Sex and the City

The third season ends with all of the ladies single. I think that is really when the show is at its best. The girls show up for each other more when they aren’t centering the men in their lives. And often when they get out of long term or serious relationships it's because they are demonstrating what it means to be a strong woman. They are looking out for themselves or their friends and they don’t let love or affection get in the way of that. They obviously referring to all the other women, not Carrie. Carrie would throw all her friends off a cliff for Big and it's pathetic.

To that point season 4 holds a very interesting storyline for Samantha. She starts having a relationship with an artist named Maria. And while she is trying to talk to Carrie about it, Carrie is too wrapped up in her newest non-relationship to even bother listening to her friend. Samantha is having a new experience (not even the woman thing, but the relationship thing) and Carrie can’t think about someone else for a single second.

Carrie and Miranda get invited to the opening of Steve and Aiden’s bar and god damn do they overthink about whether they are going to go or not. Carrie is so embarrassing. She finds out that Aiden isn’t the one that invited her and she can’t suck it up enough to support Miranda. She tries to leave the bar opening immediately after arrival and the girls have to beg her to stay. Literally makes everything about her all the time. “Aiden though…I’m just afraid the way I treated him is going to haunt me for the rest of my life” IT SHOULD CARRIE. You fucking cheated on him, that shit better haunt you for the rest of your life.

Carrie tells Aiden that she wants to get back together and he rejects her (as he should) and she again starts acting like a teenager. She goes over to his place and he tells her no AGAIN and she keeps pushing. He loses it and tells her that she broke him and she runs away like the irritating coward that she is. He then goes after her and they sleep together because Aiden is also a weak ass bitch. I’ve always hated that they get back together, she never deserved him.

Charlotte tells the girls that she wants to quit her job and essentially be a stay at home wife…this idea is met with no a whole lot of support. Now to be fair Samantha has a point in that if she quits working she is going to be replaced by someone younger and more ambitious and therefore if she ever wants to go back to work it will be more difficult for her to do so. However I think that they should have been more supportive of their friend's decision.

Miranda calls Carrie on her shit finally. Miranda is all laid up because of a bad neck and Carrie comes over essentially to just bitch about Aiden. I love that she routinely gets called out by her friends for being boy obsessed and stupid and selfish but nothing ever changes.

I think the thing that frustrates me the most is the lack of any self awareness or character development from Carrie. She is the main character but the way that she starts the series is the way that she ends the series. She is selfish, stupid and immature. She really can’t seem to get it together. She is a grown ass adult who still acts like she is 13 years old.