lavish chic

today Sex and the City 2 opens in the UK. as i look back during the last decade and two years, i, therefore conclude, i don't care much about the SATC movie franchise. how do we distinguish sarah jessica parker from carrie bradshaw? all the glamour only entails massive promotional campaigns, from nail polishes to eyeliners attaching themselves to the SATC brand. the earlier reviews for the sequel may be less than flattering, but it has a demographic that totally embrace the allure of fantasy.

but i love the television series. although, i didn't really adore the entire sixth season. the earlier ones however, are gems. my favorite episode ever is perhaps critical condition, episode 72, number six of season five. seeing samantha babysit miranda's baby is something to behold. samantha as mary poppins, trying to make a baby stop crying, priceless. ever since, all the scenes are about carrie, or carrie with the girls, or carrie walking along downtown new york with either charlotte, miranda or samantha. when do we see the other girls together in a scene sans carrie? the charlotte brother episode with samantha earlier in the series, did not really count. miranda and charlotte in the same frame together for the first time without the ubiquitous carrie, was season four, in episode 59, coulda, woulda, shoulda. season four.

my other favorite episode is number 64, number 11 of the fourth season. aidan left carrie and she was going to be evicted if she cannot buy back her apartment from aidan. carrie got rejected for a loan, then miranda and samantha offered to loan her the money and she utters something like, "what no one else, shoe shops?" it was charlotte who came to the rescue in the end by presenting carrie with her engagement ring to trey. i like watching the vulnerable hard-up carrie, it's much more based on reality rather than the reverie of the manolo blahniks or christian loboutins, or all other fashionable namedrops and references. these days, as we follow her story in part two of the flick, carrie, would be far from hard up, married to Big, described as the next donald trump in the pilot, living in their laxurious penthouse ghetto. (photo-- stylist magazine)