Carrie's back

Here comes the sequel

By Mary Elizabeth Williams

Senior Writer

Published December 23, 2009 11:24AM (EST)

We may round this last lap of the decade still debating whether Carrie Bradshaw and her stiletto-teetering cohorts were feminist icons or proof of the hollowness of our existence, but one thing is certain -- like Freddie Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers and Jigsaw, they cannot be stopped.

And so, as that last part of you that didn't have as much affection for the Jay-Z anthem as Alex DeLarge did for Beethoven's Ninth finally withers and dies, behold "the friendship, the fashion," the glitz of a city unscathed by recession, and four women who will forever refer to themselves as "the girls."


By Mary Elizabeth Williams

Mary Elizabeth Williams is a senior writer for Salon and author of "A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles."

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