Product Description
Sex and the City: The Complete First Season(#ad)
Rating:
Running Time: 9 hrs
Director: Michael Patrick King
Cast:
Kim Cattrall
Kristin Davis
Willie Garson
Cynthia Nixon
Chris Noth
Sarah Jessica Parker
Ben Weber
Stars: 4/5 stars
Overview
Sex and The City is a US romantic comedy TV series. It was produced by HBO and the creator was Darren Star. The show aired from 1998 to 2004 and the original airing included 95 total episodes. The TV show received many contributions during its airing includes ones from writers, directors, and producers.
The amazon prime video is set/filmed in NYC and was based on Candace Bushnell book published in 1997 with the same title. It is based on the lives of 4 different women. Even though they have different personalities and sex lives they remain good friends and share with each other. Three of the women are aged mid-30s and one of them is in her 40s.
Sex and The City had many stories that deal with various social issues like sexuality, promiscuity, safe sex, and femininity. It also tackled the differences between friendships/romances. The show omits most of the early lives of the women in the show. This allowed the writers to explore the social lives of the women through their different perspectives.
The show received praise and criticism based on the show’s topics and characters. The show resulted in two movies including Sex and The City in 2008 and Sex and The City 2 in 2010. There was also a prequel TV series from the CW Network entitled The Carrie Diaries.
The TV series was also nominated for several Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. In fact, Sex and The City is still aired worldwide today. The show has also been added to various “best of” lists including “Entertainment Weekly,” “Time” and “TV Guide.”
Director/Cast
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Carrie Bradshaw
She writes a sex column entitled “Sex and the City” for a fictitious magazine. Carrie is also the series’ narrator.
Kim Cattrall
She’s a public relations agent who is sexually confident and follows the same “rules” of sexual relationships that men do.
Kristin Davis
She’s an art museum curator who’s optimistic and has old-school ideas about relationships.
Cynthia Nixon
She’s a lawyer who doesn’t trust men and has a negative outlook on relationships.
Plot Summary
Carrie Bradshaw is living in Manhattan, NYC and pens a column entitled Sex and the City. During a birthday party, Carrie along with her friends make the decision to have sex with men. In other words, they don’t have to be emotionally attached. Carrie learns later that she can’t do that after she has sex with a man one time then he ignores her.
When picking amazon movies this TV series is a good option because S1 is interesting. Carrie meets a handsome businessman several times by accident. Samantha calls him “Mr. Big.” The businessman and Carrie start to date but then she learns that he’s still dating other women.
He agrees to stop doing that but doesn’t allow Carrie to meet his mother and also won’t call her “the one.” This causes Carrie to end the relationships instead of going on a vacation with him they had planned.
Carrie does match-making between Miranda and a friend of hers named Skipper. Skipper and Miranda do on-and-off dating. Skipper is more relaxed while Miranda is more serious.
After the break-up of the relationship, Miranda sees Skipper with another woman. She feels like they should start dating again but while he wants to only date her she doesn’t want to have an exclusive relationship.
Meanwhile, Charlotte dates a man who’s focused on finding a spouse. However, they have a fight about china patterns. Charlotte refuses to have a certain kind of sex with another boyfriend and agrees to pose nude for a well-known painter.
Then there’s Samantha who has sex with an artist. He likes to videotape his sex partners, which include a married couple and Charlotte’s doorman. When Samantha meets a man named James she thinks he is perfect then becomes disappointed when she learns that he’s not sexually compatible for her.
Background
If you want to watch movies online why should you consider this TV show? Sex and the City has an interesting background. It’s actually based on a 1997 book with the same title. It was based on writer Candace Bushnell’s column in the “New York Observer.”
She’s described Carrie Bradshaw mentioned in her newspaper columns as her own alter ego. When she penned the newspaper essays she in fact included real world name at first. However, she later developed the character that's played by Sarah Jessica Parker in the show.
Carrie was a writer who was both living and working in NYC. It’s also interesting to note that Carrie Bradshaw/Candace Bushnell both have the exact same initials, which shows they’re connected.
It’s also interesting that while Carrie Bradshaw has her newspaper articles published in a book by the “New York Star” the series is in fact based on a group of columns of Bushnell’s newspaper columns that were published in the “New York Observer.”
Release/Reception
Sex and the City premiered in June 1998 on HBO and during the season was one of the top-rated sitcoms. The last episode was aired in February 2004.
During the 6 seasons of the show, it has won several awards and accolades. It was nominated for more than 5 Emmy Awards and won 7. The show was also nominated for a total of 24 Golden Globes and won 8. The show was listed as one of Time’s all-time best 100 TV shows. It was also included in the best shows a list of “Entertainment Weekly” for the end of the decade.
The show has also been praised for starting the various fashion craze. That included items like shoes, necklaces, bras, corsages, etc. The show was praised for having a big influence on various fashion trends while it aired.
