<P> Academic critics of the series, however, disagree on whether Sex and the City was truly anti-feminist, feminist, or post-feminist . Some argue whatever label is applied to the show, it offered an important contribution "to ongoing dialogue" and that because it "shows women in a world where they can be feminine, attractive, and feminist at the same time...the series gives a forum to a renewed postfeminist debate ." </P> <P> In retrospective analysis of the show, critics have generally reassessed Carrie Bradshaw as an unsympathetic protagonist, despite the show's portrayal of her as a positive figure . In 2013, Glamour magazine called Carrie "the worst" character on the show, saying that "her brattiness and self - absorption eclipsed her redeeming qualities and even her awesome shoes ." In a 2010 retrospective about the previous two decades in pop culture, ABC News named Carrie one of the ten worst characters of the past twenty years, calling her a "snippy, self - righteous Manhattan snob" and citing the character's actions in Sex and the City 2 as evidence that she was beyond personal growth or redemption . Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker, looking back on the show a decade after it went off the air, argued Bradshaw was "the unacknowledged first female anti-hero on television," who began as a "happy, curious explorer, out companionably smoking with modellizers (sic)," but from the second season on she "spun out, becoming anxious, obsessive, and, despite her charm, wildly self - centered ." Nussbaum also asserted that it is only over time that the show's reputation has "shrunk and faded," largely due to disappointment that the show "gave in" to the limits of romantic comedy toward the end of the series . Until then, Nussbaum writes, Sex and the City "was sharp, iconoclastic television ." In answer to the question of why the show is now "so often portrayed as a set of empty, static cartoons, an embarrassment to womankind," Nussbaum wrote: "It's a classic misunderstanding, I think, stemming from an unexamined hierarchy: the assumption that anything stylized (or formulaic, or pleasurable, or funny, or feminine, or explicit about sex rather than about violence, or made collaboratively) must be inferior ." Nussbaum also pushed against criticism of Sex and the City as anti-feminist, arguing for a more complex view of the characters as situated within different waves of feminism: "Miranda and Carrie were second - wave feminists, who believed in egalitarianism; Charlotte and Samantha were third - wave feminists, focused on exploiting the power of femininity, from opposing angles ." </P> <P> Season one of Sex and the City aired on HBO from June to August 1998 . Season two was broadcast from June until October, 1999 . Season three aired from June until October 2000 . Season four was broadcast in two parts: from June until August 2001, and then in January and February 2002 . Season five, truncated due to Parker's pregnancy, aired on HBO during the summer of 2002 . The twenty episodes of the final season, season six, aired in two parts: from June until September 2003 and during January and February 2004 . </P> <P> Sex and the City is currently syndicated in the US by HBO corporate sibling (under Time Warner) Warner Bros. Television Distribution . CBS Television Studios (successors to Rysher Entertainment and Paramount Domestic Television) and their distribution arm own international rights . </P>

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