Sex and the City

Well we have clearly established that Carrie Bradshaw sucks and we will most certainly continue to talk about that. However we are also going to talk about the show itself. Now at the start of season 2 we find out from Charlotte that Big and Carrie dated for a year. The first season was only 12 episodes long and that year apparently lasted 5 of those episodes….that’s insane. This show is truly terrible at marking any passage of time and that takes away all emotional impact that any of these scenes may have.

In the fourth episode when Carrie is photographed for a fancy “single and fabulous” article in New York magazine she realizes that she is a bit of a mess. Now she had the potential to prove the article wrong but she showed up to the photoshoot looking like a mess and smoking like a chimney. She made it very clear that she was not single and fabulous. She is in fact single because she’s a mess.

She calls Big…like a dumbass. She calls him for a dinner date. See if someone hurts you, or you feel like someone hurt you (even though she is the one that did the dumping) and it's been 6 months, if you go back to that person and get hurt again it is 100% your fault.

They officially get back together in the 5th episode of the season for some reason. The very fact that she didn't tell any of her friends about it tells us that she knows that she is making a stupid decision.

Now let’s talk about some true acts of friendship, Carrie gets her diaphragm stuck and Sam helps her remove it. Carrie then dumps it on her friends that she’s been sleeping with Big and of course they remind her that she’s being dumb. So the problem with the writing of Carrie and Big is that the timeline for this show sucks and therefore there is no intensity or depth behind their relationship. We see the girls on screen together all the time, we see them by themselves all the time, comparatively the time we spend with Carrie and Big is so minimal. And because we have no way of telling how much time passes between episodes and relationships my best guess is that Carrie and Big were together for all of 4 months in season 1. Really takes the wind out of the supposed heartbreak.

We also get the beginning of Miranda and poor Steve this season. They realize that they are on opposite schedules but she is really unwilling to adapt her life to being in a relationship and that is why I really feel bad for Steve. He cares about her so much, and she is just so immovable from her routine. And maybe this is why I hate being a Miranda because I know I’m like that too. I am so particular but I like to think that when I met my husband that I was a little bit more malleable to his routine and his needs. Now it does make a difference that we are literally on the same schedule but still.

Then we have the fact that Carrie says “I love you” to Big, who doesn’t say it back right away, and then she cheats on him. She then tries to justify the cheating by saying “everything before I love you doesn’t count anyway”. Selfish and insane. Carrie and Big break up again because she’s an idiot who can’t have a rational conversation. However, that doesn’t stop them from sleeping together again.

Even Carrie’s best friends can’t stand her after her second break up with Big. She simply won’t shut up about how she has her shit together and she feels bad for him when the reality is that she is a mess.

Carrie and Big run into each other in the Hamptons. Now is a good time for a reminder that Big is older than Carrie by about 10 years. Now his new girl, Natasha is 26. Making Big 20 years older than her, that's creepy, and weird. Carrie and Big decide to be friends as if that is a good idea.

The season ends with Big calling Carrie and basically telling her he never meant to hurt her. Now obviously this is bullshit, when he went off to Paris and got engaged to a 25 year old infant Carrie didn’t even cross his mind. He did not consider her, he didn’t even think about her. Because it doesn’t matter who he is in a relationship with, whoever he’s supposed to be focused on gets none of his attention. The man is incapable of emotional availability and Carrie is incapable of emotional regulation.