Sex and the City is the most popular television series to
date among women age 15-48. It
practically created the Romantic Dramedy genre.
It ran 94 episodes over 6 seasons, even though each episode addressed
essentially one question: Is the female lead
a skank or not? And the answer was
inevitably: Whatever works for the next
episode.
Why was
this simple formula such a winner? Because
the question “Is she a skank or not?” has been the central question surrounding
femininity for, like, millions of years.
It’s on everyone’s mind. And with
SATC, the hook’s right there in the title.
Is the lead going to have sex with the entire city? Is she the ultimate
skank? That’s what viewers want to
know. But what viewers also want to know
is, did women throughout history strive to be the ultimate skank as well?
I’m
taking you to a place far away, a place north of China, south of Santa, but
close to your heart. Are you there? It’s Russia.
Soviet Russia (we also went back in time). It’s Sex and Soviet Russia, but that’s a
terrible idea for a title.
Which city? No problem.
Let’s see. Berlin. Lots of skanking going on there. Oh, sorry, I’ll stop saying that. No Berlin, no problem, I got tons of
others. Vladisvostok. Moscow. Helskankski.
Get it? Oh right, sorry. Wait, what’s that one place? Where they mutated babies or something? Chernobyl!
That’s our city. Oh, it’s not a
city? Well, Ivana works at Chernobyl, she
keeps a diary, and she’s hot for her boss, and so’s he, and poof! Love.
Also nuclear disaster. So better as a feature than a series.
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