Sex and the City started way back in 1998 to examine the (fictional and more monied and sexed up) lives of single women in the big city. And millions watched and learned. Today gaggles of women fans, dressed in Manolo Blahnik knock-offs will be teetering to cinemas with their gal pals wearing huge faux flowers and talking about their lives before...
...kids, husbands, limited clothing budgets and comfortable shoes...
In celebration, here are 5 of SATC's top parenting and relationship moments:
1. Where Miranda realizes she's in love with Steve.. in the laundry room - This scene captures the essence of why the show was successful. Miranda has been on the fence about Steve for years. She has a baby with him and moves on.. only realizing she's in love with him long after they share custody of Brody.
2. When the single gals put new mama Miranda in a taxi cab - because she forgot her stroller - Another wonderful SATC real life moment. Samantha loves Miranda but can't abide kids. So when on a lark the ladies decide to shop, and Miranda realizes she can't cart her babycarrier around with her, she's banished back to mommy land. Miranda's sad backward glance at her receding friends is a testament to the transition many women have to make into motherhood.
3. Miranda's huge nipples and Carrie's horror - Carrie visits new mom Miranda, who is so consumed with worry about her non-eating infant, she can barely track their conversation. She whips out the new bigger boobs to feed the baby and Carrie gets her first up close and personal look at nursing nipples.
4. Miranda has sex on the couch with a boyfriend while Brady cries - Many of us can relate (maybe not to the boyfriend but the Mommy needs sex but baby is crying scenario) to Miranda as she tries to get it on while Brady wails for her in the background. Her dialog is perfect ("It's ok, baby, Mommy is coming!")
5. Carrie cries every time Big tells her he's having heart surgery - I love the relationship between Carrie and Big. It's imperfect, crazy, and takes 6 years to work out. They love each other, but the timing is never ever right (until the end, of course). In the 5th season, Big visits New York City from Napa and shares a lovely dinner with Carrie. During dinner he shares with her that he's having a "little procedure" which turns out to be angioplasty. Carrie is wracked with uncontrollable sobbing. She doesn't understand what is happening, but we do. She's in love with Big and he still has access to her heart even after all they've been through.
And while much of this may read like a Harlequin Romance Novel does Parenting and Relationships, you'll have to watch it and give it a chance because just when you think you have one of the characters typed, they surprise you.
"Sex and the City" the movie. The next best thing to living in New York City and wearing Manolo's.
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