SATC New Season - And Just Like That...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Carrie an orphan? Big’s brother was there but no mention of her family. She was raised by wolves?

Obviously.

This is another thing about the show that only works when you’re young. Their relationships with their friends are sooooo deep that they’re like family. This premise gets awkward fast when the main characters are 50 and have families of their own. Suddenly it’s flat out weird that your parents aren’t there, no siblings, cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, nothing. It’s unrealistic to the point of being distracting. Only friends are important! (Except the friend who got kicked to the curb.)

Yes, it runs counter again to most people's lived realities, including urban, middle aged women.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes, this! As another example, it jumped out to me in the first couple minutes - her exaggerated reaction at being bumped by people at the hostess stand, then her "hands to the sky" and squeal when they got their table. Real life people don't do that, much less in their mid-50s.

[Anonymous]

I could only make it halfway through the first episode until I skipped to the end. The show just doesn’t work anymore. It would have been more realistic if they got divorced honestly. But him peloton-ing into a fatal heart attack while she couldn’t be bothered to try and call 911 is just too stupid for words

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t get over Miranda’s teeth.

+1. So awful and distracting. She’s by far the least attractive of the bunch. It’s not just the teeth that’s the problem though. Her head is too small or something. Just ugh.

But her teeth are literally a weird shade of grayish brown. Come on. She has enough money to see a dentist.

Yuck.

Her teeth have always looked like this. It’s not new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes, this! As another example, it jumped out to me in the first couple minutes - her exaggerated reaction at being bumped by people at the hostess stand, then her "hands to the sky" and squeal when they got their table. Real life people don't do that, much less in their mid-50s.

The only way those reactions would have made sense if it was literally her first post-COVID indoor dining experience. But even then...

They're trying to capture those moments of genuine surprise and reaction like when the water from the bus splashed her in the opening credits of the first season, or when it started raining when she was trying to go to the Guggenheim. But the whole Big Squeal thing doesn't work for every little moment in life. I agree, it was super annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could only make it halfway through the first episode until I skipped to the end. The show just doesn’t work anymore. It would have been more realistic if they got divorced honestly. But him peloton-ing into a fatal heart attack while she couldn’t be bothered to try and call 911 is just too stupid for words

THIS! He was still alive! She could have done chest compressions until the ambulance arrived! I couldn't get past the stupidity of that.

[Anonymous]

Why would you do chest compressions if he has a pulse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes, this! As another example, it jumped out to me in the first couple minutes - her exaggerated reaction at being bumped by people at the hostess stand, then her "hands to the sky" and squeal when they got their table. Real life people don't do that, much less in their mid-50s.

Yeah, it didn't really work when they were in their thirties either. But it definitely doesn't work now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you do chest compressions if he has a pulse?

Because it’s a TV show and you want to demonstrate that a main character has the sense to at least try and save the love of her life as he’s dying on the floor in front of her?

(But, I see your point too.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Snort! bwahahahaha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you do chest compressions if he has a pulse?

We don't know if he had a pulse because SHE DID NOTHING.

[Anonymous]

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

Redhead is Allegra (Peloton’s Jess King) and Ryan Reynolds on voice-over!

[Anonymous]

What about the other story lines. I thought they did well with Miranda and Carrie struggling with keeping up with the times with their professional lives.

[Anonymous]

They had to kill Big because otherwise the series wouldn't be about anything at all- they're all happily married and... what? Divorced would also have been like all the other times when she broke up with Big - it would all have been about Big and how he treated her. But now she can be single again, and they can show what it's like to be single in your 50s, though I don't know that they can realistically get straight into dating just after her husband and the supposed love of her life died? But then "realistic" obviously isn't the criteria here, as other PPs have noted re the reaction to the heart attack, lack of family, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They had to kill Big because otherwise the series wouldn't be about anything at all- they're all happily married and... what? Divorced would also have been like all the other times when she broke up with Big - it would all have been about Big and how he treated her. But now she can be single again, and they can show what it's like to be single in your 50s, though I don't know that they can realistically get straight into dating just after her husband and the supposed love of her life died? But then "realistic" obviously isn't the criteria here, as other PPs have noted re the reaction to the heart attack, lack of family, etc.

I was thinking same thing. I think next episode maybe they’ll fast forward a year or so.