SATC New Season - And Just Like That...

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious. Well done, Peloton

I like it too! As a marketing/PR exec myself, well played Peloton!

I thought it was funny – especially with the sped-thru voiceover by Detective Pikachu.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious. Well done, Peloton

I like it too! As a marketing/PR exec myself, well played Peloton!

Not a joke. Definitely a product of freaked out marketing professionals. But grin-inducing nonetheless. I enjoyed this.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious. Well done, Peloton

I like it too! As a marketing/PR exec myself, well played Peloton!

I think they should have had him with Kim Cattrall - and she ends with, "Oh I know, honey" to whatever he said, but since he apparently doesn't care for her I don't think that would ever happen. Sad.

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Anonymous wrote:New poster. Share the previous consensus that the first two episodes were wildly uneven with some seriously unbelievable moments for the characters. Have heard from reviewers that it gets better after episode four, so I'm hoping this is just a rocky start.

Will say, viewing these actresses now, overall I think SJP and Davis are the weakest actors in the show. Davis has always been noticeably two-bit, but Big's death scene really highlighted how weak SJP is. That scene was also not written well - she doesn't immediately call 911?! - but SJP didn't carry it either.

The show needs KC, but not even for Sam (tho she's missed), but because KC was one of the strongest actors in the ensemble. Now Cynthia Nixon and the supporting cast have to carry two weak main characters and it shows.

While Nixon is a much better actor than Davis or SJP, the storyline for Miranda is completely unbelievable. The alcoholism stuff felt right, but she's a supposedly successful attorney in NY with an interest in human rights and still manages nothing but word diarrhea whenever she speaks to someone not white? Yeah. No.

As for Charlotte, as an adoptee, I really noticed the over-achieving Asian adoptee trope story line they set up for Rose. I am hoping, HOPING, that Charlotte's arch involves unpacking that stereotype and allowing Rose a more complex, but also more authentic, transnational adoptee experience. It would be a really interesting direction for Charlotte's fairytale to have to confront those issues too.

Overall, I'd give the first two episodes b-. I'll watch the whole season to see if they can right the ship but it seems like a 50-50 chance this blows.

I KNOW! I said the same thing. I really like Lily's character but overachieving at piano? Way to be stereotypical, AJLT.

I thought the same thing! It’s almost like the writers are as clueless as the characters on the show, lolol.

PP here. If they really want to go deep, Charlotte and Harry should find out that Lily doesn't actually have citizenship after all and that she's getting deported after getting a minor charge for shoplifting or somethign. (This is a real thing happening to transnational adoptees in the US right now. Bills are in Congress to fix it but are stalled as we wait for comprehensive immigration reform. Like that's happening.) Anyway, I doubt the writers even know this is a thing for transnational adoptees. But I'd sure like to see it!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious. Well done, Peloton

I like it too! As a marketing/PR exec myself, well played Peloton!

I think they should have had him with Kim Cattrall - and she ends with, "Oh I know, honey" to whatever he said, but since he apparently doesn't care for her I don't think that would ever happen. Sad.

That would have been BRILLIANT! And I'm sure if Peloton had offered them each enough money, they'd get over it.

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Anonymous wrote:This has happened:

Peloton PR crisis management team deserves an award and pay raise! Maybe the crisis was all orchestrated to begin with.

Right? How could they have pulled this production off so quickly? Not possible unless they started before last Friday.

The whole 'upset' by the Peloton people is so ridiculous. Most people who can afford one of their bikes know that exercise doesn't kill people.

Peloton stock dropped 12% after the episode aired.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious. Well done, Peloton

I like it too! As a marketing/PR exec myself, well played Peloton!

I think they should have had him with Kim Cattrall - and she ends with, "Oh I know, honey" to whatever he said, but since he apparently doesn't care for her I don't think that would ever happen. Sad.

Big the character doesn’t care for Samantha Jones the character, or Chris Noth didn’t get along with Kim Cattrall? I knew the three other women, led by SJP, didn’t get along very smoothly with Cattrall; I didn’t know it was others.

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Anonymous wrote:This has happened:

Peloton PR crisis management team deserves an award and pay raise! Maybe the crisis was all orchestrated to begin with.

Right? How could they have pulled this production off so quickly? Not possible unless they started before last Friday.

Are you kidding? That could have been done in a day. Just throw enough money at Chris Noth, done.

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I liked it. SJP and Miranda are my favs. Samatha always annoyed me. Looking forward to more.

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Anonymous wrote:This has happened:

Peloton PR crisis management team deserves an award and pay raise! Maybe the crisis was all orchestrated to begin with.

Right? How could they have pulled this production off so quickly? Not possible unless they started before last Friday.

The whole 'upset' by the Peloton people is so ridiculous. Most people who can afford one of their bikes know that exercise doesn't kill people.

Peloton stock dropped 12% after the episode aired.

It was also downgraded by CreditSuisse which announced that the target price was less than half of what it was trading at that morning. That’s a bit more relevant to the price drop.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/peloton-downgrades-by-credit-suisse-which-slashes-price-target-to-50-2021-12-10

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Chris Noth reps Peloton faster than Carrie can call 911.

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Anonymous wrote:Chris Noth reps Peloton faster than Carrie can call 911.

Snort! bwahahahaha

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has happened:

Peloton PR crisis management team deserves an award and pay raise! Maybe the crisis was all orchestrated to begin with.

Right? How could they have pulled this production off so quickly? Not possible unless they started before last Friday.

Are you kidding? That could have been done in a day. Just throw enough money at Chris Noth, done.

What’s funny is that by doing this video, Chris noth is clearly mocking how awful the episode was.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved SATC when I was in my 20s. Liked the first movie, loathed the second.

After reading this thread and some of the reviews, I very tentatively watched AJTL Ep 1. Like another PP said, I skipped forward through certain parts (Miranda’s class in Law school, the masturbation scene, maybe a couple others) that were just so cringey. But, while I’ll say it certainly wasn’t good, I wouldn’t say it was a complete waste of time. It was kind of nice to be back in that universe again, in the same way it was always escapist fluff. Miranda is embarrassing, and she was always my favorite.

I did like the podcast host telling Carrie she couldn’t just sit there and giggle the whole time. Sort of encapsulated the issue with the reboot — they’re not cute anymore.

I think SJP and her character CB both have chronically attempted to play cute, for years. I don't think it has ever played well because it seems compensatory, as if she ingratiates herself to garner the amount of attention and care she desires/requires. Or to balance her great needs for control and impression management. Both the actress and the character share this tendency. I think the moment of delayed response when she saw Big on the floor is one example of how emotionally she just gets it wrong sometimes. A lot of exaggerated affectation. I think the character thinks she is far more adorable than she is....and it's hard to play cute in your 50's.

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A million people have said it: Her delayed response to seeing him on the floor runs counter to the likely immediate urgency/panic most people intuitively sense (correctly) they would have in such a situation. At a minimum, people cry out, "what happened?" and run to the person,, you hear panic in the voice like a 911 call....none of it rang true. Like it was more important to focus on some romanticized, dramatic cropped shot of her face. It would be a rapid moment of panic for Christ's sake. This is the part of her that always bothered me. It does not ring true.