Sex And The City Vs. Girls: Can We Compare The HBO Shows?

Sex and the City meant glamour. Each week young women would tune in to watch Carrie hobble through New York donning a pair of skyscraper Manolo Blahnik shoes, climbing in and out of Big’s chauffeur driven car and working her way through the most eligible men in the city. The gal pals would meet over their Cosmopolitan cocktails to swap stories about their fabulous lives while the girls would drop what they were doing at a moment’s notice if each other were in need, because, in the immortal words of Carrie: “our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with”.

Times have moved on. The internet has bred a new wave of feminists who look at life more realistically. Carrie’s wardrobe, rather than enviable, now seems excessive and overpriced, these days young women vote vintage, shopping in thrift stores and on eBay. The ‘in-crowd’ don’t wear Jimmy Choos to clubs, they wear Mom Jeans and tops they cropped themselves with a pair of scissors from the kitchen drawer. Women writers don’t just write about sex and shoes, they get involved in the important issues, they write screenplays and comedy.

Sex and The City paved the way for shows like Girls, and because of this we’ll always love it. But times have changed and Girls is (perhaps sadly) the show that’s more suited to a modern audience. It would be nice to go back to a simpler time, when all we wanted to do was slip into a designer dress and strut into the opening of a trendy club a la SATC, but for now Hannah’s green bikini and the constant neuroses of the Girls gang fits more comfortably.