I never actually watched this on HBO, only in syndication, so it was quite eye-opening to realize how much livelier this show is in its uncut version. It is also interesting to discover what Big’s real name is—a detail that was cut from the final episode in syndication, I might add.

I enjoyed the series ending (Carrie in Paris) the first time I saw it, but this time around, having seen the entire series first, I am fairly annoyed with how she passes herself off as some sort of sophisticated New York woman, yet when she gets to Paris, complains about there being “nothing to do” even after only a week when she complains that she has “been to every museum”. I doubt anyone even has time to drive past every museum in Paris within one weeks’ time, much less spend any significant amount of time in every one of them. Just the Louvre alone can consume a week, so she comes off as much more provincial than she pretends she is.