There’s all this stuff about that new, super-trendy show on ABC Sunday nights, and you know what? It ain’t just the women. Let’s go through the list, shall we? (Spoilers ahead– oh, like you’re not watching regularly)
* Rex Van De Kamp is being driven nutso by his borderline OCD wife, and he’s covering up a hit-and-run by his son.
* Carlos Solis has his mom in the hospital as a result of that accident– and unbeknownst to him, his supermodel wife is cheating on him.
* Paul Young’s wife committed suicide, and he’s just killed the woman who (possibly) drove his wife to it.
* Tom Scavo is working like a madman to provide for a pill-popping wife and four kids, and is beginning to hit the Peter Principle wall.
* John Rowland’s head is being screwed with by a woman that he’s trying to break it off with, and he now feels guilty about being involved in a hit and run.
And that’s just off the top off my head. But the men are leading lives of quiet desperation, and they get no sympathy for it. The point is that everybody’s a case of the walking wounded (with the possible exception of Julie Mayer) and it’s not the women– it’s the world in which they’re ALL in.
(This post is a long-delayed reaction to my puzzlement over the love heaped on SEX AND THE CITY versus the scorn heaped on MANCHILD, which I’ll probably return to at some point when I’m absolutely positive that my wife isn’t reading this blog.)
I’ve never seen Sex and the City. What’s that about anyway?
I don’t think that’s true at all. I think the men do get sympathy for it. Although, Rex got MORE sympathy when he wasn’t being such an asshole. But take Carlos, for example. When the show began you thought he was just a prick, but now you actually feel sorry for the poor guy. It’s just that the show is told from the women’s POV, so we’re going to get their perspective and see things through their eyes. But I think there’s plenty of sympathy to go around. (For example, it was pretty clear that Lynette was wrong to hijack Tom’s presentation, no matter her motivations.)
Can you tell I love this show? 😉
Oh, and Sex and the City is the GREATEST SHOW EVER THE END THNX BYE.
Susan myer and Julie are two lovley people
Bree is spectacilar and so is Danelle