Carrie Bradshaw is the main protagonist and narrator in the popular show SATC. We first meet Carrie in 1998 and get to know her for six seasons, 94 episodes, and two movies. Although Carrie is the main character, there are three other women in the show who can be considered main characters, that being Charlotte, Miranda, and Samantha. The four women do everything together throughout the run of the show, and most of the time they support one another. The audience sees Carrie Bradshaw (played by the fabulously Sarah Jessica Parker) go through so many phases of her life but the phase she goes through the most is being heartbroken by her main love interest, "Mr. Big" who is so obviously not into her it almost hurts to watch.
Many SATC fans such as myself watch SATC to see how these four fabulous and trendy women navigate dating in New York City along with other life events, but after watching the series many viewers have pointed out how absolutely horrible of a friend Carrie Bradshaw is.
5 Times Carrie Bradshaw Was Caught Being a Bad Friend:
- When Carrie blew Miranda off to hangout with Mr. Big - and didn't even bother to cancel
- When she got in a fight with Charlotte for not offering her a loan of $30,000 (even though her other friends did)
- When she sent her boyfriend Aiden to go help an injured Miranda after she fell in the shower
- Judging her friend Samantha for choosing to express herself
- The countless times that her friends go to Carrie for support, and she instead talks about her problems with Mr. Big, Aiden, or her current boyfriend at the time (the worst in my opinion.)
I think we can all come to the conclusion that Carrie Bradshaw is in fact, an awful friend. Some might argue that Carrie has to have flaws and that she provides a sense of realisim due to all of her mistakes throughout the show and I completely agree. Main characters shouln't be perfect just like Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda are not perfect but none of them are horrible friends like Carrie Bradshaw.
I showed my girlfriend this as I had no idea and she stated that she agrees with what has been said. Stating its hard to ignore Carrie's issues as a friend. It can be seen in the example of prioritizing Mr. Big over her friends, and the show has a glamorized portrayal of friendship in NYC.
ReplyDeleteThe way I would have IMMEDIATELY dropped Carrie as a friend for things she did in almost every episode!
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