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Anonymous wrote: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, 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.

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.

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

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious. Well done, Peloton

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Anonymous wrote:This has happened:

Peloton PR crisis management team deserves an award and pay raise! Maybe the crisis was all orchestrated to begin with.

Right? How could they have pulled this production off so quickly? Not possible unless they started before last Friday.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a different response, thought SJP was the best of the three in the first two episodes. Though of course she didn't have the cringe writing the others did.

She’s in charge, so of course she doesn’t.

Anonymous wrote: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, 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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:wait that is funny. Can they do a redo and bring him back like
it was all a dream. He is the franchise.

oooh this is good idea.

Anonymous wrote:wait that is funny. Can they do a redo and bring him back like
it was all a dream. He is the franchise.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has happened:

Peloton PR crisis management team deserves an award and pay raise! Maybe the crisis was all orchestrated to begin with.

Anonymous wrote:This has happened:

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Anonymous wrote:I have less respect for SJP and the producers because of how they wrote Samantha's storyline. It was too meta, to put all the blame on Samantha for supposedly being mercenary and transactional, and disappearing and ghosting them. It is so inconsistent with the rest of the show for her to supposedly have treated Carrie "as an ATM" - I mean what? Carrie was the "poorest" of the bunch and the one needing $ from her friends. There are so many reasonable explanations they could have come up with for Samantha's absence without disparaging her character (and KC) in a way totally inconsistent with the history. It just looks so petty and makes me believe the stories about how SJP treated KC in the past.

I actually wondered if that was an actual dig at Cattrall. That line stood out to me too but because it seemed like art imitating life.