The TV of 1998 feels more like the end of something than the beginning. Dawson’s Creek and Will & Grace were pointing to a new direction for their respective networks, but pioneering comedies like Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, Living Single, and Mr. Show were closing down. Jimmy Smits was making his NYPD Blue…
All week, people have been sharing their thoughts and remembrances of Sex And The City, the game-changing HBO show that brought female friendships to the forefront and brought a bunch of conversations about female sexuality to prime time. But rather than debate whether Carrie should have ended up with Big, what’s the…
This week’s question comes from senior video producer at The Onion, Nick Moore:
It’s been a little over 14 years since the final episode of Sex And The City aired, but the weekly misadventures of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda remain one of HBO’s most influential properties. If you’re unfamiliar with the show and don’t know where to start, we’ve rounded up the 10 most representative…
Kurt Braunohler and Lauren Cook are making a living off of being married. The couple launched their podcast, Wedlock, earlier this year on Audible. Now in wide release, Wedlock finds the pair of comedians expounding on the virtues and pitfalls of married life, talking about how simultaneously serious and silly the…
For a series that ended in 2004, Sex And The City has cast a particularly long shadow, helped along by a decent movie adaptation in 2008, then effectively destroyed by the execrable Sex And The City 2 in 2010. That multiple Razzie winner was so very terrible, the promise of a SATC franchise effectively died. Still,…
Maybe it’s because they’re clueless or maybe it’s because it’s just easier to shoot in a big, open apartment, but the TV industry has a habit of situating its financially struggling city dwellers in domiciles far beyond their means. The problem extends far beyond the Friends of this world, as even a critically…
Not long after Donald Trump declared war on the media, CNN’s picked up the gauntlet, firing back against the president once more in the new edition of The Hollywood Reporter. In the cover story, CNN president Jeff Zucker brags that he and his employees wear their status of enemy combatants against false information…
Ensuring that the inevitable Wikipedia page for “Russian Ambassador Scandal of 2017” will be forced to take yet another turn for the tangential and weird, Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker has now become embroiled in the international hullaballoo. Like all political complications of the modern era, the…
Before it ever hosted Lena Dunham and her coterie of Girls, HBO aired the weekly misadventures of the thirtysomething women of Sex And The City. In 1998, Darren Star adapted Candace Bushnell’s eponymous collection of essays that had originally appeared in The New York Observer under the pseudonym Carrie Bradshaw,…
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
There is no psychological tool more powerful than the online “Which character are you?” quiz. Condensing the human experience into a few easily answered questions, they breeze past complicated personality indices in favor of simple, easy-to-understand outputs. (“Oh, you’re an INFJ? I’m Rainbow Dash.”) But these…
The popularity of RuPaul’s Drag Race has changed the drag-queen game, and now there’s actually money in strapping on a pair of heels and a lace front beyond pulling handfuls of sweaty $1 bills out of your pantyhose at the end of the night. One reflection of this changing landscape is Why Drag?, a gorgeous coffee-table…
The best love story on Grey’s Anatomy—a TV series that is for the, most part, built on love stories—was not between romantic partners. It was between two best friends: Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) and Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo). Their love for each other is encapsulated in three little words: ”You’re my person.” At…
Although Sex And The City has been off the air since 2004, it lives on in syndication and two regrettable movies (and think pieces on its successor du jour). But let’s face it, the basic cable editing has rendered the racier jokes nearly indecipherable and severely cut down on Samantha’s (Kim Cattrall) screen time.…
For most of the history of television, the barrier to syndication—and to profitability—has been 100 episodes. The shows that have made it to that mark are an unusual group. Many were big hits. Some found small cult audiences. Still others just hung on as best they could and never posted numbers quite low enough to be…
This week’s installment of Vulture’s “Secret History Of Television” looks at the tired “lesbian-kiss episode” trope. As a ratings stunt, television shows used to have a heterosexual-identifying female character kiss some random lesbian or bisexual woman, only to have them disappear and let the straight girl get back…
Springtime is a time for new beginnings, and this spring has Sarah Jessica Parker wondering…what if new beginnings are really just old…not-beginnings? So goes the Sex And The City star’s musing voiceover this week, as a decade after helping to make each other household names and several months after they started…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: In anticipation of Mad Men’s final episodes, special guest appearances from the show’s stars from before they went to work at Sterling Cooper & Partners.
