Tag Archives: Sex and the City

Rant: Monthly Dee-Lights (2/22)

Just a quick note of some of the funnest content I consumed last month (in no particular order): – NPR’s World Café channel posted a live 4x song set by The Linda Lindas, recorded last month, featuring tracks from their … Continue reading

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“So, You’ve Gone Insane. That’s Fun.”

[Contains dried robin’s blood and SPOILERS!!!] The major story arc dominating Season Six of Parks and Recreation (2013), aside from ‘Leslie Knope’s (Amy Poehler) acrimonious recall from the City Council, was the not-entirely-unrelated merging of cash-strapped Eagleton (and its super-snooty … Continue reading

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Emboldened

Despite identifying myself as a non-materialistic male metal-head, and scruffy country bumpkin to boot, there’s a part of me that yearns for the glossy metropolitan glamour of shows like Sex and the City and Cashmere Mafia… because apparently my “feminine … Continue reading

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Fifty-One Shades Of Fave…

I was idly Googling t’other day, when I stumbled on a recent Buzzfeed article in which 51 TV writers were asked to identify a favourite line/scene/episode from their previous productions. Highlights include a sweet anecdote from Chris Carter about meeting a … Continue reading

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I Don’t Know Why They Did It

While watching I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011) on TV t’other day, I started getting a strange sense of déjà vu. With Sarah Jessica Parker narrating her character’s onscreen adventures, which were frequently intercut with various “talking head” … Continue reading

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Camp Cashmere

To kill some time while waiting for my regular TV shows to resume, I decided to revisit the first/only season of Cashmere Mafia… and I was delighted to spot Anna Camp in the pilot episode, playing a spoiled, liberty-taking nanny, … Continue reading

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Carrie On Sexin’ 2: Abu Dhabi Don’t

[Contains luxury, seven-star SPOILERS!!!]I It’s mighty hard to justify my purchase of Sex and the City 2… but I’m a compulsive completist, and the DVD was going cheap in a charity shop, so I’m afraid I let my curiosity get the … Continue reading

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Buy Buy Baby

For the life of me, I can’t figure out what age-group Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) was actually aimed at… I mean, at first glance all the characters appear to be grown-ups, but their shameless mugging and pantomime slapstick makes … Continue reading

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Carrie on Sexin’: The Mexicoma

[Contains unsexy SPOILERS!] Apparently it’s been eight months since I railed against the Francophobic finale of Sex and the City, and I wasn’t in any rush particular rush to pick that scab again… but Ch4 televised the spin-off movie last … Continue reading

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Carrie on Sexin’: Plus One

I thought I’d done a pretty good job of spotting the various cameos in Sex and the City, but apparently I must have missed a couple here and there, because it’s just come to my attention that Haviland Morris was … Continue reading

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