Suzanne Harrington on the eye-opening nature of watching old TV shows and movies

When Suzanne Harrington and her daughter watched one of this year's most talked about TV shows, And Just Like That, it spurred them on to watch the original TV series. It's just one of many series and movies that haven't aged well...
Sex & The City, like a slew of its 90s stablemates, has not aged well.

Sex & The City, like a slew of its 90s stablemates, has not aged well.

Sometimes you just get old-shamed, no matter how modern you think you might be. Like when you binge-watch reruns of Sex & The City with your Gen Zedder, who looks increasingly non-plussed as each episode plays out.

“Why are they so obsessed with men? Why does she keep going back to that toxic relationship? Why aren’t there any black people? Why is the gay character just a prop?”, and “Oh my God, that’s so racist/transphobic/homophobic, how did you not see it?”

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