Ok, I admit it... I miss my Sex And The City girls.
Thanks to syndication, I am getting my fix again. I thought I wouldn't enjoy the edited (for time and "content") version of the show, but that hasn't been the case... when stumbled across the show, I was as transfixed by the show as when it originally aired on HBO.
So, a couple of weeks ago, I decided to set a TiVo wishlist... so now I have Sex pretty much whenever I want it (isn't that nice?!).
On our cable system, the show airs on 3 different channels ... a local independent station here in Phoenix as well as "superstations" WGN and TBS... with each channel airing different seasons... so I have literally gone from Carrie/Big to Carrie/Aidan to Carrie/Berger within the span of a few days!
For me, these are the "holy trinity" in the love life of Carrie Bradshaw...
Bringing up the rear (now there's something Samantha would say!), is Jack Berger
(played by Ron Livingston). I really think this was a good match for
Carrie... liked the whole writer/writer synergy. But Berger, in my
opinion, ends up being a victim of poor timing. Coming in at the tail
end of the series, there was no time to deepen this relationship to
extent of a Big or Aidan... so we get the awful Carrie/Petrovsky last
minute diversion which opens up the only remotely satisfying ending...
the Big reunion. Berger ends up as a punch-line footnote as the
guy who breaks up with Carrie via a Post-It note. A sad end for
Berger, who could have really been a contender!
I just saw the episode where Carrie is desperately trying to get back with the "new and improved" Aidan
(John Corbett)... babbling on and on... and Aidan just yells out "You
broke my heart!" My stomach sunk as much as it did the first time I
saw the episode. Their second stab at a relationship was pretty
painful... and as we find out later, Aidan ultimately moves on with his
life/love/family... but I still think that Aidan, although often
portrayed as way too perfect, is truly the "man that got away."
So what about Big (Chris Noth)? Well, I think Carrie and Big
are "soul mates," but I also think that they are not a pair that would
find ultimate happiness over the long run... we saw that over and over
again during the six seasons. While Big's epiphany was wildly romantic
and like I said, provided satisfying conclusion to the series, it is
not terribly in character.
Ok, before you call the men in the white coats (for the second time today!)... I know these are not real people... but it is still fun to look back and wonder...
On a foonote, stumbled across this story today:
Actor John Corbett goes country with Nashville album - John's back to shaggy hair w/ beard look ... his first single "Good To Go" debuted at #48 on the country radio chart, with a full ("country rock with a little bit of roll") album to drop in April.
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