For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
As an aspiring New York Star columnist growing up outside of New York in the ’90s and early ’00s, I watched Sex and the City non-stop and on permanent repeat since its premiere in ’98, hopelessly taken with its portrayal of literary New York (which I realize, now, directly informs what I think New York should be even after living here for many years).