Sex in the City Resonates with Gen Z

Samantha, Miranda, Carrie and Charlotte for the Gen Z crowd

This morning we had dim sum early with some family friends and their adult kids who are in their 20s and living in New York and Boston.

Funnily enough they told me they were watching episodes from Sex in the City, a show I watched in the late 1990s to early 2000s.

The cable show created by Darren Star, was based on the newspaper column and book of the same name written by Candace Bushnell, a columnist for the New York Observer.

The show focuses around Carrie Bradshaw, based on Bushnell, a writer who has an addiction for shopping, especially for Manolo Blahniks, flirty publicist Samantha Jones, prim and proper Charlotte York, and feminist lawyer Miranda Hobbes.

So I was surprised to hear they were watching the show, bringing me back to when I watched it weekly on Saturday nights in my 20s. We discussed the characters, and they felt Miranda resonated with them the most, and I agreed, adding I liked how Samantha is so liberated.

They said the storylines are still relevant today, particularly about men! 

One thing we definitely concurred on was that Carrie was so hard to relate to, being so flighty and having such a bizarre wardrobe. But more importantly that it was frustrating to see her keep going back to Mr Big! haha.

Then I asked the two sisters what they were doing after dim sum and they said they were going to Aberdeen Centre in Richmond with their parents. 

They looked up that the Chinese shopping mall was renovated in 2003 -- the same year the younger sister was born. 

I couldn't help but remark that was the year I helped produce a radio broadcast for Chinese New Year in the mall!

Now I feel really old!