Sarah Jessica Parker Carries On
TV Guide Magazine|October 3, 2016

The Sex and the City star returns to HBO as a woman falling out of love in Divorce

Aubry D'Arminio
Sarah Jessica Parker Carries On

Sex and the City didn’t make Sarah Jessica Parker an icon to an entire generation of women—not even to the ladies who dropped whole pay checks on Manolo Blahniks as they emulated her shoe-addicted, fashion-savvy heroine, Carrie Bradshaw. No, SJP worship was a done deal way before the iconic HBO comedy’s 1998 premiere. It started with her 1982 series debut on CBS’s Square Pegs, where Parker played— and played well—high school semi-nerd Patty Greene, the teenager most girls identified with. Then she was a romantic, unsung sidekick (Footloose) and the reluctant rebel made to pick between her dad’s wants and her own (Girls Just Want to Have Fun). Off screen, she was pretty, stylish and perspicacious. Parker was the It Girl and the Everygirl, which continued into her SATC years as Carrie and her fans navigated (in designer heels, hopefully) their lives.

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