SATC New Season - And Just Like That...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is Lilly the new Che? Getting Charlotte to walk in the snow for condoms for her first time? The pot brownies? Glad Charlotte is going back to work because her kids really walk all over her

Are we supposed to hate her kids or are teenage girls just like that now?

Mom of teenage girls here. Her kids are awful, especially Lily. Charlotte is a doormat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only moments of real emotional honesty have come from the couples with history. First Steve and now Aidan. He was traumatized by Carrie x2 and should have been smart enough to leave. Nothing’s changed. She didn’t pick him back then and is not going to follow him to the VA countryside now. He’s really not a NYC guy. Ugh.

I did enjoy this ep though—did feel more like old times. I posted upthread I wanted Miranda single and having funny dating adventures! Loved Miriam Schor’s appearance. Anthony is always a hoot.

V happy Charlotte is going back to work!

Aidan screaming “you broke my heart” was playing in my mind when they were outside her apartment.

Charlotte being offered a job in her field after her extended absence was annoying and too unrealistic even for a tv show.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems Aidan has always been holding a spot for Carrie, just like Carrie had always been saving a spot for Mr. Big. So it’s interesting. I’m sure they’ll have to break up again, but I wish they could end up together somehow.

I could watch season 4 of sex and the city a hundred times. Never really liked her with Mr. Big.

It was very clear in the original series that Carrie was to Big as Aidan was to Carrie. And I agree with PPs that Aidan and Carrie had nothing in common and no chemistry.

Sure it was clear. But then they married him off and gave him a few kids, and I felt like he had moved on. Until the movie, anyway.

Anyway, if Carrie (per the writers) was able to find happiness with Mr. big after he treated her like shit for so long, then who’s to say Aidan couldn’t find that same happiness with Carrie.

I mean, he probably won’t. But it seems the writers think it’s possible to jerk someone around for a decade and then have a change of heart and be all in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only moments of real emotional honesty have come from the couples with history. First Steve and now Aidan. He was traumatized by Carrie x2 and should have been smart enough to leave. Nothing’s changed. She didn’t pick him back then and is not going to follow him to the VA countryside now. He’s really not a NYC guy. Ugh.

I did enjoy this ep though—did feel more like old times. I posted upthread I wanted Miranda single and having funny dating adventures! Loved Miriam Schor’s appearance. Anthony is always a hoot.

V happy Charlotte is going back to work!

Aidan screaming “you broke my heart” was playing in my mind when they were outside her apartment.

Charlotte being offered a job in her field after her extended absence was annoying and too unrealistic even for a tv show.

As a SAHM for a few years who is now trying desperately to get back into the workforce, this fantasy was a little triggering for me! But I guess I don’t really want to watch Charlotte sending a bunch of emails and LinkedIn messages to people who ignore her So I decided to enjoy the fantasy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only moments of real emotional honesty have come from the couples with history. First Steve and now Aidan. He was traumatized by Carrie x2 and should have been smart enough to leave. Nothing’s changed. She didn’t pick him back then and is not going to follow him to the VA countryside now. He’s really not a NYC guy. Ugh.

I did enjoy this ep though—did feel more like old times. I posted upthread I wanted Miranda single and having funny dating adventures! Loved Miriam Schor’s appearance. Anthony is always a hoot.

V happy Charlotte is going back to work!

Aidan screaming “you broke my heart” was playing in my mind when they were outside her apartment.

Charlotte being offered a job in her field after her extended absence was annoying and too unrealistic even for a tv show.

As a SAHM for a few years who is now trying desperately to get back into the workforce, this fantasy was a little triggering for me! But I guess I don’t really want to watch Charlotte sending a bunch of emails and LinkedIn messages to people who ignore her So I decided to enjoy the fantasy!

I think they are setting her up for a pretty rocky return to work, actually. I feel like a theme they are building into the show is the idea that in middle age, a lot of things just are not as good or as rewarding as you expect them to be. These women are well past their "happily ever afters." I think we're in for some plot lines about what it means to return to work in your 50s as a different person than you were at 37.

The show has really not addressed the concept of age discrimination, especially as it is experienced by women in professional jobs, yet. Miranda gave up her job for academia, Carrie's somewhat immune from these issues as a writer and as someone now independently wealthy, Seema and Naya both have an unusual amount of control over their work as these things go. But Charlotte will be taking a job working for someone else, in a field where image is very important. Certainly there are plenty of middle aged women working as gallerists in the world, but that doesn't mean it's going to be an effortless transition. I think the situation is ripe for some pretty relatable and realistic issues around what it means to be a 50-something woman taking a job working for someone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only moments of real emotional honesty have come from the couples with history. First Steve and now Aidan. He was traumatized by Carrie x2 and should have been smart enough to leave. Nothing’s changed. She didn’t pick him back then and is not going to follow him to the VA countryside now. He’s really not a NYC guy. Ugh.

I did enjoy this ep though—did feel more like old times. I posted upthread I wanted Miranda single and having funny dating adventures! Loved Miriam Schor’s appearance. Anthony is always a hoot.

V happy Charlotte is going back to work!

Aidan screaming “you broke my heart” was playing in my mind when they were outside her apartment.

Charlotte being offered a job in her field after her extended absence was annoying and too unrealistic even for a tv show.

As a SAHM for a few years who is now trying desperately to get back into the workforce, this fantasy was a little triggering for me! But I guess I don’t really want to watch Charlotte sending a bunch of emails and LinkedIn messages to people who ignore her So I decided to enjoy the fantasy!

I think they are setting her up for a pretty rocky return to work, actually. I feel like a theme they are building into the show is the idea that in middle age, a lot of things just are not as good or as rewarding as you expect them to be. These women are well past their "happily ever afters." I think we're in for some plot lines about what it means to return to work in your 50s as a different person than you were at 37.

The show has really not addressed the concept of age discrimination, especially as it is experienced by women in professional jobs, yet. Miranda gave up her job for academia, Carrie's somewhat immune from these issues as a writer and as someone now independently wealthy, Seema and Naya both have an unusual amount of control over their work as these things go. But Charlotte will be taking a job working for someone else, in a field where image is very important. Certainly there are plenty of middle aged women working as gallerists in the world, but that doesn't mean it's going to be an effortless transition. I think the situation is ripe for some pretty relatable and realistic issues around what it means to be a 50-something woman taking a job working for someone else.

Oh man, sounds like there’s a lot of this reckoning possibly coming my way too (I’m the PP who is trying to go back to work).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only moments of real emotional honesty have come from the couples with history. First Steve and now Aidan. He was traumatized by Carrie x2 and should have been smart enough to leave. Nothing’s changed. She didn’t pick him back then and is not going to follow him to the VA countryside now. He’s really not a NYC guy. Ugh.

I did enjoy this ep though—did feel more like old times. I posted upthread I wanted Miranda single and having funny dating adventures! Loved Miriam Schor’s appearance. Anthony is always a hoot.

V happy Charlotte is going back to work!

Aidan screaming “you broke my heart” was playing in my mind when they were outside her apartment.

Charlotte being offered a job in her field after her extended absence was annoying and too unrealistic even for a tv show.

As a SAHM for a few years who is now trying desperately to get back into the workforce, this fantasy was a little triggering for me! But I guess I don’t really want to watch Charlotte sending a bunch of emails and LinkedIn messages to people who ignore her So I decided to enjoy the fantasy!

Keep the faith. There are so many jobs out there. Terrible people I’ve worked with have been headhunted.

[Anonymous]

^^^people my age and older, too. I’m 48.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only moments of real emotional honesty have come from the couples with history. First Steve and now Aidan. He was traumatized by Carrie x2 and should have been smart enough to leave. Nothing’s changed. She didn’t pick him back then and is not going to follow him to the VA countryside now. He’s really not a NYC guy. Ugh.

I did enjoy this ep though—did feel more like old times. I posted upthread I wanted Miranda single and having funny dating adventures! Loved Miriam Schor’s appearance. Anthony is always a hoot.

V happy Charlotte is going back to work!

Aidan screaming “you broke my heart” was playing in my mind when they were outside her apartment.

Charlotte being offered a job in her field after her extended absence was annoying and too unrealistic even for a tv show.

As a SAHM for a few years who is now trying desperately to get back into the workforce, this fantasy was a little triggering for me! But I guess I don’t really want to watch Charlotte sending a bunch of emails and LinkedIn messages to people who ignore her So I decided to enjoy the fantasy!

Keep the faith. There are so many jobs out there. Terrible people I’ve worked with have been headhunted.

Thanks! Nice note.

[Anonymous]

I fast- forwarded through most of last episode. So completely stupid and unrealistic. Why would Aiden ever bother with Carrie?! He was put through the wood chipper by her and she married the man who had an affair with her. Now that he’s dead she remembers him??? Come on! The other thing that is super gross is why does everyone have to be a multimillionaire? He sold his company to west elm? Gag me with a spoon. And the writers are worried about “diversity?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I fast- forwarded through most of last episode. So completely stupid and unrealistic. Why would Aiden ever bother with Carrie?! He was put through the wood chipper by her and she married the man who had an affair with her. Now that he’s dead she remembers him??? Come on! The other thing that is super gross is why does everyone have to be a multimillionaire? He sold his company to west elm? Gag me with a spoon. And the writers are worried about “diversity?”

"gag me with a spoon" *deceased*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I fast- forwarded through most of last episode. So completely stupid and unrealistic. Why would Aiden ever bother with Carrie?! He was put through the wood chipper by her and she married the man who had an affair with her. Now that he’s dead she remembers him??? Come on! The other thing that is super gross is why does everyone have to be a multimillionaire? He sold his company to west elm? Gag me with a spoon. And the writers are worried about “diversity?”

Agreed. I found the Aidan storyline to be trite and a bit boring. Those two have the chemistry of a pair of rocks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I fast- forwarded through most of last episode. So completely stupid and unrealistic. Why would Aiden ever bother with Carrie?! He was put through the wood chipper by her and she married the man who had an affair with her. Now that he’s dead she remembers him??? Come on! The other thing that is super gross is why does everyone have to be a multimillionaire? He sold his company to west elm? Gag me with a spoon. And the writers are worried about “diversity?”

Agree! Why couldn’t Aiden just sell the store and move to VA and still make furniture. Just a hard working guy. It won’t make sense if he’s living in a McMansion with fancy cars etc. He was rebuilding a crappy cabin in the woods in SATC.

[Anonymous]

It annoyed me how she emailed Aiden and miraculously he’s in the city the same week wanting to go on a date. They should have built this up of them communicating earlier and then the meeting. Maybe he emailed when he heard Big died etc.

[Anonymous]

I wasn't too thrilled with how the Aiden thing shook out. I think it would have been more realistic if they tried to go on the date, he couldn't go through with sleeping with her at the old place, and they ended it with a hug and no hard feelings (vs. going to a hotel instead).