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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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, [b]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.[/b]

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.[/quote]

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

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

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![/quote]

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