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| TV,
Jeremy Carpenter,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F3
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Hmmm, not quite sure how to pitch on this one. On one side I should be liking this, because I’m ‘mad-for-import’ and I like a good bit a bonk-obsessed yank comedy drama. On the other side I’m loathe to really pitch for something as damned pap as this show regularly is. It triggers off a similar part of my brain that McBeal does, and I often find myself watching it in order to get in touch with inner single female yuppie, but only really getting jollies from the sexy supporting cast members.
The storylines always revolve around Carrie the relationship columnist and her three girl pals slipping in and out of date-world, and each individual episode focuses on a certain aspect of dating – like ‘why are all single guys over 30, freaks?’. It picks up Golden Globe awards annually like velcro tags, and it gets plaudits for it’s ‘realistic yet humorous look at love, sex, and dating’. But check out the show creator, Darren Star’s CV – this is the man who gave us such ‘realistic’ dramatic ground-breakers as ‘Melrose Place’ and ‘Beverly Hills 90120’. The guy’s majored in pap. But to be fair, SATC doesn’t quite plumb the depths of his early work, but it only attains the level of a ‘secretaries on a break’ diet-coke ad.
Big haired JAP Sarah Jessica-Parker plays Carrie with enough balls to keep her from slipping into insipid moaner territory. Straight to video veteran Kim Cattrall shines out in the vamp role she’s perfected over the years. And the other two are o.k. The amount of cocks these girls go through over series boggles the mind – enough to give Seinfeld a run for his money in the so-successful-it’s-untrue stakes. But at least they’re good looking, so it kind of adds up. Maybe I’ll get into it more when I start scoring myself and I kick the jealous-of-the-fictional-characters thing.
Channel 4 Weds 10.00 BST
HBO Sundyas 21.00 ET/PT
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