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...mean girls of all ages, from precocious tweens to denizens of rest homes and the Red Hat Society. But especially the thirtysomethings: the moms and unmarrieds who, in Carrie Bradshaw and her friends, could see themselves as sassy career gals gossiping about who had the most volcanic orgasm. Perhaps they also connected with the iconic working woman of their time, as Mary Tyler Moore's Mary Richards had been a generation before. (And, unquestionably, the show gave its fans a smart laugh or two.) So naturally they're primed for the SATC movie, which was written and directed by Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the City: Kinda Into You | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...This is not to say that we’ve caught this virus from our obsessive Sex and the City-watching. Carrie Bradshaw is not the “patient zero” of her eponymous syndrome. Teenagers (and perpetual adolescents like us, living in what David Brooks last October called the “Odyssey Years”) have been suffering it for ages. Probably since the existence of adolescence itself—an era with the awareness of adulthood but without any of the problems of marriage, careers, or real responsibility...

Author: By Ryder B. Kessler | Title: Carrie Bradshaw Syndrome | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...What’s the cure for Carrie Bradshaw Syndrome? Ironically, it may be in a show considered by some to be the inheritor of Sex and the City’s place in our zeitgeist: Gossip Girl. The CW show returned to the air on Monday after a painfully long hiatus due to the writer’s strike. The return was celebrated by New York Magazine, whose cover this week features a picture of the cast overlaid with the words “Best. Show. Ever...

Author: By Ryder B. Kessler | Title: Carrie Bradshaw Syndrome | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...lesson has even been made explicit by the show’s protagonist, Serena Van Der Woodsen, to her sometime best friend, sometime mortal enemy Blair Waldorf. Blair suffers from Carrie Bradshaw Syndrome, and Serena’s had enough: “You act like you’re in this movie about your perfect life but then I have to remind you the only one watching that movie is you.” (Well...

Author: By Ryder B. Kessler | Title: Carrie Bradshaw Syndrome | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...professionals, and enjoy the relative calm of our daily, uninteresting lives. Let’s make our dinner conversations less about our problems and more about our passions—less about irritants and more about ideas. And if we get bored, we can always talk about Carrie Bradshaw and her problematic obsession with shoes...

Author: By Ryder B. Kessler | Title: Carrie Bradshaw Syndrome | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

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