{"id":1722,"date":"2008-05-31T08:32:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T08:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/31\/sex_and_the_pit\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T08:16:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:16:04","slug":"sex_and_the_pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/31\/sex_and_the_pit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex and the Pity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was too tired to face the drunken hordes of Brighton<\/strong> last night, so I decided to just chill out and catch a late show of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1000774\/\">Sex and the City<\/a><\/i> at the cinema near my hotel. There&#8217;s no point in giving a review of any kind, since there are so many others out there who are actually bothering. (Overall? Meh.) I just have a handful of quick thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Um, that\u2019s not the lending library.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0251678\/\">David Eigenberg<\/a> is still my favorite of all the men who\u2019ve been trotted out on that show over the years.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve finally figured out who <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samantha_Jones_%28Sex_and_the_City%29\">Samantha Jones<\/a> has reminded me of all this time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0824102\/\" target=\"\">Alison Steadman<\/a> in <i><a>Abigail&#8217;s Party<\/a><\/i>.\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gc8WVJQdO3A?si=T15aSRw7PDfDo5AC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s praise, not criticism.<\/li>\n<li>Is it just me, or was the whole movie a lot more explicit about the label whoring and the obscene wealth of the characters than the show ever was? I mean, the references were always there, but it all just felt a lot more vulgar in the movie. Maybe it was just the effect of seeing so many of those aspects of the show crammed down your throat all at one time.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and there&#8217;s a term for this kind of script that comes at the end of a long-running series and tries to make everything hunky-dory in the most contrived ways: fan service.<\/li>\n<li>It was weird to walk out of the fantasy version of my old home town and into the streets of Brighton on a Friday night. I couldn\u2019t help but notice the <a title=\"Sex and the City: Brighton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ultrasparky\/2536850641\/\">trickle-down effect<\/a> of the SATC dream as it manifests itself in the real world, elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was too tired to face the drunken hordes of Brighton last night, so I decided to just chill out and catch a late show of Sex and the City at the cinema near my hotel. There&#8217;s no point in giving a review of any kind, since there are so many others out there who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/31\/sex_and_the_pit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sex and the Pity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71720,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/71720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}