Carrie Bradshaw is the star of Sex and the City, the Manolo-shod sex columnist whose exploits with her friends (and will-they-won't-they relationship with Big) form the core of the hit series. In many ways, Carrie is the ultimate New York gal that any woman would want to be - successful, beautiful, free-spirited, and incredibly stylish.
However, as the series continues, some of the shine starts to wear off Ms Bradshaw. From hopeless romantic to cynical and a little bit cruel, her attitude toward work, men, and even her devoted friends starts to shift to something a little less aspirational. And while Carrie will always be the hero of this sexy story, she's also a lot worse at the end than the start.
10 Became Increasingly Homophobic
This is also a product of the time, and the homophobia present in Sex And The City has been discussed at length. But even within the series itself, Carrie seems to become increasingly homophobic. Her 'gay BFF' Stanford goes from a big part of her life to someone that really only shows up when he is needed for a 'gay' storyline. Carrie also goes from a woman who seems to have a lot of queer friends to someone who barely talks to them and declared that bisexuality doesn't exist - a big (downward) leap.
9 Lost Empathy For Other Women
While Carrie had a terrible time finding her 'one', at the start, she was at least a wonderful friend to the women in her life. And even when it came to the women she wasn't best friends with, Carrie was empathetic, understanding, and socially savvy. However, as the show progressed, all that social ability just flew out the window, and Carrie became increasingly rude and clueless. Natasha is a clear case in point - would early-season Carrie have been so socially idiotic as to hunt her down and force a confrontation for her own selfish reasons? Not likely.
8 Became Increasingly Selfish
Her interactions with Natasha are far from the only way that she gets increasingly selfish, either. In the early seasons, the four friends would do anything for each other... but as the show progresses, Carrie makes herself the center of attention when Charlotte gets engaged (selfish), demands that her friends lend her money to pay of her own terrible mistakes with Aiden (selfish and entitled), and generally goes from having friends to having what she seems to see as groupies.
7 Had Less Time For Her Friends
As well as demanding more and more from her friends, Carrie became less and less willing to give to them. For a woman who seemed to only spend a few hours a week pensively smoking and staring out the window while she wrote, she was increasingly too busy for other people.
She sent a boyfriend to go help Miranda after she fell in the shower, she skipped a dinner organized by fans in Paris to celebrate her, she basically stopped actually giving up her time unless it was all about her in the first place.
6 Being Helpless In Her Relationship With Alexander
Of all Carrie's relationships, her time with Aleksander Petrovsky has to be the worst. And while part of this blame lands on the writers, Carrie as a character was made frustratingly worse by her decisions to stay with him. From the way that he and his friends made her feel stupid and uncultured, to her decision to move for him despite his own selfish behavior, to the moment that he slapped her - Carrie became increasingly weak, a terrible fate for a character who had always taken pride in being strong and independent.
5 Being Increasingly Clueless
This relationship isn't the only place where Carrie seems to become increasingly weak and clueless as the show goes on. At the start of the show, she's a smart, savvy, socialite - but toward the end, she's essentially a ditz. She doesn't understand how computers work, or how to back up. She becomes increasingly financially irresponsible, and has to beg her friends to lend her money. She even has a freak out and shrieks at a squirrel in the country cabin... despite the fact that there are squirrels in Manhattan.
4 Becomes A Cheater
It's hard to stay sympathetic to a character who is looking for love... and yet who keeps behaving so badly to the men in her own life. As the show goes on, Carrie becomes a serial cheater, with a capital C.
The fact that she cheats with Big is meant to show that the two are destined to be together, but it just makes her a worse person than she was at the start. Add in the way that she and the girls get more and more vicious in their criticisms of reasonable men, and she starts to just look like a bitter cheater who probably deserves to be alone.
3 The Cheesy Jokes
In the early seasons, Carrie would sometimes throw in a pun during the voiceover, as she was writing. It was funny, and it made sense. However, as the show continued, the writers made the decision to have her start cracking wise left, right, and center. It made her less realistic (no one could consistently fire out one liners like that), but also just a little annoying.
2 Stayed Stuck In Her 20s
Fans wanted to see Carrie grow up as time went by - after all, the series took the women from their 20s to their 30s, and then the films into their 40s. However, while the others found career success, families, and personal growth, Carrie at the end is basically the same as Carrie at the beginning (except that she finally married Big at the end of the first film). Same apartment, same job, same financially irresponsible habits and love of cocktails. It was, quite simply, a let down.
1 Became Strangely Prudish
Finally, for a sex columnist, Carrie seemed to become increasingly prudish. Once again, some of this is down to the time the show was airing; sex acts that were shocking then are almost commonplace now. However, even within the show, Carrie seems to be more open-minded about sex (hers and her friends'), but as she gets older she gets more bitter and judgemental, shocked at things that a sex columnist should have been a little more accepting of... even in the '90s.
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June 17, 2020 at 05:30AM
