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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Alaina Demopoulos

Sex and the City is on Netflix. Perfect – gen Z are a bunch of Charlottes

cynthia nixon, kristin davis, and kim cattrall standing side by side in a scene from the show
Sex and the City’s Charlotte, played by Kristin Davis, has long been seen as a killjoy. Photograph: Craig Blankenhorn/AP

If you’re uninhibited and prone to monologues about your pelvic floor, you’re a Samantha. If you’re a narcissist who’s knee-deep in Klarna loans for your RealReal purchases, you’re a Carrie. And if you subscribe to the revisionist take that Miranda’s pragmatic, no-nonsense approach to life makes her an unsung hero of feminism – then your choice is obvious.

Any woman with a television has at some point in the past two decades played “which Sex and the City character are you?” I’ve met self-proclaimed Carries, Samanthas and Mirandas. But very rarely does one ever meet a willing Charlotte.

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