Sarah Jessica Parker is reconsidering Mr. Big.
Sex is better when the ladies are doing it less.
Always the most salacious sitcom on TV, HBO's Sex and the City became so ridiculously lecherous last season, it lapsed into self-parody. The Kama Sutra as a sitcom. But there's also a welcome realization that there are only so many ways four women can have and discuss orgasms without exhausting themselves and us. The change in tone is linked to a more mature Carrie, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, who has always been the show's best asset. The funnier, if sillier, second episode is a similarly self-referential riff on the show's obsession with, and impact on, shoes and style.