2025 Playwriting Every Day in November - Day 15

Challenge #15 - Things That Remind Me of “Sex and the City”


[Mid brunch]


KIM
It’s wild. I swear he was quoting Mr. Big as he was telling me he didn’t want to see me again. If I wasn’t one hundred percent certain he’s never seen it, I would’ve thought he watched it to get the tone just right. 


KELLY

It’s weird how sometimes that happens. When you experience something deja vu but it’s a scene from a tv show or a movie. It happened to me a lot in high school, I was like, am I Regina George?


KIM

Please, you were Karen Smith at best. 


KELLY
Just because I have ESPN or something? 

[They all laugh]


KIM

I wish my life had better writers. 


COURTNEY

Better writers, or better characters?


KIM

That’s a good point. I think the main cast is pretty good, but really short changed on love interests. 


COURTNEY
You have to get off network tv. Get that HBO money. 


KELLY
You could have a pet dragon. Or that closet from Clueless!


KIM

Maybe I just want a Hallmark Christmas writer. Low stakes, happy ending… 


KELLY

But then you’d have to move to like… Idaho. Do you really want to fall in love with a potato farmer? 


KIM
I mean, falling in love over fries? Doesn’t sound like the worst thing. 


KELLY
You just think that because you’ve never lived on a farm. It is, truly, the worst thing. 


COURTNEY

Oh, yeah, I forgot you moved upstate for a bit when you were with…


KELLY

Stephen. Yeah. It was an absolute nightmare. Which was a shame because other than his need to keep the family farm in the family he was a really great guy. 


KIM

You are such a Carrie.


COURTNEY

They say art imitates life, but life can sometimes just be a bad copy of a soap opera.


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