It's easy to forget that Sex and the City was once a really interesting show. The word 'groundbreaking' is tossed around like candy today, but there was a time in which frank discussion of female sexuality on cable television, genuine or not, was hugely innovative and important. Regardless of the original show's sometimes demeaning fascination with materialism and its tendency to make the four leads draggy and broad at the best of times, it was a show with a voice and sense of self, as well as a breezy, light charisma that has made it sort of timeless.
