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    Sex and the City, the Get-Well-Soon Gift

    Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 1:31 PM | By Emily Bazelon
    As every mom and single woman in my corner of the universe knows, Sex and the City opens as a movie next weekend. So, with the critical distance born of many years of reruns, are you lovers or haters? Me, I only really discovered the show last summer, after I had a car accident and my sister sent me a season to keep me company while I recuperated in the hospital. (Yes, once I am out of date, I like to be a good decade out of date.) Against my instincts, I was hooked. I loved the relationships between the women, and that counted for more than my annoyance with flibberty gibbet Mr. Big. I thought the writing got sharper and wittier as the show progressed. And I felt like certain episodes (like the one in which Carrie loses her shoes at a baby shower and the mom host is ogre-ish about it) made me sit up and think about how annoying all the kid and baby obsession I've come to take for granted is to women my age and younger who aren't mothers. Plenty of flaws, too, I realize—jump in?
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