$20.36   MPN: 99208 UPC: 026359920820 Sex and the City - The Complete Fourth Season Features : Closed-captioned Color Dolby Dubbed DVD-Video Subtitled NTSC Release Date:  20 May, 2003 Manufacturer:  HBO Availability:  Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:  $29.98   Accessories: (none) Similar Products: Sex and the City - The Complete Fifth Season Sex and the City: The Complete Third Season Sex and the City - Season Six, Part 1 Sex and the City - The Complete Second Season Sex and the City - Season Six, Part 2   The fourth season of Sex and the City is just as smart and sexy as ever, mixing caustic adult wit and sharply observed situation comedy on the mean streets of Manhattan, though this time the quartet of singleton city girls must endure even tougher combat in the unending war of love, sex, and shopping. Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) finally seems to have found her ideal life partner when she is reunited with handsome craftsman Aidan (John Corbett). But can their relationship survive trial by cohabitation? Meanwhile Charlotte (Kristin Davis) seems to have both her dream Park Avenue apartment and a solution to her marital problems with Trey (Kyle MacLachlan). But when the subject of babies comes up, everything starts to unravel for her, too. It's not just Charlotte who has baby issues either: after what seems like an eternity of enforced sexual abstinence Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is horrified to discover she's pregnant. And as for the sultry Samantha (Kim Cattrall), she's on a quest for monogamy, first with an exotic lesbian artist, then with a philandering businessman, with whom to her utter dismay she just might have fallen in love. --Mark Walker   Customer Reviews   Totally new show! Rating: 4 This was still a great season with some of the best highlights of the series. But I couldn't help but notice that after seeing a couple of episodes, I realized that this season is definitely more adult and mature, and takes the show to a whole new level. The story-lines aren't so carefree, but more complex, and serious. I actually liked it like this. My favorits included "The Real Me", "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda", "Baby, Talk is", "Ghost Town", and "My Motherboard, Myself". Carrie also has to deal with her relationship with Aiden taking a serious turn that Carrie doesn't think she's cut out for. Great series... Rating: 5 ...but not for you if nudity and language make you squirm. Oh great irony!!! Rating: 1 After making me watch Sex and the City with her, my wife astutely observed that at the heart of this show is a great irony. Touted as a "breakout show" lauding feminism and female empowerment, Sex and the City ironically only managed to portray women as more shallow, superficial, petty and empty-headed than virtually any other television show in history (thank creator Darren Star). Far from challenging whatever backward notions might remain that women are not men's equals, all watching this show would actually do is effectively confirm everything about women that misogynistic chauvinists unfoundedly believe, especially but not limited to the beliefs that women are silly, adolescent, juvenile and totally unencumbered by any burdens of logic, adulthood or maturity. Great progress. Tiring quickly of Carrie Bradshaw's infantile and meaningless ponderings--"Is New York all about change?" "Are new myths required for singles?" "Is life in Manhattan like a bagel with cream cheese?" Here's one: "Is life really all about perpetually asking meaninglessly vacuous questions and then posing witty but ultimately arbitrary responses?"--one is left to wonder what exactly happened to her in childhood that so effectively stunted her emotional development, seemingly forever cementing her personality at about a sixteen/seventeen-year old emotional age. Are we supposed to pity her that "Big" treats her like a little kid, regardless of the fact that she disturbingly acts like an unbalanced little child? I would say no, especially in light of the fact that in real life "Big" and Carrie would probably not be together in the first place. Another of the show's many absurdities is the foursome of friends that comprise its main characters. Let's face it folks, unless these girls grew up together (and in the show they didn't), these four women would NOT be friends in real life. They would hate each other.