Anonymous wrote:Came from money. The funeral scene and Carrie's meeting with his brother about the family tomb in CT...

Plenty of families are buried together. That doesn’t mean he was old money. He was new money. Even when they were reading his will it was obvious he wasn’t old money. His brother would have been at the reading of the will. This happened in Gossip Girl a couple of times and it was a formal event. If he were old money it wouldn’t have just been Carrie there and his brother wouldn’t have had to ask Carrie where she’d bury him. It would have already been decided by his family. I’m sure Trey’s family would have decided that for him decades prior. Also I noticed people that are old money when portrayed on tv live in family owned apartments. Trey lived in a family owned apartment and even on gossip girl they lived in a family owned apartment which was revealed at the reading of the will.

Came from money. The funeral scene and Carrie's meeting with his brother about the family tomb in CT...

This was actually very important to the show. Big never had the courage to commit to someone like Carrie, from a broken home in nowhere USA with crazy style and an upstart career. At least while his mother was alive. But he quickly committed to Natasha, with her perfect pre-marriage fashion career, and have their wedding at her parents’ Hamptons home.

Anonymous wrote:Trey was old money. Big was new money.

This extreme DCUM fascination with this stuff is really inane. None of you would even begin to recognize someone who qualifies as "old money" as such, yet you babble on about tv show characters like this.

Football / lacrosse at a prep school in NYC then finance at Princeton or Penn.

Anonymous wrote:Trey was old money. Big was new money.

I would say maybe Big's grandparents were new money. No way his mom was. Trey was true old money.

Trey was old money. Big was new money.

Old money but still douchey.

Anonymous wrote:The actor playing Big is not upper class or old money, thus the character didn't come across that way.

But the character was supposed to be.

+ 1

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think you can analyze the show that way. So much of it doesn’t make any sense.

Big would have never divorced Natasha.

A grown man like Big wouldn’t not show up to his wedding.

He wouldn’t have strung Carrie along. If he wanted to play he would have moved onto the next shiny thing.

Trey would have been able to have sex.

Miranda wouldn’t give her son the same first name and last name.

I could go…it’s fun watching but not a show to take seriously and dissect.

The show's writers clearly had axes to grind against old money WASPs and Catholics.

Anonymous wrote:Well the pp's who explained the basics of the finance bros in that era got it right: The real Mr. Big, ie. Ron Galotti was a loudmouth Trump type who Candace Bushnell named Big because he had a big personality and you knew when he entered the room...meaning he was loud and popular. Ironically he left the city to reside in Maine in the early 2000's and has a lovely house in the country which has been featured in numerous magazines. But I get no sense at all that he was old money, that obviously was created by the writers of the show, not based on the book. Here's a sample of what he was likehttps://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/theobserver/2004/jul/18/features.magazine17

Google image search of his name. Looks like an ugly sleazebag. A wannabe; gauche. Prime Chris Noth was 10000x better looking than him.

I don’t think you can analyze the show that way. So much of it doesn’t make any sense.

Big would have never divorced Natasha.

A grown man like Big wouldn’t not show up to his wedding.

He wouldn’t have strung Carrie along. If he wanted to play he would have moved onto the next shiny thing.

Trey would have been able to have sex.

Miranda wouldn’t give her son the same first name and last name.

I could go…it’s fun watching but not a show to take seriously and dissect.

Anonymous wrote:There are gradations...lol good lord. If there's any group of people more insufferable than aristocratic types it's the people who like to seem cool by trying to portray some knowledge of them like groupies.

+1. DCUM is full of prole wannabes who spam cliches.

Anonymous wrote:I recently rewatched the pilot and in his first scene Samantha told Carrie he was the new Donald Trump, so I'm not thinking same as Trump, wealthy family but millionaire to billionaire type.

That's what I always assumed

Never watched the show but Chris looks just like his real father. He is Hollywood Royalty.

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