Sex & The City: The Final Episode...

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Anyone a fan? Anyone have HBO? Anyone catch tonight's last episode? Opinions? Bueller, Bueller...

 

My take on things: Yes, so it ended up a little sachrine-sweet, but you knew it was coming and everything seemed to tie up with a nice big bow in the final shot. Added, the audience finally got the 'reveal' with Big's true name.

 

I'm somewhat of a 'closet-case' when watching S&TC, as it didn't begin as one of my favorite shows and slowly grew on me. Sarah Jessica Parker never did much for me as an actress, but it was the supporting cast who reeled me in. Kim Catrell is a great foil to the stern, finger-pointing character that Cynthia Nixon portrays, while Kristin Davis just has that 'Hepburn-esque' aura about her. They all mix well together. I especially enjoy the show when they downplay the cartoonish qualities and really focus on meatier acting.

 

Samantha's battle with cancer was a particularily great plotline that really showed Catrell's acting chops.

 

In any event, the show's over. A movie version of the series may be on its way and there's already talk of a reunion show. I think it was best for this show to stop while the writing was good, ala Seinfeld, but it also leaves me wondering just how pigeon-holed these actresses will become with their respective characters.

 

Let's face it, Betty White will always be remembered as Rose Nyland from Golden Girls fame. Aside from anything else she's done, people will still call her 'Rose' long after her death.

 

Well, 'Rose' and the racist/gay-bashing old lady from 'Bringin' Down the House.' Quite an interesting flip-flop...

 

 

Warmest Always,

 

 

 

Benjamin Nicholas

[mmk]

I guess we were thinking along the same line Benjamin because I just posted the same thing here. I did here about a possible movie and reunion show also but I do not think that they are necessary in the least. I was very satisfied with the episode and it did go out on top.

 

(However, I think Betty White will also be remembered as Sue Ann Nivens from the Mary Tyler Moore show-the horny Happy Homemaker. Even though I loved Rose to death, Sue Ann was a little more meaty and bitchy-plus, she was getting laid.)

[OneFinger]

Am I the only one that HASN'T seen a single episode of "Sex & the City"? I've got HBO but that series just doesn't interest me.

[VaHawk]

I love Betty White, and enjoy her in everything she is in, plus from all her interviews she seem like such a beautiful person. I agree, with you, however, that I find her role as Rose Nyland no more of a limiting definition than her role on the Mary Tyler Moore Show as Sue Anne Nivens.

 

She was great in both roles! I loved her character the best on Golden Girls. She was a classic in her role as Rose - my favorite being her description of shooting herring out of cannon with the fish winding up embedded in a tree! :7 :7

[Guest DrBedlow]

Well, IÕm just spitting nails! x(

 

I know I (and several of my friends) am in the minority here, but we so did not like what happened. We knew in our hearts that Carrie would end up with Big, but we hoped that the story would end differently. My friends and I wanted her to realize that she didnÕt really get the great love with Petrovsky like she did with Big (that we did get). But once she saw Big again, she would realize that she had moved past himÉand that he would realize it too. They would remain friends, Carrie would move back to NY and sheÕd continue to search for the one she deserves. But no, Michael Patrick King et al. betrayed (I know itÕs just a damn television show, but, oh well never mindÉ) Carrie and all that she stood for.

 

Big is a baby who only wants what he canÕt have, and it was about time that Carrie acknowledged it. Maybe we can get that in the movie?

 

And by the way, were the fuck was Stanford? I wanted to see him and his boy toy running off to San Fran to get married.

 

Oh well, one series down, 2 more to go until I am television free (Angel ends this year and Six Feet Under only lasts for 10 weeks a year).

 

P.S. I really liked Betty in Lake Placid as the foul-mouthed old bitty who fed her husband to the over-sized alligator.

[+ Hoover42]

>P.S. I really liked Betty in Lake Placid as the

>foul-mouthed old bitty who fed her husband to the over-sized

>alligator.

 

I was going to say the same thing! Betty had the best lines in what otherwise was a total flop.

 

...Hoover

[dannynyc]

During the run of SATC there were periods where I thought the show was getting boring, but, I did like the ending. All through the show I could never warm up to Carrie. I loved Samantha. In the hour long review of the the series, no one mentioned the one description I heard of Samantha most often - a female version of a gay man. Of the characters who changed during the series, I'm not sure who changed more - Samantha or Miranda. Samantha's change was amazing, and she did a fabulous job with the cancer storyline. Charlotte took a while for me to like. The change in Miranda was truly amazing. She had a very cold, businesslike outside at the beginning of the series, and she slowly began to realize her warmer inside.

 

On the subject of Betty White, if you want to see her again, she's playing a supporting role on The Practice. A storyline started two weeks ago and is heading toward at least a three week story. Betty plays the villian in true Betty White style. Both of her major prior characters, Sue Ann Nivens and Rose Nyland, stand out in my mind as very unique characters. Her character on the Practice takes a bit of Sue Ann Nivens and adds a very evil edge. She's great in the role!

[gregkidman]

>And by the way, were the fuck was Stanford?

 

I watched the episode solely to find out what happened to Stanford. I am so disappointed that he didn't get any air time. They could've made it longer to an hour instead of chopping it off at 45 minutes to add Stanford into the picture.

 

So... for me, I am only keeping HBO for the Six Feet Under series. If it wasn't for that show, I would've cut HBO off my cable list.

 

Cheers,

Greg

[bigguyinpasadena]

You are not alone onefinger.But I don't watch alot of serial programs on TV

Thank God TV land is bringing back my favorite show of all time_the surreal Green Acres!

[VaHawk]

No, you are not alone! I have seen only part of one episode, as I did not have HBO until the show was in it's third season, at which point why bother?

 

This is the same scenario I have with the Sopranos and Six Feet Under. I have bought/watched all the seasons of the Sopranos on dvd, but have been unsuccessful in that pursuit as regards Six Feet Under. I just watched the entire 1st season of Six Feet Under on HBO Demand (I'm addicted and want more damn it!). Why the hell, given the cost of premier services, can't the service offer it's entire library of all original series/specials/events on a demand basis. And why can't there be a service provider that offers every film ever made not in current release on a on-demand basis (don't some hotels offer that?).

[buckguy]

Funny that Betty White got mentioned. She was on a flight I took over the weekend. I liked her best as Sue Ann; those were some of the best episodes of MTM.

 

I thought the final episode of Sex & the City was abit disappointing. Too many twist, turns and resolutions in the plot. Carrie seemed whiney and self-absorbed in her reaction to paris and "the Russian". His slap seemed forced. And "Big" (I mean "John", as we now know him) showing up was like bad O Henry. A better ending would have been for her to return to the great love of her life, New York. Charlotte's problems with adoption also seemed forced--the couple from North Carolina seemed only a little removed from "Deliverance"; they could have been a variation on "new South" types. Samantha could have given into love w/o such a big production of "you can have sex" and Steve's mom didn't have to have a stroke for us to see that Miranda would eventually settle into a comfortable domestic life, even if it was in Brooklyn. The show was better this season than it had been in a couple years and it was a shame to see an ending like this--not as bad as the Seinfeld finale, but definitely something that shouldn't be rerun for a long time.

[nate_sf]

>We knew in our hearts

>that Carrie would end up with Big, but we hoped that the story

>would end differently.

 

I'm not convinced she'll stay with Big. When they pulled up to her place she did forget about him and slam the door on him, after all! He had to wind his window down to remind her he was there.

 

As much as they wrapped the whole thing up, I liked that it was easy enough to imagine that life would go on for these characters... all talk of future movies, sequals, etc aside, I can imagine these characters just continuing along on their own ways like real people, which isn't always the case when TV series end. Big had come around to fall head-over for Carrie at last, but I'm not sure she really felt the same way. She might just bonk him a few times and send him packing... we may never know!