SATC New Season - And Just Like That...

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Anonymous wrote:My critique:

1. The cat's name is Shoe?? Um.
2. It's so bizarre to consider the trajectory of Carrie's character from the original to now - a scrappy writer to a rich shopaholic with too much time on her hands living in an overpriced dollhouse.
3. I'm glad Nya met a nice dude. I hope she's not in the series next season. Zzzz.
4. Does anyone else think LTW's husband harbors a secret? There's something slimy and obsequious about him.
5. The last supper gathering was a depressing assortment. Carrie lived in that apartment for decades and THAT's who she pulled together? Did the woman have no friends? WEHT Skipper? Susan Sharon? The crazy suburban photographer lady?
6. Kim C. was phoning it in - literally. She wasn't even acting like Samantha!
7. The actor who played Brady is bizarrely cast.
8. Che is suddenly likable. Who knew?
9. I want Charlotte to bump into Trey MacDougal! Harry has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital, only to be greeted by - TREY! Drama ensues.

YES to 9, wxcept it should not be a heart attack but like a panic attack about taking on so much household responsibilty and trey is the cardiologist on call who is like…idk what would trey be like now??

Trey would be gay and living his best life.

Or he could be happily married to Charlotte’s doppelgänger with four kids—one of whom turns up as Lilly’s love interest.

I hope Miranda moves back in with Steve.

I hope Carrie meets someone new. Too bad it didn’t work out with Mariska’s husband. He’s hot. Why not bring Mathew Broderick on? They could have a love/hate friendship that evolves. He could give her a hard time for her lavish lifestyle and abandoning her roots. A sort of When Harry Met Sally looooong storyline. Or bring back an evolved Berger. He could play his Loudermilk character. Maybe he’s gained notoriety for a book?

I hope Che and the rest disappear and only pop in once in a blue moon. Seema is the worst. Nya is boring. LTW is the least dull but nothing special. The show would be a million times better focused on the original three.

Agree! Focus on the original 3.

Then the show would have only white people. That is considered racist in our current society.

Is your world all white or whatever your race is? I’m sad for you if it is. There’s nothing wrong with the make up of the cast. It’s more watchable for me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My critique:

1. The cat's name is Shoe?? Um.
2. It's so bizarre to consider the trajectory of Carrie's character from the original to now - a scrappy writer to a rich shopaholic with too much time on her hands living in an overpriced dollhouse.
3. I'm glad Nya met a nice dude. I hope she's not in the series next season. Zzzz.
4. Does anyone else think LTW's husband harbors a secret? There's something slimy and obsequious about him.
5. The last supper gathering was a depressing assortment. Carrie lived in that apartment for decades and THAT's who she pulled together? Did the woman have no friends? WEHT Skipper? Susan Sharon? The crazy suburban photographer lady?
6. Kim C. was phoning it in - literally. She wasn't even acting like Samantha!
7. The actor who played Brady is bizarrely cast.
8. Che is suddenly likable. Who knew?
9. I want Charlotte to bump into Trey MacDougal! Harry has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital, only to be greeted by - TREY! Drama ensues.

YES to 9, wxcept it should not be a heart attack but like a panic attack about taking on so much household responsibilty and trey is the cardiologist on call who is like…idk what would trey be like now??

Trey would be gay and living his best life.

Or he could be happily married to Charlotte’s doppelgänger with four kids—one of whom turns up as Lilly’s love interest.

I hope Miranda moves back in with Steve.

I hope Carrie meets someone new. Too bad it didn’t work out with Mariska’s husband. He’s hot. Why not bring Mathew Broderick on? They could have a love/hate friendship that evolves. He could give her a hard time for her lavish lifestyle and abandoning her roots. A sort of When Harry Met Sally looooong storyline. Or bring back an evolved Berger. He could play his Loudermilk character. Maybe he’s gained notoriety for a book?

I hope Che and the rest disappear and only pop in once in a blue moon. Seema is the worst. Nya is boring. LTW is the least dull but nothing special. The show would be a million times better focused on the original three.

Wow. Great ideas. I would continuing watching if you were a writer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could someone explain to me what the hot, young, Italian poet sees in Anthony?

Yeah, Anthony is so obnoxious, I haven’t enjoyed his storyline getting more attention at all. I guess they saw it as a way to bring back Samantha’s excessive and crass sex talk without her. Some of it is just over the top - just like her character.

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The story line is so boring…”he loves me, he loves me not!” Why not get a juicy emotional affair for charlotte; have mr. Big’s child he had during a break with carrie return and try to take her money…since they’ve blown the original characters up, might as well take creative license! They are shells of their former selves!

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I cheered when Charlotte told Harry he's doing the bare minimum after he screamed "I can't do it all!"

He's not monitoring the kids' friend groups to discourage bad influences.

He's not remembering to stay on top of a kid's eczema or minor GI issues to updated the ped at the next appt.

He's not checking in to make sure adding AP Chem wasn't too much this year.

He won't remember to pack a heartier after school snack on the days a kid has early lunch.

He won't make sure a needed jersey is clean for the game.

He scoffed and dropping everything to bring the right notebook. (Which maybe Kid should live and learn-- but if someone did do something about it, it would be Mom.)

The list is infinite, it goes on and on. And on. We talk about the invisible load of motherhood but nothing can make (MOST) men truly get it. It pisses me off to no end.

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Anonymous wrote:I cheered when Charlotte told Harry he's doing the bare minimum after he screamed "I can't do it all!"

He's not monitoring the kids' friend groups to discourage bad influences.

He's not remembering to stay on top of a kid's eczema or minor GI issues to updated the ped at the next appt.

He's not checking in to make sure adding AP Chem wasn't too much this year.

He won't remember to pack a heartier after school snack on the days a kid has early lunch.

He won't make sure a needed jersey is clean for the game.

He scoffed and dropping everything to bring the right notebook. (Which maybe Kid should live and learn-- but if someone did do something about it, it would be Mom.)

The list is infinite, it goes on and on. And on. We talk about the invisible load of motherhood but nothing can make (MOST) men truly get it. It pisses me off to no end.

Hmm…I’m a very busy working mom of 4 and my reaction to Charlotte’s approach to parenting is that she isn’t doing her kids any favors by hyper-managing their lives. They are spoiled and unequipped for adulting.

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I hate that they had Anthony giving in and doing a sexual act he was pressured into. There is nothing wrong with wanting to say no to anal sex. It can lead to fissures and other issues, as Anthony said. Thre are many ways to be physically intimate and romanticizing him doing something he didn’t want to do didn’t sit well with me.

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Anyone else find Carrie's new place rather charmless?

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Anonymous wrote:I hate that they had Anthony giving in and doing a sexual act he was pressured into. There is nothing wrong with wanting to say no to anal sex. It can lead to fissures and other issues, as Anthony said. Thre are many ways to be physically intimate and romanticizing him doing something he didn’t want to do didn’t sit well with me.

I was trying to figure out from his facial expressions if he hated it or hated giving up control (his word from dinner).

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I hate what they did with Anthony’s husband. I know he died in real life and it left Anthony with a loose end, but I hated the whole monk story.

I agree with what someone above said: the professor was boring and Lisa was boring near the end. I’m all for a diverse cast, but give them good story lines.

I dislike Che jumping from person to person.

Aidan repeatedly refused to go back to the apt and then he…just did. No.

Aidan says he needs to be there for his 17 and 20 year old? Uh… and why is the 14 year old screwing up the mom’s issue and he’s been the stable one in the kids’ lives. It isn’t both ways. Either she’s not been around and he raised the kid with issues or she did. If it was a simple running away back to dad’s? Maybe. Not the drugs and crash at 14.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate that they had Anthony giving in and doing a sexual act he was pressured into. There is nothing wrong with wanting to say no to anal sex. It can lead to fissures and other issues, as Anthony said. Thre are many ways to be physically intimate and romanticizing him doing something he didn’t want to do didn’t sit well with me.

I was trying to figure out from his facial expressions if he hated it or hated giving up control (his word from dinner).

I think he didn't like it. I don't know. It made me pretty uncomfortable because I feel lile I have been in his pressured into doing something I don't want to do because of "love"

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Anonymous wrote:I hate that they had Anthony giving in and doing a sexual act he was pressured into. There is nothing wrong with wanting to say no to anal sex. It can lead to fissures and other issues, as Anthony said. Thre are many ways to be physically intimate and romanticizing him doing something he didn’t want to do didn’t sit well with me.

I was trying to figure out from his facial expressions if he hated it or hated giving up control (his word from dinner).

Right. Either way he didn’t seem happy about it. Why is it ok to pressure men into sex? It’s not

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Anonymous wrote:I hate that they had Anthony giving in and doing a sexual act he was pressured into. There is nothing wrong with wanting to say no to anal sex. It can lead to fissures and other issues, as Anthony said. Thre are many ways to be physically intimate and romanticizing him doing something he didn’t want to do didn’t sit well with me.

Agree with this, and I particularly dislike how it was framed as Anthony being withholding generally and "putting up walls", as though doing a specific sexual act (that MANY people find uncomfortable, unnecessarily risky, and not that pleasurable) reflects a general resistance to be intimate. I've encountered that argument before and it's BS. You can be an open, loving person fully capable of true intimacy and still have boundaries regarding sex simply because some things don't feel good or comfortable to you. Conflating certain sex acts with intimacy is childish and the domain of manipulative, sometimes abusive, people.

You know what is truly intimate? Respecting your partners boundaries and accepting them for who they are, instead of threatening to leave the country if they won't let you do anal.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate what they did with Anthony’s husband. I know he died in real life and it left Anthony with a loose end, but I hated the whole monk story.

I agree with what someone above said: the professor was boring and Lisa was boring near the end. I’m all for a diverse cast, but give them good story lines.

I dislike Che jumping from person to person.

Aidan repeatedly refused to go back to the apt and then he…just did. No.

Aidan says he needs to be there for his 17 and 20 year old? Uh… and why is the 14 year old screwing up the mom’s issue and he’s been the stable one in the kids’ lives. It isn’t both ways. Either she’s not been around and he raised the kid with issues or she did. If it was a simple running away back to dad’s? Maybe. Not the drugs and crash at 14.

I don't know why you are confused. He's saying that he was the consistent presence in his boys' lives from the beginning because Kathy's job required so much travel, and now that his youngest is having serious issues, he worries that him traveling and being absent is contributing to that. Makes sense to me.

I don't think he's blaming Kathy for Wyatt's issues nor is he blaming himself. He's just accepting that his kid is struggling and he's figuring out how he can give that child what he needs to do better. That's what parents do. It's not about fault. Wyatt needs his dad's consistent presence right now, that means Aiden's focus and physical presence needs to be with Wyatt, not with Carrie. Sometimes as a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

It feels reasonable to me and also somewhat predictable -- every episode since Aiden rejoined the show has included some indication that there is some conflict between his commitment to his kids and his interest in Carrie and in being in NY.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate what they did with Anthony’s husband. I know he died in real life and it left Anthony with a loose end, but I hated the whole monk story.

I agree with what someone above said: the professor was boring and Lisa was boring near the end. I’m all for a diverse cast, but give them good story lines.

I dislike Che jumping from person to person.

Aidan repeatedly refused to go back to the apt and then he…just did. No.

Aidan says he needs to be there for his 17 and 20 year old? Uh… and why is the 14 year old screwing up the mom’s issue and he’s been the stable one in the kids’ lives. It isn’t both ways. Either she’s not been around and he raised the kid with issues or she did. If it was a simple running away back to dad’s? Maybe. Not the drugs and crash at 14.

I don't know why you are confused. He's saying that he was the consistent presence in his boys' lives from the beginning because Kathy's job required so much travel, and now that his youngest is having serious issues, he worries that him traveling and being absent is contributing to that. Makes sense to me.

I don't think he's blaming Kathy for Wyatt's issues nor is he blaming himself. He's just accepting that his kid is struggling and he's figuring out how he can give that child what he needs to do better. That's what parents do. It's not about fault. Wyatt needs his dad's consistent presence right now, that means Aiden's focus and physical presence needs to be with Wyatt, not with Carrie. Sometimes as a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

It feels reasonable to me and also somewhat predictable -- every episode since Aiden rejoined the show has included some indication that there is some conflict between his commitment to his kids and his interest in Carrie and in being in NY.

Agree with this. I think his argument that it wouldn’t work for a while was solid. What I didn’t get was thinking they could stop and wait five years to be together and then having happy enthusiastic sex afterwards. That’s what didn’t make sense to me at all.