I’m one of few men that I know who will admit that he has seen Sex & The City. I’ve seen each season and the first movie. I haven’t been able to catch the new movie only because I like to watch the movie alone. I refuse to go with a group of women and I don’t know any groups of guys who want to go watch the movie with me. That leaves me with going with a mixed group and women just won’t stop interrogating me about liking the show so much for me to be able to enjoy it. Sex & The City is also one of those shows that are either hit or miss. You hate it or you love it. There’s no one trying to see the movie who didn’t absolutely love the show or at least the premise for which it stands.
What bothers me is the obsessive women who insist on comparing themselves to each character in the movie. Fictional characters. The TV show is based on a book, one that I would encourage everyone read because it’s a good book, but I have met very few women who are Carrie, Sam, Miranda or Charlotte. Let me get this straight right now, I know like two women who are Charlotte. Everytime I hear someone compare themselves to her, I cringe. Let me sum up the characters for you from a heterosexual male perspective.
Miranda: Stubborn woman. Successful, but very stubborn. Regardless of what people will tell her is the way to go, she’s going to do what she wants to do anyway. On paper, probably the best look of them all.
Charlotte: She’s a perfect wife. She’s Ms. Perfect, the problem is, very few want this type of woman because she’s actually not perfect. She’s worried about too much, she’s insecure, and I’m unsure of her motives.
Carrie: The most indecisive woman in the world, who represents the majority of women in the world. She doesn’t have a clue where she’s going. Other thing she has in common with a lot of women, she’s messing with a dude she knows she needs to stop messing with.
Samantha: …is a hoe. She knows it though, so no foul. I’m sure you could get her to be faithful, but why date someone who you are worried might cheat on you? Just the worry is enough to avoid the situation whether a foul has been committed or not.
I should make a point or take a stance about something today, right?
I believe that Carrie’s situation with Big is an interesting one because it symbolizes a great deal of relationships that I run into everyday. Women will always date the wrong guy for them because they are in “love.” You will find yourself dealing with the same guy that you know is not good for you, and you know will never give you what you want for years. I think women date “Big” and continue looking for a partner, but in reality, they secretly hope that one day “Big” will make a woman out of them. And see… that’s the part of SATC that’s false, in real life, Big doesn’t marry Carrie and they don’t end up together. Big stays married to his wife, and Carrie remains his woman on the side.
#kanyeshrug
So I guess what I tried to say today was that Sex & The City is a very entertaining show, but please don’t model your life around it, or use it as something you can compare yourself to. It’s an entertainment piece and that’s the best way for it to be.
As much as i love this show and the movies i agree with u on the fact that they offer an unrealistic comparisons when it comes to relationships. The fairytales in satc don't come true in reality.
Finally, a heterosexual male who admits he watches a chick flick.
I don't know anyone who tries to model themselves after any of the characters on the show.
You're brave for admitting you watch this show..the only men I know who watch this show are gay. lol. No shots are being fired, obviously you are not gay…I'm just sayin.
I don't really look to these women or this movie for anything but pure entertainment…its just a fun ride for me…I love the fashion, the drama and the humor….
Cosign…I dig the fashion and find each story line quite funny. It's entertaining to watch a group of women fumble through life. I can relate to THAT given I have a pretty nice circle of friends that are all at different places, have different priorities, and preferences in men. The buck stops there because none of the women in the movie do we aspire to be like. Well, I'll speak for myself. I don't want to be like them. I enjoy the randomness that is me.
For real? Sex in The City? Is this what's good in the streets right now? C'mon Son.
Awww… YAY Jay! Lol. You can watch the movie w/ me… promise no interrogation. Anywho… I've taken quizzes to see which of these characters I'm like… they are all over the internet, but in no way shape or form am I attempting to live my life like them. (By the way I'm a cross between Miranda & the ever elusive Carrie) I can see traits of my friends in each of these women… BOY do I know a Samantha, smfh. No foul there either… she admits it readily. Lol. My friends and I enjoy the show, but we are who we are and there is no comparison… I think women enjoy the show b/c sometimes you see yourself or your friends in some of things that happen. It's funny to see what life could be like on another scale, but no reasonable woman I know would try to live her life like Carrie. O_o
Great piece, Dr. J.
I agree with everything written. Now, I enjoy SATC, but I would never think my life was akin to any of the characters in the show. If anything, I think the characteristics of Miranda, Charlotte, Carrie, and Samantha are a part of all women at some time in their life. I think we've all been stubborn, Miss Perfect, indecisive, and
a little hoeishsexually adventurous.I've been waiting all day to do this
"Great piece, Dr. J."
#pause
So Flyy, consider CHeeKZ comment here Exhibit A.
*nodding my head, taking note*
I'ma go 'head and sit this one out…
stay thirsty my friends…
I named my GPS Charlotte, and Google maps Samantha, that is all.
The only girly show that i ever got sucked into watching (and i hate to admit it) was beverly hills 90210…………damn you dylan
I think what you meant to say is damn Kelly!
Blanche Devereaux is the only classy ho that I respect. Samantha is a cheap knock off.
'Tis all.
This right here! iCoSign all day… ain't no hoe like Devereaux.
lmao.
I'll cosign!
Word.
RIP Rue. :'(
I never watched that show regularly…bunch of white women struggling through their white lives. "eh". I think that Carrie is the ugliest chick on the planet and can't understand why she still gets so much air time.
I used to like Girlfriends though!
"I think that Carrie is the ugliest chick on the planet and can’t understand why she still gets so much air time."
This. In fact, looking at that picture above, all four of them aren't much to look at, with only the brunette (I don't know or really want to know their names) being "alright". To paraphrase Peter Griffin, Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a foot.
I laughed very hard at this lol
Girlfriends was my show! But I knew it was going off air w/ Toni Childs being there… the group didn't have the same dynamic.
*sad face*
girlfriends wasn't funny to me… but the plot and storylines were really good. And the characters were interesting enough, I think it was clearly a play on satc. I'm sure the creator (I wrote for your girlfriends, Kelsy Grammer) used it as an influence.
Probably the best show I saw at interesting males and females was the Game. I know alot of dudes that didn't mind watching that show and it was an improvement in teh funny department.
Who knew Republicans could write such good shows for black people?
I like The Game… I really do, but I don't know if it works me on the same level as SATC or GFs. Not that one is better than the other. I just think that they are different. There is more of a male perspective shown in The Game so it feels different. And I just can't get w/ Melanie's half-cocked decisions sometimes… but Malik, that nigga kills me. Kelly & her hubs was the most interesting dynamic on the show to me.
Girlfriends was created/written by Mara Brock Akil (<– Sister) and produced by Kelsey Grammer. However, from writing a few skits myself here and there, I know that the struggle of writing and dealing with a producer is ROUGH. Therefore, I know that Kelsey had more influence than a Black woman will ever admit.
Dead a*s producers will look at something and say, "what if…" and I will reply, "But the plot develops, you can't just switch out an intergral part, now the whole thing needs to be rewritten." #lesigh
I agree. And she has only done like two movies since the show went off. Probably should have stayed with it.
But the dude was the funniest on the show.
Yesssss… I got the seasons on DVD just for my dude William. So hilarious.
A note about Carrie and other women on this show:
A few of you may think they are ugly or not attractive. I'll tell you right now, there's plenty of women who are not that attractive until they put designer clothes and accessories in their closet and then we think they're the baddest thing since sliced bread. Also, don't discount a woman knowing how to put herself together. I watched women enter freshman year as feet, and leave as manicured toes.
I remember looking at pictures of this girl they used to call Otto her freshman year, then I see her now and i'm JESUS CHRIST she's bad… (bad meaning good.)
Independent of this is the always floating around here age old theorem: "There is a fundamental difference and totally independent question in, "Would you smash?" and "Is she attractive?" 3 of the 4 of these women, men wouldn't have to think twice before smashing. And then there's some guys who just dig redheads.
"And then there’s some guys who just dig redheads." That made me bust out laughing at my desk…
Me too. That poor woman (that plays Miranda (I think)), her and SJP probably won't even go online anymore because they can't take the hits to their self-esteem. They get hit harder than Precious does.
I agree with the fact that life does not look like it does on Sex and the City (although I do in fact keep my clothes in random places in my kitchen)… but Big does marry Carrie.
Big doesn't marry carry in real life, nor in the book. In fact Candace Bushnell (the author and *Carrie) wound up marrying a ballet dancer.
Well I watched the show from the begining and used to love it. It changed so much the last two seasons I started to hate it. The show used to be really good but then I guess when the network figured out how popular it was with women they turned it into a vehicle for product placement. And every episode was about some new handbag or shoe. If you go back and watch the first few seasons the show really had nothing to do with fashion or bling.
But with that said I was suprised at how good the first movie was.
P.S. Zane's Sex Chronicles
LMAO
do people actual watch that for the storyline or characters?!?
I saw parts of the first season.
I never bothered to watch the show until it finally went off the air. Mostly because I was sick and tired of women throwing parties to watch an episode. Anyhoo, I can't imagine anyone acting like these women in real life. Their ideals of life and relationships are completely warped.
Peace, Love and Chocolate
Tiffany
Why doesn't it surprise me that you like SATC? Lol…
And I'll cosign with J Zane's chex chronicles are as hot as her books are!
I know I couldn't have been the only woman who threw ish at the TV screen when Carrie dropped Aidan (the perpetual good guy) cuz' she still wanted Big's sorry arse. That marked the moment when the show turned into a Disney movie for grown folks.
I was just fittin to say this. Carrie deserves to be lonely. She left a good guy for a married man and then married her? GTFOHWTBS
Yep, pretty unrealistic, but that's hollywood for you!
Although I agree w/ you Danni & Peyso about her choice… I see grown women make the same mistakes she did all the time. On TV, and from the outside looking in the choice should be obvious. But as a woman, when you are dealing w/ a "Big" and the choice is placed before you to escape w/ someone just as good, if not better… it's not always as easy (or so they tell me). At that moment, it always seems as though "Big" wants to get his act together, so "I" gotta give him the benefit of the doubt.
I have a friend now, who is seriously interested in marrying a guy who left his wife to be w/ her. #NoAliciaKeys To me, that sounds half damn insane, but to her… it wasn't that he can't do commitment or marriage it was jus that he couldn't "do" his ex-wife any longer.
I watch SATC. It had good plot twist as points plus it had alot of sex. What's to hate? Just b/c it didn't have guns and drugs doesn't make it a bad HBO show.
Although showtime has clearly taken the crown in producing TV shows. Dexter and Californication take the cake. Add in the Tudors.
Its funny, b/c I always saw myself as more of an Aidan than I learn to act more like Mr Big. NOT using the show as a reference, I just did! Now I'm more like that old Russian art guy.
I have been telling the HBO junkies that Showtime is where it's at for a minute now. Then I realized it takes a certain level of maturity to be able to understand Californication, Weeds, Secret Diary, Hung, Dexter or the Tudors. Clearly my favorite show is Californication, once I drop my book, i'm moving to California and never looking back.
I do have a bit of Hank in me, i'm supposed to be writing this book that i'm convinced will write itself if I just dictate to my computer at night.
Nurse Jackie and United States of Tara just ended their seasons. Starz had Sparticus which was THE show to watch. It kept me GLUED to my couch every Friday evening. But now it's time for True Blood and I love that show to death.
I really don't watch "regular" TV series that much at all, I'm a premium channel junkie because I hate commercials anyway.
^This. Been patiently waiting for True Blood to come back. Haven't given Treme a chance so my dial's been off HBO for a minute….
The new season starts this Sunday for True Blood…me, Lafayette, Tara and Sookie Stackhouse!
I watch shows on both channels, Dexter and Nurse Jackie on Showtime and True Blood (Curb and Big Love if I have time) on HBO*. Showtime has better TV right now, but since HBO had the Wire (my favorite show) and Oz, they will always have my attention for any new shows they start, even if I don't stick with them (although I haven't given Eastbound and Down a try yet).
*Comcast had the nerve to start charging me for Showtime and HBO for the first time in 3 yrs, so I had to cut them off right before True Blood starts back up. Fortunately, one of my customers at Blockbuster works at HBO and just gave it back to me for free after I mentioned my problem. No real relevance here, but I just got it back last night and am excited.
@ Sane I think you can find past episodes of Eastbound and Down under HBO on Demand > Series.
I didn't pay much attention at first but had it on in the background one night while doing laundry/ironing. It's 2x funnier than Curb ever was [different style of humor though]. Kenny Powers is the shit…. :0)
And I feel you on the Wire. One of the best shows ever created and never got 1/2 the credit of the Sopranos.
oh yes I'm a premium channel show junkie. I wish this wasn't the end for the Tudors, they should go on until Elizabeth ends her reign. Weeds and Californication have been my shows for the longest. Sparticus was good too but I couldn't help but think they ripped off HBO's Rome.
I can't believe HBO killed that show with the old woman as the sex therapist and the couples…damn it I for got the name, but that was the realist show ever.
Hung is such a raggedy show….it could be the actore and the writing, but its just really bad. I can't beleive they renewed it.
Lastly….TRUE BLOOD!!!!
Wasn't it called "I Think I Love You" or something like that. I was one of the few that watched it. If it hadn't have gotten cancelled, Penny may never have been on Lost and Adam Scott (the one who played her husband) wouldn't have went on to Party Down (which I just watched for the first time and isn't that bad) and now Parks & Rec. So, I guess I'm okay with it.
I still have to check out those shows. But damn I thought that show depicted sex and relationships the most realistically.
It reminded me of In Treatment though…I still have to catch up on that show as well as Dexter.
I think I watch too much TV lol
I don't think you have anything on me. Fortunately, I record mostly everything and can finish a good show in 40 minutes and a bad one in 20 with all the fast-fowarding I do. The key is also to be multi-tasking, that way you aren't really wasting your life away in front of the TV. I haven't paid attention to an entire show or movie for years (with the exception of the Wire and Lost).
I watch everything online…even thought I actually have the channels and can record it. I just got so used to it and I like watching my shows alone.
I am a GREAT multitasker. lol
Tell Me You Love Me ….
It was good in the begining but they ran out of controversial ideas and it just became people complaining.. real but lack of entertainment.
But I swear when I saw that chick with that handful of nut in her hand in that first episode, I took my cap off and saluted.
Tell Me You Love Me…
This show had a similar issue as the L Word, they wanted to bring it back for another season, but the writers wanted a lot more money than the channel was willing to shell out. Especially in a recession in a very niche show. The dialogue in this show was second to none. Anyone who hasn't seen it was remissed. They keep rumoring they will bring it back, but I think the writers have moved on and the actors have definitely moved on.
The L Word….
Shane is still my role model.
"when I saw that chick with that handful of nut in her hand in that first episode, I took my cap off and saluted."
I'd be lying if I said this shocked me at all.
wait…. did the nut in the hand not shock you or did my comment not shock you?
I'm pretty sure she meant your salute…
and how in the name of all blogging gods did we get to "nut in the hand" from SATC? Lol.
Your salute did not shock me. I was shocked by that scene as well, and admittedly it is what probably kept me around for the subsequent episodes (just that it was something new and made the show seem intriguing).
So Flyy, it takes a special kind of talent to always bring the conversation back to sex (or in this case, nut). I'd say 80% of the commenters on this site are quite talented in that area.
"and admittedly it is what probably kept me around for the subsequent episodes (just that it was something new and made the show seem intriguing). "
#justforfun
i am going to call B.S., I don't think it was b/c it was something new. I think you like seeing a man getting off and pictured yourself as the one doing it to him. I think you take great satisfaction in the results of manual labor.
Calling B.S on me?
"I think you like seeing a man getting off and pictured yourself as the one doing it to him. I think you take great satisfaction in the results of manual labor."
I've been known to enjoy some X-rated material here and there (and will begrudgingly admit that the reason you listed here is one reason behind that). However, I don't just go around picturing myself putting in that manual labor on men I don't find attractive and even though Adam Scott is probably the most attractive man on that show, I still wasn't digging him. So, I stand by my original statement
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Dr. J, out of the two episodes I saw of the L Word, Shane was my favorite character too.
Slow down on showtime HBO still racks wore up way more Emmys and still has the better distribution than showtime and not to forget syndication and dvd rentals sales and then the box office.
tv shows are created for multiple streams of revenue not just for "first run" money, hbo has mastered that art, showtime well, no
those showtime shows are ok but they do not have the weight of hbo shows (major write ups in major mags and national dallies as well blog topics). I really havent run into too many people that even admit to watching much of showtime shows. i have gone into people homes box and have seen box sets of hbo shows left and right…who you know got the box set of a showtime show from season one to season four?
Zane
LMAO
do people actual watch that for the storyline or characters?!?
I saw parts of the first season.
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Phaa. Yeah. This season they actually did a lot more with the story line and toned down the sex a little.
I one saw my younger sister reading a Zane book.
I super kicked her like shawn Michaels then placed her in the Lion Tamer (Boston Crab) until she tapped and decided not to read it anymore.
SATC was a good show. Entertaining, but realistic in the sense that people make stupid decisions daily.
Classic example of how men and women are different. I've been saying this for years…..Men watch porn…..women read porn. You will never catch a man reading Zane. But a women would rather read Zane than watch a real porno.
I've read one or two Zane novels, however she can be a lil too hot for my blood on the regularly w/o someone on fireman duty…
& yes I'd rather read Zane than watch Pinky.
LOL! You gotta drop the straps and put her in that Angle Lock!
<LMAO son!!
I was like ZANE?! ZANE?!!!!!!!!!
**screams**
**chokeslams**
#undertakerkneel
As a girl that was in love with the WWF I 100% approve of your comments. Had me dying in front of the computer
I'm glad I'm not the only woman who used to watch the WWF #effWWE. (I'm working on this hashtag thing).
Try this on for size, well not really, but:
RT @DrJayJackscousin: Condom Depot!!
or when she put up a status on facebook that said:
"Swimmers are better in bed."
#lordhavemercy
Until your little sister posts a picture of herself upside down on a pole at a Halloween party, you can't tell me nothing. Kanye.
smh… younger sisters should be automatically disowned for doing or saying dumb ish on the interwebs.
We need some ages for these younger female relatives and maybe some facebook links……..
#dontcockblock
#keepitinthefamily
#heyifeveryoneelseis
#whatsonemore
#gladimanonlychild
I love Zane!
She keeps it HOT! lol
SATC is hilarious to me…
Just an example of how unrealistic it is:
Miranda having Blair Underwood as a love interest…I'm sorry but in what world would that EVER happen?
That is all
Appearantly you've never been to LA.
Where the black men date everything except black women.
LOL. I wasn't even referring to the race…I've dated a white man before *shrugs*
I was just referring to the fact that this Miranda individual is no where near Underwood's level. I just couldn't see him taking an actual interest in her in real life. It was really awkward to watch during the series lol.
I feel you! That whole storyline rang so false to me…..I was glad when it finally ended.
I don't know if anybody watched SPARTACUS…but that show is off the chain!!
Also, loved "The Game"…and its back via BET!
"Girlfriends", was a rip off of "Living Single"..but, I loved both shows…
co-sign SPARTICUS, omg, Lucy Lawless did her thang! GO XENA, GO XENA!
I refuse to watch BET. But I might have to check out this SPARTICUS this weekend.
Damn I wanted to be productive. Now I'm back to watching whole seasons in two days.
I absolutely refuse to watch Bamboozled Entertainment Television (BET)…
And I love me some Monica, but hecks no.
What is this Spartacus show I been hearing about?
When the first SITC came out, my gf asked me if I wanted to go and see it in the city with her and a bunch of her co-workers.
Everyone was supposed to go out and drink margaritas and then once tipsy, go and see the movie.
I looked at her with a *blank stare* and she said "No? Is that corny?" i said "Very".
Sparticus is a series that came on Starz, it has similar special effects to the movie 300. It is very well written and action packed. Once you start to watch it you are HOOKED!
Its about a gladiator named Spartacus…it has sex, intrigue, graphic violence, nudity, witty dialogue, humor…it is probably one of the best shows to date……check it out! I promise you will love it!
I know who "Spartacus" is persay, but kept hearing about the show. Its funny, Cause Funkmaster Flex started calling himself Sparatacus and mentioned a show but idk…
Ill hulu it! I loke greek/roman mythology shows
Hercules, Xena, Legend of the Seeker (whenever I watch it)
Well Spartacus is better than all of those, it really amps up the hedonism and debauchery that was going on back in those days. It tries to make things historically correct, which is really amazing.
There are people who wrote blogs about the series as it was being played out. Some of them were pretty funny, and the series also had a large homosexual fan base.
I am going to watch the show this weekend… but
"and the series also had a large homosexual fan base."
^^^THIS will not be a reason why.
And I don't think they have premium channel shows on Hulu streetz.
streetz, i only said that because they had something in it for EVERYBODY…
Cheeks wrote that last comment not me..
lol Cheekz they still confusin us!
He is an AVATAR, I don't
its not that hard people!
Sorry Cheekz
I FORGIVE YOU…
You're a brave dude for admitting to watching and liking that rubish…but you get props from me.
In the past few years of SITC fame, I have been propositioned by women to go to see this. Boy oh boy…the ploys pulled out in order to make that happen were a little more than hilarious.
Her: "But you'll be in a theater full of women"
Me: So, no thanks I pass.
Her: "You should compromise"
Me: No I'll take my chances with the consequences of non-conformity and I won't ask you to watch any of my violent guy flicks.
Her: "If you were comfortable in your manhood…"
Me: " I am and if you question my manhood based on seeing some silly movie with a bunch of clueless tarts running around a big azz city, it'll be the last question you'll ever ask me."
Same goes for most chick flicks. They suck.
My name is Hugh Jazz and I approve this message.
I'm not really a fan of the show, I tried getting into it a few times
but it never seemed to keep me entertained. A lot of my girls watch it and I hear the same thing …I'm Carrie, Samantha, Miranda. Sex in the City is like Entourage for chicks, so I've heard. Lol, im a chick and I'd pick Entourage over that show any day.
I like Entourage, but wish they would just give Ari his own show and then this show can be called Male Groupies. I can't understand what someone takes away from the show that's beneficial in his daily hustle. Vince is pretty cool, but too cliche.
See that is the problem Dr J,
THE SHOW ISN'T ABOUT VINCE! ITS ABOUT E!
Vince is just story telling device that drives the life of E. Than turtle and Drama give cool fun side stories.
Notice the series starts when E takes over as his assistant when E first moves to Cali, the main gf/bf relationship is E, all the decisions on movies come from E, when Vince gets into a major ground breaking fight its with E.
vince makes Entourage cool, E makes it real, E makes it a story. And Ari entertains.
Nah I feel you, Vince sometimes disappears for episodes at a time. It's about all the subplots. I will say this, I thank GOD above for E. If there was no E, there's would be no E. And Jesus, do we love E.
E…manuelle Chriqui.
Let the church say amen.
i've seen most of the shows. i bought my ex the complete seasons on dvd. $300 of my money i wish i could get back but alas i don't think the show was that bad. i saw the first movie as well. haven't seen the second one but i probably will once it hits dvd. like you i also cringe when i hear women compare themselves to any of the characters on sex and the city. i wouldn't want to be with any of those types of women. *shrug*
I mean the characters in and of themselves aren't that bad…some of the things they experience really ring true to life in my personal experiences..but, I don't relate to one particular character…more like a combination of all four at one time or another……
I mean, not all women will be like these women but there are some that are. Sex and the City actually started as a column that was written by a sex columnist that chronicled her life and relationships living in New York. Her columns were purchased by someone who turned it into an HBO series so to some extent the characters are real. There is some fiction involved, as the writer of the show has said that the women are a combination of several women, but we have to keep in mind that the characters were created by a person who has come across women like this, therefore from experience they have the knowledge to create relatable women. I, personally don't identify with these ladies but I do find them entertaining. As for women falling for wrong guys, I like to see the optimism in it all. You won't know who's right until you fall for the wrong so that you could know the difference. The mistake some women and men make is that they think they can change someone when in actuality that person has to change themselves.
@Samantha G. – Thank you for stopping by. I agree with you, there are characteristics in each of these characters that can be found in women. Yes, because it's based on real people.
And yes, I agree wholeheartedly, a lot of people try to change someone, take on a project, and think something will come of it when in reality the person who needs changing is them.
Thanks for your comment!
Again I am the only one who didn't know Zane before…today. ¡Viva Youtube!
*sings* You Are Not Alone.
lol, thanks. It happens a lot with your cultural references. OMG I found OZ… Nasty. I am glad it didn't cross the Atlantic ! (well not that I know, I am not a TV fan, the last time I watch TV was a few months ago).
Zane were all the rage in HS for me. Those were the only books I ever saw boys reading…
I just couldn't after awhile the stories were so redundant.
I did however like the one novel, which actually had a plot I believe the book was called 'Addicted'…the woman was a nympho while married. AND I watch the show for the story line lol
SATC was fun to watch, still havent seen the new movie, but I'm in love with Aiden. I IMDB'd him and he's like 50, but I find him so hott, I just stare at him on United States of Tara…he clearly loves playing the good guy roles.
I do love good guys. Those are the only ones I date…perhaps its because of my sadist nature…
Side Note:
Was I the only [black] person who watched Carnivàle??
i knew a few brothers who watched it… but they were Star Trek nerd types….
not that anything is wrong with that. Those are my boys.
I haven't watched it, but I've heard great things. I don't like to go back and watch shows that didn't get a proper ending though, I'm still pissed about shows I was already watching that got a crappy ending if they got one at all (FlashFoward most recently).
i AGEE WITH MY CRUSH, FF needs an ending.
I'm thinking about reading the book but its totally different. The whole FBI angle was created just for TV.
I have watched a total of 2 episodes and one movie from the SATC franchise (and the movie was practically part of my job). I've never been a big fan, and SATC is little more than tolerable to me. I like looking at (and judging) the clothes, but that's pretty much it for me. Then again, I've never been a HUGE fan of "chick flicks". I liked Pretty Woman, but it wasn't the end all to be all. The Notebook was a great movie (better book), but it's not in my top five. I could go on all day in regards to "chick flicks", but in essence, they are never the first that I recommend.
Speaking of, please don't waste your time with When in Rome.
Ok… Alot of folks talking about alot of shows so, I'm just gonna say this one time…
The Wire.
thanks, bye.
…does anybody remember "The Corner"…also on HBO….produced by Charles S. Dutton in 2000…..phenomenal!
Same writers as The Wire… and now Treme…
It's on my list to track down.
Has anybody ever heard that Oz was like porn for women?
Why would you say something like that, Dr. J? That's just nasty. *shivers*
LOL
I have to go back and watch OZ and the Wire because I got into them too late.
But I can definitely see how it was porn for women.
I don't know about all that…I can never look at the guy from "Law & Order SVU" the same after seeing him slob down that guy on Oz….that was some mighty fine acting.
Didn't someone wind up getting their arms/legs broken by that guy? Only reason for me to watch Oz was Lauren Velez #heartflutters
What did I jump into ?!
Brokeback Mountain put me in coma. My brain decided that sleeping was the best protective mode. But OZ (only saw a few videos on YT)…naw this is not erotic at all.
Uhhhh NO.
SATC2 movie wasn't a hate or love thing for me. I feel the same way that I did when I first went in to see it: tired. Can't sit here and tell you that I'm like any one of the main characters either. *suki shrug* Sorry.
So now I've skimmed the comments above and I saw Zane. *sigh* I think I read ALL the books… with the exception of the new lesbian erotica (not homophobic) Only because I was curious. Then I watched S*x Chronicles 1 and wish I hadn't. Books are usually better than the movies/tv series. So um yeah, long story short, the TV series of S*x Chronicles tap-danced on the fine line between Intense
rawdawgS*x and Hardcore P*rn (I didn't know if I had to censor that word or not so I did anyway). All I saw were boobage and assets -______- (boring)I think Zane is going to have to do better with her books though. Every time I opened up a Zane book, if I felt I could predict the next "hot s*x on the hood of the car while it rains" scene in the book at a young age, then she was going to have to do something new. My imagination is killing right now. I should write a book… Pseudonym: SDK
Oh really Suki? I'm in the process of writing one now… it is an intensive process. Getting my words to flow in the order of my imagination = struggle.
Yeah. I won't sit here and front. It looks so easy as you read these books like, "I can do that! Easy!!" Then when it comes to it, I wish I hadn't talked alla that shxt >_<
Oh..and can I have your shirt? O_o
Thanks for putting a picture up!
Shhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiit, I'm still trying to get this shirt. Don't hold back on us now, do I have to go to the shop in the mall to get a bootleg made?
http://singleblackmale.spreadshirt.com
I believe the shirt is still at the original price. As it gets hotter outside the price goes up. #mustbuy
"As it gets hotter outside the price goes up."
That part was a joke, right? Right?
I wouldn't mind some brighter color options. My favorite color is yellow, in case you're looking for some suggestions.
I was thinking I'd really like it in Pink
(In Martin Lawrence Voice) Hold Up! Hold Up!
Dudes can't admit they like Sex and the City but every one of you has sat next to your girl at a Tyler Perry Estrogen Extravaganza.
Half of yall probably watch Meet the Browns with that bald headed dude talkin like a country fun boy. ( So lucky I don't want my comment in moderation. I'ld tell you what I really want to call Brown)
Tyler Perry is a Coon.
And I do not support coonage, sir.
and insulted CHeeKZ
There are so many adjectives for Tyler Perry that come to mind but only one sums him up perfectly.
Untalented.
He writes the same script, same storyline, each time. His dialogue is horrible. He plays on Black folks' love for God and love and he rides it until the wheels fall off. And then he relies on you to support Black art. I'm sorry but a bad movie is a bad movie or TV show.
He plays on Black folks’ love for God and love and he rides it until the wheels fall off.
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Man I thought I was the only one that peeped that. I swear, with some black folks, you could put Jesus on a pack of cigarettes and everybody would say "Stop hatin on cigarettes."
Perry hides behind God to defend his amateur material. A but no disrespect to women…..but when Sanna Lathan does that back flip over the lunch counter in the The Family That Preys Together I be crackin up laugin every time. Was her husband suposed to be superman or what?
As long as bitter, lonely, overweight BBW exist Tyler Perry will continue to assault our senses with his excrement on film…
And Black men in drag ain't been funny since Flip Wilson did it way back when.
Entourage would be lost without Ari Gold:).
Somebody brought up Hung…
The show is more profound than you think. A lot of people compare it to Secret Diary and don't peep what his "pimp" told him in like Episode 2. It's easy for a woman to turn on a man, but it's hard for a man to turn on a woman because it's so mental. The show spent the first season trying to show you how hard it is for him to just be successful. The show has no where to go but up from here. I like it.
I love Zane Sex Chronicles, the tv show. The books got really redundant for me, and they are almost boring now.
I'm glad that they toned down the sex and have more story lines with the man characters this season, but I wish they would keep the sexcapades with the main characters and do away with these random sex stories. Since the plot lines got better, I find myself fast forwarding through the random sex scenes in order see what happens next with the main characters.
I totally agree. I think the start of the show are gorgeous and that's who needs to be in the sex scenes. If I had to guess I would say that the stars of the show probably threatened to leave the show if they kept having to to do all those sex scenes. Cause they really cut it back.
The funny thing is, in those little story scenes they have been using a real porn actress the whole season. Her name is Misty Stone. If I wanted to see her I don't need to watch Zane.
The storylines were pretty good this year. The show has potential as a guilty pleasure. Reminds me of the show Dream On. Now yall really old school if you remember Dream On.
Is back from the library where she read one of Zane's book: Chocolate Flava. The book melted in my hands…
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It's probably because you have a picture of a boring, face-less albino guy as your avatar. Just saying.
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