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Federalist Radio Hour

Lessons On Culture From The Fall Of ‘Sex And The City’

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Emmy award-winning producer and writer Daniella Greenbaum Davis joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss her article "And Just Like That…’ Proves It’s Time To Put ‘Sex And The City’ to Bed."

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:20.0

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

0:22.4

As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com and follow us on Twitter

0:26.1

at FDR LST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

0:30.9

Today, we're very happy to be joined by Danielle Agree, and Bob Davis, who is an Emmy-ward

0:35.1

winning producer and writer. Danielle, thanks so much for joining us.

0:38.7

My pleasure, thanks for having me.

0:40.7

Of course, I could not not have you on after you wrote the fantastic, maybe the best

0:46.2

takedown of the new Sex in the City reboot. It's called, and just like that, people have

0:50.9

probably heard about it or seen the memes because of the Palatine situation.

0:54.7

I imagine that it'll be basically impossible for us to avoid spoilers, especially to that end.

0:59.9

So if you're not looking to be spoiled, you might want to tune out for this episode.

1:04.9

But I hope everybody does stay tuned in because the arc of Sex in the City, I think,

1:09.6

represents a lot about the arc of our culture. And Danielle, I'll just start off by asking you

1:14.5

that's how what you wrote, what your take was on, and just like that. The headline of your story is,

1:19.6

and just like that proves its time to put Sex in the City to bed, which should have been a sexy

1:25.1

frothy, sparkly Sex in the City reunion in the recent mini series, was anything but tell us

1:29.9

about the piece. Sure. So I'll just start off by saying that I am a total Sex in the City

1:35.4

super fan and watched the show, you know, more times than I'd care to admit, watched both movies,

1:41.3

more times than I'd care to admit, and even really loved the Carrie Diaries, which was this

1:46.3

very silly one-dimensional sort of look back into what Carrie's origin story might have been.

1:52.5

So when some of the other ladies over at the Federalist said, you know, do you want to review this for us,

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