"Dude, ideas are good. Light bulbs. Liberty. Beer. These things all started as ideas!"
So I skipped the Sex and the City movie, but I've read all the spoilers. It sounds exactly as I expected. That show has NOT held up to scrutiny. Once upon a time I genuinely loved it, but in hindsight there are so many flaws.
A show that's honestly good, though, is My Boys on TBS, which started a new season tonight. It's very much the intellectual sucessor to Sex and the City, but it's actually consistently funny and the characters are likable. Ignore the horrible sounding name ("My Boys", ugh). Ignore the sassy black stereotype factory best friend, while you're at it (she's gotten a touch less annoying). No show is perfect, but this is the only one with Jim Gaffigan gleefully buying a watch to celebrate the fact that he helped his company "rape a rainforest" that day. Check it!
Stupid TV Fandom Meme
+ The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it: Let's go with Sex and the City, it seems fitting.
+ The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets: Arrested Development
+ The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy: Carnivale!!!
+ The steady: LOST
+ The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with: Battlestar Galactica
+ The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't: Family Guy
+ The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere: Avatar: The Last Airbender
+ The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "Him? How the hell did he land all these cool babes?": Aqua Teen Hunger Force
+ The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly: Heroes
+ The ones you repeatedly cheat on your steady with: The Office (both versions)
A show that's honestly good, though, is My Boys on TBS, which started a new season tonight. It's very much the intellectual sucessor to Sex and the City, but it's actually consistently funny and the characters are likable. Ignore the horrible sounding name ("My Boys", ugh). Ignore the sassy black stereotype factory best friend, while you're at it (she's gotten a touch less annoying). No show is perfect, but this is the only one with Jim Gaffigan gleefully buying a watch to celebrate the fact that he helped his company "rape a rainforest" that day. Check it!
Stupid TV Fandom Meme
+ The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it: Let's go with Sex and the City, it seems fitting.
+ The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets: Arrested Development
+ The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy: Carnivale!!!
+ The steady: LOST
+ The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with: Battlestar Galactica
+ The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't: Family Guy
+ The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere: Avatar: The Last Airbender
+ The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "Him? How the hell did he land all these cool babes?": Aqua Teen Hunger Force
+ The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly: Heroes
+ The ones you repeatedly cheat on your steady with: The Office (both versions)