"I had no money, I made about 2,000 a month"... not me over here immediately googling and seeing "Adjusted for inflation, $2,000 in 1977 is equal to $10,541 in 2024." The math aint mathin 🤣
But she wasn’t talking about when she first arrived in 1977. She was talking about when she lived with her friend Ann, as shown in the picture, in 1988.
@@princessalliecat8 I don't begrudge you your passions and certainly not implying you're some secret privileged millionaire - but not having money at all isn't sacrificing for things you love, it's sacrifice for the things you need. It's surviving. I think OP is just commenting on the absurdity of saying she didn't grow up with alot of money because she rode 'backyard' horses. She didn't not grow up with money - she just grew up with less money than her rich neighbours.
Mikhail Baryshnikov wasn’t a renowned ballet dancer. He was the greatest ballet dancer in the world in the 80s, and also the most famous. He was a total icon, the successor of Rudolf Nureyev.
I was about to say the opposite, this is the first time I’ve seen the actress playing the real person actually being SIGNIFICANTLY less attractive than the inspiration. I like that they went for an ugly girl to play the lead character, but it doesn’t make sense because the storyline implies that’s she’s very attractive.
When I went to Uni there were a lot of solidly middle class and upper middle class girlies that cried poor because they were in proximity to the old school moneyed type and the nueve rich. I was a fully black immigrant from the hood who’s dad worked (3) jobs so my mom could raise us like ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ but their dad was a citizen with one really good job. I was between the working poor and solidly working class. My mom would work Summers to pay for school pictures, camps etc., and quit. All this to say two working parents that own a home in the suburbs of Connecticut with horseback riding. I understand how she felt like a sudo ‘poor’ 😊
That sounds like a girl I knew who grew up in Santa Barbara her dad is a millionaire and she grew up very well off, but claimed she wasn't spoiled because she had friends with much much more money.
@@klae7058 that show is famous with fully black Afro Caribbeans, Afro Brazilians and Afro Latinos. My point was that he had an excellent MAIN job with benefits that he could retire from as a legal American citizen. All of my dad’s (3) jobs were under the table.
People compare life today to what Candace’s life would’ve been like in the late 80s or early 90s in New York. Same goes for Carrie’s reality in the late 90s early 2000s as a character. Back then, if you made say $5K a month as a writer (or $60K a year before taxes) you could’ve afforded a rent controlled 1bedroom 1bath apartment by the time you reached your 30s. That didn’t make you rich, especially if you were using your disposable income on clothes and going out all the time instead of on groceries, but it’s very much apart of the single girl in new york lifestyle. When I went to college in New York, we all did the same thing. Whatever scraps of money we had left, we spent on shopping sprees at Beacon’s Closet, ubers to parties across town, and ate at Veselka. I would jump turnstiles and live off of $1 pizza late at night to make it all worth it. Living above one’s means is what it means to be bourgeoisie. That’s the whole point of Carrie’s character. It’s not that the show is unrealistic, people just have a hard time believing someone would openly live so impractically, but that’s what every bougie middle class person does, especially in a city as expensive as New York. You fake it till you make it, or look fabulous trying.
@@Some_guy_passing_byI am 31, living in a big city in Europe and that’s actually me. I have a decent salary but I spent it all to a way too expensive apartment, Uber, expensive hair dressers, parties, drugs and fashion. It’s still happening in big cities. Even if you are no college student anymore
Charlotte I believe does say " you can't put this in your column" at one point in the series, I think in season 2? So they do know and do object sometimes.
@@peekaboots01 Indeed. The more I remember Carrie, the more I dislike her. She is a lousy friend, I never understood why she was the dearest friend of each of the other three. It was all about her - me, me, me. But there are also other things, beyond character flaws, that always unnerved me. What woman in her mid 30s going on 40s and living alone, doesn’t know how to cook, not even a fondue?! And she’s a professional, yet she adopts “shoegal” as her e-mail address. More than childish, it’s stupid. Not to mention her complete ignorance of how e-mailing worked. She doesn’t speak any language. What kind of education has she had?! I’m Portuguese, and I also speak and write French, English and Spanish fluently. She has appalling table manners, she talks with her mouth full (sometimes we even can see what she’s chewing), she gesticulates with knife and fork all the time. Again, what kind of education has she had, and what background does she come from? In the first film, she has never watched Meet Me in St. Louis, a revered classic. In the second, she has never watched It Happened One Night , another revered classic. Had we suffered a third film, perhaps we would discover she had never watched Casablanca either. 🙄 I know she’s a fictional character, but the woman gets on my nerves more than words can say.
@@TeresaLeandroI'm not a fan of the show. I think I saw two episodes, I was young when it came out. I have only seen the movies. My question is if you hate the main character so much, why did you keep watching it ?? And why are you watching TH-cam videos??? 😂
True don’t we all, And poor self acceptance. I base my opinion in the way the character let Big to use her and gaslight her for 10 years. And true we all be there the point was that many woke up out if the pattern faster it took the character many disappointments with the same individuals. I never notice all this while I watched the show but now I can see clearly 😅
Only in the 1990s you could land a career job without a college degree. Impossible now aday. You need at least a bachelors degree and in most masters degrees in the entre level.
Love this. I remember my mum and her friends talking about how great the book was, and then the series came out!! I must read it... obviously I've watched the series.. and re-watched after every break up ❤
Welp, I was a freelance writer for Vogue in 2023 and got 100 EUR (approx. 110 dollars I assume?) per article. At 1000 words an article, that’s a cool 10 cents per word. No wonder I can’t afford designer shoes
i watched satc when it went on netflix and then saw the book on sale after i finished the show so obviously i bought it. i read about 3/4 of the way and honestly did not like it enough to continue, but maybe i’ll finish it. either way, this answered so many questions i had about candace bushnell and the reality of it all, thank you!
It was a hard, horrible read, I couldn't finish it either. She was so lucky someone bought it to make it a series. I won tickets to hear her speak, I was so excited, what a disappointment. Her speaking skills were as bad as her writing, IMO
I didn’t care for the book either, but she has many other well-written, entertaining novels you should check out, like Four Blondes. Also, the YA book she wrote, The Carrie Diaries, is really good!
То же самое, мне книгу одолжила одноклассница в далёком 2003 или 2004 году. Я с трудом осилила половину и бросила, хотя вообще-то я всегда дочитываю книги, даже если они мне не нравятся.
thank you so much for the love! 💖 SATC truly was a cultural shift, redefining how we talk about relationships, friendships, and life in general. glad to see it still resonates with so many!
Honestly, I always hated Carrie & Mr. Big’s relationship, back when I watched when SatC was originally airing. It reminded me of my mom & her former longtime boyfriend, who she dated for years despite him being toxic af & having a wife AND other gf. I just couldn’t feel anything but dislike for Carrie & Big, and I hated them ending up together.
how sychronistic, Ive been revisiting SATC the past couple of days. You did an EXCELLENT job with this video, very insightful & well researched. I love your voice & accent too, its lovely. Thank you for making this, very fun watch. Also if you grew up in Connecticut riding horses, and your family didn't talk about money, its probably because you had it 😅
@@KasiaSopniewska I would recommend it but, I haven't watched in a while so I don't know if it aged well. It only lasted 2 seasons, the leads were played by Kim Raver (Teddy on Grey's), Brooke Shields and Lindsey Price, and it was kinda SATC but focusing also in the careers of the characters, not only relationships.
what a perfect video this was, you should be so proud of yourself my angel 💝 this was phenomenal. The editing, the mixed media, the writing, script, your voice, storytelling and the overall vibe is just perfect so beautiful
Mr Big and Carrie was me and my ex. On the contrary, we did not get back together. However I am 32 and I wonder if I will, this show amuses me because I see myself in every character.
@@KasiaSopniewska i loved it! i learned much more about candance through this, also i remember when lipstick jungle was a short-lived series. i wish it got more than a season, i could be mistaken but it probably got cancelled due to the strike in 2007-2008
This was a wonderful video! I love how the show writers caught little details from the book (ie the coat and Samantha’s intro being almost wore for word the book). I’m happy for Candace, the ending of the show should have been Carries :) but ngl, I love Mr Big
@@KasiaSopniewska she a sweet heart. I felt bad for the heart ache she went through. She married a younger guy named Charles Askgaurd. Look him up. He danced with New York City Ballet. Unfortunately he had an affair with another dancer. She wrote a book. And Candace pulled a boss move by outing the mistress in public. We ran in the same social circle. Try reading the articles Candace wrote before the book. The NYC party scene was much different than it is now. I lived it during the late 80’s till early 2000’s. I think this is why so many of the up and coming generations fail to understand the SATC show. And yes, if you check out some of Candace interviews she did get screwed when it came off to selling the rights to the show. The first and second season were true to the articles and book. By the third and so on they had kicked her to the curb and taken the character into a whole new direction. She said that she based all the characters in different friends in her life. So Carrie is a mixture of her and other women she knows. And yes there was a real Mr. Big. But she didn’t marry him in real life. He married someone else.
I get it, the book is both deep and shallow, which makes it hard to read. with few recurring characters, it's tough to form an emotional connection with anyone.
I love sex and the city...but I think the inspiration comes from John John Kennedy Jr ( Mr Big) and Carolyn Bessette. For some reason they've always reminded me of them
I can't believe real the Mr. Big was so much uglier than the fictional! (while real Carrie was so much prettier than the fictional) Forgive my superficiality 🤷🏽♀
The only people who would know who she is talking about are her close circle or people who were really around her during that time. I tried find who these women were in real life, can’t find them lol
The irony is that’s not Truman Capote. In the book, Jack’s gay and Holly is a man eating gold digger who ends up finding a wealthy South African and leaves New York to be with him.
I did not watch SATC and I have only seen videos on youtube reviewing the series but I found the Carrie/Candace personality to be materialistic, narcissistic and egotistical. The reason she spent so much money on clothes was to attract a wealthy man who would save her from her less than ideal life. They were props to find status in someone else. It's sad to know so many young women and teenagers watched that series and probably learned to take on the same predatory behavior.
Rent in late 70s was probably 200-300 dollars. Maybe $500 for a nice place. If you get a nice 1 bedroom in Manhattan in the late 90s for $900 then i must be right
@@Rubik_Bee they all end up getting got. Her Mr. Big slept with her while he courted and then married who he really wanted. And the ballet dancer (whose sexuality I question) ran off with her assistant. She’s a boomer and none of what she pushed on gen x worked. That’s why we’re in the midst of a dating reset.
Yes, the SATC foursome are GenX. The author, Candace Bushnell, is a Boomer. I genuinely loved Samantha's bravery and honesty, Miranda's intellect and sarcastic quips, Charlotte's love and loyalty to her friends. Carrie, however, just irks me with her inability to really be a good friend. She slut shames Samantha, condescends to Miranda, and expects Charlotte to come along and clean up her messes. How about the way she treats Aiden? And the constant screeching scream was definitely obnoxious. Side note, you scream like that over every little thing, then when you are actually in trouble, no one is going to take it seriously. I appreciate that others have a different point of view, this is just mine. I didn't care for Carrie, I thought she was prudish, and for all her preaching about friendship, a very surface level friend.
The boomer is Samantha. Born in 1958. I wish someone could do a series about Samantha arriving in New York in 1975 - 1976 when she was a poor nobody from Florida.
As a Millennial, I never found SATC particularly relatable. The intense focus on the "norm" being heterosexual and settling down to marry and have children just doesn't exist so much now (at least where I have lived in Australia and the UK) and the female-identifying people in my life have never spent an inordinate amount of time agonising over their dating lives. Neither have I. People are much more focused on careers, hobbies, travel etc. Romance just isn't this be-all-and-end-all thing anymore.
I'm a save Miss Bushnell is a thousand times better looking then Sarah Jessica Parker, normally Hollywood casts better looking people send a real counterpart and in this case they should have at least tried to find someone equal in Beauty but nope they cast the ugliest woman they could find,, which is why the show was so laughable
"I had no money, I made about 2,000 a month"... not me over here immediately googling and seeing "Adjusted for inflation, $2,000 in 1977 is equal to $10,541 in 2024." The math aint mathin 🤣
Goddamn. She must have been blowing money on shoes like Carrie.
I don't know, in NYC? That might not have gone very far
@@gregorywiederechtit definitely did go far. Most rent started at $600 for a studio/1br. That was definitely doable
thats whats confusing me. even in NY, $2000 a month sounds pretty good. maybe I'm wrong or she was exaggerating
But she wasn’t talking about when she first arrived in 1977. She was talking about when she lived with her friend Ann, as shown in the picture, in 1988.
We didn’t have a lot of money. I rode horses in my childhood. You had a lot of money.
My mom and I don’t have a lot of money AT ALL… I’ve had my one horse for 7 years. It’s called making sacrifices for the things you love
@@princessalliecat8 I don't begrudge you your passions and certainly not implying you're some secret privileged millionaire - but not having money at all isn't sacrificing for things you love, it's sacrifice for the things you need. It's surviving.
I think OP is just commenting on the absurdity of saying she didn't grow up with alot of money because she rode 'backyard' horses. She didn't not grow up with money - she just grew up with less money than her rich neighbours.
FAAAACTS🤣 literally my exact thought
I grew up poor and we rode horses.
I'm pretty sure compare to her peers
Mikhail Baryshnikov wasn’t a renowned ballet dancer. He was the greatest ballet dancer in the world in the 80s, and also the most famous. He was a total icon, the successor of Rudolf Nureyev.
it's so cool how Bushnell and SJP actually look so alike, great casting
they.. really don’t
@@dmtrv.mthey do but don't lmfao
I was about to say the opposite, this is the first time I’ve seen the actress playing the real person actually being SIGNIFICANTLY less attractive than the inspiration. I like that they went for an ugly girl to play the lead character, but it doesn’t make sense because the storyline implies that’s she’s very attractive.
Their vibes are matching
😂 I love it!
3:26 - Rest in peace Mr. Willie Garson (aka Stanford Blatch). He passed away sometime around 2021, he lost a battle with cancer.
When I went to Uni there were a lot of solidly middle class and upper middle class girlies that cried poor because they were in proximity to the old school moneyed type and the nueve rich.
I was a fully black immigrant from the hood who’s dad worked (3) jobs so my mom could raise us like ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ but their dad was a citizen with one really good job.
I was between the working poor and solidly working class. My mom would work Summers to pay for school pictures, camps etc., and quit.
All this to say two working parents that own a home in the suburbs of Connecticut with horseback riding. I understand how she felt like a sudo ‘poor’ 😊
That sounds like a girl I knew who grew up in Santa Barbara her dad is a millionaire and she grew up very well off, but claimed she wasn't spoiled because she had friends with much much more money.
Why do ppl tell their whole life stories just to make 1 point on the internet nowadays.
@@vivafree5070Why not?
🙄Roechelle famously says" my man has 2 jobs" and during every major holiday Julius wpuld pick up a 3rd 😑 R/1stworldproblems
@@klae7058 that show is famous with fully black Afro Caribbeans, Afro Brazilians and Afro Latinos.
My point was that he had an excellent MAIN job with benefits that he could retire from as a legal American citizen. All of my dad’s (3) jobs were under the table.
People compare life today to what Candace’s life would’ve been like in the late 80s or early 90s in New York. Same goes for Carrie’s reality in the late 90s early 2000s as a character. Back then, if you made say $5K a month as a writer (or $60K a year before taxes) you could’ve afforded a rent controlled 1bedroom 1bath apartment by the time you reached your 30s. That didn’t make you rich, especially if you were using your disposable income on clothes and going out all the time instead of on groceries, but it’s very much apart of the single girl in new york lifestyle.
When I went to college in New York, we all did the same thing. Whatever scraps of money we had left, we spent on shopping sprees at Beacon’s Closet, ubers to parties across town, and ate at Veselka. I would jump turnstiles and live off of $1 pizza late at night to make it all worth it. Living above one’s means is what it means to be bourgeoisie. That’s the whole point of Carrie’s character. It’s not that the show is unrealistic, people just have a hard time believing someone would openly live so impractically, but that’s what every bougie middle class person does, especially in a city as expensive as New York. You fake it till you make it, or look fabulous trying.
LA as well.
See.... Carrie isn't a college girl . She is over 30 . 🤷
@@Some_guy_passing_byI am 31, living in a big city in Europe and that’s actually me. I have a decent salary but I spent it all to a way too expensive apartment, Uber, expensive hair dressers, parties, drugs and fashion. It’s still happening in big cities. Even if you are no college student anymore
The problem is not that it’s unrealistic ( ofcourse she can afford it, she has rich friends) the problem is that its stupid
Candace is so gorgeous! She reminds me of Samantha, not Carrie.
My thoughts exactly
Sammmmmmeeee
Charlotte I believe does say " you can't put this in your column" at one point in the series, I think in season 2? So they do know and do object sometimes.
good observation! thanks for pointing that out xx
I remember that, it was when she slept with a rabbi
It was season 1 actually
Carrie didn’t use her oven to store shoes. It was sweaters. 🤣
Either way. It's excessive. It's sick.
@@peekaboots01 Indeed. The more I remember Carrie, the more I dislike her. She is a lousy friend, I never understood why she was the dearest friend of each of the other three. It was all about her - me, me, me.
But there are also other things, beyond character flaws, that always unnerved me. What woman in her mid 30s going on 40s and living alone, doesn’t know how to cook, not even a fondue?!
And she’s a professional, yet she adopts “shoegal” as her e-mail address. More than childish, it’s stupid. Not to mention her complete ignorance of how e-mailing worked.
She doesn’t speak any language. What kind of education has she had?! I’m Portuguese, and I also speak and write French, English and Spanish fluently.
She has appalling table manners, she talks with her mouth full (sometimes we even can see what she’s chewing), she gesticulates with knife and fork all the time. Again, what kind of education has she had, and what background does she come from?
In the first film, she has never watched Meet Me in St. Louis, a revered classic. In the second, she has never watched It Happened One Night , another revered classic. Had we suffered a third film, perhaps we would discover she had never watched Casablanca either. 🙄
I know she’s a fictional character, but the woman gets on my nerves more than words can say.
@@TeresaLeandroAre you a writer?
@@kk-forever-grateful I’m not. May I ask the reason for your question? 😊
@@TeresaLeandroI'm not a fan of the show. I think I saw two episodes, I was young when it came out. I have only seen the movies. My question is if you hate the main character so much, why did you keep watching it ?? And why are you watching TH-cam videos??? 😂
Carrie is the epitome of vanity, and yet most women could relate to her once in a while.
True don’t we all, And poor self acceptance. I base my opinion in the way the character let Big to
use her and gaslight her for 10 years.
And true we all be there the point was that many woke up out if the pattern faster it took the character many disappointments with the same individuals. I never notice all this while I watched the show but now I can see clearly 😅
This show made me wanting to be single and move to a big city!
yes!!!! and drink cosmos and wear manolos XD
Only in the 1990s you could land a career job without a college degree. Impossible now aday. You need at least a bachelors degree and in most masters degrees in the entre level.
Not true
FYI: Carrie's apartment was on the Upper East Side. The TV show used a façade was from a West Village building.
Love this. I remember my mum and her friends talking about how great the book was, and then the series came out!! I must read it... obviously I've watched the series.. and re-watched after every break up ❤
Welp, I was a freelance writer for Vogue in 2023 and got 100 EUR (approx. 110 dollars I assume?) per article. At 1000 words an article, that’s a cool 10 cents per word. No wonder I can’t afford designer shoes
still an interesting path! did you enjoy your time working for vogue?
How did you get this job
i watched satc when it went on netflix and then saw the book on sale after i finished the show so obviously i bought it. i read about 3/4 of the way and honestly did not like it enough to continue, but maybe i’ll finish it. either way, this answered so many questions i had about candace bushnell and the reality of it all, thank you!
It was a hard, horrible read, I couldn't finish it either. She was so lucky someone bought it to make it a series. I won tickets to hear her speak, I was so excited, what a disappointment. Her speaking skills were as bad as her writing, IMO
@@lisawende5161 well you saved me some time, and money
I didn’t care for the book either, but she has many other well-written, entertaining novels you should check out, like Four Blondes. Also, the YA book she wrote, The Carrie Diaries, is really good!
То же самое, мне книгу одолжила одноклассница в далёком 2003 или 2004 году. Я с трудом осилила половину и бросила, хотя вообще-то я всегда дочитываю книги, даже если они мне не нравятся.
Love your videos!!
What a cultural shift SATC was!
thank you so much for the love! 💖 SATC truly was a cultural shift, redefining how we talk about relationships, friendships, and life in general. glad to see it still resonates with so many!
So fascinating how so many women seem to create an alter ego, to let out the side not as socially acceptable..
*mic drop* what a brilliant observation!
I’ve been waiting for someone to make this video
Honestly, I always hated Carrie & Mr. Big’s relationship, back when I watched when SatC was originally airing. It reminded me of my mom & her former longtime boyfriend, who she dated for years despite him being toxic af & having a wife AND other gf. I just couldn’t feel anything but dislike for Carrie & Big, and I hated them ending up together.
This is my favorite series ever. I still watch it!!
how sychronistic, Ive been revisiting SATC the past couple of days. You did an EXCELLENT job with this video, very insightful & well researched. I love your voice & accent too, its lovely. Thank you for making this, very fun watch.
Also if you grew up in Connecticut riding horses, and your family didn't talk about money, its probably because you had it 😅
This was SO GOOD ❤❤ Thank you for creating this 😊
Hey, I’ve been watching your content for the last month. I loved this little essay form on Bushnell. It’s very informed.
thank you so much! i really appreciate it xx
You’re so welcome - happy Fourth of July! 💖💖
loved the editing ❤ great video.
What a well done video!! Really enjoyed
Carrie Bradshaw‘s apartment was in the upper EAST side of New York City, not the west side.
yes, you are right! sorry, we all make mistakes. thanks for pointing that out xx
The fact that it's Upper East Side makes it even more unrealistic 😶
I just visited it in the West Village or you mean in the series?
Always enjoy your videos and insight on SATC
thank you I appreciate that xx
I loved Lipstick Jungle the series, this video made me want to read all of her books
I have to admit I haven't see this series yet. would you recommend it?
@@KasiaSopniewska I would recommend it but, I haven't watched in a while so I don't know if it aged well. It only lasted 2 seasons, the leads were played by Kim Raver (Teddy on Grey's), Brooke Shields and Lindsey Price, and it was kinda SATC but focusing also in the careers of the characters, not only relationships.
@@KasiaSopniewska it didn’t age well. They came off too pretentious. I tried to watch but couldn’t finish.
I was so annoyed when they cancelled that. So much potential.
Loved that show
what a perfect video this was, you should be so proud of yourself my angel 💝 this was phenomenal. The editing, the mixed media, the writing, script, your voice, storytelling and the overall vibe is just perfect so beautiful
I wish it was winter 4 me too
Bushnell got scammed out of an amazing financial deal by Michael Patrick King and HBO.
how come? that's really surprising to hear. could you please elaborate?
She only made $60,000 for the book rights & gets no royalties from the show or movies.
@@writerchick3202wow
@writerchick3202 Yikessss that's a scam
I had no idea, this was such a good video!
I love all of the ladies in SATC
MPK actually discussed in an interview that SJP thought of casting Mischa as Petrovsky one morning while she was in the shower.
I agree Candace. You and Mr Big would have never made it. ❤
Mr Big and Carrie was me and my ex. On the contrary, we did not get back together. However I am 32 and I wonder if I will, this show amuses me because I see myself in every character.
It’s a good day with a new Kasia video
thank you 💕 happy Sunday
Oh I love your voice and reading. New fan.
i'm early! was anticipating this video for weeks now
i hope it that the video didn’t disappoint 😬
@@KasiaSopniewska i loved it! i learned much more about candance through this, also i remember when lipstick jungle was a short-lived series. i wish it got more than a season, i could be mistaken but it probably got cancelled due to the strike in 2007-2008
This was a wonderful video! I love how the show writers caught little details from the book (ie the coat and Samantha’s intro being almost wore for word the book). I’m happy for Candace, the ending of the show should have been Carries :) but ngl, I love Mr Big
9:23 LMAO that was too provocative and now we got onlyfanz and shit at the drop of our hands , funny how that’s light work compared to today
Met her and went to the same ballet school her ex husband went to
wow! how was she?
@@KasiaSopniewska she a sweet heart. I felt bad for the heart ache she went through. She married a younger guy named Charles Askgaurd. Look him up. He danced with New York City Ballet. Unfortunately he had an affair with another dancer. She wrote a book. And Candace pulled a boss move by outing the mistress in public. We ran in the same social circle. Try reading the articles Candace wrote before the book. The NYC party scene was much different than it is now. I lived it during the late 80’s till early 2000’s. I think this is why so many of the up and coming generations fail to understand the SATC show. And yes, if you check out some of Candace interviews she did get screwed when it came off to selling the rights to the show. The first and second season were true to the articles and book. By the third and so on they had kicked her to the curb and taken the character into a whole new direction. She said that she based all the characters in different friends in her life. So Carrie is a mixture of her and other women she knows. And yes there was a real Mr. Big. But she didn’t marry him in real life. He married someone else.
I watch your videos while i work. Your voice is so relaxing.
good to hear
Loved this video❤
I appreciate the typewriter sounds :)
Very well done 👏🏽💕
Love this love carrie ❤️ 😅
It was really entertaining video, your graphic style is so chic 💅💄⚘️
loooooved the video! so well researched and informative. also maybe a weird question but are you polish?? judging by your name and surname haha
yes I am polish, but I live in Switzerland, which you can def hear in my accent :) hope that clears things up
Candace and I were both born on December 1st
Really great video
Didn’t this woman come out and say it was a mistake she didn’t marry and regrets her life
No she was married age regrets not having kids
For my part, I think Carrie and MR Big are twin flames …So that’ s why they never hab been separated ! They could not ! Strong Link .
A 500 Word column is 2K at $4.50 a word, and it may have been more words than that 😭😭😭
amazing video
Took me 20 years to realize they share the same initials 😃
I love your videos!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
thank you! i appreciate that so much 💕
Omg i love this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never knew!!!!!
And now she’s truly alone with no kids. You should really listen to Candace Bushnell ladies. She knows what she’s doing.
are you a man? why are you here?
I did not know this this is so cool
I loved the "Sex and the City" TV series, but I couldn't get into the book at all.
I get it, the book is both deep and shallow, which makes it hard to read. with few recurring characters, it's tough to form an emotional connection with anyone.
@@KasiaSopniewska Exactly. I related to the characters on the TV show, but the book left me cold.
Carrie lives in the east side not west
thanks for the correction. Carrie does indeed live on the Upper East Side, not the West. appreciate you pointing that out xx
11:30 =Low-scale got the TS treatment...
Carrie did not live on the Upper West Side
17:17 oh aint she reaching
I loved the show in my 20s but now hearing about her real life in my 40s - she sounds shallow and superficial.
Carrie owned her apartment, it was not rent controlled
The apartment was rent controlled but later up for sale.
She didn't own her apartment until much later. Before, it was rented to her.
Rent controlled until she purchased it at the end of season 4 (or the end of season 5?).
I didn't care for the book but i loved the show
Upper East Side. That’s all I’m going to say.
I love sex and the city...but I think the inspiration comes from John John Kennedy Jr ( Mr Big) and Carolyn Bessette. For some reason they've always reminded me of them
I can't believe real the Mr. Big was so much uglier than the fictional! (while real Carrie was so much prettier than the fictional) Forgive my superficiality 🤷🏽♀
True lol
The only people who would know who she is talking about are her close circle or people who were really around her during that time. I tried find who these women were in real life, can’t find them lol
lol I make just a bit over 2k and I live on my own in Sd. Miss girl was eating Manolo Blaniks
In 1995 she was making 7k/month or $14,500 today.
The irony is that’s not Truman Capote. In the book, Jack’s gay and Holly is a man eating gold digger who ends up finding a wealthy South African and leaves New York to be with him.
I did not watch SATC and I have only seen videos on youtube reviewing the series but I found the Carrie/Candace personality to be materialistic, narcissistic and egotistical. The reason she spent so much money on clothes was to attract a wealthy man who would save her from her less than ideal life. They were props to find status in someone else. It's sad to know so many young women and teenagers watched that series and probably learned to take on the same predatory behavior.
Carrie lived on the Upper East Side…
THAT'S BIG !!!! that man with the egg shaped head ??? Oh god
Rent in late 70s was probably 200-300 dollars. Maybe $500 for a nice place. If you get a nice 1 bedroom in Manhattan in the late 90s for $900 then i must be right
So basically miss candy was a chronic PICK ME ...interesting
@@Rubik_Bee Yes! She was a male identified ‘pick me’. And not like other girls ‘cool girl’ in her delulu mind.
@@Ricoque-u2m Shaking my head
@@Rubik_Bee they all end up getting got. Her Mr. Big slept with her while he courted and then married who he really wanted. And the ballet dancer (whose sexuality I question) ran off with her assistant.
She’s a boomer and none of what she pushed on gen x worked. That’s why we’re in the midst of a dating reset.
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Kinda looks like Catherine Winnyk
you're so right!
What’s the tapping in the video? Is it supposed to be a typewriter? Lol
Loved the show not the sex scenes I want to watch without it
why?
What I wouldn't give for $2000 monthly
Specially in the 70s/80s, If im not wrong thats like 9k a month nowdays
I don’t even make $2000 a month in 2024 🙃
She seems as insufferable as Carrie. How fitting!!
"Who is Anne, and why does she need someone to pretend to be her secretary?" hmmmm lol
6:52 “Loco Poladicks”
No wonder the character of Carrie is so obnoxious and somewhat boring, Bushnell is a Boomer.
Carrie is a character born in the late 60s like Miranda and Charlotte. Really well written gen Xers.
Nope gen x. But also how can someone be obnoxious and boring? 🤔
Yes, the SATC foursome are GenX. The author, Candace Bushnell, is a Boomer. I genuinely loved Samantha's bravery and honesty, Miranda's intellect and sarcastic quips, Charlotte's love and loyalty to her friends. Carrie, however, just irks me with her inability to really be a good friend. She slut shames Samantha, condescends to Miranda, and expects Charlotte to come along and clean up her messes. How about the way she treats Aiden? And the constant screeching scream was definitely obnoxious. Side note, you scream like that over every little thing, then when you are actually in trouble, no one is going to take it seriously.
I appreciate that others have a different point of view, this is just mine. I didn't care for Carrie, I thought she was prudish, and for all her preaching about friendship, a very surface level friend.
The boomer is Samantha.
Born in 1958. I wish someone could do a series about Samantha arriving in New York in 1975 - 1976 when she was a poor nobody from Florida.
As a Millennial, I never found SATC particularly relatable. The intense focus on the "norm" being heterosexual and settling down to marry and have children just doesn't exist so much now (at least where I have lived in Australia and the UK) and the female-identifying people in my life have never spent an inordinate amount of time agonising over their dating lives. Neither have I. People are much more focused on careers, hobbies, travel etc. Romance just isn't this be-all-and-end-all thing anymore.
Sex in the City did more damage to modern women than patriarchy ever could.
Yes, hookup culture on steroids nonsense. Pickmes & cool girls and Carrie was both.
@Test-x9k 🎯
Carrie is boring
I hate BIG too
So candace was also a pick me 🥴 yikes
How mentally sick you have to be to go and buy shoes instead of food
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Carrie and Candace were both skinny because they smoked and bought clothes instead of food😂
I'm a save Miss Bushnell is a thousand times better looking then Sarah Jessica Parker, normally Hollywood casts better looking people send a real counterpart and in this case they should have at least tried to find someone equal in Beauty but nope they cast the ugliest woman they could find,, which is why the show was so laughable
Carried Bradshaw was annoying