Sex and the City (TV Series) Models and Mortals (1998) User Reviews

The annoying problem with models

[Lady_Targaryen · 4 April 2006]

In this episode of the Sex and The city series, we have an important dilemma to be solved: do men prefer models or ordinary girls? Carrie is decided to write a column about it,after seeing how many people,specially women, feel bad about themselves after comparing their looks with a model's look. Samantha is the only person in the episode who really likes her body, and she even goes out with Barkley, a guy obsessed by models. Stanford has a thing for Derek,Miranda Hobbes stays very disappointed with Nick Waxler, a guy she went out and only likes to date models( and stays with Skipper again, after he confesses that he find her luminous!) and Carrie starts feeling bad when she discovers the big superficiality of people,specially when she sees that even Mr. Big thinks are going out with models.

But is beauty everything after all? No one better then Mr. Big's to answer the question in the last minutes: ''After some time, you do prefer a nice and funny women to be at your side''.

aka "Modelos e Mortais" - Brazil

This Episode Was Upsetting

[KatherinePetersdorf · 5/10 · 30 June 2013]

First of all, I know that some people find beautiful women to be shallow but just because a girl is thin and beautiful doesn't mean she is stupid, illiterate, or lazy. Not all girls uses beauty to get what they want in life.

Also the final statement by Mr. Big about women, so many people read into that as that you can't be beautiful and funny, but there are tones of funny girls who are beautiful.

I was also offended by the TV art where he filmed all those women without permission. I also I work with models at lot in my profession and I have to say I have never worked with a model would slept around all the time, nor have I met more than 1 or 2 who were dumb.

I think this episode unappreciated the work and dedication it takes to become a model. You have to work more than one job most of the time, waitress work is the most common, you have to take your free time to rush back and forth across town to meet with designers, most of whom will make you try on tons of clothing, critique everything about you, and then not hire you. It takes so much time, money, and dedication, if someone was really lazy and unintelligent they couldn't become a model.