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Seven years and two films down the line, much has been made about the character profiles it introduced, the fashion trends it helped catapult, and the fantasies it perpetuated; but what's most memorable about Sex and the City — and what AXN thinks the viewers should continue to celebrate— is women empowerment.

A bold riff on the romantic comedy, the show is sharp, iconoclastic televisionthat breaks a lot of taboos. High-feminine instead of fetishistically masculine, glittery rather than gritty, and daring in its conception of character, “Sex and the City” is a vividyet radical show that changed the way we as a society think of single women.

The show offers many women across the world the representations they crave for through the strong characters. Carrie Bradshaw herself began as the mirror for another woman. Carrie and her friends—Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte—are odder birds by far, jagged, aggressive, and sometimes frightening figures, like a makeup mirror lit up in neon. They are simultaneously real and abstract, emotionally complex and philosophically stylized.

The show originated the unacknowledged first female anti-hero on television: ladies and gentlemen, Carrie Bradshaw. Sex and the City does not evaporate. It stays, rapturing tales, far beyond giggles and gossip, giving the audience a fresh verbal spontaneity on a woman's various domains.
Although the show’s first season is its slightest, it swiftly establishes a bold mixture of moods—fizzy and sour, blunt and arch—and shifts between satirical and sincere modes of storytelling. There

is already a melancholic undertow, full of foreshadowing. Revoke the nostalgia, or evoke revelations from Carrie's world and her allure. Give in to the power of being a woman as you sashay down Manhattan from your living room to the streets of intimacy to the path of an ongoing inner rebellion, navigating dilemmas with poise perfected and a spectator in her love trials.