The Difficult Women of “Sex and the City” | The New Yorker

From 2013: Emily Nussbaum on the show that jump-started HBO, and how the sexually frank antiheroes of “Sex and the City” led to Tony Soprano of “The Sopranos.”

Save this story Save this story Though “The Sopranos” may have sparked the bad-boy revolution of cable TV, Carrie Bradshaw was the first female anti-hero. Illustration by Andy Friedman When people talk about the rise of great TV, they inevitably credit one show, “The Sopranos.” Even before James Gandolfini’s death, the HBO drama’s mystique was secure: novelistic and cinematic, David Chase’s auteurist masterpiece cracked open the gangster genre like a rib cage, releasing the latent ambition of television, and launching us all into a golden age. “The Sopranos” deserves the hype. Yet there’s some

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