As I watch one of my favorite shows, SEX IN THE CITY (1998-2004), I can’t help but correlate this show to SEINFELD (1989-1998). Both shows have very similar storytelling techniques and have both been very successful in their time.
Every episode of SEINFELD opens up with a comic monologue from Jerry, a stand up comedian both on and off the show. In the same manner, SEX IN THE CITY starts with and is continued to be narrated by Carrie Bradshaw, a columnist for the fictional newspaper, THE NEW YORK STAR. While SEINFELD covered the daily minutiae of Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine in New York City, SEX IN THE CITY talked about the daily sex life of four women as they went through various stages of love and romance, wild, passionate affairs, impotent husbands, steamy one night flings, and the lack of any sexual activity and how each situation drove them mad.
In both shows, characters are represented in a way Americans perceive themselves. This technique is what made both so successful.
Every episode of SEINFELD opens up with a comic monologue from Jerry, a stand up comedian both on and off the show. In the same manner, SEX IN THE CITY starts with and is continued to be narrated by Carrie Bradshaw, a columnist for the fictional newspaper, THE NEW YORK STAR. While SEINFELD covered the daily minutiae of Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine in New York City, SEX IN THE CITY talked about the daily sex life of four women as they went through various stages of love and romance, wild, passionate affairs, impotent husbands, steamy one night flings, and the lack of any sexual activity and how each situation drove them mad.
In both shows, characters are represented in a way Americans perceive themselves. This technique is what made both so successful.
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Would you please add ASAP an attention-grabbing title preceded by #4?
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