I will confess that I have never actually seen
Sex and the City on American TV. (I know, that's a shocker.) In fact, we didn't have HBO in America, so we saw the
Sopranos,
Curb Your Enthusiasm, etc, via the video store. (And king of them all,
The Wire, via pirate-video store in China.) But because I had never seen the
Sex and the City opening credits, I didn't realize what
Danwei.org's Sexy Beijing was making fun of.
Even so, I knew that it was very funny -- and the star Sufei, aka Anna Sophie Lowenberg, is all the more charming when you think of her playing off Sarah Jessica Parker. A sample is below (the subtitling is great). I mention it now because apparently an episode is going to be on the PBS show
Global Watch on the night of April 9. Check it out.
Update: 1) I hear from Luke Mines of
SexyBeijingTV that tonight's episode is "Beijing Caucus," in which Beijingers talk to the star, Sufei, about Hillary, Barack, Chuck Norris, and so on. Clip
here on SBTV's site or
here on YouTube. 2) I also hear that SBTV is no longer part of
Danwei.org.
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