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From the recent film to the multiple airings on cable TV, can you still just not get enough Sex and the City? Me either, and I was late to the party. Somehow I resisted all temptation since the series began a decade ago. It was just hard to get into.

Maybe Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha were just at different stages of their lives than I was. When the series started, I’d been married for nearly a decade and had a Kindergartner and a 2 year old. It was a little hard to relate to these single childless women, despite the fact that I seem to be smack dab in the middle of their ages.

By the time the series ended, I had much more in common with these women that were managing households, families, pets, life-threatening diseases, but it was hard to get into at the last minute. Sure, I saw them promoting it on Ellen and other talk shows, so I caught the bigger storylines, but I resisted watching a whole episode and getting into it.

Yet now, once the series ended and they we now making a feature film continuing these same storylines, I had to check it out. Looking for a movie to see that weekend, I knew it was up my alley. I knew it was the type of thing I would enjoy, but I worried if I’d be able to get into the storylines or not. No worries. I caught right up with everything going on with Carrie and Mr. Big, Charlotte and Harry, Miranda and Steve, and Samantha and Smith.

I then started TiVoing Sex and the City on TBS and WGN, and it’s become my guilty pleasure of sorts. I work out every day to two episodes of the show, and get to find out all the little parts of these relationships and these women’s lives I’d missed out on. I knew Samantha had cancer, but I got to see Smith shave his head for her. I knew Charlotte had troubles conceiving, but I got to see how that all started with Trey. I knew Miranda ended up married with a baby to Steve, but I got to see how they didn’t fall in love and get married until after Brady was older. And most of all, I found out the whole saga of Mr. Big, and how it was that he came to be the love of Carrie’s life.

I started to feel like I cheated myself in a way. I could have been enjoying this storyline, and now it’s all too late. Yet, maybe not. The bigwigs at HBO and looking at the huge success of the movie, and thinking maybe it’s not quite time to let these four women ride off into the sunset over Manhattan. They’re putting the ball in the court of the director and star Sarah Jessica Parker and the others, saying it’s really up to all of them whether they want to do it again. Jennifer Hudson who was in the cast of the movie version has already given her approval.

The heads must be spinning thinking of all the possibilities, as they’re even mentioning a possibility of a movie based on the other popular longtime HBO series, The Sopranos. Again, they’re leaving the ultimate decision to someone else, saying it would be up to series creator David Chase. Previously Chase had said he wasn’t interested in doing that, but it seems with the success of the Sex and the City film, he may be likely to change his mind. I never got into The Sopranos either, so it would be another for me to see the movie, then fall in love with the repeats on cable, then beg for a sequel.

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