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American comedian, writer, and actress Phoebe Robinson has developed a sweet spot for the classic ’90s show Sex and the City, with her love of the series never wavering after falling in love with it during her freshman year of college.
On this episode of The Spark Parade, Robinson dives into what it was about Sex and the City that pulled her in, explaining her experience of jumping into an episode from the middle of the fourth season completely blind. She also recalls how the show never made her feel “left out” as a black woman, comparing the original series to the recent reboot And Just Like That.
“I think this hypercorrection that they’re doing in And Just Like That, you just gave each white person a person of color or a person from the queer community as their sort of Sherpa to teach them things?” she explains. “That’s more patronizing. Charlotte would not have black friends — and that’s fine.”
Robinson goes on to gush about how the show successfully balanced so many storylines and always exhibited excellent writing before touching on how the reboot abandons fantasy a too much for her liking.
Listen to Phoebe Robinson talk about Sex and the City in this episode of The Spark Parade. Please also take the time to like, review, and subscribe to The Spark Parade wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network.
Host Adam Unze (The Opus) explores creativity in all its forms on The Spark Parade by asking musicians, artists, comedians, and other creators to share the single cultural work that has most inspired them. Whether it comes from the world of music, film, comedy, visual art, or literature, we all have something that sparks our own creative desires. On The Spark Parade, guests reveal the single piece of art that ignites within them to fire of creation.
