Sex and the City was a fun read, but having seen the show and the first movie definitely colored my reading experience. The characters of the show were derived from this book (and before that, the New York Observer columns), however are drastically different in some cases. That element really kept pulling me out of the stories when I would be picturing the actor that portrayed a certain character and then they would be described very differently or doing something that would be "out of character" for the TV version of the story.
That being said, I do think that the TV series and this collection of essays have a continuity of tone and subject matter. It was fun to see a much darker Carrie Bradshaw (drugs being more of the scene than shown in the show), but it also just made me want to watch the show more. I don't want to say that the TV show has wrecked this book, but it certainly evolved from the book and brought everything to a different level.
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