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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
one interesting tidbit from the writer's commentary, Jun 21 2004
I did not really appreciate Sex and the City until watching every episode sequentially on DVD. HBO tends to air random episodes out of sequence after their first showing and the show never really grabbed me until I discovered that there is actually plot and character development over time and not just endless brunches and mindless sex talk. For example, I did not know that Big appeared in the series from the beginning, and I never knew that Aidan and Carrie had been engaged before I started watching the DVDs from the beginning.Anyway, that being said, I love this series and I would encourage anyone who has seen a few episodes and wondered what the fuss is about to take the time to watch the show from the beginning. The Writer's Commentary on a few episodes on this DVD is generally not worth the price of the DVDs, in my opinion. He rarely tells us anything we couldn't notice ourselves, however, I had always wondered about the incident where Trey gives Charlotte a cardboard baby, which I understood as a plot device but thought was too tasteless a gesture to be plausible. I should have guessed that the "Cardboard Baby" was based on an actual experience and an example of truth being stranger than fiction.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
TRUE & Honest, Jul 31 2003
I'm simply a huge fan of this fantastic tv show from the very first episode and I have to say that it's getting better episode by episode and probably this fourth season is the best one.In "The agony and the ex-tacy"Carrie has to face her loneliness during her birthday party,Samantha tries without success to seduce a priest and Charlotte tries to understand how her relanshionship with Trey should work.In "The real me"Carrie is involved in a fashion show, Samantha decides to take some nude photos of hers for her aged days and Miranda has a very successful sex meetings with a gym guy until she starts to talk about herself.In "Defining Moments"Carrie and Big manage to be good friends,Miranda is shocked when her new date urinates in front of her, Charlotte has to face Trey's need to make love in public and Samantha meets Maria a lesbian artist."In what's sex got to do with it?"Carrie dates a jazz fanatic,Charlotte and Trey decide to try again to live together,Samantha accepts to prove a lesbian relationship with Maria and Miranda substitutes sex with chocolate.In "Ghost town"ex boyfriends reapper on the horizon and Carrie and Miranda feel they never forgot them,Samantha decide to quit her lesbian affair 'cause of the unbereableMaria's jealousy and Charlotte is fed up with Trey's mother behaviour.In "Baby,talk is cheap"Carrie tries to reconquer Aidan, Samantha meets a man with baby talk habit while having sex with her, Charlotte and Trey decide to have a baby and Miranda discover that she can't do everything in sex.In "Time & punishment"Carrie understands that Aidan hasn't forgive her yet about her cheat with Mr.Big, Charlotte quits her job to focus on family and Miranda throws her neck out during a fighting call with Charlotte.In"My motherboard,my self"Carrie freaks out when her computer crashes 'cause her entire life is in it,Samantha is desperately when she has no orgasm anymore and she has to face her fears when miranda's mother die.In "Sex & the country"Aidan win Carrie over to spend a week-end at his country house,Samantha go to meet them and finds the pleasure of country men,Miranda helps Steve when she finds out he has testicular problems.In "Belles of the ball"Big asks Carrie to help him in his love deaperation while Aidan is not happy at all about it,Charlotte and Trey keep on trying to have a baby in every way, Miranda has a mercy sex night with Steve while Samantha has to face discrimination in the job world.In"coulda, woulda,shoulda"Miranda discovers she's pregnant with Steven's child after their sex meeting,Charlotte's efforts to have a baby aren't positive so she gets angry with Miranda about her decision to abort;but Miranda gets back and manage to have the baby.In "Just say yes"Carrie finds an engagement ring in Aidan's bag and her fears make her upside down while Miranda tells Steve about her pregnancy.In "The good fight"Carrie feels chocked when Aidan brings all his stuff to her's,Charlotte and Trey's marriage seems to be over,while Samantha starts an her affair with her powerful client Richard.In"All that glitters..."the four girls go to a gay club where Samantha takes a hit of extasy and accidentally say "I love you"to Richard,Charlotte and Trey's marriage is over for good and Miranda hides her pregnancy at work.In"Change of a dress"Carrie is totally spooked out about Aidan's proposal for a quick wedding; when she refuses Aidan chooses to break up,Samantha is jealous of Richard's sex affairs with other women and Charlotte has to face her single loneliness.In"Ring a ding ding"Carrie has to face money problems when Aidan leaves her the option to buy the flat or sell it, at first Miranda and Samantha offer her their help but Charlotte doesn't;after a fight meeting, Charlotte decides to give Carrie her expensive wedding ring to solve her problems.In "A vogue idea"Carrie has a new job for vogue magazine,Miranda doesn't look at her as a good mother and Charlotte make a baby shower for Miranda but when the future mom has a Tiffany's silver baby rattle as a present she remembered the one Trey Gave her and she feels very bad."I heart N.Y."Carrie discovers that Big will move to California and they decide to spend a last date night together,Samantha gets angry when she realizes that Richard is cheating her, so with a brunette wig she follows him and she discovers she wasn't wrong,Miranda gives birth to a baby boy and decides to name him Brady Hobbs(Miranda and Steve's last name).Enjoy the show!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I didn't know it was so good!, Jul 28 2003
By A Customer
I began watching SATC when a girl at work lent me the 3rd season. I laughed, laughed, laughed! I was absolutely astounded by these 4 women's beauty, talent, sense of timing and realism. I was like a fanatic - each night, coming home from work excited at the prospect of watching the next episode. When finished, I went on line and bought the first two episodes. I finished them and loved them both. I then went to Costco and bought the 4th, my favorite. I wish I would have started out watching from the beginning but I don't watch much TV due to lack of interest at what is out there. I very rarely laugh at TV; I found myself acually holding my sides at times. (I'm a hard sell) The episode where Samantha was crying in the stall of the women's bathroom with the rest of the girls beause her man's anatomy was like a "gherkin" absolutely killed me. I don't know how the writers can pull this show off. I've never felt so at home, so in touch, so close to characters in my life. I've seen just about every situation in real life they speak of (excluding some of Samantha's sexcapades). I have 3 most favorite episodes. The episodes that come to mind as most memorable is when Carrie took Aidan's dog out and lost him in the rain; (how did she run so well in thoe stiletto heels??) I felt her agony at deceiving Aidan - he potrayed the kind of guy we'd all like to have and he loved her so much. (this was the 3rd season) The 2nd one was Miranda's loss of her mother. Cynthia Nixon is so underrated. I think her acting abiliy and sense of humor is the best. She can do either flawlessly. I hope to see her doing more after SATC is over. But my most favorite episode of all, that just grabbed my heart, was the final episode of the 4th season. From the opening dialog which magically puts you in the Autumn season as Carrie gets a blanket and snuggles with it signalling the coolness of a new season, to the closing where she picks up a fallen leaf and proceeds to walk confidently across the street as a brand new season in Carrie's life, was such a perfect ending to a perfect season. I can't remember being as touched as I was when Carrie went to Big's apartment only to find he was moving to Napa. It's probably the best I've ever seen the both of them look. When he put on Moon River and they took each other's hand, that was one of the most captivating scenes I have ever watched. The words to the record was made for them, 2 drifters - we're after the same, rainbows's end, waiting round the bend, my huckleberry friend, moon river and me. Oh, I just get goose bumps thinking of it. They have such chemistry and such a great friendship entwined in love. When she turned around to look at him in the carriage, she looked ravishing - and if that's not love in those eyes, I don't know what is. Her whole outfit that episode was to die for, even wet shoes! I love the whole cast, they, in and of themselves, their ability to play off each other so wonderfully, make the show the marvelous show that it is. Touching, funny, shocking (funky spunk!), sad, but most of all... real..... Everyone out there can identify with one of these characters at one time or another in their life. Carrie conveys that even a successful, beautiful, size 2 can also have her heart broken. I hope, hope, hope, Carrie and Big finally get together and I hope Steve and Miranda do also. We know Samantha will forever be Samantha. I love these characters, I love this show, I will be so sorry to see it go but I can just pop any of the DVD's in any old time and be right back to laughing or crying, whichever I feel like doing at the time.
Thanks Darren Star, thanks Michael Patrick King for giving us such an awesome show!!!!!
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