Sex and the City/YMMV

"Carrie: Fuck you. (He continues to kiss her). Fuck you. (She kisses him back). Oh, fuck me."
 * Awesome Ego: Samantha.
 * Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch: Lots of people like to take cracks about how the characters find Carrie to be some kind of sex incarnate beauty icon, and all of her friends are supposed to be considered less pretty than her. This really isn't the case, though there are many instances of her friends and lovers going on about her being gorgeous/stunningly beautiful. The criticisms may just be the overflow of how many people feel about Sarah Jessica Parker. Mileage greatly varies about how true the media's declarations about her looks are.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Carrie and Big in the "The Big Time". You know it shouldn't be, but it is. Big kisses her:

"Carrie: You have to forgive me. You have to forgive me. You have to forgive me. (Begins to weep). You have to forgive me."
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Harry's proposal to Charlotte.
 * Do Not Do This Cool Thing
 * The Movie ostensibly had a message about rejecting the importance of labels (in both senses of the word), despite large chunks of the movie which are practically in-movie commercials for designer labels. The orgiastic display of wedding dresses alone... In a larger sense, the series as a whole falls victim to this. We're supposed to be at least somewhat horrified by the narcissism and shallowness that's all-too-frequently on display, but the characters and their environment are a bit too glamorous for the "moral" to really take. Bushnell's original columns were considerably more trenchant in their appraisal of their social milieu.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: Miranda's reaction to Samantha's Suddenly Sexuality, considering the fact that Cynthia Nixon is engaged to another woman (and has dealt with having fallen in love with a woman extremely well; not dissimilar to the way Samantha did, in fact).
 * An even better example of this is a first season episode where Miranda is assumed to be gay by a co-worker, who sets Miranda up with a female date for a company event. At the end of the episode, she considers how life would be much easier if she were a lesbian, testing this by kissing her same-sex date.
 * Hollywood Homely: Miranda, though men aren't put off by her looks so much as her powerful career and a demeanor that intimidates and emasculates them (however, at least one guy in-show really finds that attractive). Harry arguably qualifies as well, as he's portrayed almost as a hideous beast at times.
 * Periphery Demographic: Gay men, famously, to the point it's almost considered more of a "gay show" in the popular imagination than it is a "chick show".
 * Straight males, too. See Testosterone Brigade.
 * Retroactive Recognition: John Slattery as a politician Carrie dates for a couple of episodes.
 * Tear Jerker: Although it dances with becoming Narm, the scene in which Carrie is begging Aidan to take her back after she slept with Big.


 * Much better than it sounds.
 * Also, Miranda releasing all the pent-up emotion about her mother's death during a fitting for a new bra.
 * Testosterone Brigade: While its male fanbase is often stereotyped as being composed primarily of Camp Gay men who watch it for the fashion, during its prime it also had a very large contingent of straight male fans, as it featured a ton of female skin and enough of the male perspective (at times) to occupy straight men's interest.
 * Unfortunate Implications: The episode where Carrie dates a bisexual guy is... not very well handled. The episode showed bisexuals as some kind of fad among young folk who play spin the bottle indiscriminately. Carrie breaks up with him because she doesn't want to kiss girls too.
 * Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?? A few examples, but most notably with Carrie and Aiden after she had an affair with Big. He was still deeply hurt by it, could no longer trust her at all, and in the end they realized the damage was done and there was no saving the relationship.