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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Elizabeth Gregory

25 years of Sex and the City: we pick the show’s 11 best moments

Unbelievably, it’s been 25 years since Sex and the City first aired. The six series show about the lives of four 30-something women in New York became one of the hit shows of the late Nineties and early Noughties.

Through the characters of writer Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), gallerist Charlotte (Kristin Davis), PR boss Samantha (Kim Cattrall), and lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) the groundbreaking series painted a picture of sex and relationships in the Big Apple, by touching on a range of sex-related subjects (such as anal, semen, and performing sex acts) that had never been shown on TV before, and showed the central characters speaking extremely frankly about the ups and downs of dating.

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