10 4th Wall Breaking TV Show Moments Everyone Hated

10. Carrie Talks To The Audience - Sex & The City

If you haven't revisited the first season of Sex and the City in a good while, you could be forgiven for forgetting that the show ever once addressed the audience directly.

But indeed, in season one's first few episodes, protagonist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) periodically peers into the camera lens and talks to viewers about whatever the scene or episode's theme is.

This was quickly abandoned, however, due to series writer-director Michael Patrick King quite rightly finding it excessively immersion-breaking.

And given that the Sex and the City subreddit is regularly populated by fans recoiling in horror as they rewatch season one and rediscover this long-forgotten quirk, it's fair to say that most were happy to see the back of these asides that were ultimately a little too cutesy for their own good.

With the fourth wall breaks retired, Carrie instead stuck to what quickly became her signature voiceover monologues, as she recites the content of her latest newspaper column.