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Che says this in the previews that come after the credits roll.

Those don’t come for me and I don’t get why.

same, I don't see previews at the end of credits. I wonder why?

Do you watch on the HBO max app? I see previews after credits automatically.

I don't buy the Miranda character at all.
First of all, what mother doesn't even think about how her leaving the family will affect her child? Seriously, it's unbelievable that she and Steve never discussed Brady in all of this.
Second, she's just too unhip to be with Che. Che is vulgar, smart, but vulgar.

I feel like this whole show revolves around the characters doing cringy things and then feeling relieved when other characters also do cringy things.

I wonder if Miranda will fall off the wagon after things don’t work out with Che, or if that was it for her drinking problem and now she is fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Che falling for Miranda feels extremely unrealistic.
Miranda is a horrible person for leaving Steve and Brady so flippantly.

+1 When Che said she was in love with Miranda after 3 weeks of sex, I was like "what??" Not remotely plausible.

It’s a well-known lesbian cliché, so yes, plausible.

OK, but I can’t get over the fact that it didn’t occur to Che to reach out to Miranda during all the time between missing Miranda’s DM and just happening to bump into Miranda again. That isn’t how someone behaves when they are in love. The weed excuse didn’t hold water for me. Che just wasn’t thinking of Miranda when Miranda wasn’t around. I really get a predatory vibe from Che: they have a kind of bemused, almost patient and instructional manner with her every time they make an advance, and to me that proves Che knows how inexperienced Miranda is, so Che really shouldn’t have assumed that of course Miranda is in an open marriage. I think Che is a selfish, immature a**hole who enjoys toying with Miranda, but they certainly aren’t in love with her. And they know it.

But I’m no Che fan. I think Che is immature, crude, and selfish, a garbage person all around.

And as for Miranda, I am appalled at her selfishness and cruelty in her treatment of Steve, and I also cannot understand why she is not thinking about how her decision to end the marriage over a crush is going to affect her relationship with Brady. Brady is a teenager in high school who lives at home. His mother is way too cavalier about breaking up his home, in my opinion.

I’m a little surprised at how angry this episode made me. AJLT certainly isn’t the light, frothy escapism I loved about the original series. AJLT seems confused about who its target audience actually is: is it the middle aged women who loved the original series? Is it millennials who discovered the original long after it ended and were excited to see something similar in the reboot? Is it the woke crowd who want to see an LGBTQ relationship? Right now it is just a weird back-and-forth, no-story mashup.

Anonymous wrote:Oh I loved seeing that Versace gown again, just spectacular! Never could imagine eating greasy popcorn anywhere near it, however!

It was nice to see it again! And I thought the same thing re popcorn. I am so impressed that she can still fit into it.

But you know what? It's funny that I don't love that dress as much as I did when she first wore it.

Oh I loved seeing that Versace gown again, just spectacular! Never could imagine eating greasy popcorn anywhere near it, however!

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Anonymous wrote:It still bugs me that with all her millions now, Carrie is still in a walk up alcove studio apartment on the UES.

I hear you. Does she actually have millions though? Why can't she just get a classic-6 on the UES or something? I posted upthread about money and her closet. I really liked this episode-- thought it was well written. Loved the Grey Gardens reference with Carrie's smoking outfits.

The racks of clothing in her apartment highlighted this for me... I mean, is she really going to "archive" all of her clothes and shoes?

Carried lived in that apartment for years before marrying Big and loved it - there’s a reason she couldn’t bring herself to give it up after they got married. It does not seem strange at all that after having her world turned upside down so unexpectedly, she would choose to return to a place that comforted her.

+1 I find this totally believable and am irate about the “I’m going to buy a fancy downtown apartment and then sell it after a week when it beeps too much”plot line.

It was an incredibly wasteful thing to do, but people don’t always make the best choices when they’re mired in grief. Carrie made that comment in one of the earlier episodes about not being that person who lived in the same apartment after 40 years or something like that, so I think as much as she might have wanted to be there, she felt like it would be a failure somehow to do it. She bought the new apartment instead and hated it, so then she had a good excuse to moved back to her old apartment after she sold both her new apartment and her apartment with Big. Now that she’s there, she’s comfortable and doesn’t feel the need to move. It just took her a while to recognize what makes her happy.

It’s kind of a theme running quietly through the series, Carrie figuring out who she is and what she wants her life to look like after Big.

For those asking, you have to click on the "Extras" below the episode to see the preview. Or at least that's how it works for me.

As someone who is approaching 50 and in a very comfortable marriage, I can relate to Miranda's wondering if there's anything else out there. But hearing Steve's response was so good and puts it all in perspective.

I think Miranda will be disappointed in what she finds in Cleveland, and I would love it if she realized what she has for Steve. But I think it's also plausible that she may decide to go her own way--without Steve and without Che.

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Anonymous wrote:Che falling for Miranda feels extremely unrealistic.
Miranda is a horrible person for leaving Steve and Brady so flippantly.

+1 When Che said she was in love with Miranda after 3 weeks of sex, I was like "what??" Not remotely plausible.

It’s a well-known lesbian cliché, so yes, plausible.

It seems odd to assume an open marriage, but maybe in Che’s circle that’s more the norm than cheating. I still don’t buy she would have been that caught off guard. If you’re in love, presumably you’ve had a few deep conversations.

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Anonymous wrote:I take back what I said about Che being gross for going after a married woman. But Miranda is still just awful. And delusional.

Well in the next episode Che apparently tells her they are not dating and she's not their girlfriend. So.

Do you mean in Episode 9? How do you know?

I saw the preview. And also, Che was extremely direct with Miranda about what she could and couldn’t give her. Miranda wasn’t listening and processing what “nontraditional” meant. For her it seems to mean “gay” and for Che it means “not exclusive”. So for Che in the preview to say they aren’t dating held true to that. She’s redeemed herself in my eyes.

Agree with this. But it bugged that if Che had all these rules about not banging someone who wasn’t in an open marriage that they would have, you know, ASKED about it at any point.

Not Che's responsibility, only Miranda's to be honest about the fact that she's not really available despite putting themselves out there.

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Anonymous wrote:I take back what I said about Che being gross for going after a married woman. But Miranda is still just awful. And delusional.

Well in the next episode Che apparently tells her they are not dating and she's not their girlfriend. So.

Do you mean in Episode 9? How do you know?

I saw the preview. And also, Che was extremely direct with Miranda about what she could and couldn’t give her. Miranda wasn’t listening and processing what “nontraditional” meant. For her it seems to mean “gay” and for Che it means “not exclusive”. So for Che in the preview to say they aren’t dating held true to that. She’s redeemed herself in my eyes.

Agree with this. But it bugged that if Che had all these rules about not banging someone who wasn’t in an open marriage that they would have, you know, ASKED about it at any point.

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Anonymous wrote:I take back what I said about Che being gross for going after a married woman. But Miranda is still just awful. And delusional.

Well in the next episode Che apparently tells her they are not dating and she's not their girlfriend. So.

Do you mean in Episode 9? How do you know?

I saw the preview. And also, Che was extremely direct with Miranda about what she could and couldn’t give her. Miranda wasn’t listening and processing what “nontraditional” meant. For her it seems to mean “gay” and for Che it means “not exclusive”. So for Che in the preview to say they aren’t dating held true to that. She’s redeemed herself in my eyes.

I total buy that Miranda could have been gay all these years. It makes sense based on all her flip-flopping with Steve. And also just based on the actress being gay and that filtering into how she played Miranda. I think that’s why the scene with Steve was good. His reaction of defeat to her overall flakiness made sense. She probably did love Steve, but something was missing for her.

I buy that Carrie would be flakey and sell an apartment she just bought, not because of the beeping but because she made a rash decision in trying to erase the “old her” from her life. That apartment was ridiculous and not her at all. And Carrie has always been terrible with money.

I also buy that Carrie would live in her old apartment while she figures her life out rather than making another rash decision. She’s now trying to connect with her pre-Big self.

I don’t buy that they’d be so shocked Charlotte gives Harry blow jobs (Carrie watched Big masturbate in episode one). They’re 50, not dead. I didn’t get that scene for these women at all.

I think Miranda is playing her love drunk self a little over the top. I think she’s trying to show how free she feels, but it’s coming across as a little immature and kinda pathetic.

I don’t buy that Che would be in love with Miranda—but I’ve seen stranger matchups I guess. For me it’s probably the age difference. But I guess I don’t know how old Che is. I do think that will flame out quickly because it’s really just lust (sexual awakening) for Miranda. Carrie and Miranda and the realtor will be single; Charlotte and her friend and the professor will stay happily married with married people problems.

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Anonymous wrote:I take back what I said about Che being gross for going after a married woman. But Miranda is still just awful. And delusional.

Well in the next episode Che apparently tells her they are not dating and she's not their girlfriend. So.

Do you mean in Episode 9? How do you know?

Che says this in the previews that come after the credits roll.

Those don’t come for me and I don’t get why.

same, I don't see previews at the end of credits. I wonder why?