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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the biggest problems I have with AJLT is Miranda. In SATC she was independent, hard working, clever as well as cynical & self deprecating. AJLT Miranda is a mess; she often acts lost, doesn't behave with conviction, has a victim mentality - I know we all change as we age but this seems like an entirely new character. She even speaks differently. It makes me nuts and it has nothing to do with Che (even though I'm not in love with that storyline). This version of Miranda reminds me more of Cynthia Nixon's character on Gilded Age than Miranda. [/quote]

Her storyline lacks subtlety. That's why it feels cheaper/worse than any of the others in the new show. Instead of creating a believable storyline about a middle aged woman having a professional and sexual awakening in her 50s, leading her to leave her job and her husband and start a new life, AJLT has chosen to make the entire plot hamfisted, melodramatic, and cartoonish. Miranda doesn't merely leave her husband -- she turns down a great professional opportunity and moves across the country to be with a new SO who doesn't even seem to like her that much. She doesn't just struggle with that move, she stumbles from one absurd scenario (loses phone, has to borrow from surfer, winds up driving across LA with SO's husband) to another (son threatens suicide, so she disrupts her partner's huge professional moment). The only self-aware or productive thing she does is attend an AA meeting, where she meets a woman who seems like she could be interesting, and that woman is literally never seen again. It's just grounded in nothing except "how can we make Miranda look silly here?"

Meanwhile the other characters are getting more nuance and interesting storylines with shades of gray. Charlotte makes a black friend and she's awkward about it, but it turns out the friend is awkward too and the humor comes from the situation -- we're not supposed to just laugh AT Charlotte. Similar with her struggling with Rock coming out as non-binary. She has moments where she's wrong, or embarrassing, or unreasonable, but also moments of growth and maturity. Same with Carrie as she processes Big's death, runs into Natasha, starts dating again -- it's not all roses and rainbows, but it's also not some humiliating death march with no payoff. There is growth. It's subtle and you can look at it a few different ways, which makes it interesting.[/quote]

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