As the Sex and the City actresses declared an end to their days of public nudity, theories exploded about what they will do next-write a book on the female orgasm, star in Annie, moonlight on Melrose Place.... But, alas, they already conquered the world, so they decided to think bigger-back to their own show's beginnings.
Let's face it: although SATC may have traded cheesecakes for cosmopolitans and dentures for Jimmy Choos, the show has always played like a raunchy rerun of The Golden Girls. If their careers have the post-show momentum of 90210, they still could easily slip into a Golden Girls sequel in another 30 years, bringing the cycle full circle.
SATC's single divas lost 40 years but retained the septagenerians' respective naivete, brains, endearingness and downright sluttiness. And despite the conventional married-with-children nature of women in both their mid-30s and 70s, these two sets of bachelorettes still manage to put Duke's dating scene to shame (not quite a Herculean feat, but point made). For those still in doubt, we submit a list of similarities between the two shows:
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