How are The Larry Sanders Show and Sex and the City representative (or not) of HBO’s 1990s brand identity? Who do these programs seem to be targeting and through which aesthetic, thematic, and/or narrative strategies?

Please write about a response from a reading written by Mandy Merck and two screenings 1. The Larry Sanders Show, “Ellen, or Isn’t She?” and 2.Sex and the City, “Evolution”(They are from HBO). Please address specific and relevant aesthetic, thematic, and narrative details about the episode(s), though, and use direct quotes or substantive paraphrases of the readings. You could write a few sentences summary at first, but it should not occupy most of your response.

How are The Larry Sanders Show and Sex and the City representative (or not) of HBO’s 1990s brand identity? Who do these programs seem to be targeting and through which aesthetic, thematic, and/or narrative strategies?
How does each show promote queer and/or heterosexist positionalities? In what ways are queer subjectivities, livelihoods, and community formations developed and/or neglected?
Would you describe these 1990s HBO entries as “Slump-y” programs or critiques of “Slump-y” marketing? Why so?
How do these 1990s shows compare or contrast with either Showtime’s 1980s programming or the experimental early cable television that we viewed over the past two weeks? How are The Larry Sanders Show and/or Sex and the City distinct from or reflective of Brothers, New Wave Theatre, Invisible Women, or The Real World?
How do The Larry Sanders Show and Sex and the City comment on broadcast television, and to what political/social effect? How does HBO promote itself as different from broadcast networks?
What are the representational omissions apparent in The Larry Sanders Show and Sex and the City? How do these programs limit or expand constructions of “urbane” sexuality on TV?
Since I could not get the sources of two screenings from HBO, I have found one screening from another website, and the other one I would provide a summary. If you could find both that will be awesome.