ABSTRACT
In 2004, fans worldwide were saddened when the demise of the HBO-produced television series Sex and the City (hereafter SATC) made entertainment news headlines. Taking place in New York, SATC portrays the loves and lives of four white female professionals: Carrie Bradshaw (journalist/writer), Samantha Jones (PR executive and sexual libertine), Miranda Hobbs (corporate lawyer and relationship cynic), and Charlotte York (art gallery manager and romantic optimist). All are in their mid-thirties and earning considerable salaries that allow them to buy brand name clothing and lead an exuberant social life. Whenever they come together, they recount their romantic encounters and debate a wide range of personal topics from marriage, pregnancy, and commitment, to their partners’ preferences in bed. Resembling an anthropological quest to discover the meaning of human relationships spiced up with unabashed fashion consumption and candid representations of contemporary female sexuality and friendship, SATC has often been held up as one of the two major successes-the other being Friends-that typify global popular television in the 1990s.
