SATC Ending Was A Betrayal, Says Creator

Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, in the final episode


WHILE many were thrilled that Carrie Bradshaw ended up with Mr Big at the end of Sex and the City, the show's writer, creator and producer, Darren Star, has revealed that he feels the ending lacked authenticity."I didn't break those last episodes," he told Kindle Singles, explaining that he delegated to his team of scriptwriters to come up with the final plotlines. "If you're empowering other people to write and produce your show, at a certain point, you've got to let them follow their vision. But I think the show ultimately betrayed what it was about, which was that women don't ultimately find happiness from marriage."

While he notes that women can have a fairy-tale ending and find "the one", he believes that it was because Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte were unlucky, experimental and independent when it came to their love lives that the cult show was so popular and stood apart from other shows of the same genre at the time.

"The show initially was going off script from the romantic comedies that had come before it. That's what had made women so attached. At the end, it became a conventional romantic comedy. But unless you're there to write every episode, you're not going to get the ending you want."