Sex and the City celebrates 20th anniversary

Twenty years on, we recognise that ‘Sex and the City’ didn’t always live up to female empowerment, but it did give us an honest portrayal of female friendship, writes Paula Burns.

On the cusp of the new millennium, TV was catapulted into the new century with a revolutionary HBO series. It not only focused on four thirty-something single women, but the word sex featured in the title.