Sex and the City

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Sex and the City is an American cable television program based on the book of the same name. It was originally broadcast on the HBO network from 1998 until 2004. Set in New York City, the show focuses on the sex lives of four female best friends, three of whom are in their mid-to-late thirties, and one of whom, Samantha, is in her forties. A sitcom with soap opera elements, the show often tackled socially relevant issues, such as the status of women in society. Sex and the City premiered on June 6, 1998, and the last original episode aired on February 22, 2004.

Carrie Bradshaw and her three best girlfriends navigate the rocky terrain of being a single, sexually active woman in the new millennium. The show became famous for shooting scenes on the streets and in the bars, restaurants and clubs of New York City, while pushing the envelope of fashion and shattering sexual taboos.

Receiving consistent critical and popular acclaim, it was based on the book that was compiled from the New York Observer column "Sex and the City" by Candace Bushnell. The first season of the show is a free adaptation of its source material, but from the second season on, it took on a life of its own and went farther than the book ever could have. Each episode in season one featured a short montage of interviews that Carrie supposedly conducted while researching her column. These continued through season two, then were phased out.

Season one of Sex and the City aired on HBO from June to August 1998. Season two was broadcast from June until October 1999. Season three aired from June until October 2000. Season four was broadcast in two parts: from June until August 2001, and then in January and February 2002. Season five, truncated due to Parker's pregnancy, aired on HBO during the summer of 2002. The twenty episodes of the final season, season six, aired in two parts: from June until September 2003 and during January and February 2004.

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Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) writes a weekly sex column titled "Sex and the City" for the fictitious New York Star. Literally the voice of the show, each episode is structured around her train of thought while writing her column. A member of the New York glitterati, she is a club/bar/restaurant staple who is known for her unique fashion sense; violently yoking together various styles into one outfit (it is not uncommon for her to pair inexpensive vintage pieces with high end couture). Carrie focuses most of her attention on designer shoes, primarily Manolo Blahniks, though she has been known to wear Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo as well. Often meeting "her credit card limit" in one shoe shopping trip, it is unclear how the modest income of a newspaper columnist could support such an addiction, but in later seasons, her column is collected as a book and she begins taking assignments from Vogue and New York Magazine. She lives in a one-bedroom apartment in an Upper East Side brownstone, which she eventually buys with money lent by Charlotte after estimating that, over the years, she has spent $40,000 on shoes - money which could have been used as a down payment for the loan towards her apartment. Her blemishes include having had an abortion after a one-night stand (ten years prior to the show's continuity) and an affair with a married Mr. Big during her relationship with Aidan. Defining statement: "I like my money right where I can see it - hanging in my closet."

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Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) is an art dealer with a Connecticut blue-blooded upbringing. She is the most conservative and traditional of the group, the one who places the most emphasis on emotional love in a relationship as opposed to sex and is always searching for her "knight in shining armor". Often scoffing at the lewder, more libertine antics that the show presents (primarily in Samantha), she has been known to make concessions that even surprise her sexually freer girlfriends (such as her participation in dirty talk). She gives up her successful career as art dealer shortly after her marriage to Dr. Trey MacDougal, a heart surgeon who gives her his Park Avenue apartment upon their divorce. She re-marries her less than perfect, but good hearted, divorce lawyer, Harry Goldenblatt, but only after she converts to Judaism. She is also a graduate of Smith College. Defining statement: "I've been dating since I was fifteen, I'm exhausted. Where is he!?"

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Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) is a career-minded lawyer and Upper West Sider with extremely cynical views on relationships and men. A Harvard University graduate from Philadelphia, she is Carrie's best friend, confidante, and voice of reason. In the early seasons, she is portrayed as masculine and borderline misandric, but this image softens over the years, particularly after becoming pregnant by her on again-off again boyfriend, Steve Brady. In the final season Miranda and Steve marry and relocate to Brooklyn in order to make room for their growing family. Defining statement: "I can't have a baby. I could barely find time to schedule this abortion."

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Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), the oldest and most promiscuous of the group, is an independent publicist whose relationship pattern could be considered stereotypically masculine. A seductress who avoids emotional involvement at all costs while satisfying every possible carnal desire imagineable. She believes that she has had "hundreds" of soulmates and insists that her sexual partners leave "an hour after I climax". Over the course of the show, she does have a handful of real relationships, one of which is with a woman. She moves to the Meatpacking District before it becomes a fashionable area. Defining statement: "F**k me badly once, shame on you. F**k me badly twice, shame on me."

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I love that movie, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun it had helenhunt and the lead actor was so HOT.