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Sex and the City star Kristin Davis says criticism of the show was incorporated into the series: 'We're just going to use it'

Darren Star and Michael Patrick King took criticism of 'Sex and the City' and used it to their advantage while developing future episodes.

Darren Star and Michael Patrick King, the main writers, directors, and producers of 'Sex and the City', in 2022 and 2025.Jamie McCarthy/Getty; Kristy Sparow/Getty to some snickers and an "I love it" from Davis, before she got back to the episode, saying, "I had forgotten these moments where I think that they're putting in the things people [threw] stones at us about. In what appears to be the first review of Sex and the City in The New York Times from back in 1998 (bundled with a review of the spiritually similar though coastal opposite show Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City), critic, author, professor, PhD in English Literature from Brown University and not a failed actress, Caryn James, reflected on some of the catty dialogue in the pilot episode by calling it "not kind but...

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