Blast from the past - Sex And The City.

There isn't much on TV at the moment, well nothing I feel like watching anyway. Usually when I flick through the channels I never really get above Comedy Central, but lately I've been making my way down to channel E and 5 USA. And I'm glad I have because, I've rediscovered Sex and The City.

It's been a couple of years since I've seen any episodes and I have to say how glad I am that I've started watching it again because I forgot how good it was! And since then, I’ve realised there really is nothing like Sex and The City on the TV at all. No network has ever tried to replace it, because they know they would fail miserably. 13 years on, it’s still as entertaining, moving, and most importantly as funny as it ever was. The only show that comes close to being as witty as SATC is Nurse Jackie, but they are two completely different shows that cannot be compared.

The more you watch it the more you realise that Sex and The City really was groundbreaking. It was one of the first ever shows about women for women. It never shied away from an important issues and it taught women to depend on their friends and not husbands.

Over the past two days I have watched about 6 episodes from the first two seasons and it’s made me notice what an abomination the second film was. Carrie is at her best when she’s living in her flat, writing her column, spending money on ridiculously expensive shoes, drinking fabulous cocktails and smoking a Marlborough light. That’s who she is, that’s the women we came to think of as almost a friend. Not a housewife who bugs her husband to go to a bar with her, flees to the middle east, gets into shenanigans with women in burkas and kisses ex boyfriends she was never that fond of in the first place!

I long for a new season, but the second film has proved you really can’t go back. Making episodes about the menopause would ruin all the good work they did years ago. So from now on when I can’t sleep or there's literally nothing else on, I’m going to make my way over to 5 USA and watch a Sex and The City episode. I think of it as like flipping through old photo albums, you’ve seen them a hundred times before but they never fail to make you smile. It really is a show that hasn’t dated. I hope in years to come, there’s a show just like it, which the next generation of women can watch and enjoy. But if there isn’t, well then they'll have to make do with SATC, which is no bad thing at all.