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June 6, 2017 3:31 PM Subscribe
I wish people wondered about more stuff on TV. It seems these days nobody is interested in speculation, bullshitting, knocking around ideas, or heck, possibly being wrong (or merely incorrect) about something. Even if Carrie never came to any conclusions about these things, I like to think that the viewers got something out of that part of the show.
Seinfeld did it a little, Roseanne did it a lot, and I struggle to come up with examples from this century.
posted by rhizome at 3:47 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
Seinfeld did it a little, Roseanne did it a lot, and I struggle to come up with examples from this century.
posted by rhizome at 3:47 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
It was a wonderful show indeed.
posted by dis_integration at 3:54 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by dis_integration at 3:54 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
I started reading this list like "I remember that show, it was kind of fun!". Then around this one:
“The fact is, the act of cheating is defined by the act of getting caught. One doesn't exist without the other. I wondered, Was Samantha right? Is cheating like the proverbial tree in the forest? That it doesn't exist if there's no one around to catch you?”
I think I had a little bit of bleeding in my brain and now I can taste all the pink puppy stars.
posted by poe at 4:02 PM on June 6, 2017 [10 favorites]
“The fact is, the act of cheating is defined by the act of getting caught. One doesn't exist without the other. I wondered, Was Samantha right? Is cheating like the proverbial tree in the forest? That it doesn't exist if there's no one around to catch you?”
I think I had a little bit of bleeding in my brain and now I can taste all the pink puppy stars.
posted by poe at 4:02 PM on June 6, 2017 [10 favorites]
One of the best times I've ever watched Sex and the City, was the show finale with my queer besties in a motel in Portland for New Year's. Me and a friend were eating Domino's and critiquing the shit out of that show, while waiting for the rest of the group to come back from partying at the same gay club for the 2nd or 3rd time.
Carrie sure did a lot of pondering, but it's quite evident to me that she really is face-deep into cis white heteronormativity. Such is the plight of her life and positionality. Oh man, why do you go back to Mr. Big? That is terribly annoying. And why do none of her friends go, "This is a BAD idea for you to go to Paris." Is it because they already know that she is so fargone that she wouldn't listen to them? Sigh. But that big grey dress was so very pretty.
posted by yueliang at 4:16 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
Carrie sure did a lot of pondering, but it's quite evident to me that she really is face-deep into cis white heteronormativity. Such is the plight of her life and positionality. Oh man, why do you go back to Mr. Big? That is terribly annoying. And why do none of her friends go, "This is a BAD idea for you to go to Paris." Is it because they already know that she is so fargone that she wouldn't listen to them? Sigh. But that big grey dress was so very pretty.
posted by yueliang at 4:16 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life; my life. As I sat there and watched him die I wondered: Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got?
posted by Artw at 4:16 PM on June 6, 2017 [13 favorites]
posted by Artw at 4:16 PM on June 6, 2017 [13 favorites]
Just went to a drag version of Sex in the City here in SF last week. Mr. Big was portrayed by Leigh Crowe, aka drag king Elvis Herselvis.
posted by larrybob at 4:22 PM on June 6, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by larrybob at 4:22 PM on June 6, 2017 [4 favorites]
I wish people wondered about more stuff on TV....Seinfeld did it a little, Roseanne did it a lot, and I struggle to come up with examples from this century.
Scrubs!
(Started in 2001 but ended in this decade.)
posted by subdee at 4:24 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
Scrubs!
(Started in 2001 but ended in this decade.)
posted by subdee at 4:24 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
Oh hey, I'm watching a long interview with Sarah Jessica Parker right now. I'm skipping around; she starts talking at length about SATC around 36:00.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:25 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:25 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
And why do none of her friends go, "This is a BAD idea for you to go to Paris."
Miranda definitely did!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:26 PM on June 6, 2017 [6 favorites]
Miranda definitely did!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:26 PM on June 6, 2017 [6 favorites]
I wondered, while watching Andy Richtman's Universe, Ally McBeal, Scrubs, and other 90s/aughts shows where the main character is always wondering, whether going off into a hallucinogenic alternate universe of wonder was a real phenonmenon that other real people really experienced.
posted by subdee at 4:27 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by subdee at 4:27 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
I have a certain enjoyable memory of the time some co-workers and I were joking about how the SATC women would behave at a funeral, one of them said, "They'd wear sexy black outfits and talk about their relationships the entire time," and I said, in my best Carrie voice, "And I couldn't help but wonder... are break-ups the new death?"
posted by orange swan at 4:29 PM on June 6, 2017 [32 favorites]
posted by orange swan at 4:29 PM on June 6, 2017 [32 favorites]
I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. I wondered, was it an accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory?
posted by Artw at 4:34 PM on June 6, 2017 [19 favorites]
posted by Artw at 4:34 PM on June 6, 2017 [19 favorites]
I wish people wondered about more stuff on TV....Seinfeld did it a little, Roseanne did it a lot, and I struggle to come up with examples from this century.
Andy Rooney did this in his "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" segment on 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011.
posted by Rob Rockets at 5:05 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
Andy Rooney did this in his "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" segment on 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011.
posted by Rob Rockets at 5:05 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
I had to wonder: How did these people get their cats wedged into their scanners? And why?
posted by obscure simpsons reference at 5:13 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
posted by obscure simpsons reference at 5:13 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
I wish people wondered about more stuff on TV. It seems these days nobody is interested in speculation, bullshitting, knocking around ideas, or heck, possibly being wrong (or merely incorrect) about something.
These days you don't wonder about something, you google it, read the precis on wikipedia, and then forget all about it forever.
posted by dng at 5:46 PM on June 6, 2017 [17 favorites]
These days you don't wonder about something, you google it, read the precis on wikipedia, and then forget all about it forever.
posted by dng at 5:46 PM on June 6, 2017 [17 favorites]
I guess this is my time to mention that I was entering a revolving door once at the same time Sarah Jessica Parker was exiting it, and reader, she is so wee that her assistant had to help her push it.
posted by Automocar at 6:22 PM on June 6, 2017 [13 favorites]
posted by Automocar at 6:22 PM on June 6, 2017 [13 favorites]
These days you don't wonder about something, you google it, read the precis on wikipedia, and then forget all about it forever
Or post on the green.
posted by bunderful at 6:25 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
Or post on the green.
posted by bunderful at 6:25 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
What are you talking about? Everyone wonders. We're saturated with wonder. Hot takes and Medium and Twitter threads. Fanfare, Mefi comments... I think we're wondering so much we don't need to hear tv characters pontificate.
posted by kittensofthenight at 6:38 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by kittensofthenight at 6:38 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
A writer for a popular daytime soap opera told me this about the writing process:
"You know those moments, when the camera zooms in on the main character, very dramatic like, and you wonder, 'what are they thinking?', well, we don't know what they're thinking either."
posted by StickyCarpet at 6:57 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
"You know those moments, when the camera zooms in on the main character, very dramatic like, and you wonder, 'what are they thinking?', well, we don't know what they're thinking either."
posted by StickyCarpet at 6:57 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
Then I had to stop to think. I didn't even like SATC. Why was I even in this thread? Was I just here fishing for favorites? Is favorite seeking the new prostitution?
posted by Samizdata at 6:58 PM on June 6, 2017 [10 favorites]
posted by Samizdata at 6:58 PM on June 6, 2017 [10 favorites]
Or am I now just a favorite worker?
posted by Samizdata at 6:59 PM on June 6, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Samizdata at 6:59 PM on June 6, 2017 [4 favorites]
I still miss @trekandthecity: "As we sealed the Bridge and transferred remaining power to engineering, I wondered - who really had the power in Big's and my relationship?"
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:09 PM on June 6, 2017 [12 favorites]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:09 PM on June 6, 2017 [12 favorites]
Poof-ert-guhs?
posted by humboldt32 at 8:55 PM on June 6, 2017
posted by humboldt32 at 8:55 PM on June 6, 2017
20 favorites, same as in town.
posted by radicalawyer at 5:42 AM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by radicalawyer at 5:42 AM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
Relevant Carrie wondering joke... (SLTwitter)
posted by artychoke at 10:53 AM on June 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by artychoke at 10:53 AM on June 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
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She got me to go to the first movie with her under the condition that she got me really high. Most of the women there were drunk on margaritas, so I fit right in.
posted by triage_lazarus at 3:46 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]