And just like that, yesterday marked the debut of Sex and the City’s six seasons on Netflix in the United States, 26 years after the show’s original broadcast.
The popular HBO comedy-drama, which was inspired on Candace Bushnell’s collection of her newspaper columns, became popular very quickly among TV viewers in the late 1990s. The groundbreaking portrayal of four friends, Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon), Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), showed successful, intelligent women in their 30s and 40s navigating the dating scene in New York.
Although this plot may not seem novel today, it was nearly three decades ago when it was first introduced. With all due respect to that other fantastic show about a female quartet before it, The Golden Girls, to have forthright, feminist, and wickedly humorous women talking so freely about some forbidden areas of women’s sex lives on primetime was groundbreaking.
