I really dislike the way they handled Stanny's exit, once again not true to the character. But I mostly liked the rest and think it's getting better.

Noth is a pig.
https://www.justjared.com/2021/12/23/sex-the-city-stand-in-calls-out-chris-noths-on-set-behavior-as-disgusting/

Anonymous wrote:Episode 4 was just cringey. The new SATC diversity and inclusion policy of shoveling a minority into every possible scene and role is making it hard to simply build focus on plot. Every scene screams “Look at me, I’m in a room with black/Asian/gay/disabled characters”. Stop trying so hard.

I’m wondering if you were similarly cringed at how shockingly, astonishingly, unrealistically White the original series was. Or why diversity - literally, brown people just existing - actually makes it hard for you to focus on plot.

Anonymous wrote:Episode 4 was just cringey. The new SATC diversity and inclusion policy of shoveling a minority into every possible scene and role is making it hard to simply build focus on plot. Every scene screams “Look at me, I’m in a room with black/Asian/gay/disabled characters”. Stop trying so hard.

So you would have found it all less cringey if everything was the same but more of the characters were straight cisgender white people?

I think the cringe factor (very meta) will lesson as the new friendships solidify and deepen, which we're already starting to see thankfully. I'm very happy to see women my age focusing on female friendship and am delighted the show is settling in after the first few tragic eps. I wasn't sure at first but now no question I'll keep watching!

Anonymous wrote:Episode 4 was just cringey. The new SATC diversity and inclusion policy of shoveling a minority into every possible scene and role is making it hard to simply build focus on plot. Every scene screams “Look at me, I’m in a room with black/Asian/gay/disabled characters”. Stop trying so hard.

I enjoyed the episode, and think the new additions (other than Che, mercifully less of them in this ep) are nice. Pittman, Choudhury, and Parker have good chemistry with the established stars, and I really like seeing the SATC world expanded and diversified. I'm looking forward to seeing how the friendships develop.

^^^but in my mind, they wanted Carrie to be the one to do him in. For all the early years he f’d with her and for leaving her at the alter.

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Anonymous wrote:I finally finished the first episode - and I had really low expectations. But I thought it was really good. Definitely some uncomfortable moments, but those all seemed intentional.

Re: Carrie asking Big to masturbate - it totally made sense in that moment! She wasn't being prurient or coy. She was trying to keep her job and she felt like getting less prudish about masturbation was one step toward that - and even still she was very prudish! I thought it was very in character.

Re: not calling 911. Obviously that was terrible. But I'm not even sure he was actually alive in that scene. I think the eyes and hand might have been a bit of an hallucination.

Anyway, finding this way better than I thought it would be given all the talk. Obviously Chris Noth is now dirt - no offense to dirt - but, that aside (to the extent it can be aside), I thought the portrayal of his relationship with Carrie was very warm and loving, and believable.

The creator said something about how when they looked at each other, they both just knew it was goodbye because of their deep connection. Or some BS like that. It was supposed to be a Bonnie and Clyde moment. So not a hallucination. Just bad drama.

Wow, if that was MPK’s intent everyone did a really shitty job showing it.

It was actually an interview with Chris Noth that appeared in Vanity Fair.

“I think the important thing for Michael and me, when we were in discussions about it—because at first I balked at even the idea of coming back and dying—it just was like, “Well, just let it be, you know?” One thing Michael and I agreed on: We both called it the Bonnie and Clyde moment, which is that moment when Bonnie and Clyde are about to be eviscerated by bullets. They have that look with each other, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. They both know that it’s the end. We knew that we had to have that, that I just shouldn’t die alone in the bathroom. There had to be that last moment and no words, no corny dialogue, just a look, and I thought [King] did it so beautifully. I always know I’m gonna be taken care of by Michael Patrick King, in the writing and shooting and editing, so I felt very comfortable with dying. [Laughs.]”

Anonymous wrote:Episode 4 was just cringey. The new SATC diversity and inclusion policy of shoveling a minority into every possible scene and role is making it hard to simply build focus on plot. Every scene screams “Look at me, I’m in a room with black/Asian/gay/disabled characters”. Stop trying so hard.

They are trying too hard. I did enjoy eps 2 and 3 though. 1 was truly terrible.

Episode 4 was just cringey. The new SATC diversity and inclusion policy of shoveling a minority into every possible scene and role is making it hard to simply build focus on plot. Every scene screams “Look at me, I’m in a room with black/Asian/gay/disabled characters”. Stop trying so hard.

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Anonymous wrote:I finally finished the first episode - and I had really low expectations. But I thought it was really good. Definitely some uncomfortable moments, but those all seemed intentional.

Re: Carrie asking Big to masturbate - it totally made sense in that moment! She wasn't being prurient or coy. She was trying to keep her job and she felt like getting less prudish about masturbation was one step toward that - and even still she was very prudish! I thought it was very in character.

Re: not calling 911. Obviously that was terrible. But I'm not even sure he was actually alive in that scene. I think the eyes and hand might have been a bit of an hallucination.

Anyway, finding this way better than I thought it would be given all the talk. Obviously Chris Noth is now dirt - no offense to dirt - but, that aside (to the extent it can be aside), I thought the portrayal of his relationship with Carrie was very warm and loving, and believable.

The creator said something about how when they looked at each other, they both just knew it was goodbye because of their deep connection. Or some BS like that. It was supposed to be a Bonnie and Clyde moment. So not a hallucination. Just bad drama.

Whatever it was - it didn't seem like she was just hugging him and wasting time allowing him to die. It seemed clear that he'd held on (or, as I thought, was already dead) till she got home and then he was gone. Obviously she should have called 911 still - and she must have at some point because the EMTs were there to pick him up - but it wasn't quite the negligence I was expecting based on what I'd read before watching.

I've now finished all three eps and I am enjoying this way more than I expected to. The reboot of another beloved show - Gilmore Girls - was so tragically awful that my expectations are basically in the toilet for all reboots now, I guess. But this one, seems like a real show to me still - not just lazy fan service that needed another round of rewrites and edits.

I am really struck by how they all look their age, too. (Kristen Davis' plastic surgery, even accounting for.) And that they are allowing women who look this age and are this age to have personal stories that feel authentic to those characters, at that stage. At least so far.

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Anonymous wrote:I finally finished the first episode - and I had really low expectations. But I thought it was really good. Definitely some uncomfortable moments, but those all seemed intentional.

Re: Carrie asking Big to masturbate - it totally made sense in that moment! She wasn't being prurient or coy. She was trying to keep her job and she felt like getting less prudish about masturbation was one step toward that - and even still she was very prudish! I thought it was very in character.

Re: not calling 911. Obviously that was terrible. But I'm not even sure he was actually alive in that scene. I think the eyes and hand might have been a bit of an hallucination.

Anyway, finding this way better than I thought it would be given all the talk. Obviously Chris Noth is now dirt - no offense to dirt - but, that aside (to the extent it can be aside), I thought the portrayal of his relationship with Carrie was very warm and loving, and believable.

The creator said something about how when they looked at each other, they both just knew it was goodbye because of their deep connection. Or some BS like that. It was supposed to be a Bonnie and Clyde moment. So not a hallucination. Just bad drama.

Wow, if that was MPK’s intent everyone did a really shitty job showing it.

Anonymous wrote:I finally finished the first episode - and I had really low expectations. But I thought it was really good. Definitely some uncomfortable moments, but those all seemed intentional.

Re: Carrie asking Big to masturbate - it totally made sense in that moment! She wasn't being prurient or coy. She was trying to keep her job and she felt like getting less prudish about masturbation was one step toward that - and even still she was very prudish! I thought it was very in character.

Re: not calling 911. Obviously that was terrible. But I'm not even sure he was actually alive in that scene. I think the eyes and hand might have been a bit of an hallucination.

Anyway, finding this way better than I thought it would be given all the talk. Obviously Chris Noth is now dirt - no offense to dirt - but, that aside (to the extent it can be aside), I thought the portrayal of his relationship with Carrie was very warm and loving, and believable.

The creator said something about how when they looked at each other, they both just knew it was goodbye because of their deep connection. Or some BS like that. It was supposed to be a Bonnie and Clyde moment. So not a hallucination. Just bad drama.

I'm sure it's been mentioned already, but holy moly, the dialogue in episode 1 was so cringey.

I'm glad Carrie finally removed that mole from her chin