- They’re back. HBO Home Video now brings you Sex and the City: The Complete Second Season. From creator and executive producer Darren Star, the award-winning, hit series stars two-time Golden Globe winner Sarah Jessica Parker. Also starring Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, The Complete Second Season features 18 episodes and 9 hours on 3 DVD discs or 4 VHS tapes. System Requirement
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They’re back… HBO Home Video now brings you Sex and the City: The Complete Second Season. From creator and executive producer Darren Star, the award-winning, hit series stars two-time Golden Globe winner Sarah Jessica Parker. Also starring Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, The Complete Second Season features 18 episodes and 9 hours on 3 DVD discs or 4 VHS tapes. DVD Features:
Biographies
Episodic Previews
Featurette
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Have you ever wondered why most men aren’t into this show? I mean, you’d think that we’d be glued to the set drooling over a show about a bunch of chicks talking about sex all the time, not to mention a few softcore porn scenes thrown in.
The answer to the dearth of male viewers is actually quite simple: It’s because its “star” is Sarah Jessica Parker. “Sex and the City”? That is false advertising. With Parker at the helm of personnae dramatis, it ought to have been called “Skank and the City.”
Rating: 1 / 5
Who wants to see this flat story book of boring, totally non-sexy, unrealistic NY relationship tales, lead by a bundle of ugly bones and warts?
I pity the definitely talented make-up artists in this showcase of disgusting women. There is also nothing wrong with the camera crew, the sound people and the many other great talents behind this show. Just replace the female actors and the writers, and you have a five-star series. I’m amazed by what some hair-styling, make-up and cloths can do to create a female TV character, though. I think, SJ Parker would make a good background character in a horror movie, just leave her without the make-up people for one night.
Let’s take a look at the picture that S&C is painting of NY: Nobody working, there is hardly any daylight, strange clubs that you couldn’t find even if you were looking for them (let alone the question how even a made-up bony ugly dwarf would pass the doorman).
Who can find the dialogues “smart and savvy”, since they are just a reflection of your last 20 years of bad movie’s repetitions? The stories are stale and predictable everytime. I watched the DVD bundle of this series for this review and I’m still not finished throwing up.
Nobody I know gives a damn about this series. I wonder very much about the “awards” this series got. It must be due to the majority of HBO producers in the juries.
Have YOU ever been asked to be part of a Hollywood jury? And why not? Maybe, because you would never even consider rating garbage all the time!
I would find it a perversion of our life, if SJ Parker types would have their way.
Rating: 1 / 5
You mean I can sit on my couch and listen to 4 cattie females whine and complain? And I’ll pay you for this? That’s all that needs to be said.
Rating: 1 / 5
On the surface, this is the story of 4 floozies who complain that no one wants to marry them. They spend their time jumping in and out of beds with the idea that this is the correct path to matrimony. Someone should have recommended that they read the book “Who Moved My Cheese?” Somehow, though each of these women are portrayed as smart and successful in the businessworld, they exhibit no inkling over the plain fact that steady, reliable men don’t marry ho’s. Bed them, yes, but marry them? No.
It then occurred to me after watching a number of these episodes that, unlike the first season, that the showhad become the story of 4 gay queens looking for a gay partner. At least that is the way it is written. Seen through this prism, the show is actually more poignant. The show — through its characters — strives to champion promiscuity as a virtue. And isn’t that really at the heart of the gay ideology? But what makes the show so good is that the writers get it right — they never insert love into the equation. These 4 selfish people constantly indulge in sex, but it is plain that none really have their hearts in it. They bemoan the lack of men who would love them, but they themselves withold their own love. Stingy with offering out their heart, they trade affection for something they do not value, their own bodies.
My first experience with the show was at the pace of an episode every 6 months or so on HBO. But the DVD format allows one to watch the episodes back-to-back. With my infrequent viewings I was impressed with the glamour and adventurousness of the stars. But with seeing the shows back-to-back, the loneliness, neediness, and desperation exhibited by the ladies pops to the surface. There is nothing glamorous about their lives. Commendably, sex isn’t depicted as an answer, but more as a drug to take the edge off of their main concern, their inability to win the heart of a man. Intentional or not, it is this truth that makes the show as good as it is.
Rating: 5 / 5
Please read my review of volume 1. It goes double for this. Sure the women are pretty… but I’d rather sleep in a port a potty than have this in my collection of DVD’s.
Rating: 1 / 5