Day 6: Shows girls make us watch

It happens from time to time, especially in a small apartment like mine: Zoe somehow wrestles control over the TV away from me and puts on one of two shows: Sex and the City on TBS or Grey's Anatomy. (For Sex and the City it usually starts with 'Can we please watch something we both want to watch?'; for Grey's, it's 'You get to watch sports every night, this is the only show I like to watch.')

Regardless, I often find myself watching one of these two horrors, and I couldn't help but wonder, Which one would you choose?

The creators of Sex and the City had to have known that girls would want to watch the show with their boyfriends, and would talk them into it, so they threw in some pretty good boobs and sex scenes every once in awhile.

Like this: , or this:

TBS cuts out the good stuff. You still get the plodding narrative, the crappy writing, the boring-as-shit scenes of schmoopy couples, lame jokes, stupid banter, and bad puns - like when the girls are talking about how funny it is that Charlotte's brother Wesley was married to a woman named Leslie and Carrie asks "Does he work at Nestle?" Haha, Fucking fabulous - but you never get the payoff. It's like watching the replay of a soccer game when you already know the final score and every goal is cut out.

Grey's is worse. It's incessent relationships are incestuous, meaning that repeated viewings of the show won't even hold the faint hope of an interesting cameo (not that Sex and the City ever really fulfills that promse), and meaning that every time you see the show you have to learn more about the uninteresting characters. The writing's just as cheesy as Sex and the City, the unrealistic medical situations that are nowhere near as cool as in House, and there's absolutely no chance of an interesting sex scene. Worse, the show is full of whiny, spineless women. This is a big deal to me, at least with Sex and the City, all the male viewers can dream about meeting someone like Samantha. Sure, Izzy is hot, but she's such a damn head case that watching her for too long becomes tiresome. If Sex and the City is a goalless soccer match, Grey's is women's basketball. Dull, repetitive, no hope of seeing anything even remotely titilating.

In the end, the choice comes down to two factors:

1. I think it might sometimes be possible to even learn a little something about women from watching Sex and the City. It's not often, and certainly not invaluable information, but watching the Sex and the City chicks sitting around chatting might actually be a semi-accurate glimpse into the strange private life of women.

2. Sex and the City is 30 mins, while Grey's is an entire hour. If forced to watch one episode of one of the two, I would pick Sex and the City.

Now that that stupid question is settled, let's watch TV shows ridicule both of them:

Sex and the City



Grey's Anatomy