S9 E4 Sex and the City Extra Sugar: Power, Paychecks, and the Fallout

The fact of the matter is that TV sets are workplaces and workplaces get messy. But, the messiness factor is a bit magnified on the big screen. This “Extra Sugar” is all about the behind-the-scenes drama on SATC. But, to level set - we’re not fueling the flames of gossipy rumors about drama that seem to follow women’s shows. No, we’re going to focus on a few sources that we consider to be reputable and honest and we’re going to try to stick to the ladies’ words themselves, or of those directly involved in the show; not the words others put into their mouths.

Obviously, SATC isn’t the only show in which power, pay and public perception have, at times, gotten complicated. If you zoom out a bit, you can see versions of these same dynamics play out throughout TV history. Sometimes it’s about pay. Sometimes it’s about personality. Sometimes, it’s about public controversy. And sometimes - it’s much ado about nothing. We’ll talk about some other TV shows before we wrap up the segment.

A few of our sources:

• A Cosmo article detailing the history of the behind-the-scenes drama 

• A look at the salaries of the ladies through the SATC and AJLT run

• The Instagram post seen round the world and some of the press it fueled, including this summary of the Origins podcast, which held some pointed remarks from the rest of the SATC fam, and this article that Kim linked to around the time of her original Instagram post (probably indicating she felt like a lot of the content in here was real)

• A summary of Chris Noth’s comments about the sexual assault charges leveled against him around the premiere of AJLT

• Instagram captions strike again, as do red carpet comments 

• Some context on the X Files pay inequity discussion 

• Not all costars are besties 

And, ‘just like that’, we’ll see you back here in a couple weeks for our CARRIE EPISODE! 

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