Day 4: The Cast of my favorite show

I had a hard time picking one show so I've decided to post two pictures of my two all time favorite shows. Nowadays, they don't make fiction sitcoms or weekly drama shows like they used to. It's all about meaningless reality shows. Okay, some reality TV is a bit meaningful but there isn't anything out there that's pure fiction and entertainment, something to stretch the imagination after a long day. As a teenager, I had more favorite shows than as an adult, it boiled down to two and I haven't changed my mind. Here they are:

SEX AND THE CITY



Carrie Bradshaw was created by a writer back in the mid 1990's by a woman named Candace Bushnell. The story was originally a novel. HBO got their hands on that novel and turned it into a series that sky rocketed into pop cultures hottest chic flick.
Sarah Jessica Parker plays Carrie and will unfortunately be recognized as Carrie for a long time, if not, the rest of her career. Sarah's acting resume goes as far back as the early 80s when she played in movies like Footloose and Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Her experience in making fun movies that girls and women love most is what makes her the perfect Carrie. Just about every writer I know wants to be the next Carrie Bradshaw in her own right. In conversations with friends, many of us pick a character we most relate to, most of us want to be either Carrie or Charlotte, the hopeless romantic that still believes in fairy tales; I've yet to meet anyone who admits to being cynical like Miranda or as open minded with her sexuality like Samantha but face it ladies, we all have one of these characteristics in us.
Sex and the City has not come back with weekly episodes but has two box office hit movies and for each release, it's a big party filled glitz, glamor and cocktails.

The second show I love the most is FRIENDS.



A quirky stage played sitcom in the NBC studios in California, FRIENDS found a way to touch the hearts of Americans and made us laugh. Although these characters are a bit harder to relate to, we still understood it. Each episode touched a part of adult life that we've all been through. Unemployment, divorce, single parenting, alcohol, dating your best friends ex; running into an old high school crush and finding out he's not that special - it was all relevant to life. Sure, it's odd and rare that six people meet and suddenly all fall in love at one point but if you've ever been a part of tight knit friendship circle, you'll get it. A lot of us, myself included, have dated our friends friend; some of you may have dated your friends brother or sister but if you didn't, this cast still made you laugh and made you cry. They ended their journey with a bang; we miss them but we can still watch re-runs and I don't know about you but I've seen a lot of these episodes about a dozen times and I still laugh as if I've never seen it before. The cast of FRIENDS were also the highest paid cast, bringing in 1 million dollars each for one episode (in other words, it cost $6 million to keep the cast and that's not including all the behind the scenes employees).
I even love their theme song, "I'll be there for you," by the Rembrants; it's uplifting and fun not to mention, this band is still making money from the shows success and their re-runs.

Neither of these shows can be re-created but throughout pop culture history, a few sitcoms and dramas have come out to dominate the charts like these two have. Seinfeld was another sitcom that adults loved to watch for it's pure and outlandish humor. Beverly Hills 90210, DYNASTY and SOPRANOS were other shows that captured audiences and made lots of money.

What shows were you once addicted to and can still watch re-runs without getting bored?