Carrie I Cant Believe Were Here Again Aidan
Past · Published on June 21st, 2013
Though it ended its television run well-nigh a decade ago, HBO's Sex and the Urban center still remains the gold standard in female-driven ensemble sexual practice-coms (just imagine the Hollywood pitches that include the line "It's similar Sex activity and the City, but in [fill in metropolis here]!") and, for ameliorate or worse, the serial is still relevant to television set today. Hell, the Sexual activity and the Urban center tour business is still booming in New York City, complete with cupcakes and cosmos. While I wasn't a first-run fan of SATC and, though I knew enough of people (more often than not women) who thought it represented some sort of canonistic experience for gals of a certain age in a certain type of city, I never felt that fashion. SATC may have felt like aspirational entertainment to some ‐ fifty-fifty now, living in New York Urban center in a lovely apartment that actually has bedrooms, I withal think Carrie's studio is awesome ‐ only it doesn't even remotely present a realistic view on life in the big city (especially New York City). Nevertheless, SATC is a constant source of background boob tube viewing for me, forth with Friends and Seinfeld, and it continues to play out in syndicated form across a number of different television channels. What I'grand proverb is, the show is however on a lot, and it's often on a lot within my viewing range.
I've seen every episode of SATC by now ‐ and multiple times ‐ and I have fifty-fifty endured both of the feature films in theaters (the first i was fine, and I however have a visceral reaction to the entire Big-sort-of-leaves-her-at-the-altar sequence, but every bit most people acknowledge, the 2d ane represented the worst of the series ‐ especially financially speaking). I like SATC a whole lot (fifty-fifty now), but the messaging behind some of its biggest plot points, and the grapheme developments that follow, nonetheless occasionally bother me.
One episode, however, sends me into a blind rage, fifty-fifty xi years later. I hate it enough, and I hate the characters' actions inside it enough, that its admittedly slight 30-infinitesimal runtime (compared to the totality of the series, which clocks in at over fifty hours of programming) makes me seriously reconsider my big like (non even large dearest) for the unabridged series.
The episode in question, titled "Band a Ding Ding," is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season, and originally aired on January 27, 2002. If you're familiar with the episode ‐ or even that season ‐ you know that the fourth season was a time of major upheaval for the ladies. To briefly epitomize: Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) convinces Aidan (John Corbett) to give their relationship some other go, and he does, with guns blazing ‐ he moves into her identify, buys her apartment when her edifice becomes a co-op (forth with planning to purchase an next apartment so that they can expand), and proposes. Carrie accepts, but ultimately pulls back afterwards freaking out while Aidan is trying to knock down a wall between her old identify and the new place. It'south hilariously spot on ‐ Aidan wants to knock downwards walls, Carrie can't ‐ and also very sad. Aidan still can't quite deal with the infidelity that drove them autonomously earlier, and Carrie merely isn't interested in tying herself down with Aidan. Meanwhile, Charlotte (Kirstin Davis) and Trey (Kyle MacLachlan) likewise give their relationship another shot, before besides eventually breaking up for good. Elsewhere, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) engages in some compassion sexual activity with the recently one-balled Steve (David Eigenberg), which of course leads to her pregnancy. Samantha (Kim Catrall) started the season with her usual sexual escapades, before trying her own hand at monogamy ‐ first with Maria the lesbian artist and and then with Richard the hotelier douchebag.
What's a "bus"?
The episode begins mail service-appointment smash-upward, with Aidan finally moving out and Carrie begging him non to. Aidan, one of the few characters on the prove to practice whatever judiciousness when it comes to his emotions, still leaves ‐ just he also leaves her a letter. Carrie, convinced it's a love letter (oh, yep, Carrie, you definitely deserve a love letter in this case), paces herself and finally opens it, only to notice it's actually a legal document that basically asks her to put upward (the coin to purchase dorsum her apartment) or shove out (become the hell out of what is legally Aidan'southward apartment within 30 days). Carrie responds horrifically ‐ past whining to Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte ‐ without thinking about the fact that of course this would happen, he owns the flat. She attempts a fissure at responsibility ‐ trying to get a banking concern loan (she has no assets, shockingly enough), aiming for a cheaper lifestyle (she tries to ride the omnibus exactly once in the episode), calculating her fashion expenditures ($40,000 on shoes lone ‐ as a fellow writer, I tin can't help just autumn off my couch every time this number is mentioned), and even looking at other apartments (shitholes, all). Carrie'due south financial life is a goddamn trainwreck, and she tin't even buck up enough to take the bus instead of a cab. Insanity.
Her next move is fifty-fifty more than insane. She goes to Big (Chris Noth). You recollect Big, right? The guy Carrie somewhen concluded up with, but also the guy she cheated on Aidan with, the guy he can't get over (and who Carrie can't become over either), the entire reason for the end of their engagement? Yes, that Big. Carrie does, ostensibly, enquire for fiscal communication from Big, merely her intentions are clear. She wants money to salvage herself. He gives her a check.
Teach me about that green stuff?
Thankfully, Carrie doesn't accept information technology ‐ well, she accepts it, only somewhen rips it up afterwards another tete a tete with the girls. During this aforementioned outing ‐ an outing that takes place during the most heartbreaking time in Charlotte'due south life, the virtually upsetting fourth dimension in Samantha's life, and the most disruptive time in Miranda'due south life, basically, only actually shitty times in everyone's lives ‐ Miranda and Samantha both volunteer to help her reach her downwards payment telethon number (xxx large), while Charlotte sits around whistling (basically). Charlotte is meant to be the bad guy here, the shitty friend who won't pony up the cash to her moron friend, even though she's just gone through a terrible divorce and also doesn't take a paying job.
Which is probably why Carrie somewhen freaks out, takes a cab (seven blocks, you idiot) to Charlotte'southward place, and freaks the hell out on her. Yes, Carrie, this is Charlotte'due south fault. Sure, she's the bad friend. Absolutely, accept it out on her. The best part? Carrie'southward tantrum really works ‐ afterward in the episode, Charlotte gives Carrie her date band from Trey (a bauble she'due south been belongings on to for emotional and sentimental value, unhealthy equally that may be) so that Carrie can presumably pawn information technology and get her downwards payment. It'due south framed like an engagement scene. Information technology's meant to be happy for both girls. A sisters-doing-it-for-themselves thing. It yet makes me want to throw my boob tube out the window.
Re-watching the episode last week, I tweeted out two bits about my thoughts on the ep: "The episode of SATC where Carrie takes out her money troubles on literally everyone else continues grate, even years later…She goes to Big for $ to buy back her apt from Aidan, yells at Charlotte for not offering her cash, and whines about riding the bus. Gross." The response from my followers was immediate and unanimous. They hated Carrie. "She's the worst person on the show," one wrote. "I don't know why anyone put upwardly with her ever, to be honest," some other responded. (At that place were as well comments about her vast shoe collection and its financial ramifications.)
Tantrums exercise work!
"Ring a Ding Ding" is representative of the worst of Sex and the City, the about horribly misguided and tone-deafened entry into a series that has more than than enough misguided and tone-deaf episodes to pick from. It attempts to convince its audience that unsound financial responsibility, emotional manipulation, and a shoe fetish are all skillful things and non irrevocably damaging to the core friendships that are meant to drive the entire series. Can you imagine being Charlotte in this state of affairs, recently divorced and jobless, fabricated to feel guilty for not ponying upward greenbacks to your most unreliable friend? Can you imagine being Miranda, pregnant and lone and willing to requite thousands of dollars to her idiot friend? Can you imagine being Samantha, knee-deep in emotional waters yous don't understand, and having to worry about giving greenbacks to your friend who has wasted her financial liberty on shoes that still pinch her feet?
Can you imagine existenceCarrie?
Sex and the City certainly gets ameliorate from hither, and the girls do even so take emotionally rich experiences with each other, merely as far as the gold standard for this genre, there'due south plenty to dislike about what the series has to offering, even more than a decade subsequently. Aspirational? Not if you lot don't want to exist a classless jerk (simply with dandy shoes!).
Source: https://filmschoolrejects.com/eleven-years-later-the-worst-episode-of-sex-and-the-city-still-enrages-a811139862e5/
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