I think people tend gloss over that Samantha was very driven in her career too, they just tended to focused on how sex crazed she was in comparison to Miranda. But Samantha ran her own business which was a feat all in itself.
and she's so different from Carrie when it comes to powerful men, while Carrie feels insecure (and it's not entirely her fault, there's a power imbalance working between Big and her for sure), Samantha slept with career men she thought were at her level, who deserved her.
@@sneakymia1 no, did you watch the whole movie? They first said each would go to Carrie's old place every once in a while, but at the end they resolved their issues and none needed to use the apartment - except for Charlotte, she would go there every now and then to escape the tension of family life with kids and relax.
At the begging of the video: "Carrie's friends embody a different part of her- Miranda is the head, Charlotte is the heart and Samantha is... Me:the vagina. ... the libido." Me: oh, yeah, the libido, naturally
I feel like you could also posit that Samantha is the id (the instinct-driven pursuit of pleasure) Charlotte is the ego (image-obsessed and trying to maintain the status quo) and Miranda is the super-ego (cerebral and trying to rise above society’s petty conveniences and limitations).
@@jamesgreenldn no but they got it wrong and said Miranda was ego and Charlotte was heart which is not one of the three designations by Freud. I agree that Miranda is more representative of superego and Charlotte the ego
Yep, Samantha is once again telling it like it is! That's why her and Miranda are my favourite of the women, since they're the most relatable characters in contemporary times!
It’s strange & fascinating to me, the abundance of comments saying “there’s no WAY this group of women would ever be friends in real life.” Do all of you just hang out with clones of yourselves? My friend group is funnily enough exactly this way, some very old-fashioned, mom-like types, some wild party girls, and a mixture of everything in between. I think it’s unhealthy to surround yourself with a hive mind of people who think and do all the same things you think and do.
Same here! My best friend & I are complete opposites of each other, yet we somehow mentally click on the same level. She challenges me to think in a different way & has told me the same
It's not for me. I can't be friends with people who constantly criticize me and think everything I believe in is stupid. I tried it before and it sucks! I prefer to surround myself with people who have the same values as me, but not necessarily the same personality.
I don’t mind having different types of friends. It’s always other women who ghosted me unless they needed something because I wasn’t into the same stuff as them. 🤷🏻♀️
As a freelance writer and content creator, I've always found appalling Carrie could afford her lifestyle writing only ONE column.... Unrelated to the video, I just wanted to point it out.
I often thought that she might have either received alimony from a divorce nobody talked about, or was a trust fund girl, again, never talking about it with her friends. Or there's always the lottery or inheritance. The above three reasons would explain her lifestyle too.
This is sorta addressed in the show later on as she has to start working for a magazine as well and we find out she is horribly indebt to the point where Charlette has to basically bail her out.
@@yannickdrmda5295 Monica has a good chef job when we meet her. She lives in her Nana's rent controlled apartment. It is shown time and time again that Chandler pays Joey's way for over half the series. Chandler has a good job and makes good money. I am so sick of this tired, easily debunkable argument.
definitely not "all" about men.. there were many storylines that focused on other parts of their lives.. but of course men would play a huge part if they are heterosexual women dating in the city.. hence the title of the show. 😏😑
@Christopher Reynolds we saw glimpses, and perhaps had the show lasted for more seasons, we would have seen more.. but for goodness sake, the show was called Sex and the City for a reason.. the focus initially was on their dating escapades and it branched out from there as seasons progressed.. also remember this was mainly a 90s/early 2000s show so times were different.. not many ppl complained about the male focus back then.. I do remember arguments about the lack of racial diversity, which was an issue.. but not about all else.. nowadays everyone complains about everything.. it was a show about sex and friendships, goodness..
@Christopher Reynolds it's a show about SEX and relationships, so DUH there will be a heavy male focus throughout.. you ppl kill me with so much complaining about nothing.. the writers were excellent at what they did with a groundbreaking concept at the time.. it's not going to be perfect for all of you coming in to pick it apart 20 years after the fact.. complain all day and it still remains the same.. that's what's stupid to me. enjoy your day.
It's about 4 women and their lives, and a big part of their lives is men. However, the show only examines the women's role in their relationships with men, with the exception of Carrie and Big. We can't view a show from 25 years ago through today's lense, but for its time, it was very progressive.
I love all four ladies but Carrie is still my least favourite.. I always identified with the the other three characters on a much deeper, emotional level. Carrie is just to superficial, dreamlike and surface level for me.
I think that was S&TC biggest flaw. The main protagonist was so flawed to such an unlikeable degree that the audience couldn't root for her. I say this as a fan of the show too, but can't deny that Carrie's character comes off as whiney, selfish, unrealistic and immature most of the time. The other characters make the show.
@@GemR38 Tbh when I watched it when I was younger I actually loved Carrie, it is with time, re-watching the show I realized how pathetic she is, but who didn't lose their heads over some stupid man who in retrospective didn't deserve to be the dirt on their fingernails, so I can relate to her to some point
Carrie was ok in the first few seasons, but her arc was poor. The other ladies deepened and grew over the course of the 6 seasons, Carrie stayed the same, and even regressed. Had she shown remorse and growth after cheating with Big, or if she her telling Big off before she left for France stuck, that would’ve been cool. Her ending up with Big was trite, and she exhibited zero insight on how hurtful her actions were (seriously: she was shocked that Natasha hated her?? Having her understand Natasha’s hatred would’ve made Carrie infinitely less detestable)
This is the best analysis of this show that I’ve ever seen! And I also appreciate that you pointed out that Charlotte made the healthier choice in marrying Harry, while Carrie made the toxic choice in staying with Big. People give Charlotte so much shit, and she had her problematic moments, but when it came to relationships, she knew what she was looking for and was unwilling to settle. I appreciate that about her character.
Charlotte has been problematic until her decision to be with Harry, i.e. the decision to settle with someone who was incredibly different from what she was looking for. The criticism she gets is criticism of her pre-Harry mentality, and thus totally well-deserved. Carrie marries Big because finding the right person for you isn't about who's best (Aidan) but about who's the right person for you. Big is the right person for her... but this doesn't mean he isn't toxic... but, well, they are toxic for each other and overall, if anyone matches Carrie, that's Big. If she had married Aidan, the toxicity would have been one-sided. And she would have totally cheated on him, and they would have divorced at some point, and she would have remarried with Big.
5:37 "she is also quick to chastise Carrie, when Carrie prioritizes boyfriends" uhm no, it is normal to be pissed when your friend does not show up to the dinner date you had and does not even apologize! Wtf Carrie?
and then she did it again in SATC 2: traded her friends for a dinner with her ex and didn't even warn them. That's also a different situation though because she had a reason not to tell them lol. She's really the worst
There's a difference between prioritizing boyfriends and being an inconsiderate asshole who doesn't respect other people's limited free time, Carrie does the latter.
Candice Bushnell herself often said that though some of the story lines are inspired by various women she knew in New York, the three friends are mostly different sides of herself.
Seriously! It’s making me appreciate the show again. I had grown disillusioned about its message in recent years, worrying much of it didn’t age well, but this renews my love for its message of the various aspects of ourselves as women, and the power of female friendship.
Look closer and SATC characters are similar to the golden girls- Blanche: sex obsessed= Samantha. Dorothy: Cynical, educated, strong like Miranda. Rose: Sweet, hopeful, naive like Charlotte. Sophia: the story teller and the true centre of the group is like Carrie. They are character stereotypes, that's all.
That what I was thinking when I was watching repeats of the Golden Girls this year and have seen the comparisons elsewhere only with Dorothy being likened to Carrie. Dorothy is a bit manly so is more like Miranda. Sophia is a bit batty and so is Carrie.
i literally cannot imagine samantha and charlotte hanging out without carrie. some friendgroups just are that way. there are aquantances in my group who i like talking to in a setting where theres others but couldnt handle to have 1 on 1 time with, but we have mutual friends which we are both close with if that makes sense
maybe they do, but it only shows them hanging out when carrie is around because, well, she's the protagonist and the world revolves around carrie in that show.
The friend dynamic was definitely: Carrie and Samantha: are bestfriends who hang out outside group, the party girls Carrie and Miranda: have a sister dynamic, C is the young sis and M is the older sis, always most likely hang out to get advice on serious issues Carrie and Charlotte: what most female friendships are thought to be (super girly and sleepover type beat?) good girl vibes Samantha and Miranda: the two “adults” in the sense that they can set themselves aside and take care/ defend the girls when needed (will not be afraid to put someone in their place) Samantha and Charlotte: honestly they’re more like just friends and rarely hung out together unless Carrie was there. Miranda and Charlotte: similar to Carrie and Miranda’s relationship but instead of the lil sis (Charlotte) going to Miranda for advice it’s Charlotte influencing Miranda to be more empathetic and Miranda influencing Charlotte to stand up for herself Idk if this makes sense lol
I always thought the finale should have had the women reading her column for the first time... "Wait? You wrote about THAT? I told you that in private! You didn't even bother to change our names?!?!?!?!? WTF kind of monster are you?!?!?!?!?!?!" and they all stomp on her with their high heels
I think the theory that all the friends are parts of Carrie is more insulting to the fans because you can justified all the other women's decision EXCEPT CARRIE'S 😂😂😂😂😂
Interesting perspective. I think friend groups like SATC exist. Though they’re different, they’re also similar and challenge one another mentally. That’s what I loved about their bond.
As I got older and have rewatched the show several times, it baffled me that these women were even friends. And that they hardly hung out with each other without Carrie. It seems that if it wasn’t for Carrie, there would be no friendship group to begin with.
To fair tho Samantha probably could’ve probably survived in almost any crowd but I think she and Miranda grew emotionally specially because of that friend group
You could see Miranda and Charlotte being individual friends..? Miranda scoffs at and insults like 96% of the things Charlotte says lol. Charlotte’s like the antithesis of the type of woman Miranda respects (although I do enjoy it when they have friendly banter/find common ground)
It's not unusual to have a person who ties the group together. You can also be friends with people who have different opinions, different lifestyles and even different worldview as you. Only thing that really matters is laughing together and sharing very basic core beliefs.
@@maddiesmusings I don't think Miranda doesn't respect Charlotte. She's just much more forceful and critical of how she thinks women should live. She learns to appreciate Charlotte's viewpoint and eventually has a traditional husband and a kid situation. They probably could have been friends without Carrie.
it is a tv show, they created a group of 4 best friends, and Carrie was the story teller, of course everything was narrated by her point of view and she was included in almost all the scenes. Same with Stanford, or even Carrie's friends, bosses and boyfriends, we can see them only when Carrie mention them, but that does not mean that they did not exist. Also, the girls are not narrow, they cannot be defined with just one word. They are even very similar. They were single in their 30’s -40’s (when almost everybody is married/divorced hence have another lifestyle), they were professional career minded , they liked clubbing, social events, they had high standards about men, and they just do not settle. They were wealthy etc. Even if you see Charlotte as a conservative needy woman that just wants to get marry you are wrong, she slept with plenty of guys, (to wait until the 3rd date instead of the 1st date to sleep with somebody, is still very short time), she knew exactly what she wanted in a man, and she ditched plenty of guys because they were not exactly what she was looking for. Even we could said that it would have been easy to do what they wanted in sex (she ditched guys because they wanted oral and anal and it was not her style) than change her religion. She broke up with a guy because they did not like the same china, and with another because he was too aggressive etc and so on. Maybe for her to leave her career behind and change her religion was not a big deal. Even she broke up with Trey because he did not wanted to have kids. She was not so needy, otherwise she would have been married ages ago. Samantha, she just did not find her perfect match, as the guys she slept with were just good-looking but she knew they had nothing in common with her. She really liked James, and she tried. And I think Richard was the men she always wished for: same age, successful, compatible at sex etc, I was so sad when he cheated on her, but i guess the show would not have worked if Samantha were engaged, because her adventures as single woman were the best in the show. Also, If the show would be real life. Charlotte and Miranda would be besties now, as they both are married and have kids, and have more things in common, the other girls would have been left a bit behind. In case Samantha is still single, probably she would be hanging out with another group of single of women to party. in case she found a boyfriend/husband she will be hanging out with Carrie and Big, as they do not have children. They worked as friend because they were all single at the same time, and have very similar interests, some of them more extreme than others, but still they were in the same category of women.
@Christopher Reynolds The actress who portrayed her has no problem with adult men raping teenage girls so I am sure she didn't feel ambivalent about that episode.
@Christopher Reynolds I just heard her express pity for Roman Polanski in an interview, that's all. And it wasn't "He must be sick in the head to commit such a heinous crime as to drug and rape a 13-year-old gilr" pity. I don't remember it exactly but it was much rather "Oh, he still can't live his life in peace and return to the US to work there" pity.
Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha are real on the show, but clearly are characters created to represent all the parts of every woman's psyche, not just Carrie's. This is why the show was a hit; we can relate to each of these women in some way and usually all at once.
If Samantha loved freedom but still had that urge for intimacy, it would have been nice if she ended up in polyamory with multiple ongoing relationships -- providing her with the freedom but also the caring partners she wants
That definitely feels like something that could have been explored in the last decade or so, but not the late 90s or early 2000s. I would have liked to see that!
I've just realised all 4 fit the tarot - Carrie is Wands (creativity), Charlotte is Cups (emotion), Miranda is Swords (intellect) and Samantha is Pentacles (earthly desires)!
It seems to be true, they're too different to be such close friends. But at the same time i prefer not to take this too serious because there are so many great friendship moments. Sometimes we become friends with people we did't expect we could be friends with
It is totally possible to be friends with someone who has different interests and perspectives as long as the basics like morals and respect are there. In fact it's very healthy to have people who are different in your life to give you other perspectives and open your mind.
@@GemR38 i agree. what i was trying to say is in sats characters are very exaggerated, so i naturally question their friendship sometimes. but more enjoying their interaction
I think it's more that people thought they had to be a Charlotte. Now you're allowed to be a Miranda or a Charlotte. Charlotte is still the dominant view of how women are supposed to behave.
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@@judeannethecandorchannel2153 yeah she is a lady in the streets and a freak in the sheets. She's always together, never a fashion don't, always a loyal friend and vastly independent as a woman. She's classic now her private life is messy but she doesn't advertise it to anyone outside her circle.
@@zpmm5550 but... classic isn't the word most people think when they think of Samantha. Classic is popular that through time is still popular. I think free spirit word be better.
@@lstarsabb liberated is more of how I would call Samantha. A free spirit is more along the lines of Carrie because she always flirts with the idea of being like Samantha but reels herself back into a limited free spiritedness
Ok. As a writer myself I can't help but wonder is Carrie really such a great writer to create and develop in her narrative these 3-dimensional characters. Great video, guys,
Carrie just sees the dominant parts of her friends personalities and filters it though her eyes. This is very Fight Club-y here. If you really do a similar take .do one on DC 's Batman and how his rogues gallery are all figments of this broken psyche and maybe Bruce Wayne created batman to deal with an unjust reality. And maybe he's actually a paitent at Arkham Asylum all this time
Samantha wants to have a relationship with someone but bc she grew up with a mother with a husband that is a acholic and probably abusive she doesn't want to go through the same thing so she substitutes random sex for conpanionship as well as bad relationships. Even when she did find a good man she couldn't stop herself from thinking that she was being like her mother.
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And you notice there wasn't a single violent man in all their exploits. Not a one. They didn't even hesitate to be complete alone with total strangers. I wonder how that would play out in the real world. No Mr. Goodbars in the whole of NYC.
Charlotte became a total Karen during the movies! I hated what they did to the characters after the show ended, they all became so insufferable and/or spineless
Great analysis! During SATC original run I came to the same conclusion - almost. Thought that Carrie was a 4th aspect instead of MAIN persona and I could relate to all 4 characters equally - even Carrie. The series has always been fascinating because we deep down relate to the truth.
As someone who has watched SATC in its entirety at least once a year for the past decade, I have to say I absolutely love your videos examining the show! Thank you for all these deep dives!!
Found this when is was 7 minutes old. Fun! Interesting analysis and theory. Thank you for acknowledging that the four women argue frequently and don't always support each other, even if they're ultimately there for each other...
Keeping in mind that really they are all fictional characters I think all four of them are facets of the modern woman’s mind, actually, it could be anyone’s mind. Not sure who Carrie is in this scenario. I see the classic Greek philosophers at least of three of the four: Miranda is the skeptic, Charlotte is the stoic, and Samantha is the cynic. Samantha is the classic cynic though. What does that make Carrie though? This would mean that she is the Epicurian. I’m still fuzzy on what that means.
I think by the end of the second movie I would agree she would have been in a place ready for an open relationship where she didn't live with them but they were there for each when needed/wanted. I feel throughout the series and movies Samantha has her own internal battles between her heart and head. She feels stiffled when in her relationship with Maria, but wanted monogamy with Richard (except unfortunately he just couldn't be trusted to be monogamous). Smith for a while was a nice mix of fulfilling Samantha's physical and emotional needs but towards the end of the relationship her life revolved around his timescale, something she was not ok with. Samantha is a character who needs love in all it's forms but more than anything she needs the freedom of choice.
Charlotte’s negotiation of her pre nup to Trey was likely worth more than her job and much more “head” like than Miranda’s bartender baby father interestingly enough
In my opinion: Charlotte and Harry are still together (and happy!). Miranda and Steve got divorced. Carrie and Big are together because they are the only people who can actually stand each other 😂
Incredibly interesting analysis, this was amazing and really made me think : what would the different parts of myself would be if they were persons ? Super interesting to imagine
If you look at character breakdowns of other popular shows you see the same pattern with perfectly different characters creating “harmonic discord” (I made that up) bc that’s what makes good drama. It’s not very interesting to watch 4 friends who agree on everything. Instead you get 4 different sisters of the travelling pants, 4 different girls in the Craft, 3 different spies on totally spies, etc etc
This theory reminds me of Naoko Takeuchi (author of Sailor Moon) stated that she created Usagi as a version of herself and the other Sailor scouts as friends she wished she had.
People do search for friends who represent a different part of them so they are not figments of Carrie's imagination. There are lots of Samanthas and Mirandas living in Manhattan in real life. When you watch a drama on TV or a film you have to suspend credulity as anything can happen in one. It's the writer who has an imagination not the lead character. It annoys me when people claim that Grease was just the imagination of Sandie as she drowned in the beginning of the film and her going to high school and meeting a group of girls called the Pink Ladies never happened.
To be fair nobody said they were literally not real ( at least not yet, haven’t finished the video) but I think it’s implied that it’s the reason why she was drawn to them in the first place and became friends with them. Also why does that make you mad, their perception doesn’t have to be yours or the other way around. Grease is a good film so enjoy it. ✌️ Movies are just like any other art form and people like to interpret it their way. I f.e. pretend that any Superhero movie I don’t like it, is just an alternative earth/universe 😂
OMG ok I thought this right from season one! She is a WRITER who most likely uses fake names to protect the identity of those she writes about. They are at the very least, not named “Miranda”, “Charlotte”, and “Samantha” and since the story is Carrie’s perspective, technically, we have no reliable narrator on the details of their lives.
When I started watching this in my teens with my mom I was full on Charlotte! Then in my early 20s I turned into Samantha and nowwwww 30 years old. I have turned into Miranda. I have never liked Carrie, I thought and still do think she's dumb!
I love this analysis particularly your Carrie bit in the Charlotte section and I think there’s quite a lot of women that are secret romantics and prefer to come across as more edgy and cynical. Also I will say I’ve come to appreciate Samantha at the time I watched it I didn’t like her at all but now I appreciate what she stands for and that women can be just as sexual as men. Edit: decided to edit to pause the video so I can only focus on the comment
I watched one episode of Sex and the City years ago and this was my perception too. Though I admit I have little experience with the people or environment in the show, none of the characters resembled any real-life woman I knew (Charlotte was probably the closest). But combine all 4 into a single, complicated, conflicted woman and these could be 4 facets of her personality on different days--then it makes sense.
Say what you want about each and every last one of these characters but all I know is that the show was there for me; a huge milestone within my four years of anxiety depression and borderline schizophrenia.
I never thought about it like this. Everyone on tv seems to have those friends: the sentimental romantic, the cynic, the over the top confident one, the voice of reason but when you think about it, you see little from Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha other than their main characteristic.
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I see the division as Carrie and Charlotte following the societial script (get an education, have a career, get married, have children) and Miranda and Samantha as living what feminism promised; get an education, have a career, leave your options open and enjoy the fruits of your endeavors with marriage and children delayed or not at all.
I loved the perspective you gave about the different parts of Carrie. I've always thought that the other 3 had sth very defining in their characters, while Carrie was a mix which made her the most human.
The show insisting that most men just want wild sex and not relationships and that women should be more like men is one of most harmful things about it.
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Realistic story point: Carrie wanted unattainable BIG long enough, that he got old enough to fear dying alone, and finally settled down with her.
“Carrie, you’re the one [who will still put up with my garbage].”
Wow, that’s sad as fuck.
@@rw5437 straight facts
Boom! Plus she the only one willing to put up with his mess. I liked his first two wives.
This show is Herman's Head for women.
I think people tend gloss over that Samantha was very driven in her career too, they just tended to focused on how sex crazed she was in comparison to Miranda. But Samantha ran her own business which was a feat all in itself.
I think Charlotte did as well. I thought she owned or rented that gallery space.
Also, Miranda once named the number of men she slept with as "42". I am not sure that is so much less focused on sex as samantha?
and she's so different from Carrie when it comes to powerful men, while Carrie feels insecure (and it's not entirely her fault, there's a power imbalance working between Big and her for sure), Samantha slept with career men she thought were at her level, who deserved her.
@@pincmin and also the world wide express guy.
exactly, Samantha is an Exective! she is larger than Miranda.
Quarantine would have ended Carrie and Big's marriage...
Yeah...
theres a guy on youtube who does 'sex and the city in 2020' its hilarious.
meh, they had so much money, they would be like those influencers that 'quarantine' in the Bahamas
Accurate
@@sneakymia1 no, did you watch the whole movie? They first said each would go to Carrie's old place every once in a while, but at the end they resolved their issues and none needed to use the apartment - except for Charlotte, she would go there every now and then to escape the tension of family life with kids and relax.
At the begging of the video:
"Carrie's friends embody a different part of her- Miranda is the head, Charlotte is the heart and Samantha is...
Me:the vagina.
... the libido."
Me: oh, yeah, the libido, naturally
Haha Me too 😅
Comrade Ernie lmaooo
Kuddos to Susannah, for while discussing Samantha avoided the gratuitive use of the word vagina
lol same
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I feel like you could also posit that Samantha is the id (the instinct-driven pursuit of pleasure) Charlotte is the ego (image-obsessed and trying to maintain the status quo) and Miranda is the super-ego (cerebral and trying to rise above society’s petty conveniences and limitations).
Well...somebody majored in the social sciences😁
I see someone’s been reading my books from uni 😜
I think that's what they're doing but they have renamed it for people who don't know Freudian theory
@@jamesgreenldn no but they got it wrong and said Miranda was ego and Charlotte was heart which is not one of the three designations by Freud. I agree that Miranda is more representative of superego and Charlotte the ego
@@sc33h3o3 yes Miranda is Superego, Charlotte is Ego and Samantha is the ID
"We made a deal ages ago...
...men, babies, it doesn't matter. We’re soul mates." - Samantha
Yep, Samantha is once again telling it like it is! That's why her and Miranda are my favourite of the women, since they're the most relatable characters in contemporary times!
@Goldberg Brian ..."and ya never did." *walks away in slow motion
That's why Samantha is so iconic.
It’s strange & fascinating to me, the abundance of comments saying “there’s no WAY this group of women would ever be friends in real life.” Do all of you just hang out with clones of yourselves? My friend group is funnily enough exactly this way, some very old-fashioned, mom-like types, some wild party girls, and a mixture of everything in between. I think it’s unhealthy to surround yourself with a hive mind of people who think and do all the same things you think and do.
Agreed! I’m kind of a hipster/grunge girl while one of my best friends is preppy and was in a sorority
I don’t have friends but yeah I agree. Friends should balance and compliment each other not copy one another.
Same here! My best friend & I are complete opposites of each other, yet we somehow mentally click on the same level. She challenges me to think in a different way & has told me the same
It's not for me. I can't be friends with people who constantly criticize me and think everything I believe in is stupid. I tried it before and it sucks! I prefer to surround myself with people who have the same values as me, but not necessarily the same personality.
I don’t mind having different types of friends. It’s always other women who ghosted me unless they needed something because I wasn’t into the same stuff as them. 🤷🏻♀️
As a freelance writer and content creator, I've always found appalling Carrie could afford her lifestyle writing only ONE column.... Unrelated to the video, I just wanted to point it out.
I often thought that she might have either received alimony from a divorce nobody talked about, or was a trust fund girl, again, never talking about it with her friends. Or there's always the lottery or inheritance.
The above three reasons would explain her lifestyle too.
This is sorta addressed in the show later on as she has to start working for a magazine as well and we find out she is horribly indebt to the point where Charlette has to basically bail her out.
IT IS FICTION!
Same for Friends, a most often out of job actor, a waitress and a chef in an unknown restaurant, and yet they have big apartments in NYC.
@@yannickdrmda5295 Monica has a good chef job when we meet her. She lives in her Nana's rent controlled apartment. It is shown time and time again that Chandler pays Joey's way for over half the series. Chandler has a good job and makes good money. I am so sick of this tired, easily debunkable argument.
Samantha has the best and most memorable lines of any of the characters on the show. And Kim Cattrall's delivery is hilarious. I love her.
She’s insanely loveable
Probably easily one of my favorite characters of all time!
I just figured out the title of the movie 'he's just not that into you' was taken from her
I think Carrie has the most witty and clever lines. And Charlotte has the most wise lines at the end of the day.
What's really weird is that in a series about 4 women it is still all about men.
*Sex & The City definitely doesn't pass the Bechdel Test.* 🙄
(edit to correct typo. Thanks, @deirdrekiely6187!! 🤗)
definitely not "all" about men.. there were many storylines that focused on other parts of their lives.. but of course men would play a huge part if they are heterosexual women dating in the city.. hence the title of the show. 😏😑
@Christopher Reynolds we saw glimpses, and perhaps had the show lasted for more seasons, we would have seen more.. but for goodness sake, the show was called Sex and the City for a reason.. the focus initially was on their dating escapades and it branched out from there as seasons progressed.. also remember this was mainly a 90s/early 2000s show so times were different.. not many ppl complained about the male focus back then.. I do remember arguments about the lack of racial diversity, which was an issue.. but not about all else.. nowadays everyone complains about everything.. it was a show about sex and friendships, goodness..
@Christopher Reynolds it's a show about SEX and relationships, so DUH there will be a heavy male focus throughout.. you ppl kill me with so much complaining about nothing.. the writers were excellent at what they did with a groundbreaking concept at the time.. it's not going to be perfect for all of you coming in to pick it apart 20 years after the fact.. complain all day and it still remains the same.. that's what's stupid to me. enjoy your day.
It's about 4 women and their lives, and a big part of their lives is men. However, the show only examines the women's role in their relationships with men, with the exception of Carrie and Big. We can't view a show from 25 years ago through today's lense, but for its time, it was very progressive.
I love all four ladies but Carrie is still my least favourite.. I always identified with the the other three characters on a much deeper, emotional level. Carrie is just to superficial, dreamlike and surface level for me.
I agree. I can’t stand Carrie’s character
I think that was S&TC biggest flaw. The main protagonist was so flawed to such an unlikeable degree that the audience couldn't root for her. I say this as a fan of the show too, but can't deny that Carrie's character comes off as whiney, selfish, unrealistic and immature most of the time. The other characters make the show.
@@GemR38 Tbh when I watched it when I was younger I actually loved Carrie, it is with time, re-watching the show I realized how pathetic she is, but who didn't lose their heads over some stupid man who in retrospective didn't deserve to be the dirt on their fingernails, so I can relate to her to some point
Carrie was ok in the first few seasons, but her arc was poor. The other ladies deepened and grew over the course of the 6 seasons, Carrie stayed the same, and even regressed. Had she shown remorse and growth after cheating with Big, or if she her telling Big off before she left for France stuck, that would’ve been cool. Her ending up with Big was trite, and she exhibited zero insight on how hurtful her actions were (seriously: she was shocked that Natasha hated her?? Having her understand Natasha’s hatred would’ve made Carrie infinitely less detestable)
* TOO
This is the best analysis of this show that I’ve ever seen! And I also appreciate that you pointed out that Charlotte made the healthier choice in marrying Harry, while Carrie made the toxic choice in staying with Big. People give Charlotte so much shit, and she had her problematic moments, but when it came to relationships, she knew what she was looking for and was unwilling to settle. I appreciate that about her character.
Charlotte has been problematic until her decision to be with Harry, i.e. the decision to settle with someone who was incredibly different from what she was looking for. The criticism she gets is criticism of her pre-Harry mentality, and thus totally well-deserved.
Carrie marries Big because finding the right person for you isn't about who's best (Aidan) but about who's the right person for you. Big is the right person for her... but this doesn't mean he isn't toxic... but, well, they are toxic for each other and overall, if anyone matches Carrie, that's Big. If she had married Aidan, the toxicity would have been one-sided. And she would have totally cheated on him, and they would have divorced at some point, and she would have remarried with Big.
5:37 "she is also quick to chastise Carrie, when Carrie prioritizes boyfriends" uhm no, it is normal to be pissed when your friend does not show up to the dinner date you had and does not even apologize! Wtf Carrie?
and then she did it again in SATC 2: traded her friends for a dinner with her ex and didn't even warn them. That's also a different situation though because she had a reason not to tell them lol. She's really the worst
There's a difference between prioritizing boyfriends and being an inconsiderate asshole who doesn't respect other people's limited free time, Carrie does the latter.
Carrie’s obsession with BIG was sooo unhealthy!
"maybe we could be each other's soulmates"
ugh such a reminder how important your friendships are
I needed this video so much right now, thank you TT!
Candice Bushnell herself often said that though some of the story lines are inspired by various women she knew in New York, the three friends are mostly different sides of herself.
I think I prefer the show through this lens.
Ah same
Seriously! It’s making me appreciate the show again. I had grown disillusioned about its message in recent years, worrying much of it didn’t age well, but this renews my love for its message of the various aspects of ourselves as women, and the power of female friendship.
I agree
Nope I love the female friendship aspect of the show
Look closer and SATC characters are similar to the golden girls- Blanche: sex obsessed= Samantha. Dorothy: Cynical, educated, strong like Miranda. Rose: Sweet, hopeful, naive like Charlotte. Sophia: the story teller and the true centre of the group is like Carrie. They are character stereotypes, that's all.
Good observation
Golden Girls was so good.
Thank you
That what I was thinking when I was watching repeats of the Golden Girls this year and have seen the comparisons elsewhere only with Dorothy being likened to Carrie. Dorothy is a bit manly so is more like Miranda. Sophia is a bit batty and so is Carrie.
@@lemsip207 Ha, me too. Binge-watched Golden Girls in lockdown and noticed the comparison.
how do you know a series is a classic? it's being talked about 20 years later
@jermaine tobin Can you give some examples? You have a point there but can you explain it a bit more?
I love Miranda. Also I still don’t get why Carrie was so into Big. He’s just not all that.
Probably because he’s rich and the embodiment of New York
Because we want things we can’t have
@@Ashanti_flower24 Well he looks like Lurch from The Addams Family to me lmao
"There goes the next Mr Trump"
Well that quote sure didn't age well.
- rando on YT I'm shamelessly spreading
He was charismatic as well. Although I generally disliked him, I still enjoyed seeing him appear.
Carrie has the worst relationship storyline.
what was the weirdest to me is that they rarely hangout with each other without carrie..its always carrie and-
i literally cannot imagine samantha and charlotte hanging out without carrie. some friendgroups just are that way. there are aquantances in my group who i like talking to in a setting where theres others but couldnt handle to have 1 on 1 time with, but we have mutual friends which we are both close with if that makes sense
@@zakourille me too! I think that's how some friendship groups work best!
Well she had the most flexible job schedule of all. It would be easier for her to be the social glue.
miranda and charlotte did hangout together without carrie/samantha
maybe they do, but it only shows them hanging out when carrie is around because, well, she's the protagonist and the world revolves around carrie in that show.
The friend dynamic was definitely:
Carrie and Samantha: are bestfriends who hang out outside group, the party girls
Carrie and Miranda: have a sister dynamic, C is the young sis and M is the older sis, always most likely hang out to get advice on serious issues
Carrie and Charlotte: what most female friendships are thought to be (super girly and sleepover type beat?) good girl vibes
Samantha and Miranda: the two “adults” in the sense that they can set themselves aside and take care/ defend the girls when needed (will not be afraid to put someone in their place)
Samantha and Charlotte: honestly they’re more like just friends and rarely hung out together unless Carrie was there.
Miranda and Charlotte: similar to Carrie and Miranda’s relationship but instead of the lil sis (Charlotte) going to Miranda for advice it’s Charlotte influencing Miranda to be more empathetic and Miranda influencing Charlotte to stand up for herself
Idk if this makes sense lol
spot on
I always thought the finale should have had the women reading her column for the first time... "Wait? You wrote about THAT? I told you that in private! You didn't even bother to change our names?!?!?!?!? WTF kind of monster are you?!?!?!?!?!?!" and they all stomp on her with their high heels
I think the theory that all the friends are parts of Carrie is more insulting to the fans because you can justified all the other women's decision EXCEPT CARRIE'S 😂😂😂😂😂
Isn’t that the point?
Well, yes. You're not supposed to justify Carries behavior, they are a cautionary tale.
Interesting perspective. I think friend groups like SATC exist. Though they’re different, they’re also similar and challenge one another mentally. That’s what I loved about their bond.
As I got older and have rewatched the show several times, it baffled me that these women were even friends. And that they hardly hung out with each other without Carrie. It seems that if it wasn’t for Carrie, there would be no friendship group to begin with.
I can see Miranda and Charlotte being friends and Carrie being friend with each of the 3 others but Samantha is definitely here through Carrie.
To fair tho Samantha probably could’ve probably survived in almost any crowd but I think she and Miranda grew emotionally specially because of that friend group
You could see Miranda and Charlotte being individual friends..? Miranda scoffs at and insults like 96% of the things Charlotte says lol. Charlotte’s like the antithesis of the type of woman Miranda respects (although I do enjoy it when they have friendly banter/find common ground)
It's not unusual to have a person who ties the group together. You can also be friends with people who have different opinions, different lifestyles and even different worldview as you. Only thing that really matters is laughing together and sharing very basic core beliefs.
@@maddiesmusings I don't think Miranda doesn't respect Charlotte. She's just much more forceful and critical of how she thinks women should live. She learns to appreciate Charlotte's viewpoint and eventually has a traditional husband and a kid situation. They probably could have been friends without Carrie.
it is a tv show, they created a group of 4 best friends, and Carrie was the story teller, of course everything was narrated by her point of view and she was included in almost all the scenes. Same with Stanford, or even Carrie's friends, bosses and boyfriends, we can see them only when Carrie mention them, but that does not mean that they did not exist.
Also, the girls are not narrow, they cannot be defined with just one word. They are even very similar.
They were single in their 30’s -40’s (when almost everybody is married/divorced hence have another lifestyle), they were professional career minded , they liked clubbing, social events, they had high standards about men, and they just do not settle. They were wealthy etc.
Even if you see Charlotte as a conservative needy woman that just wants to get marry you are wrong, she slept with plenty of guys, (to wait until the 3rd date instead of the 1st date to sleep with somebody, is still very short time), she knew exactly what she wanted in a man, and she ditched plenty of guys because they were not exactly what she was looking for. Even we could said that it would have been easy to do what they wanted in sex (she ditched guys because they wanted oral and anal and it was not her style) than change her religion. She broke up with a guy because they did not like the same china, and with another because he was too aggressive etc and so on. Maybe for her to leave her career behind and change her religion was not a big deal. Even she broke up with Trey because he did not wanted to have kids. She was not so needy, otherwise she would have been married ages ago.
Samantha, she just did not find her perfect match, as the guys she slept with were just good-looking but she knew they had nothing in common with her. She really liked James, and she tried. And I think Richard was the men she always wished for: same age, successful, compatible at sex etc, I was so sad when he cheated on her, but i guess the show would not have worked if Samantha were engaged, because her adventures as single woman were the best in the show.
Also, If the show would be real life. Charlotte and Miranda would be besties now, as they both are married and have kids, and have more things in common, the other girls would have been left a bit behind. In case Samantha is still single, probably she would be hanging out with another group of single of women to party. in case she found a boyfriend/husband she will be hanging out with Carrie and Big, as they do not have children.
They worked as friend because they were all single at the same time, and have very similar interests, some of them more extreme than others, but still they were in the same category of women.
"Which of the Sex and the City girls are you?"
Yes.
I just wanna say one thing: Samantha is not promiscuous, she´s just single. Carrie, on the other hand...
@Christopher Reynolds The actress who portrayed her has no problem with adult men raping teenage girls so I am sure she didn't feel ambivalent about that episode.
@Christopher Reynolds I just heard her express pity for Roman Polanski in an interview, that's all. And it wasn't "He must be sick in the head to commit such a heinous crime as to drug and rape a 13-year-old gilr" pity. I don't remember it exactly but it was much rather "Oh, he still can't live his life in peace and return to the US to work there" pity.
@Christopher Reynolds Always happy to share how most people are really, really, really shitty in at least one way.
Babe she is. There’s nothing wrong with that...
@@camelopardalis84 Maybe you should express yourself more respectful
Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha are real on the show, but clearly are characters created to represent all the parts of every woman's psyche, not just Carrie's. This is why the show was a hit; we can relate to each of these women in some way and usually all at once.
So true
When you see a series or movie you don't realise how much attention to the small details has been given.
The Take makes me realise that ❤️
When I say I can be spoon fed the SATC content from this channel and never get sick of it, I mean it.
If Samantha loved freedom but still had that urge for intimacy, it would have been nice if she ended up in polyamory with multiple ongoing relationships -- providing her with the freedom but also the caring partners she wants
She would have been super happy being solo poly.
That definitely feels like something that could have been explored in the last decade or so, but not the late 90s or early 2000s. I would have liked to see that!
She didn't need a romantic bond, she had emotional intimacy with her friends.
@@kuramacabre yeah that’s bullshite
I've just realised all 4 fit the tarot - Carrie is Wands (creativity), Charlotte is Cups (emotion), Miranda is Swords (intellect) and Samantha is Pentacles (earthly desires)!
It seems to be true, they're too different to be such close friends. But at the same time i prefer not to take this too serious because there are so many great friendship moments. Sometimes we become friends with people we did't expect we could be friends with
It is totally possible to be friends with someone who has different interests and perspectives as long as the basics like morals and respect are there. In fact it's very healthy to have people who are different in your life to give you other perspectives and open your mind.
@@GemR38 i agree. what i was trying to say is in sats characters are very exaggerated, so i naturally question their friendship sometimes. but more enjoying their interaction
2 minutes ago? Last time I was this early the Take was called ScreenPrism
Last time I saw this comment in a Take video it still wasn't funny.
@@iamV10010 cool beans
@@dipannitasarah5521 Just busting your chops. Not trying to be a bitch. Happy holidays.
@@iamV10010 It's cool hahaha, happy holidays!
Well this thread took a very festive turn and I love it 👌🏾👌🏾
the take videos always feel like therapy
Back in the 90s 'nobody likes a Miranda' and everyone 'wants to be a Charlotte'. But now that is reversed.
I think it's more that people thought they had to be a Charlotte. Now you're allowed to be a Miranda or a Charlotte. Charlotte is still the dominant view of how women are supposed to behave.
You can be both a Miranda and a Charlotte, theres nothing wrong with having both
@@Aster_Risk You explained thats so well. Thanks for the new perspective
It was uncool to be a Miranda then but it is now.
Watching the show now in my 20s I find I'm soooo like Miranda but understand completely why guys prefer my friends which are more like Charlotte.
I just finished watching another video by ‘The Take’. Wow, I’m on a roll! 😂
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Samantha is the classic.
Charlotte's the old fashion.
Miranda's the modern day.
Carrie is the hippy.
Vastly different women but I like the view point.
Samantha is classic?
😋 Just a friendly question...
@@judeannethecandorchannel2153 yeah she is a lady in the streets and a freak in the sheets. She's always together, never a fashion don't, always a loyal friend and vastly independent as a woman. She's classic now her private life is messy but she doesn't advertise it to anyone outside her circle.
@@zpmm5550 but... classic isn't the word most people think when they think of Samantha. Classic is popular that through time is still popular. I think free spirit word be better.
@@lstarsabb liberated is more of how I would call Samantha. A free spirit is more along the lines of Carrie because she always flirts with the idea of being like Samantha but reels herself back into a limited free spiritedness
@@lstarsabb Yeah classic is not the word.
damn i thought the video was about how the friends were fake and i was so shook
Why? Aren't your friends reflecting parts of your personality? If they're not, they're not your friends. Accordingly, choose your friends wisely.
Ok. As a writer myself I can't help but wonder is Carrie really such a great writer to create and develop in her narrative these 3-dimensional characters. Great video, guys,
"I can't help but wonder" lol
Carrie just sees the dominant parts of her friends personalities and filters it though her eyes. This is very Fight Club-y here. If you really do a similar take .do one on DC 's Batman and how his rogues gallery are all figments of this broken psyche and maybe Bruce Wayne created batman to deal with an unjust reality. And maybe he's actually a paitent at Arkham Asylum all this time
Oooh very Shutter Island!
Samantha wants to have a relationship with someone but bc she grew up with a mother with a husband that is a acholic and probably abusive she doesn't want to go through the same thing so she substitutes random sex for conpanionship as well as bad relationships. Even when she did find a good man she couldn't stop herself from thinking that she was being like her mother.
@@jazmine9570 don't know the episode but she said that at her age her mother had three kids and a drunk husband.
Hope u do the Gay bully trope soon!!! It's everywhere! especially in TV shows like Andi Mack, Owl house,glee, Degrassi Pretty Little Liars, skins, Dawson's Creek sex education, and so on. It can lead to so many important discussions and conversations and the gay bully can also be out of school too and also like real life celebrity stories about being a gay bully like Ricky Martin.
I’d love it if they’d analyze the characters on Dawson’s creek.
@@Pinkladyisv true that I would love that to! 👍😊
@Love Life wow did not know that about Modern family! See it's in a lot of show's the Gay bully trope! So much to talk about and understand.
whos the bully in sex education
@@cnstqnce2841 Adam. The show starts out with him mistreating Eric and the level of mistreatment could definitely be considered bullying
And you notice there wasn't a single violent man in all their exploits. Not a one. They didn't even hesitate to be complete alone with total strangers. I wonder how that would play out in the real world. No Mr. Goodbars in the whole of NYC.
Charlotte would be such a Karen during this pandemic
Charlotte became a total Karen during the movies! I hated what they did to the characters after the show ended, they all became so insufferable and/or spineless
@@hodorhodor85 remember the mexico scene?
Another well written, narrated, and edited video!!!! I am at awe 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 this is my favorites how and y’all spoke my mind
Great analysis! During SATC original run I came to the same conclusion - almost. Thought that Carrie was a 4th aspect instead of MAIN persona and I could relate to all 4 characters equally - even Carrie. The series has always been fascinating because we deep down relate to the truth.
Carrie is the ego.
When you miss being in New York, that you click so fast on every 'Sex and the City' Take!
As someone who has watched SATC in its entirety at least once a year for the past decade, I have to say I absolutely love your videos examining the show! Thank you for all these deep dives!!
Oh my, I get so excited whenever there is a new video.
Samantha was (this close to) Polyamory and Pansexuality
I agree, if this show aired nowadays, then Samantha would definitely be pansexual, or at least acknowledge herself as such! ❤️
She doesn't want to be hold on. She wants to sleep with everyone without any strings. She wouldn't want a polyamorous relationship
I feel like Ilana from Broad City was the new generation version of Samantha, bi and poly
Can't wait for more characters like this
@@moonie3866 Amen.
She does say the word Pansexual in the three way episode edit: The David and David one I mean
Found this when is was 7 minutes old. Fun! Interesting analysis and theory.
Thank you for acknowledging that the four women argue frequently and don't always support each other, even if they're ultimately there for each other...
Keeping in mind that really they are all fictional characters I think all four of them are facets of the modern woman’s mind, actually, it could be anyone’s mind. Not sure who Carrie is in this scenario. I see the classic Greek philosophers at least of three of the four: Miranda is the skeptic, Charlotte is the stoic, and Samantha is the cynic. Samantha is the classic cynic though. What does that make Carrie though? This would mean that she is the Epicurian. I’m still fuzzy on what that means.
Damn......this title hits.
I always wondered why Samantha was never in an open relationship. I feel like it would suit her.
I think by the end of the second movie I would agree she would have been in a place ready for an open relationship where she didn't live with them but they were there for each when needed/wanted.
I feel throughout the series and movies Samantha has her own internal battles between her heart and head. She feels stiffled when in her relationship with Maria, but wanted monogamy with Richard (except unfortunately he just couldn't be trusted to be monogamous). Smith for a while was a nice mix of fulfilling Samantha's physical and emotional needs but towards the end of the relationship her life revolved around his timescale, something she was not ok with.
Samantha is a character who needs love in all it's forms but more than anything she needs the freedom of choice.
Wasn't she in one with Richard but it didn't work for her
Charlotte and Samantha were more at odds then Charlotte was with Miranda.
First 13 seconds i was like "oh god... no... i dont need to be invested in this POV." *grabs popcorn and is highly invested in this theory💜
The reality is that we are completely formed by how people, scenarios, etc conflict or blend with our genetic predispositions.
Charlotte’s negotiation of her pre nup to Trey was likely worth more than her job and much more “head” like than Miranda’s bartender baby father interestingly enough
Sure, but money isn't everything. Leaving a career to devote herself to a home and a man seems rather regressive indeed
So are you basically telling me this is an overly complex version of the Fight Club?
It's not complex at all.
This makes the show ten times better ☺️
In my opinion: Charlotte and Harry are still together (and happy!). Miranda and Steve got divorced. Carrie and Big are together because they are the only people who can actually stand each other 😂
Incredibly interesting analysis, this was amazing and really made me think : what would the different parts of myself would be if they were persons ? Super interesting to imagine
Thoroughly enjoyed this analysis.
I always wish I had a friend group like Carrie. ❤️
Could you do “ Girlfriends “ ?
Exactly
I wish you guys would do something about Living Single! But I'm just thinking here
Right! And/or Girlfriends!
Need a different voice for that.
"I couldn't help but wonder. . . "
Charlot was my favorite character in the series. Her sadness, joys, grieves, happiness, empathy, sympathy; all emotions wud seem so genuine
If you look at character breakdowns of other popular shows you see the same pattern with perfectly different characters creating “harmonic discord” (I made that up) bc that’s what makes good drama. It’s not very interesting to watch 4 friends who agree on everything. Instead you get 4 different sisters of the travelling pants, 4 different girls in the Craft, 3 different spies on totally spies, etc etc
Charlotte was always my favorite in the series. This was a great analysis!!
This theory reminds me of Naoko Takeuchi (author of Sailor Moon) stated that she created Usagi as a version of herself and the other Sailor scouts as friends she wished she had.
People do search for friends who represent a different part of them so they are not figments of Carrie's imagination. There are lots of Samanthas and Mirandas living in Manhattan in real life. When you watch a drama on TV or a film you have to suspend credulity as anything can happen in one. It's the writer who has an imagination not the lead character. It annoys me when people claim that Grease was just the imagination of Sandie as she drowned in the beginning of the film and her going to high school and meeting a group of girls called the Pink Ladies never happened.
To be fair nobody said they were literally not real ( at least not yet, haven’t finished the video) but I think it’s implied that it’s the reason why she was drawn to them in the first place and became friends with them. Also why does that make you mad, their perception doesn’t have to be yours or the other way around. Grease is a good film so enjoy it. ✌️ Movies are just like any other art form and people like to interpret it their way. I f.e. pretend that any Superhero movie I don’t like it, is just an alternative earth/universe 😂
This video isn't a TV theory that the characters are real. It's just using that premise to analyze the characters.
@@jasminemississo1796 I don't enjoy Grease when somebody ruins it by claiming it was all about Sandy's hallucinations as she was dying.
OMG ok I thought this right from season one! She is a WRITER who most likely uses fake names to protect the identity of those she writes about. They are at the very least, not named “Miranda”, “Charlotte”, and “Samantha” and since the story is Carrie’s perspective, technically, we have no reliable narrator on the details of their lives.
I laughed my ass off at the title, because I agree 😂😂😂😂
Great video can you do the Native American stereotype in movies and shows thank you 😊
I went from being a Charlotte at 14 to a Samantha at 17 to now a Miranda at 23 hahaha
When I started watching this in my teens with my mom I was full on Charlotte! Then in my early 20s I turned into Samantha and nowwwww 30 years old. I have turned into Miranda. I have never liked Carrie, I thought and still do think she's dumb!
I love this analysis particularly your Carrie bit in the Charlotte section and I think there’s quite a lot of women that are secret romantics and prefer to come across as more edgy and cynical.
Also I will say I’ve come to appreciate Samantha at the time I watched it I didn’t like her at all but now I appreciate what she stands for and that women can be just as sexual as men.
Edit: decided to edit to pause the video so I can only focus on the comment
Great take as always 👍
This is the best take on Sex and the city. Thank you.
I haven't even seen sex and the city but i love The Take's videos so much I find myself watching this video
I watched one episode of Sex and the City years ago and this was my perception too. Though I admit I have little experience with the people or environment in the show, none of the characters resembled any real-life woman I knew (Charlotte was probably the closest). But combine all 4 into a single, complicated, conflicted woman and these could be 4 facets of her personality on different days--then it makes sense.
The show, despite being dated, is still funny af. Kim Cattrall’s comic timing is killer. And I liked that it’s central character was so flawed.
Huh... the id, ego, and superego
Say what you want about each and every last one of these characters but all I know is that the show was there for me; a huge milestone within my four years of anxiety depression and borderline schizophrenia.
I never thought about it like this. Everyone on tv seems to have those friends: the sentimental romantic, the cynic, the over the top confident one, the voice of reason but when you think about it, you see little from Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha other than their main characteristic.
Wooww just woow well done 🥺👏🏾 great analysis
Very Insightful!!
Don't get me wrong - I love this channel but this title was clickbite....
How come ?
Right?! Had me thinking it was all Carrie’s imagination. That would’ve been dark.
@@shanouboubou one may argue that showing how her friends are not real might mean that they are not good friends (not real friends).
@@maria-madalinaifrim7095 aaaa ok, I think the Take really didn't meant to do that, because I didn't interpret it that way when I saw the title. A little minsunderstanding. But check the video anyway, it's really interesting 💕
@@BellesView oh i finished the whole video and still thought they were figments of her imagination haha...
These sex and the city analyses are amazing but there are so many characters and themes of the wire I am waiting for you guys to dissect 😭
I see the division as Carrie and Charlotte following the societial script (get an education, have a career, get married, have children) and Miranda and Samantha as living what feminism promised; get an education, have a career, leave your options open and enjoy the fruits of your endeavors with marriage and children delayed or not at all.
I loved the perspective you gave about the different parts of Carrie. I've always thought that the other 3 had sth very defining in their characters, while Carrie was a mix which made her the most human.
I just love all of your SATC videos! :D
The show insisting that most men just want wild sex and not relationships and that women should be more like men is one of most harmful things about it.
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