Sex and the City

Just watched a Daily Show interview with Michael Patrick King, executive producer of the TV show "Sex and the City" and writer of the latest SATC movie. In the new movie, the ladies all go to Abu Dhabi, where they'll ride around on camels and buy beaded slippers. Everyone was baffled about why they would do this, but King explained it all to Jon Stewart. His thought process was: Women don't have the money to go on vacation right now... so they're going to want to watch Carrie Bradshaw treat herself to the spa version of the Middle East, while not learning anything about the culture beyond "their shoes are cheap." No. That's not what I want to watch. The reason I loved the show to begin with was that Carrie is horrible and bad stuff happens to her. I want to watch a "Sex and the City" movie where Carrie's friends spend three hours insulting her and she cries. But this movie is going to make a zillion dollars and nobody will listen to me, even for art's sake.