It still just smacks of tokenism to me. LTW and her family's plot doesn't intertwine in any way with the established characters- it's like they've just plonked a black family in the show for the sake of it- and I think that's done them a real disservice. They also realised they had to tick another box by shoehorning Che and all her diverse pals in- there was no way Carrie or Charlotte would have gone down the non binary relationship route, so the writers threw Miranda under the bus, which we all agree is an absolute shame.
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It still just smacks of tokenism to me. LTW and her family's plot doesn't intertwine in any way with the established characters- it's like they've just plonked a black family in the show for the sake of it- and I think that's done them a real disservice. They also realised they had to tick another box by shoehorning Che and all her diverse pals in- there was no way Carrie or Charlotte would have gone down the non binary relationship route, so the writers threw Miranda under the bus, which we all agree is an absolute shame.
I can’t watch anymore Che. I’m done. Someone call me when Miranda tells them to F***k right off!!!
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And on a final note, why are they trying to portray Che as someone living a life in their early twenties/college kid. They’re almost 50 in real life and it’s just straight up embarrassing!!
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And on a final note, why are they trying to portray Che as someone living a life in their early twenties/college kid. They’re almost 50 in real life and it’s just straight up embarrassing!!
Sheeeet
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Was just thinking the same thing. Che also has such a fragile sense of self, which might somewhat explain the adolescent behaviour. How would that be remotely attractive to Miranda - who could never act out of character back in SATC, she knew exacrly who she was and was mostly quite happy about it?
Freedomofspeech89
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Love love love the fact that Steve finally grew a backbone in this episode! It was loooooong overdue!
Badirene
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I don't know if the writers are throwing Miranda under the bus or if Cynthia Nixon is driving this to mirror her own life as a married woman who enters a same sex relationship later in life and her child is trans too, so she might be contributing to the Rock storyline.
Better writers could have made a great show about life changing for older women, the impact on an already shaky marriage when a grown child moves out, becoming a widow and aging without family around, challenges of blending adopted and biological children in a family and the real or perceived different ways people treat your two children, the loss of a thirty year friendship on a group, the show badly needs the narrator like SATC.
xoxogossip_girl
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Also no way in hell Carrie invites Che to her talk IRL. I know the purpose was for Che to realise she needs to dump Miranda but Christ alive it made no sense.
Freedomofspeech89
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What is the point in Charlottes character now. She literally has no storyline. That Lilly virginity storyline was ridiculous to say the least.
As per the interview in Grazia....they're genius sweetie. So genius.
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When I thought about this, as soon as Lily said she planned on losing her virginity, I can't believe some rich woman like Charlotte wouldn't have taken her straight down to her private doctor for the pill for her!
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Also - re: Seema and the summer house share in the Hamptons. We did this in the good old SATC days (twenty something girls v thirty something women?) when one of them decried a summer share as sad (was it Carrie?) Charlotte got crabs and Big turned up at the Hamptons Hoe Down with Natasha!
Missmopps
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I was surprised how basic the house they had in the hamptons was. Richard Wright’s pool and mixer house was much more Samantha’s style! Oh and was Seema, the NYC version of selling sunset real estate agent really looking at airb&b for hamptons lets? Is that how it’s done even for the people in the know? Genuine question as I’m not likely to be looking at summer in the hamptons anytime soon 
GiftedNotFree
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There’s also a storyline in season 2 SATC where Charlotte is saving for a share of a house in the Hamptons and the shoe salesman discounts the shoes from $400 to $200.
Eww the foot fetish guy right? I still shudder when I think of that episode!!!
GiftedNotFree
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YesI didn’t mention that cause it’s repulsive
when he cums in his pants loooool.
And the worst thing was, the shoes were all hideous! Not a gorgeous Choo or Blahnik amongst them
ActiveLies
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Why does some rich af upper east side couple who host fundraisers and run about in head to toe vintage Ralph Lauren have her two teenage children still sharing a room?! It’s the strangest overlooked thing ever. The idea that Lilly had a closet full of designer clothes but Charlotte and Harry have never made moves go allow their post pubescent offspring to have bedrooms of their own is so baffling to me. Especially having a non binary child? So it’s not like you’ve got two girls of the same gender in the same room? It’s just bizarre.
Goldilocks3108
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I read A LOT of home magazines and it’s bizarre how many people in huge houses have their kids sharing a small room but they have a massive ‘guest room’, beautifully decorated. Do people really have that many visitors?
I think if you ate too embarrassed to have condoms you are too young to have sex. If I had a daughter like that I would say fine, you do that and hope for the best. Good luck to you if you get pregnant , Charlotte is raising some absolute bratsHis local one might tell his mumThen they are all closed because of the snowpocalypse
ChickenLicking
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Yep, totally agree and as a PP stated earlier, Lily's a spoiled insufferable character - I can't work out whether it's the script or the actor's lack of talent.
Charlotte's, well, the MacDougalls' former apartment is a classic 6. You'd think that they would have sold up years ago and moved to the same suburb that Chandler and Monica inhabit in the Friends universe? Or maybe the snow-covered location for SJP's other NY-based series, Divorce?
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My son's a similar age and he'd never act half as bratty as Lily.
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The messaging is so confusing! We are all “sex positive” when it comes to Lily announcing to her entire family that she is away to have sex.
But we then “sex shame” the idea of women in their 50s using condoms to prevent catching an STI? Are the writers not aware of the significant increase in these among the older population? (Plus the implication that Carrie is too (something) to have or catch one!
But we then “sex shame” the idea of women in their 50s using condoms to prevent catching an STI? Are the writers not aware of the significant increase in these among the older population? (Plus the implication that Carrie is too (something) to have or catch one!
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