Thursday, May 22, 2008

Sex and the update


My friend M. is attending the Sex and the City movie with me. Unfortunately she has never seen an episode of Sex and the City. I wouldn't comment on that rock M. might be living under, because she does have extensive knowledge of Lost, Buffy, Angel, and she's a little too busy publishing books to be bothered with pop culture.
So, in her honor, I am summing up the entire series of Sex and the City (in six installments):
Season 1
In the beginning the sassy and sexy Carrie Bradshaw introduces us to the big City of New York and her friends that live in it. They go to parties, they go to brunch, they are looking for love, or in Samantha's case sex. Samantha believes women would be happier if they had sex without emotion - like men. Carrie gives it a test run with an ex. It does not work. In the meantime, she keeps running into this same guy all over town. He's handsome, he's dapper, it's Mr. Big. He gives her a ride home from a party and she asks him if he has ever been in love. He tells her, "Abso-fucking-lutely." Men prefer models, married people don't understand single people, and younger guys are addictive (With a nice cameo by Timothy Olyphant when he was Go sexy and not Deadwood dirty). Carrie and Mr. Big finally arrange to have an official date after bumping into each other all over the city. She has sex with him about ten minutes into the date, and then wonders if maybe he's is ashamed to be seen out in public with her. She blames sleeping with him on the first date. Samantha says no, prudish Charlotte says yes, and Miranda tells them both to shut the fuck up. (Can you guess which character I relate to yet?) Turns out Big wasn't trying to keep her secret, he just really likes hanging out in dark Chinese restaurants in sketchy parts of town, and can't remember his friends names when he sees them out on the street. Revelations about Big come forth: he didn't tell her he was still seeing other people, and used to be married. In the meantime Charlotte contemplates a threesome, Miranda dates a guy who is into spanking, and Samantha sleeps with her Realtor in an attempt to combine her two loves, sex and real estate. The girls go to a wedding where the bride implies she is marrying for convenience (shocker). So Samantha dates a guy who she calls a "fixer-upper", Charlotte falls in love with a device called the Rabbit, and Carrie accepts a proposal from her gay best friend when she finds out Big never wants to get married again. She never goes through with the engagement. Next the girls have to go to an evil baby shower of an old friend who has slept with more men than Samantha (She's in the Guinness Book of World Records). Carrie is so comfortable in her relationship with Big she accidentally passes gas in his presence. Humiliation, and a long drought ensues. Samantha learns about tantric sex and is celibate, for about a week. Miranda accosts a cat-caller in front of the Blockbuster, and Charlotte dates a guy whose antidepressants makes him uninterested in sex. Not a good endorsement for Prozac. After listening to all of Charlotte's no sex until the fifth date talk, Samantha gives it a try and decides not to have sex with her new man right away. She is smitten, the thinks she's in love, he has a little penis. Fuck. Carrie goes to church and runs into Big and his mother. He does not introduce the two of them, so Carrie dumps him. Sad.

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