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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are too many characters now and it’s impossible to know them well enough to care.

The show could be great but Michael Patrick King is a terrible writer of women. I wish they had more female writers like they did on the original show. [/quote]

Che and Kristin's Upper E Side friend don't add anything, show would be better without them. Really like Nya and Seema, even if I agree with a PP that Seema needs to be better differentiated from Samantha.[/quote]

Not a Che fan and agree Charlotte's Upper E Side friend (can't even remember character's name!) doesn't add much in terms of storytelling but I'm always interested in her fashion. She's gorgeous and wears everything so well![/quote]

Yes, she's too similar to Charlotte, including the Bunny storyline. Her professional storyline isn't convincing, and the writers aren't deft enough to handle race in an interesting or thought-provoking way.

Someone with a stable family life and tons of money is going to be less interesting than the other characters.  But she definitely gives us good fashion![/quote]

She's very beautiful but it really speaks to the underdevelopment of her character that none of us can remember her name. I also don't really find it realistic that her MIL is such a judgmental c**t. Plus that feels like a retread of Bunny.[/quote][/quote]

I actually disagree. As a Black woman I think I know where they are heading with the MIL plot (rushing to make her daughter’s hair presentable and not wild). MIL is classic AKA/Martha’s Vineyard/Jack and Jill type. I expect a huge rebellion against MIL and her expectations of what a proper uppity Black family should look like. And yes, it’s intentionally meant to run parallel with Charlotte’s old character. I actually like it. I love Nicole Ari-Parker (and her gorgeous husband Boris Kodjoe) and her style is impeccable.[/quote]

How much can they rebel, though? They're ULTRA richy rich art types whose idea of rebellion is probably this extremely $$$$$ designer thing v that one. It's not like they're about to go live in a yurt and wear pajamas instead of clothes. And we don't even know the MIL - she's just an idea to us now, not a character.

But if you do have insight into her and the family, please share, because I would love to get a deeper feel for this part of the plot![/quote]

Not expecting a full on rebellion but general push back to MIL from son and wife about what is/isn’t acceptable. Letting daughter wear her hair however she likes for instance. Full on natural.

If they don’t end up doing this, the story line is unnecessary IMO.[/quote]

That clearly has to happen, but I guess as yet I just don't feel invested in it at all. I don't really know these characters. I don't know why they'd care that much what the MIL thinks, other than most of us dislike being judged. Does she hold the purse strings? Will they be poor if she doesn't like how they're living? What are the stakes other than being judged by someone who seems like she's going to judge them no matter what?

With Bunny, there were stakes for Charlotte. We know she really cared about marrying into this family - and felt that Bunny could derail her plans, and then make her miserable once she was married to Trey. What are the stakes here?[/quote]

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