Aspirations

I had a bit of a Sex and the City marathon the other night accompanied with ice cream and various female musical icons such as Madonna, Aretha and Gaga (they really need no last name).

So I had a rather girly evening.

However it got me thinking about the lives they lead and how ridiculously overprivelged they really are. For instance, there is no way that Carrie could afford an apartment like that and a designer shoe collection on a journalistic salary.

And yet we are supposed to buy into the lifestyle where all of them have successful careers but only ever seem to sit around a table talking about sex rather than actually doing any work. Carrie always seems to only write one sentence of every article then turns off her laptop (without saving), staring off into the middle distance and still is somehow rehired by her newspaper. And are we seriously supposed to believe that Samantha hasn't had some form of STI?

It does look nice to live in New York City with no financial concerns whatsoever whilst you do a job you actually like but the whole thing seems rather like hollow consumer porn.

I've never been a major Sex and the City fan because it always seemed like there was nothing really beneath the surface. It was almost a tad boring watching rich people run around New York City, I wasn't incensed by the rejection of the little man; I was just ambivalent.


The endless product placement starts to drag. I know its a key part of the Sex and the City brand but I do think people get sick of the vapid conspicious consumption. Take the lastest Sex and the City movie, Abu Dhabi seems nice and glamourous (the hotel looked lovely) but if you stop and think, what makes it better than anywhere else? Its sunny, but so is southern Spain and thats only a short Ryanair flight away. The hotel room is so luxurious; as long as its clean and there is working plumbing does it really matter?

I just don't understand why projecting the materiaslistic dream onto our television sets is supposed to entertain us; the real thing certainly doesn't make us happy. Even seeing rich people miserable doesn't seem that interesting.

I think that SATC became a sensation because women enjoying sex was controversial. Had it been debuted today it probably would have sank without a trace.