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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Home Box Office (HBO)
Salesrank: 810
Released: May 23, 2000 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This hilarious look at dating, mating and relating in New York is "a thinking person's sitcom, brutally honest and hilariously funny." - The San Francisco Examiner. Can women have sex like men? What's it like to date someone younger? And what is "The Rabbit"? Find out in "Sex And The City."
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Description of Sex and the City - The Complete First Season:
Now you can achieve multiple viewings of the best Sex on TV. Winner of Golden Globes for Best TV Series and Best Actress, Sex and the City is based on Candace Bushnell's provocative bestselling book. Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Carrie Bradshaw, a self-described "sexual anthropologist," who writes "Sex and the City," a newspaper column that chronicles the state of sexual affairs of Manhattanites in this "age of un-innocence." Her "posse," including nice girl Charlotte (Kristin Davis), hard-edged Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and party girl Samantha (Kim Cattrall)--not to mention her own tumultuous love life--gives Carrie plenty of column fodder. Over the course of the first season's 12 episodes, the most prominent dramatic arc concerns Carrie, who goes from turning the tables on "toxic bachelors" by having "sex like a man" to wanting to join the ranks of "the monogamists" with the elusive Mr. Big (Chris Noth). Meanwhile, Miranda, Cynthia, and Samantha have their own dating woes, few of which can be described on a family Web site. Seinfeld has nothing on Sex and the City when it comes to shallow, self-absorbed characters or coining catch phrases. Episode 2, for example, introduces the term "modelizer": a guy who is obsessed with and will only date models. Some may accuse this series of male bashing. But women, after years of enduring shows with "men behaving badly," will relish the equal time. Some may blanch at the ladies' graphic language and ribald humor, or dismiss some of the situations as unrealistic (Carrie doesn't bat an eye when she discovers that an artist friend surreptitiously videotapes his sexual conquests). Still others will view Sex and the City as documentary. Regardless of your view, this groundbreaking series will have you longing for more. --Donald Liebenson
Sex and the City - The Complete First Season Reviews:
Entertaining, escapist....and curiously dated 
2009-11-10 - I watched a few episodes from the first series again recently, and was struck by how very dated it all seemed. The world SATC depicts is very much the pre-9/11 America of the Clinton era - buoyant, culturally liberal, over-confident and slightly intoxicated with its own economic success. The cumulative impact of 9/11, the Iraq War and a great financial crash have taken their toll and the series now seems emblematic of a quite different, altogether less vulnerable era. Even the film felt dated when it came out (although this did not stop me from enjoying it).
I have to admit that I do find SATC entertaining when I'm in the right mood, and the women are all gorgeous to look at (despite what some male detractors would have us believe). Sometimes the series just seems escapist in a light hearted and enjoyable way. But there is no doubt that it panders to and celebrates the worst stereotypes about air-headed female behaviour, and I can't help feeling slightly ambivalent about this. The women whine and cogitate endlessly about the failings of their boyfriends and their own lack of self-fulfilment, and the audience is, by implication, expected to empathise with their angst, when in fact it is blindingly obvious that all four women already possess all the ingredients of a happy, fulfilled life, if they could only let go of some of their dysfunctional attitudes and behaviour. Why a fetishistic obsession with expensive shoes and designer labels should be thought 'empowering' in a modern woman beats me. But then again I find it difficult to understand why women like this would ever feel oppressed in the first place. From any external (particularly non-US) perspective they would appear to be some of the most privileged and sheltered human beings on the planet. The gay characters in the series are also crude stereotypes. Invariably highly effeminate and employed in the fashion industry, they like nothing better than to gossip with straight women and share their deepest confidences. This is a Hollywood fantasy about how gay men behave. In reality most - well, certainly the ones I've met - are unremarkably masculine in behaviour and strongly prefer the company of other men.
SATC is perhaps best accepted for what it aims to be - harmless, escapist entertainment featuring neurotic, sexually hyper-active people you would never really want to meet in real life - Woody Allen for the 1990s but without the NY Jewish humour that kept Allen's best films so firmly anchored in real life. A manifesto for feminism or female self-empowerment it most certainly 'aint.
fast shipping, damaged case
2009-10-18 - fast shipping, but packaging came slightly damaged, when it was supposed to be shipped 'new.'
sex and the city #1 
2009-10-16 - I was really shocked when I received this IwAS PERFECT ALMOST NEW. i WAS VERY HAPPY WITH WASY THAT IT LOOK AND VIEW JUST LIKE NEW
Satisfaction without fail 
2009-10-15 - I bought this for a friend who had never seen the show. Obviously she loves it. Thanks!
Wonderful quality, but could not use as a gift
2009-08-31 - The quality is wonderful but the package is
flawed; it would not make a good gift.
