of the scenario writers of the series Allan Heinberg.

The official coming out date in the United States of the film Sex and the City , directly inspired of the series of the same name, was announced: the film will be distributed in the rooms starting from May 30th, 2008.

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