The characters & their situations were something I had never experienced on TV before, but the actors involved made the show an enjoyable one. But it was shown on Fridays (10.30pm) & I was allowed to enjoy the antics of the Campbells & the Tates. And we’ll drink a Cosmo to that.I was only 10 years old when this show premiered on TV in London. SATC led to a backlash against sex shaming and a more open-minded and liberated view of female sexuality that continues to resonate today. Still, the sisterhood and the agency with which writer Carrie Bradshaw and her pals sought relationships and sometimes even no-strings satisfaction, was inspiring for many of us, as there was nothing else like it before on TV. Carrie, Sam, Miranda and Charlotte all met dudes the old fashioned way with nary a mention of online dating (how most of us do it these days). Living on in heavily-edited repeats on the E! channel, HBO’s SATC comes off a bit dated today (an episode I caught recently had the voracious Samantha telling the girls about “the hot new trend” of grooming one’s pubes, something that’s ubiquitous these days thanks to porn). They have more freedom to explore seduction on screen and they take it, expressing the range of desire and sensual expression as primal, complex and unique as it truly can be for each and every one of us.
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Still, actual sex scenes on network TV were and pretty much still are not-hot, consisting of strategically shot flashes of skin between sheets, badly-staged soap opera style “love-making,” or worse, reality shows featuring attention-whores we don’t care about awkwardly groping and sucking face.įor this lusty TV list, cable and streamed shows are tops (not bottoms) for obvious reasons. But by the ’80s and ’90s, anything kinda went in terms of sexual situations, innuendo and jokes ( Married… With Children, Golden Girls, Friends, Two & A Half Men and Seinfeld’s infamous “The Contest” episode). Pre-TV ratings board guidelines (TV-13, TV-MA, etc), the networks would actually broadcast viewer or parental “discretion advised” warnings sometimes in voiceover/sometimes in words across the screen (’70s shows like Soap and The Newlywed Game). Things were even worse on network TV, which will never be as sexy as cable or streaming service fare, though a few shows and characters from the past still come to mind (the ladies of Charlies Angels or Jack Tripper on Three’s Company, for example). Before thoughtfully-produced TV was allowed to be as provocative, all we had in terms of titillation on cable was Red Shoe Diaries, Taxi Cab Confessions, Cathouse and soft-core Cinemax (“Skinemax”) shows, which were as bad and simplistic as porn itself. This is something young millennials might take for granted, but Gen-X era and older viewers have had to adjust to. GOT, and really all of HBO’s best shows, proved that television that turns us on could still be smart, compelling and written well.
While the popular HBO drama will be remembered for its powerful acting and thematic intensity depicting violent and fantastical storylines - let’s be honest, the thing a lot of people will probably remember most will be seeing their favorite Game-rs getting it on. G ame of Thrones’ Emmy wins ended its TV reign with a bang - actually a bounty of bangs - apropos for a show that never held back in terms of sexuality.
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