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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lydia Spencer-Elliott

‘Shagging and shoes’: why Gen Z has fallen in love with Sex and the City

Sex and the City, season 6, with, from left, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall.
Sex and the City, season 6, with, from left, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall. Photograph: Hbo/Allstar

A commitment-phobe boy had just dumped me when I first started watching Sex and the City. I had only been on this planet for just over a year when the show first aired, but the 25-year-old series came to me as a Manolo Blahnik-clad rite of passage when I needed it most.

Many of my Gen Z peers are now meeting Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda for the first time, as the show was released on Netflix in the US last week. In the UK, you can watch it on Now TV, or buy it on Amazon Prime. And older women can’t help but wonder what Gen Z are making of it.

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