Did you like Sex and the City?    I couldn't watch it because each episode seemed to be 30 minutes of conspicuous consumption porn.   Besides I am very uncomfortable with swearing and with women swearing in particular.   Did you watch it because you liked it or thought that you should like it?    I tried watching Desperate Housewives because I thought that I should want to watched it.   I forced myself to watch about 10 episodes before finally saying to myself ' this is silly you don't like this programme'.  So I stopped.   
I watched Buffy and Charmed because I genuinely liked them.   I never watched those teen soaps like Beverley Hills 90210, or One Orange something, and surprisingly I have never seen Gossip Girl, probably because that show is on satellite over here.    My mother quite liked Grey's Anatomy but she went off it as it became too syrupy for her.

I always thought that for a TV show S&tC was almost realistic.  Which is as close as it gets.

Quote from: tekla on July 25, 2011, 05:19:58 PM
I always thought that for a TV show S&tC was almost realistic.  Which is as close as it gets.

Have you read that Sex... was really about gay men?   The writers and producers were all gay, they knew that the networks would never allow a programme about four gay men so they substituted 'emancipated women' and Sex... was born.    There was a lot of nudge-nudge, wink-wink, 'we men of the world know what is really going on, but those silly women take it all at face value.' 

The show was based in part on writer Candace Bushnell's (a female) book of the same name, compiled from her column with the New York Observer. Bushnell has stated in several interviews that the Carrie Bradshaw in her columns is her alter ego; when she wrote the "Sex and the City" essays.  Though the gay theory works, most of the executive producers, producers and head writer were women.

And, at least in the big major cities (NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, Washington) there is no shortage of highly educated professional women who are basically using conspicuous consumption (itself an idea from the 1899 book, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorsten Veblen) to conceal? substitute? ignore? the basic truth, which is, in the end, they are shallow, superficial, and self-absorbed.  Which is why I find it realistic.