Gen Z is watching ‘Sex and the City’ for the first time — and they find Carrie Bradshaw totally cringe

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started streaming on Netflix last spring, making the show, which aired its final episode on HBO in 2004, easily accessible to a younger audience.When the series premiered in 1998, protagonist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her gal pals — Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) — were loved and celebrated for their sexual freedom, over-the-top fashions and frank discussions about their lives and the men in them.But Gen Z isn’t charmed by Carrie’s stylish wardrobe, witty turns of phrase and romantic escapades — and they’re taking to social media to lampoon her antics. “She cheats on Aidan, begs for him to take her back and cries that he ‘has to forgive her!’ She essentially stalks Natasha for most of the seasons whilst bashing her every step of the way,” said Emma Christopher, a 19-year-old college student in Alexandria, Alabama.

Worst of all, Christopher said, Carrie has an affair with a married man — the iconic Mr. Big, played by Chris Noth, after he weds Natasha — yet she “creates the narrative, time and time again, that she, is in fact, the victim.”The younger generation finds Bradshaw so cringe that when you type her name in the TikTok search bar, options such as “carrie bradshaw cringe compilation,” “carrie bradshaw embarrassing moments” and “why is carrie bradshaw cringe” immediately pop up.Their biggest issue seems to be her on-again-off-again relationship with Big, which spanned six seasons and bled into the “And Just Like That” spinoff, in which Big dies in the first episode.“Carrie consistently put up with Big’s disrespect and could never see the reality of their relationship,” lamented Eva Tasmin, 30, a psychologist from London.