Season Three, Episode Twelve – ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

I wrote down ‘omelette’ on my notes, and I’m only including this because I don’t like going straight into a review. I prefer to let the first paragraph breathe without the confines of having to talk about the show, or me trying to compare one of them to a historical period. I mean, you could [...]

Season Three, Episode Eleven – ‘Running With Scissors’

We start with Big and Carrie continuing their affair in a succession of grotty hotels. I’ve never felt entirely comfortable staying in hotels – I prefer home comforts, not the awkward sheets, the televisions with just ‘CNN’ and the prostitutes sidling around door to door selling their dirty goods. I’ve got respect for hotel workers [...]

Season Three, Episode Ten – ‘All Or Nothing’

Cheaters never prosper. Never forget that.
This whole episode seems to hinge on a quote from someone that “no-one should come to New York unless they’re very happy.” So what? Jade Goody once called an Indian film actress ‘Shilpa Poppadom’, and look where it got her. Actually, I’ve not heard anything for a while – anyone [...]

Season Three, Episode Nine – ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’

My handwriting is getting progressively more shocking, so if I say anything stupid/sexist/homophobic/ageist/racist/controversial here I’m gonna blame it on not being able to read my silky writing properly. Apparently my handwriting slants to the left, which means I’m cold, indifferent and insane. But then I’m not one of those idiots who diagnose themselves on the [...]

Season Three, Episode Eight – ‘The Big Time’

In my alone time, which is becoming less frequent due to me being such a great guy I sometimes think about whether I’d like to be a ‘Big’ or an Aidan. Ideally you’d like to combine the two – Aidan’s affability and luxurious mane, and Big’s fantastic suits. What has this got to do with [...]

Season Three, Episode Seven – ‘Drama Queens’

Consider this statement, made by Carrie about five minutes into this episode: “For the first time in my life I was in a relationship where nothing was wrong.” Contemplate the feelings you’d get from that, had it been you who had said that, and you who had realised that. Elation perhaps? Certainly a feeling of [...]

Season Three, Episode Six – ‘Are We Sluts?’

Today, we’re talking about sluts, and for once I guess, the title speaks for itself. All four ‘women’ are having doubts over their sex lives, for a multitude of different reasons.
Carrie is perplexed because Aidan didn’t want to plough her immediately following a third date. Like Bob Dylan once sang, it’s just like a woman [...]

Season Three, Episode Five – ‘No Ifs, Ands, Or Butts’

A question that is repeatedly emailed into me is that of my top five black people of all time. My reply is always the same – how could I pick such a small amount of favourites out of so many? If pushed though, a top 5 of Snoop ‘Doggy’ Dogg, Tony Yeboah, Malcolm X, ‘Carl’ [...]

Season Three, Episode Four – ‘Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl…’

Sometimes I really do wonder whether life is worth living. Not really anything to do with this blog, but perhaps suicide really is the only answer?
We start this episode in an art gallery, where some idiot has photographed women looking like men. One feels that he might have missed a trick with Carrie and Miranda [...]

Season Three, Episode Three – ‘Attack Of The Five-Foot Ten Women’

The word ‘brunch’ is in my least favourite words of all time list (along with such luminaries as ’sarnies’, ‘butties’,  ‘goodies’, and ‘do’ – as in ‘are you going to Jimmy’s 40th anniversary do?) so it’s no surprise that I started this episode off on a rather sour note when the four idiots met up [...]