Sex And The City & And Just Like That #3

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* Did anyone else wince when Charlotte immediately cancelled on Deidra (sp?) because she no longer suited her agenda?
* Did anyone else also wince when the main mum friend was gleeful about Deidra being uninvited?
* What on earth was the jumper thing with the black neighbour about?
* It looks as if Willie Garson must have died sooner than expected judging by this storyline? He may still have a decent “ending” filmed but they lacked filler content between now and that…?
* Actually found this episode more enjoyable because there was limited Che and kids tbh.
 
Meowsy said:
This is what Candace Bushnell looks like
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SJP and Bushnell pictured side by side:
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I mean it’s fair to say that Sarah Jessica was perfect for the role, that she embodied the character and made it her own, but to me it’s clear that similarities to Candace Bushnell were not what affected the choice of actress. Which is also fair, because it’s not the reality show, isn’t it, and irl Candace Bushnell’s life was quite different from Carrie’s, e.g. she didn’t marry her Mr Big. Bushnell also said that her friends were all like Samantha while the producers wanted three different types.
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3 Samantha's would have been awful to watch. And why the duck do you care how they look? Jesus
 
Satisfying Click said:
Carrie
She wakes up in her spare Manhattan apartment and keeps shoe boxes on her kitchen counter as a homage to the Old Carrie (not to be mistaken with Elderly Carrie)
She goes to her other large Manhattan apartment, feels feelings and the camera backs to the third person in their marriage. Not Natasha, but Peloton.
Decides to sell the apartment, new character Seema comments on the lovely wallpaper, "Well, my husband wasn't a fan of beige." harking back to when Big complained about Natasha's taste in decor. I'm bored of them continually taking jibes like this.
Seema triggers Carrie by mentioning having a Peloton. They may as well name the series Peloton Just Like Peloton.
Social media manager Chloe uses many inappropriate death metaphors but what the writers really want you to see is that she's in a wheelchair
She looks at some apartments, it's boring. She goes home, the Peloton is back - just how much money are they getting for each reference?
Carrie sticks Big's ashes in her old apartment's closet, one of the most Carrie things Carrie has ever done.

Charlotte
Confirms then cancels colonoscopy for Harry - given how obvious the writers are, we know where this is going
Charlotte plans a dinner party but frets that she doesn't have enough black people going, so part of this episode is Charlotte doing a black person treasure hunt. In the pilot episode of SATC, we were introduced to Charlotte as an intersectional feminist, let us remember her like this.
Charlotte harasses Harry (a successful attorney) to name black novelists when they go to dinner. Because black people are a homogenous monolith. The writers continue to betray the old characters by caricaturing them as Old People Who Don't Understand The World Today.

Miranda
Wakes up stinking of weed, sex-robot Brady and his girlfriend press Miranda about it, she explains she was in a venue with 'alternative types' of people, as though she's describing plant-based milk.
The girls have dinner together and Miranda wants to order another bottle of wine
Miranda has dinner with her professor and they discuss infertility and motherhood. The closest we might get to the original SATC where smart women have a nuanced conversation over a painful topic.

Stanford has gone to Japan and wants a divorce. No one really cares.
In a way, I'm glad Charlotte has a new friend as Carrie and Miranda obviously no longer like her, and find her presence barely tolerable. Ditch them darling, what are they going to do, throw their purse wine and Peloton at you?
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I can't watch until this afternoon but I love nothing more than a good spoiler. Thank you for this, I have a definite sense it will be better written than the episode itself!
 
Webster1357 said:
55 year old women don't like being referred to as girls. Would you call 55 year old men boys? It's patronising and infantilising.
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Yes, I do refer to my 53 year old husband and his friends in this way. “When are you seeing the boys this week?” It’s a turn of phrase and one that isn’t intended to harm in any way. The SATC girls were always “the girls”. They called themselves “the girls”. They never referred to “getting together with the women” because that expression doesn’t work so well. It is entirely understandable that other people would also refer to them - both the characters and the actors - in this affectionate manner, and entirely possible for SJP not to have been so very po-faced about this encounter.
 
I can’t bear “the girls” (or ”the boys”) but I wouldn’t correct someone on it. This has always been the case not just since I slid into middle age ☺️

They refer to each other as the girls SATC, yes.

On my rewatch, Aiden isn’t really an NYC kinda guy at all.
 
Lady_H said:
Yes, I do refer to my 53 year old husband and his friends in this way. “When are you seeing the boys this week?” It’s a turn of phrase and one that isn’t intended to harm in any way. The SATC girls were always “the girls”. They called themselves “the girls”. They never referred to “getting together with the women” because that expression doesn’t work so well. It is entirely understandable that other people would also refer to them - both the characters and the actors - in this affectionate manner, and entirely possible for SJP not to have been so very po-faced about this encounter.
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Well we can all have a bad day. Maybe she’d just been on the phone to Chris Noth. Also, it’s different you calling your husbands friends the boys, or your friend the girls, but this was a (probably much younger) journalist doing it.
 
Can we talk about how Charlotte cancelled a colonoscopy for a dinner party just to make friends with some woman… are her friends not enough lol? Also wouldn’t a dinner party be later on the evening and a colonoscopy be in the day. Poor Harry lol also why is Charlotte managing everything for him? Is he incapable of going to an appointment? Could he not have met them there after? So many questions -

 
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