Season Five, Episode Seven – ‘The Big Journey’

I’ve been thinking a lot about the death of Oasis recently. Sure, they’re my favourite band of all time, and they perfectly encapsulate the fierce working class spirit I try to represent but the end has been so pantomime, so sleazy that I honestly have wondered if this has all been engineered by one of [...]

Season Five, Episode Six – ‘Critical Condition’

Just seen that there is a new series of X-Factor on the box, this is depressing news as I can remember talking about X-Factor very early on in this journey which means it has taken me far longer than I originally anticipated. I’ve never sniffed glue, but I reckon watching all these episodes is a [...]

Season Five, Episode Five – ‘Plus One is the Loneliest Number’

I’m thinking of labelling this whole ordeal as ‘my struggle as a guy through the world of evil women’, but I don’t know if that’s a bit too Bernard Manning for my liking.
I don’t really understand the title of this episode, surely ‘plus one’ means any number that isn’t once, implying that every single number [...]

Season Five, Episode Four – ‘Cover Girl’

Things I don’t want to see when I’m feeling a bit peaky at eleven o’ clock at night: a gone off oyster, Jo Brand attempting stand up comedy, and especially a mock up of Carrie Bradshaw nude, walking down a street in New York. Obviously she wasn’t literally walking, this wasn’t a Harry Potter picture [...]

Season Five, Episode Three – ‘Luck Be An Old Lady’

I thought the most savage line in popular culture was ‘I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die’ from the Johnny Cash classic ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, or even ‘your mother sucks cocks in hell’, from ‘The Exorcist’, but when Richard told Samantha quite clearly and explicitly that he wanted to give her [...]

Season Five, Episode Two – ‘Unoriginal Sin’

I’ve just been packing all my stuff into boxes as I’m moving house, and I stumbled across some of the earlier Sex And The City discs that I had previously discarded as they had been watched. And didn’t the damnedest thing happen… A small river of tears formed in my perfectly clear green eyes, my [...]

Season Five, Episode One – ‘Anchors Away’

A lot of people I have met in my life claim that I have some kind of weird speech impediment, and if that is true then I pronounce the title of this episode as ‘Wankers Awry’, which when you think about it has a certain kind of poetic enchantment to it. This is series five [...]

Season Four, Episode Eighteen – ‘I Heart NY’

There’s an old American Civil War folk song called ‘Goober Peas’ which was about a soldier named ‘Goober’, a heroic Southerner who found boiled peanuts or ‘peas’ in the ground which were edible, and so became the life-force of thousands of starving men. The song is a classic, jaunty number which always makes me smile [...]

Season Four, Episode Seventeen – ‘A Vogue Idea’

Carrie’s new hair makes her look like Aslan.
Sometimes I feel like Jesus delivering the Sermon On The Mount when I’m about to write one of these reviews.  As Jesus implored his adoring audience to ‘turn the other cheek’, I urge the readers of martinthecity to ‘earn the other week’. Sure, they’re both meaningless statements, but [...]

Season Four, Episode Sixteen – ‘Ring A Ding Ding’

Dreams, like glass can often shatter with the slightest pressure applied. I remember once, when I was a snip of a boy aged six that I really wanted to be a grandfather. However, the cruel hands of mother time tightened around my neck like John Leslie in a sauna, and I realised that everything doesn’t [...]