On Tuesday evening, a post went up on Instagram commemorating the 25th anniversary of Sex and The City. The tag: “Aidan Shaw is bullshit”. The question: “Who was the worst man in Sex and The City?” Gleefully wading through all 5,600 responses passed a pleasant hour. This is social media as it is supposed to be, coinciding with my going through an early Sex and The City phase, watching an episode each night before going to sleep, the gay Catholic adult equivalent of prayers before bedtime.
The colourful respondents included some of the actors who played the endless succession of ghastly Noughties archetypes that Carrie Bradshaw and chums encountered on their dramas in millennial New York. Kyle McLachlan (Trey, Charlotte, erectile dysfunction) gently defended buying his screen wife a cardboard baby on the show when their pregnancy plan flunked. Justin Theroux (Jared, Carrie, premature ejaculation) simply nominated himself.
