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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: HBO Home Video
Salesrank: 1771
Released: May 22, 2001 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
They're back... HBO Home Video now brings you Sex and the City: The Complete Second Season. From creator and executive producer Darren Star, the award-winning, hit series stars two-time Golden Globe winner Sarah Jessica Parker. Also starring Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, The Complete Second Season features 18 episodes and 9 hours on 3 DVD discs or 4 VHS tapes.
DVD Features:
Biographies
Episodic Previews
Featurette
Filmographies
Description of Sex and the City - The Complete Second Season:
A smart and savvy (albeit highly stylized) look at the single lives of four thirtysomething Manhattan women, Sex and the City: The Complete Second Season builds on the foundation of its first season with plot arcs that are both hilarious and heartfelt, taking the show from breakout hit to true pop-culture phenomenon. Relationship epiphanies coexist happily alongside farcical plots and zingy one-liners, resulting in emotionally satisfying episodes that feature the sharp kind of character-defining dialogue that seems to have disappeared from the rest of TV long ago. When last we left the NYC gals, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) had just broken up with a commitment-phobic Mr. Big (Chris Noth), but fans of Noth's seductive-yet-distant rake didn't have to wait long until he was back in the picture, as he and Carrie tried to make another go of it. Their relationship evolution, from reunion to second breakup, provides the core of the second season. The fittingly titled and keenly observed episode "Evolution" found Carrie trying to leave a few feminine belongings at Mr. Big's apartment with little success, charting the challenges and limits of intimacy. And the season's finale, "Ex and the City," was a melancholy goodbye for Carrie and Big that took its cue from The Way We Were. It wasn't all angst, though: among other adventures, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) puzzles over whether one of her beaus was "gay-straight" or "straight-gay"; Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) tries to date a guy who insists on having sex only in places where they might get caught; and Samantha (the exquisite Kim Cattrall) copes with dates who range from, um, not big enough to far too big--with numerous stops in between. Through it all, the four actresses cohered into a solid ensemble that played on their complex relationships among themselves as well as with men; in two short years, Parker and company became one of the best TV casts in over a decade. And to top it all off, the second season offers 18 episodes, six more than the first. Sometimes size really can make a difference! --Mark Englehart
Sex and the City - The Complete Second Season Reviews:
Great price! 
2009-09-08 - Great price for an entire season of the show. Definitely beats buying the whole collection.
No redeeming features 
2009-07-14 - Best avoided along with all other mainstream junk. The one value to this series is for American males: take the women in it as an object lesson in what to avoid in life in the realization that there are things worse (much worse) than loneliness.
La Douleur Exquise (The Exquisite Pain)
2009-06-02 - La Douleur Exquise (The Exquisite Pain)
Season Two isn't much healthier on the growth and esteem of the women involved. All are still relationship fanatical, needy and practically fraught and foaming at the mouth for commitment because apparently the end point in a woman's life is to be married. Note, I'm not a feminazi here, not militant or extreme, as I don't have a problem with commitment, monogamy, or marriage...just a concerned woman eyeing the horizon for the future of womankind who sees a very poor one; full of little girls sleeping around (more younger and younger), valuing their virtue less and less as they don the whorish clothing we see in juniors sections around the world, flashing parts of their bodies on television claiming momentary loss of inhibition due to excessive alcohol consumption,
selling off parts of their souls to settle down with anyone, and all the while making themselves out to be the second sex instead of an equal.
Once again Big is in the picture vacillating between a pig and charmer, and Carrie is all too happy, like the little petulant masochist, to let him use her as a ahem...."dumpster" and nothing more. What did she expect when they got back together? Roses and a ring? Moving in together? If you have to question the validity of a relationship and have to hide it from people, than honestly you don't have one. Depraved, pathetic, and fairly degrading to the female kind in general. Charlotte is still mousy and about as wholesome as you can be with this troop, though equally promiscuous. Carrie (as aforesaid) is pitiable and full of the same silly quotables/questions she uses to "decode" men...though how anyone can assume she's a master of relationship advice is beyond me. Miranda seems to be more career oriented, as her jaded relationship views (not all unwarranted) have poisoned her on the idea of a healthy one (though she manages to encounter at least one this season). And Samantha, oh Samantha, still getting herself into interesting situations and circumstances with her slew of partners while fighting stereotype, age, and society's puritanical viewpoints. This was one of my least favorite seasons overall because we continue to see the decline of Carrie, in what will be (later seasons) an unending dance with the man we know as Big in her life, who'll, for years to come, jerk her around like the clingy, miserable doll she is luring her back over and over, destroying not only hers, but other relationships in the process.
Yes, it's entertaining to listen to the ladies as they lunch and gossip, sipping on their trendy cocktails, and accessorized in insanely overpriced ill looking clothing. There's even a handsome diss cameo from Bon Jovi. Worth catching on the occasion On Demand, but I wouldn't buy.
Sex and the City Second Season 
2009-04-15 - Love the series so I had to have this DVD. Cover was slightly broken, but it still held all the DVDs properly. Good otherwise.
Didn't let me down. 
2009-02-08 - The second season didn't let me down! The product came in on time and in excellent condition.
