Comparing HBO's Girls to HBO's Women with Exploration: LIVE's Charlie Bardey & Natalie Rotter-Laitman

About this episode

The episode features a discussion comparing the characters and themes of HBO's 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' with guests Charlie Bardey and Natalie Rotter-Laitman.

Charlie Bardey and Natalie Rotter-Laitman from Exploration: LIVE! join us to compare and contrast the ladies of Girls and Sex and the City. Whether earnest or satirical, showing great friendships or ones that you should run away from, these shows captured certain truths for ladies everywhere. Natalie can’t believe the amount of good sex Samantha is having, Charlie reminds her to view the women as gay men, Evan argues Big is Adam, and everyone wishes Amelia good fortune on her inaugural SATC voyage. Our listeners get 15% off plus free shipping when they buy two or more pairs of prescription glasses at ⁠WarbyParker.com/GIRLSREWATCH⁠ — using our link helps support the show. #WarbyParker #ad Head to ⁠cozyearth.com and use out code GIRLSREWATCH for up to 20% off. And if you get a Post-Purchase Survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Evan Lazarus, Amelia Ritthaler

Guests: Charlie Bardey, Natalie Rotter-Laitman

Topics covered

• comparison of TV shows
• friendship dynamics
• sexuality in media
• HBO series analysis
• cultural commentary

Keywords

• Girls
• Sex and the City
• HBO
• friendship
• sexuality
• Charlie Bardey
• Natalie Rotter-Laitman
• Evan Lazarus
• Amelia Ritthaler

Sponsors

Warby Parker, Cozy Earth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Exploration: LIVE

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