Well, Sex and the City is finally over -- that is, it's just come to an end on Imparja a couple of weeks after it ended on the east coast. Problem is, I knew what was going to happen in the last episode as I read it somewhere in a crappy women's mag or maybe in that Ruth Ritchie woman's column. But this is still a much better scenario than living in Darwin where they don't get Imparja to keep them up with some of TV's most crapulent programs, and I think, don't even have a fourth channel.
I would like to say, for the record, that I wasn't a major fan of S&tC: this will probably sound like disingenuous pap, but I was perhaps a minor fan or a major minor fan or perhaps even a minor major fan. So no, I haven't seen absolutely every episode (which is a good thing, for when it's repeated) and I was never galled about missing an episode in the way I am with Queer as Folk.
I wouldn't say either, that S&tC was JUST LIKE MY LIFE (manolo blahniks aren't a winner in the desert). In fact, QAF is much more like my life, given the years spent clubbing and coffeeing with gayboys. I really love that episode of the Simpsons, when Marge and her firends are sitting round saying that S&TC -- a 'show where women sit round talking like gay men' -- is just like their lives...
One of the main sources of fascination for me about S&tC whenever I've watched it is Sarah Jessica Parker's head: what is it about her head that makes her such a weird looking woman? She has the right body for TV: small, bony yet curvaceous, but what's with the head? Ruth Ritchie commented on the strangeness of SJP's looks in last week's column, calling her a woman 'with a head as big as Mr Ed.' I always thought more of an Afghan hound, myself.
At a superficial level, part of the problem with SJP's head seems to be: terrible smoker's skin showing early signs of ageing caked with heavy make up to detract attention away from this (both of these factors increase as the series gets older: check out some of the earlier episodes). But more fundamentally: she has a very long face with long hair (usually) and a centre parting. So when she has short hair, she briefly looks better as it breaks up some of the length around her face. But a centre parting ... I can't get over them letting her doing several series with this. Centre partings, if I remember rightly, were always one of Julian Clary's objects of scorn. To back this up: there was a 'finale' on S&TC shown, with interviews with all the main actors, in which SJP was shown with a side parting... she looked relatively normal.
There used to be a woman on the Balmain bus with long blonde corkscrew and a centre parting a la SJP -- and I used to think, a centre parting doesn't suit you either, darling. And you've got a round face. In fact, it doesn't suit anyone. (I'm saying all this as someone who's always trying to conceal the fact their hair falls naturally in a centre parting.)
And then there was the closure of S&tC; what were we meant to think of that: American is better?
The other thing about the finale was that apparently Big's name gets used once in the last episode...I read this today in NW. I missed it; maybe I thought SJP was addressing someone else. Did anyone pick this up?
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