Sex And The City & And Just Like That #4

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FrannyGallops said:
Had to copy this from somewhere else but this is Janice Turner in The Times. Last paragraph explains it.

“Scolded in the city
Sex and the City had many flaws, chief among which was conflating shopping with liberation, but it dealt with thirty-something women’s dilemmas with empathy and wit. I gave the reboot And Just Like That . . . a few episodes before forming judgment but can only boggle at how much it hates its original characters and fans. The three principals the fourth, Samantha, being absent are now in their mid-50s. They’ve married, had careers, raised kids, lived in vast, vibrant, ever-changing New York their whole lives. Yet these worldly women have been replaced by fragile, geriatric know-nothings who must be constantly schooled and scolded.

Miranda, once a lawyer, is baffled by new technology (although she was glued to her BlackBerry in the original), a gabbling rube when speaking to an African-American tutor (despite having dated a black guy for half a series), and either too weak to discipline her son or screechily OTT. Even Carrie’s sudden widowhood is classed as a rich-witch self-indulgence no worse than a bad date, and her body is so decrepit she needs a hip op. Meanwhile, because Charlotte’s daughter likes skateboarding and prefers jeans to frilly frocks, she is no longer a girl but “non-binary”. When school calls her by a male name without informing her parents, the only possible response, Charlotte learns, is applause.

Why is this show so conservative, hateful and unfunny? Because the LGBT lobbying group GLAAD has been employed to parse the storylines into woke homilies. These straw dolls, Karens and whipping girls say nothing about real older women, yet everything about how they’re now perceived”
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This is so on the money.

I’ve assumed Miranda’s hair is a wig, it doesn’t move.
 
blueberriesarenice said:
Urgh just finished season 6 of satc again and I’m so frustrated that they even went on to make the movies. IMO it’s one of the best endings in TV… the song and all of their respective “endings”…. I wish it had just ended there. I hate that AJLT is a thing. (I will still hate watch though obv)
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Totally agree, it was such a fantastic ending and tbh, underrated in terms of perfect series finales. (Other than Carrie being with Big because I always hated him and the actor, but whatever it’s what the audience wanted I guess).

I’ll say something nice… I like the character Seema and I like the actress. No idea who she is but she has a very commanding presence onscreen and in terms of the character, I totally buy that her and Carrie would hit it off and be friends. Again, not sure why her character has to have a full Diwali episode after she’s introduced but lol that’s how they’re gonna do all this I guess. I’m starting to think the writers do only genuinely know white people? And they’re like ‘if she’s Indian well we have to show Diwali!’ I live in a very multicultural big city like NYC, my friend group is very diverse and IA it was weird how white the show was before but this version is like the writers have never actually had a close relationship with a WOC? Ah well. I said I was being nice— I like Seema!
 
Readread said:
She did look very much like the old Carrie at the end. Not so much through the rest of the episode, I appreciate she's gotten older but I don't see Carrie from SATC wearing the burgundy suit she had on, just not very her?
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I really loved that suit on her. Better than the granny cardigans and pearls they seem to be dressing her in a lot.

I dislike her scraped back hair though, it's so harsh looking. She's got such beautiful hair and it looks so much better worn down.
 
Oh and one more thing… I think that Charlotte’s storyline with her daughters is unfortunately being conflated with all the other weird try-hard storylines, but tbh on its own, it makes sense.

Charlotte‘s daughters are both young Gen Z growing up in a liberal (I don’t say that derisively) New York City, attached to technology and now in the wake of COVID and BLM. The portrayal of these tweens/teens is pretty realistic, and the cultural and generational clashes, the controversies and confusion over gender norms and school and what to ignore and what to be attentive to… that’s a real thing and IMO it does make perfect sense as a storyline for a 2021 Sex and the City. Unfortunately viewers understandably see it as all one thing. If they had turned the dial down on the other storylines, I think the plot with Charlotte’s daughters could play decently well and realistically.
 
Miss Demeanour said:
I really loved that suit on her. Better than the granny cardigans and pearls they seem to be dressing her in a lot.

I dislike her scraped back hair though, it's so harsh looking. She's got such beautiful hair and it looks so much better worn down.
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I loved it too, just didn't seem very Carrie IMO.

The end of the episode with the hip replacement and she had the sequin dress on, curly hair. She looked amazing!

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Are they ever going to address Miranda & Steve’s relationship???!!!!

Miranda tells Charlotte about her finger fun with Che and yet there’s no discussion about Steve. Where is Steve?!!!!!

it’s a poor show from the writing team that Steve has essentially been written out of it.

the Steve & Miranda storyline was a huge part of the original series - and now we are expected to just not care about it? It’s ridiculous!!!
 
BettyCrockerr said:
Are they ever going to address Miranda & Steve’s relationship???!!!!

Miranda tells Charlotte about her finger fun with Che and yet there’s no discussion about Steve. Where is Steve?!!!!!

it’s a poor show from the writing team that Steve has essentially been written out of it.

the Steve & Miranda storyline was a huge part of the original series - and now we are expected to just not care about it? It’s ridiculous!!!
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they treat him like he doesn’t exist! it’s so strange - like you said, surely miranda or charlotte would have brought him up in that conversation? did the actor only have limited availability or something? where IS he?
 
BettyCrockerr said:
Are they ever going to address Miranda & Steve’s relationship???!!!!

Miranda tells Charlotte about her finger fun with Che and yet there’s no discussion about Steve. Where is Steve?!!!!!

it’s a poor show from the writing team that Steve has essentially been written out of it.

the Steve & Miranda storyline was a huge part of the original series - and now we are expected to just not care about it? It’s ridiculous!!!
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Yes, exactly that, stop caring about 'Miranda' and Steve. They are a boring opposite sex, sis gender couple and to be honest it is not at all progressive of you to care about them. They are over, and Steve had it coming for daring to age and not be a non binary Irish Mexican pot smoking stand up Comedian. By default he is a boring duck who deserves to be cheated on, ignored, overlooked and lied to while this 'Miranda' person finds her truth. Her truth is all that matters. As long as that truth is out there, edgy and reflects Cynthia Nixon's actual life that it of course.
 
Webster1357 said:
Yes, exactly that, stop caring about 'Miranda' and Steve. They are a boring opposite sex, sis gender couple and to be honest it is not at all progressive of you to care about them. They are over, and Steve had it coming for daring to age and not be a non binary Irish Mexican pot smoking stand up Comedian. By default he is a boring duck who deserves to be cheated on, ignored, overlooked and lied to while this 'Miranda' person finds her truth. Her truth is all that matters. As long as that truth is out there, edgy and reflects Cynthia Nixon's actual life that it of course.
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😆 Love it. Absolutely right, Steve has committed the crime of being a heterosexual middle-aged white bloke and must be punished accordingly.
 
Fillyjonk said:
That moment when Miranda hesitated over texting Che, I thought it was going to be a moment of personal growth and she would decide not to send the text.

Listen to your friends Miranda, not your clit.
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I cannot stand her referring to herself as "Rambo".
Also, are we meant to hate Che? I think they play way too big of a role in this series already and I'm sick of them. Che is the type of person who just dominates every conversation and sucks the air out of every room they're in thinking they're gracing us with their presence. Why have Miranda make 2 new friends if the professor ends up getting sidelined (see she's featured so little that I don't even know her name)?
 
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