Sex and the City Season 6

I’ve done it. I’ve decided to indulge in superficiality for a couple of hours and go through the 6^th Sex and the City season. I just wanted to see how it ends, mkay? I need my dose of trendy sexually deviant American girls in their mid-forties sometimes I guess. heh.

I’ve never quite followed this show, just caught it up sometimes on HBO and found it pretty entertaining. Certainly entertaining enough to deserve a download. (I’ve downloaded worse stuff)

Well after going through season 6 I’ve certainly got what I wanted: a few laughs, a lot of empathy and cheap entertainment. Ok that sounded really pretentious. Actually it’s a really good show. I appreciate the effort into making it since and all the 4 actresses deliver great performances. Kim Cattrall (Samantha) is tremendous as the fancy nymphomaniac and got my undivided attention when all 4 of them were on screen. Carrie (Sarah Jessicah Parker) is the main character therefore destined to be the most balanced – this is always going to be a minus, since the personality is going to always be faded in some way or another, in an attempt to equilibrate the others’. Who wants equilibrium on screen? But Sarah Jessicah Parker delivers it great. This actress is certainly intriguing. Sometimes she seems so fake and act-ish but sometimes she delivers the lines with such naturalness that I wonder if I didn’t judge her wrong in the first place. One thing that she does posses, besides a pair of beautiful, absorbing blue eyes, is charisma. Nonetheless, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) comes close after Samantha in terms of screen presence: with a nice dosage of cynicism and coldness, she has a twisted sense of humor and sarcasm that fits the overall atmosphere of the show. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) on the other hand, is not quite likeable, because the writers make her feel like a caricature most of the time, with only the “goody-goody” aspect of her personality being so highlighted that the character seems too much of a typology for my taste.

Well, I do like the revolution that this “show has made for single women” – (I’m guessing this is their advertisment line). I’m a feminist I guess so I’m going to appreciate something sort of progressive like this show is, or was. Because these women, apart from being obsessed with clothing, sex and expensive restaurants, are also quite smart, witty and sometimes show signs of independece.

A good show, all in all, nothing mind-blowing nor breath-taking. All actresses deliver good performances, and are credible as a group of friends. One thing that I find as truly lame are Carrie’s supposedely clever articles. Most of the time, though, they come off as pseudo-intellectual and banal.