I didn’t break those last episodes. If you’re empowering other people to write and produce your show… at a certain point, you’ve got to let them follow their vision…But I think the show ultimately betrayed what it was about, which was that women don’t ultimately find happiness from marriage. Not that they can’t. But the show initially was going off script from the romantic comedies that had come before it. That’s what had made women so attached. At the end, it became a conventional romantic comedy…. But unless you’re there to write every episode, you’re not going to get the ending you want.”
— Sex and the City creator Darren Star, in a Kindle Singles Interview, discusses the controversial ending to the hit HBO series which found Mr. Big dashing off to Paris to rescue Carrie
H/t: Deadline
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Guy068
I think enough time was spent establishing the women were VERY independent. Falling in love and marrying can’t erase all that…
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Dave Basora
Too late to whine about it now
gothrockchick
It was a disappointment, but then Carrie becoming servile to Petrovsky meant she had already let herself down. The films were horrendous.
Glücklich
How many years has this been off the air? Who gives a shit?
RealBlast3
The show was at it’s best when it was about the “journey”, i.e. “dating”, not the “destination”, i.e. “getting married”. We all watched because it the life of the single gal in NYC that was so much fun for all these different women.
Who really wanted any of them to actually get married and settle down? That’s always a drag on TV when it doesn’t start that way. Just like when they add kids to the mix that weren’t there in the beginning.
Sex and the City, just like all TV shows got a bit long in the tooth and kind of overstayed it’s welcome, so they began to run out of original ideas and/or people like it’s creator left it, so of course Michael Patrick King, just ended up doing rom-com formula the last couple of seasons and introduced marriages and babies into the equation which was boring. Though it was a kick to see Samantha find a new use for her vibrator in keeping Miranda’s baby quiet!
Brian
Well, let’s face it – women want men to protect them. One of the functions of marriage is to get a man to protect a woman. That’s why women – even strident feminists – choose to get married.
Gay-identifying men need to take some responsibility for spreading the lie that women are constantly horny and want to move from one man to another for sex. It’s a myth propagated by gay-identifying men who project their own horniness and lack of stability onto women.
When gay-identifying men project onto women like this (as can be seen in Sex and the City), it turns women into submissive playthings who think they are empowering themselves but really aren’t. Female empowerment is an illusion in this scenario, a total lie…and a lie that is spread by gay-identifying men.
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ProfessorMoriarty
Oh for Pete’s sake. SATC has been off the air for 13 years now. The final episode was touching end to the series. The first movie was a fitting coda. The less said about the second movie, the better. But in any event, Darren Star had been gone from the show for years by the time it ended. Time to move on.
inbama
@ProfessorMoriarty:
Except for the shot of Gilles Marini’s penis, the movies were lousy.
bottom250
I cried when it ended
scotshot
@Brian:
(yawn)
People get married for many different reasons. There’s a small percentage who want “a man to protect them” – primarily evangelical xtians who are raised to be a brood mare, raise children, keep house and and be totally submissive to the man’s “urges”. The Duggar family comes to mind here.
Most thinking women today in a true relationship based on equality, especially true considering the fact that close to 40% of women earn more and are better educated than their spouse.
I imagine if Brian possessed a penis he’d have a different perspective on life instead of coming hare and attempting to denigrate women and gay men.
Don’t worry Brian, go buy a dildo.
ProfessorMoriarty
@inbama: Don’t underestimate the entertainment value of that particular shot. 😎
SonOfKings
From the very start of the series, I always assumed all the girls except Samantha would eventually find the right one, settle down, and get married. That’s kind of what women do. Perhaps not Gay men, but women do. I don’t see it as a betrayal of the concept, more of a realistic conclusion. Samantha’s different. She’s more like a Gay man.
Bryan Merica
“Go get our girl” is such a great moment tho! ð??ð??
Stefano
@scotshot: “I imagine if Brian possessed a penis he’d have a different perspective on life instead of coming hare (here?) and attempting to denigrate women and gay men.
Don’t worry Brian, go buy a dildo.”
Loll love it !
Stefano
@scotshot: you have to understand Brian. He is trapped in 1955 and he can’t go back to the future.
DCguy
@Brian:
Brian, on another post you defended Kim Davis and in this one blame gay men for all of women’s problems. If you are so anti-gay why do you come on this site?
Stefano
@DCguy: He wants to convert us to his new religion or he wants to convince himself that his b**SH*t is true by repeating it over and over again…loll
JessPH
I was disappointed with the cliche fairy tale ending too. I remember in an episode of Oprah, she asked Sarah Jessica Parker how she wanted the show to end and SJP did not hesitate in saying that she wants Carrie to find contentment in being single. That would have been a more remarkable ending.
Stefano
@JessPH: but Americans love fairy tales ! And there is always a romance in your movies, even if the action took place in space ! Loll