Candace Bushnell is Carrie Bradshaw, Carrie Bradshaw is Candace Bushnell.
Her column in the New York Observer, titled Sex and the City, was the blueprint for the television series.
The storylines are derived from her own life experiences, the characters within it are mosaics of people she met in her life, and Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is based on her best friend.
The entire source material is deeply personal, which meant the show was deeply personal — or at least, for a period of time it was.
Somewhere along the lines Candace Bushnell and Sex and the City went separate ways, but why exactly was that? And with the show now on the second season of its sequel series, what does Bushnell think of And Just Like That…?…
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