is "desperate housewives" just "sex in the city"

[datasuspect]

but set in the suburbs?

i went with someone to wal mart at 5 this morning and i noticed the dvd marketing angle seemed similar to sex in the city.

i don't get it.

[BarenakedLady]

1. Not really

Sex in the city was a comedy (sitcomish), Desperate Housewives, while funny is more a serial drama akin to a soap opera.

And wth were you doing in WalMart at 5am?

[datasuspect]

2. went with someone to try and find bagels and lox

ended up browsing for about an hour.

had a long conversation with the cashier about bacteria on public surfaces.

[jmm]

3. No but "Sex in the City" is just "Golden Girls"

if you make them 30 years older and move them to Miami in the late 80's early 90's.

[Shell Beau]

4. Ha!! I don't know about that! Maybe Blanche was Samantha though!

[mac56]

5. I've been saying that for months.

Sarah Jessica Parker = Bea Arthur
Kim Cattrell = Rue McLanahan
Kirsten Davis = Betty White
Cynthia Nixon = Estelle Getty

Younger and with less clothes on.

add on edit:


(The show) revolves around four single women: a slut (Kim Cattrall), a naif (Kristin Davis), a cynic (Cynthia Nixon) and a sensible one (Parker). People call it "revolutionary," "unprecedented" and "original." Well, I can tell you, t'aint none of those things. Does anyone out there remember "The Golden Girls?" The NBC hit, which ran from 1985-1992, was set in Miami and revolved around four single women: a slut (Rue McClanahan), a naif (Betty White), a cynic (Estelle Getty) and a sensible one (Beatrice Arthur).

They were older than the Sex and the City gals, by about three decades, more in the case of Getty's character, and they didn't swear as much or take their clothes off (prime time, after all) but it was basically the same show.

Only better.

First of all, the Golden Girls' cast was uniformly superior to the Sex and the City cast. Beatrice Arthur could bring about belly laughs simply with a facial expression, not to mention her wicked deadpan delivery. I'd like to see Parker or Nixon try that. McClanahan was a far better slut than Cattrall, more subtle and integrated, White's naif was infinitely more charming and less whiny than Davis's Charlotte, and Getty rounded out the foursome with her fly-on-the-wall derision of
everyone.

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