Samantha was mid 50s in the films and was portrayed and young and full of life, the others are mid 50s in AJLT and are portrayed as decrepit and elderly.
Remember how giddily she was describing the meds she took to lessen the menopause symptoms? There's a way to talk about age related health issues without being all glum and bitter and acting like a grandma. Samantha talked about it like it was fabulous because SHE always made sure to be and feel fabulous.
that was my take too....when I watched SATC as a teen, I couldn't wait to get to my 30's. Now I'm in my late 30's and I look in horror as these women in their 50's are in worse condition than my mother who's in her 60's. I don't want to be like that when I turn 50! D:
The most 'alive' and active and happy person i know is a woman in her 70s. Shes always been upbeat and honest about her age and ability. I rarely see women like her depicted on screen.
Used to really like Miranda in SATC.....they absolutely destroyed the character in AJLT. Miranda would have never quit her law career like that....and don't even get me started on the wardrobe they've stuck her in.
Miranda with that red hair, fashion sense, and those “in your face quips” were magic. I remember when Miranda cut back on work hours and moved to Queens for her family. Miranda didn’t drop her career then. Why now?
Yes!!! Miranda was the most butchered of all the returning characters. Quitting her marriage to Steve? Quitting her career? Aimlessly cleaning up seaweed? Dating & obsessing over a broke comedian? Suddenly spending huge time and money on freakish fashion choices after dressing like a normal human for decades? Having absolutely no confidence or self esteem when she is the Harvard graduate & ex- law firm partner of the group? Dying her hair to please her peers? After decades of constant cocktails under all sorts of stressful situations, NOW she decides to be an alcoholic??? How did that even differentiate from how much they all drank before? And then she quits overnight without ever hitting a rockbottom? I could go on. :-)
Bigs death symbolized the death of old New York the jazz clubs the Business men (like big) the cigars the vibes in general. There’s nothing you could do that could make old New York come back just like how there was nothing Carrie could do to save big 911 wouldn’t have helped that man was pushing 70-80 he wasn’t gonna make it and he already had heart problems.
The problem with reboots and revivals is that people forget it was popular because of what it meant culturally at the time. In its era it meant something to the people living those times because it was relevant and it wasn’t trying to push anything on people. Now these reboots are trying too hard to fit into this new era and it doesn’t work.
MPK tried to squish every social issue into every episode. The clothes were terrible and unrealistic. There was no Samantha. Charlotte's face looked unrecognizable. There were way too many characters in the mix. It lacked continuity. Did I mention how awful Chae was?
Yes, the second Sex and the City movie is unforgivably horrible, but I am glad it exists because it's one of my funniest theater memories. When Big tells Carrie he wants them to start spending a couple of days a week apart, Carrie asks if she's really that bad of a wife, and everyone in my theater yelled, "YES!"
That’s hysterical. Great example of how a really bad movie can still entertain. Can’t blame Big for flaking out on Carrie. Not to mention how hideous she looked w the pulled back hair and freaky hat.
Me and my woman used to throw it in and rewatch the series with a good bottle of wine. Always ended up snuggin and having fun. The only thing good about her having passed away is she didn't have to watch that turd in a punch bowl. It literally made that younger version on network television, I think it was the WB, look better. The Carrie diarys or whatever it was. I knew that would fail just because it was on network television. You can just be more real with less restrictions. Not that it needed nudity or anything but subject matter even just spoken is totally censored on network television
you missed Stanford's exit, he deserves a way better ending then the one they gave give, leaving NYC for a buddhist community??? He was more NY than Carrie was
Yes they did him dirty .. Sanford was the whole reason I wanted to watch this train wreck but knew he'd only have limited time. I miss him and Samantha so much!!
@@mhjmcThe actor who played Stanford died of pancreatic cancer. I guess the writers just didn't know how to handle that at the time. Still, he does deserve better. It would be nice if they dealt with his passing some how in the future, to give the actor Willie Garson a bit of a memorial.
The beauty of SATC was that it was relatable, even when it was ridiculous. The new series is just ridiculous. They should have just left well enough alone after the first movie.
Indeed. It didn’t work in such a different social and political climate. It may have had a chance without Darren Starr leading the production. It needed fresh writing and production. Darren is an old gay that has not moved on from how he views women. It’s very American Horror Stort. People were hoping for progress and relationship drama but no, the original production/creators had there head in the sand.
It’s relatable??? Are you effing kidding? Maybe relatable to millionaires who spend a fortune on clothes and designer heels, and wear couture to a painting party, as well as just at home cooking in the kitchen while parenting your children. Oh, and while you’re running to Rite-Aid in the middle of a blizzard to get your teenage daughter some condoms. You know, like all us normal people do. 🙄🙄🙄
@@bellroad100she said sex and the city was more relatable.. even when ridiculous. not the new show. Seems like we all agree the new show is just ridiculous. 😊 The whole dynamic with Charlotte and her kids was outrageous 😂😂 😂 and super annoying
The older I get, the more selfish and insufferable Carrie seems. I love Samantha because she is ever herself,and actually the best friend. And..the show does not exist without Big for me.
Samantha never pretends another person is more important. She says in the first movie “I love me more.” The thing is a person needs to love themself first. Samantha has a confidence a lot of single women 40-plus could look up to.
@@KP-vr6sm you're absolutely correct. Literally, in EVERY episode there's a jab made about how Samantha lives her life unapologetically. Meanwhile, she's the most solid, fun and accepting, and least judgemental out of all of them.
Is it just me, or was Carrie in mourning longer when Big left her at the altar than she was when Big died? I know people mourn differently. But few days after his funeral, she was stalk Natasha across NYC when Carrie found out Big left her $1million. In the movie, after a few days Samantha had to handfeed Carrie some soup because she hadn't left her bed.
Your right, granted the timeline is wierd to me in the show. Bit Carrie jumoed from mourning Big, stalking Natasha and then seeing Aiden and wondering if Big was a wastw of time.
I think if Big’s bequest was to anyone else other than Natasha she wouldn’t have been. She was always neurotic & bent out of shape around Natasha, who was always cool & composed
I actually brought up this exact issue in a Reddit thread when the first season of AJLT was airing and people downvoted me to HELL lol. And yes, I did receive many a “everyone grieves differently” response. That is very true, but at the same time this is Carrie Bradshaw we’re talking about, and for over two decades we’ve watched her fall apart in relation to her relationship with Big. And we are supposed to believe that when he finally bites it, her initial response is subdued and she’s back to normal life within a couple of weeks? It was so inconsistent with everything we’ve done to know about Carrie. But then again, AJLT has absolutely decimated the legacies of their characters; don’t even get me STARTED on Miranda.
When Natasha had her cameo in AJLT, I suddenly realized that I'd rather be watching a spin-off of Natasha's life than of this group of trainwrecks. I was so sad when she was gone from the screen. From her breath-of-fresh-air and not overdone modern fashion sense and her general social intelligence, I feel like she'd make for more entertaining and thought-provoking TV.
I hate watched the whole series. Wanted to see my huns but ending up watching some warped version of the Real Housewives of Manhattan with Miranda seeming to have had a lobotomy, Carrie throwing the dead husband card whenever it suits her and Charlotte looking likes she's ironed her face
When I heard they killed of Mr big and Samantha wasnt in it couldn't watch it.saw some of the story lines and clothes in passing and my god how the mighty have fallen .wouldn't watch it of you paid me .
@lizziebkennedy 7505 Oh please. I'm LGB and I recognize how unrealistic the transformation of Miranda's sexuality was. Which is too bad, because handled properly, it could have been ground breaking television. But as Miranda never gave even one hint of interest in women during the original series, it just read as false and unconvincing. The discovery of Miranda's bisexuality needed much more development and credible context to work. You can't just wholesale change an established character with her own history, just because Cynthia Nixon didn't want to do intimate scenes with men anymore. She's fee to make that choice in the future, of course. But Miranda Hobbs was a straight married woman, and MPK had to put this character through a ringer to change the situation, rendering Miranda practically unrecognizable to fans in the process. If this was how Nixon felt, the story needed better development, or a different actress to play the mature Miranda. That's the problem. I'm all for making shows more diverse; New York is one of the most diverse places in the world. But the wokeness didn't integrate well with the history of the characters in any meaningful way. So it ended up feeling grafted onto the show, instead of indigenous to their real life experiences.
Isn’t it kinda crazy how so many people loved her because she portrayed Callie Torres and her journey with her sexuality so beautifully. Now they hate her for Chae it’s like a Greek tragedy
Che was absolutely cringe from her butch look to her nonexistent manners and total lack of personality except to incite anger, eye rolling and the upchuck reflex. Thanks Che for making me hate Miranda. smh
For me, AJLT failed miserably for several reasons. 1) We all know how much Kim hated SJP in real life. Trying to use Samantha’s character via text was a desperate attempt to recreate a dynamic the viewer knows is non-existent. 2) Miranda’s over-the-top endless squawking. Jesus. It made my ears bleed. She proved herself to be a shit wife, partner and mom. She had zero redeeming qualities this time around. 3) Charlotte’s bad plastic surgery. 4) Introducing Carrie’s new friend as a Samantha-esque character. 5) The pointless introduction of random characters. 6) It kills me to say this, but the fashion detracted from every scene. Are the clothes gorgeous? Of course. But they overshadow everything else on the show. 7) While bringing Aidan back was nice, it was total bullshit when Carried questioned herself about letting the ‘wrong one’ get away. As much as SATC revolved around Big and Carrie, now you tell me her love for Big wasn’t all that big? That she loved Aidan more? Effing stupid. And just like that, AJLT sucks.
@@cousindexter to be fair, that its how people who use their partner/spouse as a beard do it. Th problem is it just makes Miranda look bad, because aint no way she didnt know.
@@whatteamwildcats4033 they do. People don't usually wait until they're in their 50's though. There's never been any hint of homosexuality in Miranda. AJLT SUCKED!!
Exactly! Cynthia Nixon wanted her character to be gay (all of a sudden) because she is in her real life, but Miranda is not a reflection of Cynthia. Just because she is doesn’t mean Miranda has to be. I appreciate Raven-Symone for realizing this and keeping her character separate from herself. Cynthia should have done the same because that storyline was stupid
The thing with the kids for me is that if they'd stuck with their original ages, Brady & Lily would have been in college already. It could have been interesting to see them as young new yorkers navigating dating as their parents did.
I've been saying this. They had at least 2/4 roles filled for a sex in the city continuation, fiill the other two roles and you getbget diversity/update the cast for the new new york
The whole thing about SATC was that these ladies were relatable. How many people had the "I'm the Charlotte" or the "I'm the Samantha" conversation? The ladies in AJLT are no longer relatable. They all came out of some weird time capsule.
I had low expectations but AJLT still is some of the worst garbage I have ever seen. It's more about talking down to the audience and wanting to push the wokeness on it rather than entertainment. It's absolutely horrible and Michael P King should be ashamed for ruining SATC's legacy.
this comment doesnt have the most likes by far, but it's the best one I've seen, if for no other reason than that last line! Someone needs to hold this man accountable for ruining one of our formative teen/young adult shows! (this is where I'd put several crying emojis but I'm on laptop, so picture it instead.)
@@bekkes7923 i used to watch SATC reruns all the time, such a timeless show. I havent since AJLT aired. It just kind ruins it right? It was such a lovely time capsule and now it brings up memories of the nightmare that is Che Diaz.
If they were going for relatable, they missed. I'm 15 years older than the characters are portrayed to be, and I have more energy, fashion sense- on a fraction of the budget- , and just plain old common sense than all of them demonstrate. I used to know all of the women portrayed in these characters. Now they're unrecognizable
I just hate how they made the cast act all old and decrepit and annoying. Like they couldn't even give Steve a proper emotional reaction to Miranda cheating on him until the second season, which lasted a couple of seconds before he back tracked.
The worst thing was the writers podcast they thought they were so clever and they had no clue of what a fifty year old woman should act or feel. I truly despise anyone who participated in the worst show I have ever seen.
Its like we share a brain. I suffered my way through the 1st season, mostly because of nostalgia, but cring ed at so many of the things you mentioned: Sara Ramirez' character Che was just AWFUL: an unfunny comedian, love interest who couldn't - or didn't want to - commit, just an unnecessary character all the way around. Steve's character was treated shabbily; the showrunners' barely mentioning Stanford, who was very much a 5th main character of SATC. So disrespectful of Willie Garson! And thank you for pointing out the heavy-handedness of shoehorning a bunch of brown-skinned characters into the mix, as if the showrunners suddenly remembered the series was set in VERY diverse NYC, not some small town in a flyover state. As a black woman, I found it both clumsily executed and offensive. By the way, I couldn't even hate-watch Season 2. Friends who watched told me it got better, that eventually AJLT started to feel more like SATC. I'll never know. I couldn't bring myself to watch. Definitely wont watch Season 3, now that its clear that this entire endeavor was just a money-grab. Also, as so many others have stated: Seema's OK, but she's no Samantha -- and no Samantha, no me.
You make some excellent points! Very true how disrespectful to barely mention Stanford, I also kept asking - shouldn’t Charlotte have seen the best plastic surgeons in Manhattan? Why does it look like she decided to bargain basement her Botox? Seemed like the show was trying to be preachy. A sad attempt at trying to let the world know “ See? We’re good people…we believe in this and that and please like us!” I saw enough of that garbage on ( also unwatchable) late night TV.
I'm sorry you felt disrespected by the actors of color being seen more as window dressing than integrated parts of the show. I fully understand, and I felt that way too. Frankly they did the best job with Seema, and I have always liked Sarita Choudury. But I agree that she's just not Samantha. I particularly appreciated the questions you brought up about Che, because I didn't understand her function in the narrative either. Why have a love interest who didn't ultimately want to commit? Was this clumsy writing in response to the fact that the audience didn't warm to her? Or was it purposeful? Was her lack of commitment meant to make Miranda think about her own early issues with Steve? But if so, why does it lead to their break up? Was Che only meant to be an "agent of liberation" for Miranda's sexuality and her boredom with Steve? If so, is Miranda going to get another shot at a more fulfilling relationship with another woman? And what really happened in her relationship with Steve, to take a woman who met him on the Brooklyn Bridge to being one who dumped him fur a chance relationship years later? Young Miranda was awfully sensible to be likely to do something like this. I suspect that my questions entail more thought than the writers wanted to put into it. The new direction for Miranda seemed driven more by Cynthia Nixon's wishes and the desire to be trendy with the LGB and TQ communities, than anything indigenous to Miranda's history.
Seems to me the writers felts like being in your 50s you have to be depressed! They should have brought in the writers from golden girls to show how life 50+ can be. The ups and downs but they had the 4 main characters and the show was about them ONLY, with references to the outside characters. It was funny and relatable.
100%. The women in Golden Girls seemed older than 50 something and were at a different stage of life (children were all adults, were now grandmothers) than the women in AJLT, but so much more fun, funny and well written. I want to be like the Golden Girls one day. The women in AJLT had the biggest modern day stressor removed from their life; they were wealthy and never had to worry about money. It doesn't buy happiness but it damn well helps protect against many sources of misery. The depressing story lines then just seemed tone deaf in today's world, while other people struggle to buy food.
Or they could have just looked back at Samantha in OG series, miss "I am 50 fucking 2 and I will ROCK this dress" and "My vagina can't get old!" and of course "I am leading the way through the menopause maze, and my sex drive, right where it was!!!"
50 is not old today. It is not depressing. If 50 bothers you wait until 60 & that is not bad either. Now once you head into 70, yeah that will give you pause but you can still be happy, learn new things, travel etc. But 50 LOL
@@g.flesch9731 As a woman in her 50s who couldn't believe how the series portrayed women and men in that age bracket, I couldn't agree more. You slow down a little, but not that much!
I couldn’t even get past the first few episodes. I found it to be awful. As someone else mentioned, they tried to put too many social issues into every episode. Felt forced, disingenuous. I also hate that they killed off Big. No reason. Carrie cook? No way. Not very believable or interesting. Really missed Samantha too. She would not have been that petty to Carrie.
They got rid of big because some woman came out and said he sexual abused her. He said no it was consensual. He was having an affair on his wife with her. I have no Idea if it’s true but you know how it is now.
i think that’s the issue. the show seeks to “redeem” and correct all the characters when it would be a lot more interesting for the characters to all remain out of touch and shallow while entitled younger people feel the need to correct their views. it doesn’t make sense for them to just magically know how to address groups they are not apart of when they have never needed to. i remember there being quite a few jokes at the expense of black, asian, transgender, and bisexual people in satc. carrie and her friends were either perpetuating stereotypes, or the minority characters were made to be ridiculous and annoying enough for the mains to “justifiably” say something racist/anti-lgbt in frustration. like aidan, or the trans women samantha calls the t-slur for being loud and annoying her. carrie and her friends at one point shame aidan for being bisexual and yet all the characters are somehow completely accepting and non-bigoted toward all lgbt people. samantha and the trans women all get along at the end of their episode as if no hurtful words have been thrown.
SATC The Series is great. I rented the first movie and turned it off 1/3 through. I skipped the second. SJP will never allow this cash-cow franchise to end. It's the highlight of her career as an actress. Before SATC, she was barely known. I have not bothered with AJLT.
I thought Sarah showed promise as an actress in ‘Extreme Measures’ with Gene Hackman & Hugh Grant (who was also decent) but with ‘First Wives Club’ it’s like she discovered a character she liked (and everyone hated) and only played that. ‘Sex and The City’ ended so positively with the women being their best selves and after that, they just devolve into unlikeable people.
SJP is an incredibly talented artist. SATC was certainly a highlight, but she’s done so much more including success on Broadway. Too bad people feel the need to bash her personally.
The biggest problem they had was that the original show didn't have to try so hard. It was interesting and entertaining. This version has them complaining about getting and being old when they're only in their early 50s. I'm not in my fifties, but I can appreciate the idea of old age, and though these women weren't old here, they acted like they were cryptkeepers. They whined and complained about everything, and the show was just miserable. Then there was the vile part about Big dying. They could've started with his death having happened in the past with Carrie having gone through the mourning process already. But they chose to start with a depressing note. And the way they wrote out Samantha was grotesque. They truly crapped on her character by claiming that she abandoned her best friends, who in the past had collectively referred to one another as each other's soul mates, and yet they had Sam walk away because as times changed, Carrie no longer needed Sam to be her publicist. This made it seem as though Sam only saw Carrie as her client and not her best friend.
The crypt keeper comment made me laugh. I'm in my 50s and, while it's a time often with some physical challenges, we're hardly on our death beds! They took a vital, physical, sporty man like Steve and made him.seem like he was 75, not 55. 🙄 And you're absolutely right about Samantha. The back story rang as utterly false because she had been the most loyal of the girlfriends, not the least. They did Sam dirty.
Seems to me like typical, tedious Hollywood ageism and inability to admit people don't go from teenager-looking to aged pensioner with no stages in between except as sexless 'Mother' figure. Same set of cliches and tropes that's always been there, especially for women but this series seems to have extended it to men .... you're DEAD AT FIFTY RAH! And the hip breakage .... yeah, you know MAYBE for women who starved themselves for decades and developed osteopenia as a result, but breaking a hip in your fifties is not normal for women! That shit comes way later, if it comes at all, and is usually right at the start of the slippage toward serious infirmity. Fifty something thang it ain't unless you really have major absnormal issues with bone density.
This was hilarious. No, I think they've made it clear that they have absolutely no respect for the fans that supported them back in the day, and have zero interest in either quality or coherence. As long as the checks keep cashing, there is no drivel they aren't willing to thrust upon us. I never made it past episode 3 of the first season of the remake. That there is a Season 3 coming is proof that the End Times are near.
Oh! Just spot-on! 👌Man, it’s hard not to lose all respect for these iconic women who read these scripts, and said Yes, the paycheck is worth subjecting fans to this garbage. 🤢🙄
That’s what gets me too- surely these women can see how bad the writing is and yet are willing to be a part of it? Do they need more money that badly bc that must be the only reason. It’s so sad - it’s like they all lack integrity. It totally casts a pall on the original show which was light and funny.
They should have kept Big around for awhile. Too many new characters that no one care about. Miranda's love interest has to be one of the most unlikable characters ever. List goes on. Basically, they have to get Samantha back.
My biggest issue with AJLT, and why I feel like it doesn't fully capture the essence of SATC, is that I feel that SATC gave the characters a weekly theme through her column. Something to explore with specific weekly questions to be asked on life and love. Now that Carrie doesn't have her weekly column it feels like a ship without a rudder. But I end up watching AJLT anyway and hate-loving it anyway because I'll always spend time with these characters no matter what.
The biggest problem is the writers. In a nutshell, they suck. It’s lazy writing throughout and I feel no investment in the characters old or new. Charlotte is basically a caricature of her former self. Miranda is the total opposite of what she was during the SATC days. Miranda use to be confident, strong biting and cynical, but, now she’s insecure, anxious and rather pathetic. I could live with Carrie’s selfishness and self centered nature because that’s who she was in her character. But she doesn’t seem to have any purpose. Everyone else is superfluous in the name of diversity. I just feel they were so focused on hitting every diversity button that they forgot to write intelligent witty dialogue. So, the whole thing is just trash. I didn’t even bother to watch the second season. I didn’t want to completely destroy the memories of the original series.
Girl when Char went dress shopping and bout that abortion of a dress with a pink belt and puff shoulders... that is NOT a modern version of what she was wearing in the gallery 20 years ago. She could literally pick the same things she wore then and it would be fine! She had so much style back in the day... Wtf happened?
Everything that was amazing and fun about SATC, they took out of AJLT. I only casually watched it & even then found it horribly misguided and annoying. Now the reasons why people actually watch it is just to see if it’ll “get any better” or “how bad can it get?” Sooner or later people will get bored & stop watching all together..
SATC is one of my top 3 shows…. To watch AJLT was heartbreaking… it was a huge let down to watch how they turned their backs on their beloved characters (Samantha, Big, STANFORD) It was so disheartening to watch our beloved heroines for the sake of getting with the woke times. The movie magic of the 90s/Y2K is gone forever 😢
Don't throw the word "woke" around so casually. It's OFFENSIVE. If you mean people of color, dammit, say so. As a black woman who was a huge fan of SATC back in the day, I, too, was annoyed by their shoehorning black and brown characters into the mix so blatantly. It was ridiculous, unrealistic, and insulting.
Thank goodness everyone else found the kids spoiled overindulged brats! Brady was the closest to real, but who knows any kids aka young people like them? Lily especially, it was so obvious that the writers were trying to put an adopted Chinese girl into a rich American family and not offend anyone by using old Asian stereotypes.
I thought in AJLT Season 1, the best acting was Steve (David Eigenberg) when he spoke with Carrie (they were painting) about his failing marriage. He's the best actor and they marginalized him then trivialized him in Season 2, up until I quit watching all together. And...for goodness' sake...they make it seem like being in your 50s is the step before complete body breakdown!!! The fifties are the new forties!!!!
A spot on description of this show. As a non white person, the diversity casting are shells except Lisa. Why are they playing in the viewers face? They could’ve organically blended the lives of the older characters with the younger characters and build from there. They need new writers And who idea was it to have Carrie wait for a man for 5 years?
What went wrong for me is actually the sex. 🤷♀️. I’m absolutely NOT a prude, but too many sex scenes are just thrown in just to be there, without really being relevant to the storyline. It comes off as crass and kinda gross. I stopped watching.
I had to laugh! At some point it became ridiculous. Carrie inherits millions from her husband. She had to have hip surgery and can't afford to stay in the hospital for a few days? Let alone go home in a cab where a private nurse will take care of her. No! She's transported home in a bread truck. Her old and again new relationship does not want to go to her old apartment. (bad karma) And what about the apartment where she lived with her late husband, isn't that good enough?
Thank you so much for making this video. What a bomb- totally unlikable characters - self-indulgent writing ( the 12 year olds writing it thought “ I like it-so everyone else will!” You also had to tolerate the story line between Miranda and the totally unwatchable woman they matched her with. Don’t know her name - don’t care.
I never watched the original show cause i thought it wasn't funny and a golden girls rip off. I watched one scene of "and just like that" where the ladies were wondering if middle school boys thought they were attractive. Gross.
And that made me roll my eyes back into my head. That's something I have never thought about, even when I was in middle school. I'm in my 50s now and am definitely not thinking about it now. 😂
The magic of Samantha as a character, I laughed more from this small clip of Samantha 4:29 than I did during the entire one and a half episodes of AJLT that I managed to get through before I gave up on the show.
I used to be a HUGE fan of SATC but couldn’t find the heart to watch latest release as I find the new cast and latest topics ridiculous. I just couldn’t waste my valuable time to connect to the storyline. Carrie dealing with grief but then move on to dating different men and having sex with different men like she did when she was single.
I really feel, the reason why the show Sex and the City WAS so very good is simply because it was so relatable, in so many ways, the dating life, the boyfriends, the breakups, the sex stories, the city life, the close girlfriends relationships, the talks, the real talks, and even the differences in careers of the girls, and their financial situations differences, and it was talked about. Most of us could say we've had the experiences or have had those same questions or conversations with our girlfriends, and could easily relate to the single gal city life. Now, it's painfully unrelatable, it's just not even near what most of us can relate to, and there is less humor. The ridiculous wealth, the over the top clothes, makeup, cosmetic surgeries, the wealth, again, and the arrogance and pompus attitudes, like most people in that space, they do not even know they are that way, and this is what I see in the show. Arrogant wealthy people, that are too stuck on themselves, to really be with each other (and the audience). I really miss Carrie's narrative that was a big thing that made the shows feel like you were actully included in what was happening with the girls, and in the show, like you were a participant, that could relate. Her questions, typed, on the screen, spoken outloud and discussed by her narrative was really something to always think about, and again, more often than not, relatable, then the show it was something to look forward to watching, like visiting with friends and hanging out. But NOW, it's a different show, that's lost touch with the spirt of the original successful show; the close friends and the sharing of thoughts and conversations and experiences. The history is there with the friends, but they seem to be different people, that we just don't know any more.... maybe like real life... people and places changes... sometimes for the best and sometimes not. There are so many real opportunities that could be explored in this new series, that are missed and overlooked, or only touched on. I still have hope, and will watch the next season, hoping it comes somewhat back to what WAS.
It is very difficult for me to phantom they have decided to make a 3rd season of this trainwreck. It is a boring, unrelatable, cringy, patronizing, depressing, unfunny piece of crap.
The most disappointing thing about AJLT is that none of the original characters have had even a single ounce of growth as people. If I was trapped in an elevator with these 3 women, I would chew through my own wrists.
The thing that I think killed it was that the show used to be about relatable topics that you normally wouldn't hear anyone talk about (women being that open with their sex lives wasn't as common at the time). Now it's about topics that literally everyone talks about
Smart and on point. I thought what made the first series brilliant was Carrie's voice-over narrative. We knew exactly the point of view in which to view the lives of the other characters. It was the narrative glue that held four divergent plot trajectories into a cohesive whole. This coupled with the hyper aesthetic of haut couture and labels made the series visually stunning to watch but never losing the relatability of the characters. SATC is absolutely one of the most brilliant series ever made which it makes it impossible for me to endure AJLT.
AJLT was so damned disappointing because every one of the main characters had doubled down on being the most obnoxiously self-absorbed privilege nitwit who decides to detonate their life when things don't go their way, with no thought about the schrapnel they spray about--and no indication that there has been any personal growth or indication that they have learned anything in the years between show movie and show. Perhaps not only Ms. Catrall but Samantha Jones realized that she simply cannot carry on being this incredibly narcissistic. I am a fan of a certain level of aspirational escapism, but all of Carrie's "problems" were mostly solved by marrying rich--and then when he had the good taste to die quickly while she is relatively young, she can now have the life of a wealthy widow. Quite frankly she seemed more distraught when he left her at the altar than when he died.
I honestly suspect SATC was so popular because the fans were young and experienced so the plot holes and general stupidity was ignored. The first time I saw it in a hotel room at 21 being a careful budgeter because of my dad I gasped at the bad financial decisions Carry made. It annoyed me but I don’t think most people are raised by massive cheapskates(he made me pay for my feminine hygiene products in high school so I worked for basic necessities)missed it. Younger audiences are more educated, more educated by internet access, and not the target audience. Those of us were young with the first go are dealing with being closer to retirement and paying for kid’s college and where we might consider watching people without those problems this show is not it. We have dealt with enough vain self absorbed weirdos at this point to want to watch them toss their wealth around.
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It was the worst! I’m 64 and wouldn’t be caught in some of the horrible clothes they had the ladies in. They looked in their 70s. And the acting was so bad that any scene with Kristin Davis in it, I had to fast forward!
I gave it one episode. I was planning to watch it all, but the scene where BIG dies made Carrie look so stupid and useless. A New Yorker with not only a cell phone, but a smart phone, and she essentially does nothing to try to save him. Call 911? If he was going to die, they should have had her find him dead. The way they did it was infuriating.
When they bring these people back, they are always in arrested development. We like these characters, Will, Grace, Charlotte, Frasier, Samantha....we want to know what happened to them? We want to see that Will became a Partner and is wildly successful. The Grace got married to a man that loves her and replaced Will. That Jack is no longer couch surfing at 50. The Charlotte, found her fairytale. That Frasier has started a new phase of his life, is happily married and has a great career. But now, they bring them all back in their 50+ and they are still acting like they are 35 and that their promising lives never progressed to anything. They were aspirational, and they come back as a let down!
@@em1503 Don't watch the remake. The new cast can't come together in the same way. And frankly it's missing the sophisticated and farcical humor that distinguished the original. Frasier is also a bit in arrested development. This is my favorite sitcom ever too, so I'm leaving it where it was.
AJLT is a great example of what happens when you care more about money than creating good characters and stories. I will say that after watching the Charmed reboot, I found myself enjoying it. Especially the 1st and 4th seasons.
@@thecrustyfox You are correct sir. In the Series Finale, the girls are transported to a parallel world and end up at the house from the original series.
I am honestly so over this perpetual thing Hollywood has with making the main character in a show or movie THE most boring uninteresting character involved. Carrie was a crap character. prudish, dull, not a lick of personality and my god was she preachy.
🤣🤣 I feel like you took all the thoughts I’ve had about AJLT out of my head and placed them in this video. So many of the things you mentioned - from the annoying kids to the undoing of happy endings to the inconsistent behavior of the characters - are things I’ve vocalized to anyone who’ll listen. I hated hated HATED S1 of AJLT so much that I canceled HBO Max. I refuse to watch any more, and I refuse to acknowledge it as a continuation of SATC. It’s so infuriating. But I thank you for making this video and expressing what we, the true SATC fans, feel about this exceedingly awful show.
Wait, Miranda, the feirce feminist, who didnt beat around the bush, was often the only one with a bit of sense, is now a drunk gay with no opinion? OK...
I think that the title of this show should have been "And just when you thought these characters couldn't get any more obnoxious"! Or AJWYTTCCGAMO for short 😂
I have a question.....What happened to Charolette's character? Kristen seems very out of it. Many of her lines are forced. Bad writing and bad delivery. Oh noooooo😛😜😝
I've seen her in a couple movies and honestly I don't think she's a very good actress LOL. She kind of just seemed like she was playing Charlotte in both of them. Maybe once the essence of Charlotte changed, she didn't know how to act out the character. I'm just guessing, I actually haven't seen the new show
They really jumped the shark in the second movie. The 1st was great. The series really destroyed Sex in the City like they never even knew what the first series was. Miranda already experimented with a woman and decided she wasn't gay. In fact, Miranda was very self aware, and she absolutely wouldn't reinvent herself to help people. Her character was always the best at expecting people to do the hard work. As for Carrie, killing someone off is a lazy plot device. Just like making someone cheat in a relationship is just ignoring that people have other ways of being destructive in a relationship. At least Charlotte being OCD about her children being perfect is within her character. Yet they used the tokenism here as well as a plot device by making her daughter changing her gender. This could have stood alone if they didn't make every new plot have to include a diverse character just to be diverse. The substance was sucked right out, abd instead we were stuck with 3 trite woman. It was absolutely unwatchable and I do not even think Kim Cattrall could have saved it! She was smart to stay FAR away.
It was fucking appalling. I was the biggest SATC fan on planet earth. The minute Cattrall wouldn’t do it, it was already over. In addition, to all the DREADFUL details of AJLT. MPK is deluded. As is SJP. He said the 2nd film was actually great & treated too harshly. That will tell you where his level of reality is. Now, I love the 2nd movie because I love the gals but relative to the original show or even the 1st one, it’s nowhere near. And there’s no redemption for him. A tired, old KWEEN wearing skinny jeans because he thinks the kids think it’s hip. AJLT absolutely eviscerates the incredible legacy of SATC. Also, Will & Grace (sort of) got their revival to be pretty okay. Though without Rosario, who knows!
By the time of the last SATC episode, we had grown up and realised what a terrible self-centred friend Carrie was. She was horrible. When i estch it now, Carrie is my least favourite character.
@thecrustyfox Hi 👋. I love Samantha. She drops everything for the others, even when they treat her badly. As I write this, I realise in the later series real life echoed the tv show. Samantha always had to do more for the others to be considered part of the group. No wonder she dumped them and went her own way.
I think Samantha made the show bearable because she was rational but interesting, she was so true to herself and her character was the only one that truly grew. Without her it's like watching a person sabotage their own train and then whine and wonder "why is there a trainwreck? The universe hates me!".
I thought season 1 was alright. It had its atrocities, mostly just the forced inclusivity and the hard to watch character of chea. Its forced and out of place to say the absolute least. Then season two came and the writers may or may not have just documented what transpired with the character in a inland empire style. That or just an snl skit where they just pop in an unexpecting Character for a gag. Then there’s this cardinal fuckery where they just undid the entire series story arch of big. Having a whole segment of watching Chea’s character having her own screen time to Kerry leaning in to Aiden in this grand sex in the city style saying the line “ maybe that was a BIG mistake” talking about what an audience watched be built pretty much for a whole long running series, two movies, and a whole season of a spin off .. I’d say it was a “big” mistake 😬 literally a half of the run time of season two is a slap in the face to the series and one of the most grinding pieces of film I’ve watched and my neighbor had me watch all 7 season of pretty little liars. Now that I say that I’m realizing all this did was match that. It may not have beat it, but it’s still an near unattainable feat. They minus well bring steinfeld back for a “pride month event”, it would be more watchable.
What did you make of And Just Like That’s first two seasons? Legendary or legendary failure?
Failure for sure. For some reason I seemed to like the finale on the first season but the next season came out and they lost me again.
A total failure, from the very first scene.
It's a commercial for transgenderism.
Epic, epic FAIL.
I refused to watch the second season, FAIL.
Samantha was mid 50s in the films and was portrayed and young and full of life, the others are mid 50s in AJLT and are portrayed as decrepit and elderly.
Remember how giddily she was describing the meds she took to lessen the menopause symptoms? There's a way to talk about age related health issues without being all glum and bitter and acting like a grandma. Samantha talked about it like it was fabulous because SHE always made sure to be and feel fabulous.
that was my take too....when I watched SATC as a teen, I couldn't wait to get to my 30's. Now I'm in my late 30's and I look in horror as these women in their 50's are in worse condition than my mother who's in her 60's. I don't want to be like that when I turn 50! D:
@@stupidtookmynick 😂😂😂😂
The most 'alive' and active and happy person i know is a woman in her 70s. Shes always been upbeat and honest about her age and ability. I rarely see women like her depicted on screen.
Even the women in The Golden Girls weren't as decrepit and elderly as they are in And Just Like That.
Used to really like Miranda in SATC.....they absolutely destroyed the character in AJLT. Miranda would have never quit her law career like that....and don't even get me started on the wardrobe they've stuck her in.
Exactly what I thought. If anything, her character should have been a power character, finally getting comfortable in her own body.
Miranda with that red hair, fashion sense, and those “in your face quips” were magic. I remember when Miranda cut back on work hours and moved to Queens for her family. Miranda didn’t drop her career then. Why now?
Loved her wardrobe 😻
Exactly. Miranda was my second favourite character, after Samantha. I couldn't believe what they did to her character 😵💫🤢🤢🤢
Yes!!! Miranda was the most butchered of all the returning characters. Quitting her marriage to Steve? Quitting her career? Aimlessly cleaning up seaweed? Dating & obsessing over a broke comedian? Suddenly spending huge time and money on freakish fashion choices after dressing like a normal human for decades? Having absolutely no confidence or self esteem when she is the Harvard graduate & ex- law firm partner of the group? Dying her hair to please her peers? After decades of constant cocktails under all sorts of stressful situations, NOW she decides to be an alcoholic??? How did that even differentiate from how much they all drank before? And then she quits overnight without ever hitting a rockbottom?
I could go on. :-)
They lost me when Carrie let Big die in the floor without so much as squeezing her IPhone to call 911.
Bigs death symbolized the death of old New York the jazz clubs the Business men (like big) the cigars the vibes in general. There’s nothing you could do that could make old New York come back just like how there was nothing Carrie could do to save big 911 wouldn’t have helped that man was pushing 70-80 he wasn’t gonna make it and he already had heart problems.
@@Ayooshii hmmmm. Regardless of the allegory, my ACLS certification says differently. He was still breathing with a pulse when she found him.
Thank you!!!
Right! Carrie likes missing Big more than being with Big, clearly 😂
@@WilliamsPinchI hate that this is a thing, many times existant whatsoever.
The problem with reboots and revivals is that people forget it was popular because of what it meant culturally at the time. In its era it meant something to the people living those times because it was relevant and it wasn’t trying to push anything on people. Now these reboots are trying too hard to fit into this new era and it doesn’t work.
Agree 💯
MPK tried to squish every social issue into every episode. The clothes were terrible and unrealistic. There was no Samantha. Charlotte's face looked unrecognizable. There were way too many characters in the mix. It lacked continuity. Did I mention how awful Chae was?
che was awful but i figured they were the new Big and Miranda was the new Carrie.
Chae is the worst.
He is the worst
Miranda was completely the opposite of even her SATC life & personality. What was then witty & cynical is now whiney & bitchy
Nailed it.
Yes, the second Sex and the City movie is unforgivably horrible, but I am glad it exists because it's one of my funniest theater memories. When Big tells Carrie he wants them to start spending a couple of days a week apart, Carrie asks if she's really that bad of a wife, and everyone in my theater yelled, "YES!"
Sounds like a theatre full of my kind of people!
😂😂😂 this is golden
That’s hysterical. Great example of how a really bad movie can still entertain. Can’t blame Big for flaking out on Carrie. Not to mention how hideous she looked w the pulled back hair and freaky hat.
Me and my woman used to throw it in and rewatch the series with a good bottle of wine. Always ended up snuggin and having fun. The only thing good about her having passed away is she didn't have to watch that turd in a punch bowl. It literally made that younger version on network television, I think it was the WB, look better. The Carrie diarys or whatever it was. I knew that would fail just because it was on network television. You can just be more real with less restrictions. Not that it needed nudity or anything but subject matter even just spoken is totally censored on network television
@@carolbell8797The commenter was talking about the second movie, not the first.
you missed Stanford's exit, he deserves a way better ending then the one they gave give, leaving NYC for a buddhist community??? He was more NY than Carrie was
Yes they did him dirty .. Sanford was the whole reason I wanted to watch this train wreck but knew he'd only have limited time. I miss him and Samantha so much!!
@@mhjmcThe actor who played Stanford died of pancreatic cancer. I guess the writers just didn't know how to handle that at the time. Still, he does deserve better. It would be nice if they dealt with his passing some how in the future, to give the actor Willie Garson a bit of a memorial.
@@mhjmc I loved Stanford!! He was such a good friend to Carrie!!
@@maryohmaryohI think it was his request to be written out in that way. I could be wrong but that’s maybe why it was so stupid…
So true, I hated the way the show did his exited. It was off putting. He was such an impactful character
The beauty of SATC was that it was relatable, even when it was ridiculous. The new series is just ridiculous. They should have just left well enough alone after the first movie.
How old are you?
Indeed. It didn’t work in such a different social and political climate. It may have had a chance without Darren Starr leading the production. It needed fresh writing and production. Darren is an old gay that has not moved on from how he views women. It’s very American Horror Stort. People were hoping for progress and relationship drama but no, the original production/creators had there head in the sand.
Relatable?!! 😂😂😂
It’s relatable??? Are you effing kidding? Maybe relatable to millionaires who spend a fortune on clothes and designer heels, and wear couture to a painting party, as well as just at home cooking in the kitchen while parenting your children. Oh, and while you’re running to Rite-Aid in the middle of a blizzard to get your teenage daughter some condoms.
You know, like all us normal people do.
🙄🙄🙄
@@bellroad100she said sex and the city was more relatable.. even when ridiculous. not the new show.
Seems like we all agree the new show is just ridiculous. 😊
The whole dynamic with Charlotte and her kids was outrageous 😂😂 😂 and super annoying
RIP Magda. ❤ she would of slapped some sensibilities into Miranda about Che so we wouldn't have to suffer through it as an audience the entire season.
Magda rue! 6:05
Would HAVE. Please learn some proper English.
@@dieSchreckschraubeDoes this ever impress anyone besides your own ego?
The older I get, the more selfish and insufferable Carrie seems. I love Samantha because she is ever herself,and actually the best friend. And..the show does not exist without Big for me.
Samantha never pretends another person is more important. She says in the first movie “I love me more.” The thing is a person needs to love themself first. Samantha has a confidence a lot of single women 40-plus could look up to.
Carrie was the worst
What was great was Samantha was selfish but she was the best of the lot she was always there for friends and rewatching it they treated her like shit
@@KP-vr6sm you're absolutely correct. Literally, in EVERY episode there's a jab made about how Samantha lives her life unapologetically. Meanwhile, she's the most solid, fun and accepting, and least judgemental out of all of them.
Is it just me, or was Carrie in mourning longer when Big left her at the altar than she was when Big died? I know people mourn differently. But few days after his funeral, she was stalk Natasha across NYC when Carrie found out Big left her $1million. In the movie, after a few days Samantha had to handfeed Carrie some soup because she hadn't left her bed.
Your right, granted the timeline is wierd to me in the show. Bit Carrie jumoed from mourning Big, stalking Natasha and then seeing Aiden and wondering if Big was a wastw of time.
@@Ashbrash1998 OMG, I forgot about that awful "waste of time" comment. and just like that truly was awful (IMO).
I think if Big’s bequest was to anyone else other than Natasha she wouldn’t have been. She was always neurotic & bent out of shape around Natasha, who was always cool & composed
I actually brought up this exact issue in a Reddit thread when the first season of AJLT was airing and people downvoted me to HELL lol. And yes, I did receive many a “everyone grieves differently” response. That is very true, but at the same time this is Carrie Bradshaw we’re talking about, and for over two decades we’ve watched her fall apart in relation to her relationship with Big. And we are supposed to believe that when he finally bites it, her initial response is subdued and she’s back to normal life within a couple of weeks? It was so inconsistent with everything we’ve done to know about Carrie. But then again, AJLT has absolutely decimated the legacies of their characters; don’t even get me STARTED on Miranda.
Are you crazy??? Apparently you’ve never been through tremendous grief…
When Natasha had her cameo in AJLT, I suddenly realized that I'd rather be watching a spin-off of Natasha's life than of this group of trainwrecks. I was so sad when she was gone from the screen. From her breath-of-fresh-air and not overdone modern fashion sense and her general social intelligence, I feel like she'd make for more entertaining and thought-provoking TV.
I hate watched the whole series. Wanted to see my huns but ending up watching some warped version of the Real Housewives of Manhattan with Miranda seeming to have had a lobotomy, Carrie throwing the dead husband card whenever it suits her and Charlotte looking likes she's ironed her face
Charlotte’s face is one of the worst things about the show. And then to read Kristen Davis denies having had too much work. Please
Lots of self focused Karens did. The irony is lost on them.
When I heard they killed of Mr big and Samantha wasnt in it couldn't watch it.saw some of the story lines and clothes in passing and my god how the mighty have fallen .wouldn't watch it of you paid me .
Omg I said the thing about Miranda 🤣
@lizziebkennedy 7505 Oh please. I'm LGB and I recognize how unrealistic the transformation of Miranda's sexuality was. Which is too bad, because handled properly, it could have been ground breaking television.
But as Miranda never gave even one hint of interest in women during the original series, it just read as false and unconvincing. The discovery of Miranda's bisexuality needed much more development and credible context to work. You can't just wholesale change an established character with her own history, just because Cynthia Nixon didn't want to do intimate scenes with men anymore. She's fee to make that choice in the future, of course. But Miranda Hobbs was a straight married woman, and MPK had to put this character through a ringer to change the situation, rendering Miranda practically unrecognizable to fans in the process. If this was how Nixon felt, the story needed better development, or a different actress to play the mature Miranda.
That's the problem. I'm all for making shows more diverse; New York is one of the most diverse places in the world. But the wokeness didn't integrate well with the history of the characters in any meaningful way. So it ended up feeling grafted onto the show, instead of indigenous to their real life experiences.
Che was a wet fart on the entire legacy. Not just for SATC but for Sara Ramirez. She should have left on the high note of Dr. Callie Tores
Isn’t it kinda crazy how so many people loved her because she portrayed Callie Torres and her journey with her sexuality so beautifully. Now they hate her for Chae it’s like a Greek tragedy
Sara was soooo sexy as Callie Torres !!
Wow. That’s some serious hate you’ve got there.
She was horrible
Che was absolutely cringe from her butch look to her nonexistent manners and total lack of personality except to incite anger, eye rolling and the upchuck reflex. Thanks Che for making me hate Miranda. smh
For me, AJLT failed miserably for several reasons.
1) We all know how much Kim hated SJP in real life. Trying to use Samantha’s character via text was a desperate attempt to recreate a dynamic the viewer knows is non-existent.
2) Miranda’s over-the-top endless squawking. Jesus. It made my ears bleed. She proved herself to be a shit wife, partner and mom. She had zero redeeming qualities this time around.
3) Charlotte’s bad plastic surgery.
4) Introducing Carrie’s new friend as a Samantha-esque character.
5) The pointless introduction of random characters.
6) It kills me to say this, but the fashion detracted from every scene. Are the clothes gorgeous? Of course. But they overshadow everything else on the show.
7) While bringing Aidan back was nice, it was total bullshit when Carried questioned herself about letting the ‘wrong one’ get away. As much as SATC revolved around Big and Carrie, now you tell me her love for Big wasn’t all that big? That she loved Aidan more?
Effing stupid. And just like that, AJLT sucks.
So perfectly said.
Yes, those points are well thought out and well organized.
Well... 7 explains why Carrie didn't dial 9.1.1. 🙄😂
@@user-wb5ml2mw6h 🙌🏻🙌🏻🤣🤣🤣
The producers wanted to make it all-inclusive to fit today's society. It's a far cry from the original.
They lost me when they opened with Miranda’s son having sex and them being okay with it happening in the next room.
Also Miranda was a total Karen.
Miranda Karen.
Karen Miranda.
I was done when Carrie accused Samantha of treating her like an ATM. Ridiculous. Ms. Jones wasn’t sweating Carries book sales money.😂😂
Omg she did not. I bet that was SJP being a bitch to Kim partially.
I think she also now had Bigs millions but yes Samantha had money.
And that was within the first two minutes. You dodged a bullet! 😂🙌
What messed it up was when they killed off Big (of course I understood why) and Miranda came out gay and left Steve.
The hell.
Yes, suddenly she's into girls 😂. Their love story was really huge and lasted till 2 films and then "oh yea, I'm gay and I'm leaving you, bye" 😂
@@cousindexter to be fair, that its how people who use their partner/spouse as a beard do it. Th problem is it just makes Miranda look bad, because aint no way she didnt know.
@@whatteamwildcats4033 they do. People don't usually wait until they're in their 50's though. There's never been any hint of homosexuality in Miranda. AJLT SUCKED!!
Exactly! Cynthia Nixon wanted her character to be gay (all of a sudden) because she is in her real life, but Miranda is not a reflection of Cynthia. Just because she is doesn’t mean Miranda has to be. I appreciate Raven-Symone for realizing this and keeping her character separate from herself. Cynthia should have done the same because that storyline was stupid
The thing with the kids for me is that if they'd stuck with their original ages, Brady & Lily would have been in college already. It could have been interesting to see them as young new yorkers navigating dating as their parents did.
I've been saying this. They had at least 2/4 roles filled for a sex in the city continuation, fiill the other two roles and you getbget diversity/update the cast for the new new york
They NEVER should have made a Reboot because the show is NOTHING without Kim Cattrall and SJP KNOW IT!!!!!
ty! I boycotted it due to no SJ, who was the show. #TeamSamantha
Also, I think Kim may have had word about the new "theme" too and just said no freakin way.
The whole thing about SATC was that these ladies were relatable. How many people had the "I'm the Charlotte" or the "I'm the Samantha" conversation? The ladies in AJLT are no longer relatable. They all came out of some weird time capsule.
I had low expectations but AJLT still is some of the worst garbage I have ever seen. It's more about talking down to the audience and wanting to push the wokeness on it rather than entertainment. It's absolutely horrible and Michael P King should be ashamed for ruining SATC's legacy.
this comment doesnt have the most likes by far, but it's the best one I've seen, if for no other reason than that last line! Someone needs to hold this man accountable for ruining one of our formative teen/young adult shows! (this is where I'd put several crying emojis but I'm on laptop, so picture it instead.)
@@bekkes7923 i used to watch SATC reruns all the time, such a timeless show. I havent since AJLT aired. It just kind ruins it right? It was such a lovely time capsule and now it brings up memories of the nightmare that is Che Diaz.
It was nothing but a vanity piece for sjp
I tried watching it but only lasted for a few minutes for reasons you mentioned
AJLT is truly horrible.
What went wrong is that it stopped being fun.......they went for relatable drama versus what the show had always been which was an escape
If they were going for relatable, they missed. I'm 15 years older than the characters are portrayed to be, and I have more energy, fashion sense- on a fraction of the budget- , and just plain old common sense than all of them demonstrate. I used to know all of the women portrayed in these characters. Now they're unrecognizable
I just hate how they made the cast act all old and decrepit and annoying. Like they couldn't even give Steve a proper emotional reaction to Miranda cheating on him until the second season, which lasted a couple of seconds before he back tracked.
That scene where he read her for filth was satisfying while it lasted though, right? 💅
The worst thing was the writers podcast they thought they were so clever and they had no clue of what a fifty year old woman should act or feel. I truly despise anyone who participated in the worst show I have ever seen.
Classic error of not leaving well enough alone.
Its like we share a brain. I suffered my way through the 1st season, mostly because of nostalgia, but cring ed at so many of the things you mentioned: Sara Ramirez' character Che was just AWFUL: an unfunny comedian, love interest who couldn't - or didn't want to - commit, just an unnecessary character all the way around. Steve's character was treated shabbily; the showrunners' barely mentioning Stanford, who was very much a 5th main character of SATC. So disrespectful of Willie Garson! And thank you for pointing out the heavy-handedness of shoehorning a bunch of brown-skinned characters into the mix, as if the showrunners suddenly remembered the series was set in VERY diverse NYC, not some small town in a flyover state. As a black woman, I found it both clumsily executed and offensive. By the way, I couldn't even hate-watch Season 2. Friends who watched told me it got better, that eventually AJLT started to feel more like SATC. I'll never know. I couldn't bring myself to watch. Definitely wont watch Season 3, now that its clear that this entire endeavor was just a money-grab. Also, as so many others have stated: Seema's OK, but she's no Samantha -- and no Samantha, no me.
You make some excellent points! Very true how disrespectful to barely mention Stanford, I also kept asking - shouldn’t Charlotte have seen the best plastic surgeons in Manhattan? Why does it look like she decided to bargain basement her Botox? Seemed like the show was trying to be preachy. A sad attempt at trying to let the world know “ See? We’re good people…we believe in this and that and please like us!” I saw enough of that garbage on ( also unwatchable) late night TV.
Yes I agree, no Sam no sex. I’m happy she got one million for that short cab ride. You go girl.
I'm sorry you felt disrespected by the actors of color being seen more as window dressing than integrated parts of the show. I fully understand, and I felt that way too. Frankly they did the best job with Seema, and I have always liked Sarita Choudury. But I agree that she's just not Samantha.
I particularly appreciated the questions you brought up about Che, because I didn't understand her function in the narrative either. Why have a love interest who didn't ultimately want to commit? Was this clumsy writing in response to the fact that the audience didn't warm to her? Or was it purposeful? Was her lack of commitment meant to make Miranda think about her own early issues with Steve? But if so, why does it lead to their break up? Was Che only meant to be an "agent of liberation" for Miranda's sexuality and her boredom with Steve? If so, is Miranda going to get another shot at a more fulfilling relationship with another woman? And what really happened in her relationship with Steve, to take a woman who met him on the Brooklyn Bridge to being one who dumped him fur a chance relationship years later? Young Miranda was awfully sensible to be likely to do something like this.
I suspect that my questions entail more thought than the writers wanted to put into it. The new direction for Miranda seemed driven more by Cynthia Nixon's wishes and the desire to be trendy with the LGB and TQ communities, than anything indigenous to Miranda's history.
Seems to me the writers felts like being in your 50s you have to be depressed! They should have brought in the writers from golden girls to show how life 50+ can be. The ups and downs but they had the 4 main characters and the show was about them ONLY, with references to the outside characters. It was funny and relatable.
100%. The women in Golden Girls seemed older than 50 something and were at a different stage of life (children were all adults, were now grandmothers) than the women in AJLT, but so much more fun, funny and well written. I want to be like the Golden Girls one day. The women in AJLT had the biggest modern day stressor removed from their life; they were wealthy and never had to worry about money. It doesn't buy happiness but it damn well helps protect against many sources of misery. The depressing story lines then just seemed tone deaf in today's world, while other people struggle to buy food.
Or they could have just looked back at Samantha in OG series, miss "I am 50 fucking 2 and I will ROCK this dress" and "My vagina can't get old!" and of course "I am leading the way through the menopause maze, and my sex drive, right where it was!!!"
I always wondered if they were the same writers
50 is not old today. It is not depressing. If 50 bothers you wait until 60 & that is not bad either. Now once you head into 70, yeah that will give you pause but you can still be happy, learn new things, travel etc. But 50 LOL
@@g.flesch9731 As a woman in her 50s who couldn't believe how the series portrayed women and men in that age bracket, I couldn't agree more. You slow down a little, but not that much!
My favorite thing about AJLT is all the fun RUclips accounts I've found by searching "And Just Like That Sucks" 😅
I couldn’t even get past the first few episodes. I found it to be awful. As someone else mentioned, they tried to put too many social issues into every episode. Felt forced, disingenuous. I also hate that they killed off Big. No reason. Carrie cook? No way. Not very believable or interesting. Really missed Samantha too. She would not have been that petty to Carrie.
Same! I got to the 3rd episode and checked out.
Let’s not make this reboot social justice theatre. It’s not entertainment it’s dumb
They got rid of big because some woman came out and said he sexual abused her. He said no it was consensual. He was having an affair on his wife with her. I have no Idea if it’s true but you know how it is now.
@@katemiller7874 But it wasn't just one woman. That's the issue.
This show should never have been green-lighted at all, no need for it!
Carrie breaking a hip had me like, are they supposed to be 50 or 80. lol
Big dying was the deal breaker. Went south after that. He was great with Carrie!
Carrie getting canceled for her old blog is a good idea and realistic. Fans of the podcast could do it just to spite her.
If they do that in season 3, I’m asking for a cut 😂
i think that’s the issue. the show seeks to “redeem” and correct all the characters when it would be a lot more interesting for the characters to all remain out of touch and shallow while entitled younger people feel the need to correct their views. it doesn’t make sense for them to just magically know how to address groups they are not apart of when they have never needed to.
i remember there being quite a few jokes at the expense of black, asian, transgender, and bisexual people in satc. carrie and her friends were either perpetuating stereotypes, or the minority characters were made to be ridiculous and annoying enough for the mains to “justifiably” say something racist/anti-lgbt in frustration. like aidan, or the trans women samantha calls the t-slur for being loud and annoying her.
carrie and her friends at one point shame aidan for being bisexual and yet all the characters are somehow completely accepting and non-bigoted toward all lgbt people. samantha and the trans women all get along at the end of their episode as if no hurtful words have been thrown.
@@marib.364Aidan was never bisexual. Not sure what show you were watching.
@@grampasmirroryeah it was not Aidan. it was an another bisexual guy Carrie dated.
@@agdistisattis6923 Whoever Eddie Cahill played, I can't even remember and I am too lazy to find out the name.
SATC The Series is great. I rented the first movie and turned it off 1/3 through. I skipped the second. SJP will never allow this cash-cow franchise to end. It's the highlight of her career as an actress. Before SATC, she was barely known. I have not bothered with AJLT.
Yeah def don't bother. Believe it or not it makes the Carrie diaries look like the godfather in comparison.
I thought Sarah showed promise as an actress in ‘Extreme Measures’ with Gene Hackman & Hugh Grant (who was also decent) but with ‘First Wives Club’ it’s like she discovered a character she liked (and everyone hated) and only played that. ‘Sex and The City’ ended so positively with the women being their best selves and after that, they just devolve into unlikeable people.
SJP is an incredibly talented artist. SATC was certainly a highlight, but she’s done so much more including success on Broadway. Too bad people feel the need to bash her personally.
I hope nobody brings back Wisteria Lane because it was so funny! I don’t want to say it’s boring
I watched bolth seasons of AJLT ...it was horrible I thought, who are these ladies ?
The biggest problem they had was that the original show didn't have to try so hard. It was interesting and entertaining. This version has them complaining about getting and being old when they're only in their early 50s. I'm not in my fifties, but I can appreciate the idea of old age, and though these women weren't old here, they acted like they were cryptkeepers. They whined and complained about everything, and the show was just miserable. Then there was the vile part about Big dying. They could've started with his death having happened in the past with Carrie having gone through the mourning process already. But they chose to start with a depressing note. And the way they wrote out Samantha was grotesque. They truly crapped on her character by claiming that she abandoned her best friends, who in the past had collectively referred to one another as each other's soul mates, and yet they had Sam walk away because as times changed, Carrie no longer needed Sam to be her publicist. This made it seem as though Sam only saw Carrie as her client and not her best friend.
The crypt keeper comment made me laugh. I'm in my 50s and, while it's a time often with some physical challenges, we're hardly on our death beds! They took a vital, physical, sporty man like Steve and made him.seem like he was 75, not 55. 🙄
And you're absolutely right about Samantha. The back story rang as utterly false because she had been the most loyal of the girlfriends, not the least. They did Sam dirty.
@@cherylhulting1301 Could not agree more. Crypt keepers unite. LOL
Seems to me like typical, tedious Hollywood ageism and inability to admit people don't go from teenager-looking to aged pensioner with no stages in between except as sexless 'Mother' figure. Same set of cliches and tropes that's always been there, especially for women but this series seems to have extended it to men .... you're DEAD AT FIFTY RAH! And the hip breakage .... yeah, you know MAYBE for women who starved themselves for decades and developed osteopenia as a result, but breaking a hip in your fifties is not normal for women! That shit comes way later, if it comes at all, and is usually right at the start of the slippage toward serious infirmity. Fifty something thang it ain't unless you really have major absnormal issues with bone density.
This was hilarious. No, I think they've made it clear that they have absolutely no respect for the fans that supported them back in the day, and have zero interest in either quality or coherence. As long as the checks keep cashing, there is no drivel they aren't willing to thrust upon us. I never made it past episode 3 of the first season of the remake. That there is a Season 3 coming is proof that the End Times are near.
Is this in the Book Of Revelation?
All I can say is, they all got old, but never grew up. I won't waste my time watching any of it. Big is the luckiest of all because he's dead!
They ruined Amanda and Steve. The one thing I wanted in this life is for them to be happy forever, but no.... Not that!
That made me irrationally angry.
Oh! Just spot-on! 👌Man, it’s hard not to lose all respect for these iconic women who read these scripts, and said Yes, the paycheck is worth subjecting fans to this garbage. 🤢🙄
That’s what gets me too- surely these women can see how bad the writing is and yet are willing to be a part of it? Do they need more money that badly bc that must be the only reason. It’s so sad - it’s like they all lack integrity. It totally casts a pall on the original show which was light and funny.
@@carolbell8797 So true! 👌
They should have kept Big around for awhile. Too many new characters that no one care about. Miranda's love interest has to be one of the most unlikable characters ever. List goes on. Basically, they have to get Samantha back.
I didn't understand why Magda was not mentioned at all. 😢 I waited for some kind of tribute, 'cause the actress passed away. 😢 But no!! 🤦🏻♀️🤬
It seemed like ajlt was written by people who never watched satc.
My biggest issue with AJLT, and why I feel like it doesn't fully capture the essence of SATC, is that I feel that SATC gave the characters a weekly theme through her column. Something to explore with specific weekly questions to be asked on life and love. Now that Carrie doesn't have her weekly column it feels like a ship without a rudder. But I end up watching AJLT anyway and hate-loving it anyway because I'll always spend time with these characters no matter what.
This is exactly the problem
The biggest problem is the writers. In a nutshell, they suck. It’s lazy writing throughout and I feel no investment in the characters old or new. Charlotte is basically a caricature of her former self. Miranda is the total opposite of what she was during the SATC days. Miranda use to be confident, strong biting and cynical, but, now she’s insecure, anxious and rather pathetic. I could live with Carrie’s selfishness and self centered nature because that’s who she was in her character. But she doesn’t seem to have any purpose.
Everyone else is superfluous in the name of diversity. I just feel they were so focused on hitting every diversity button that they forgot to write intelligent witty dialogue. So, the whole thing is just trash. I didn’t even bother to watch the second season. I didn’t want to completely destroy the memories of the original series.
Girl when Char went dress shopping and bout that abortion of a dress with a pink belt and puff shoulders... that is NOT a modern version of what she was wearing in the gallery 20 years ago. She could literally pick the same things she wore then and it would be fine! She had so much style back in the day... Wtf happened?
AJLT suffers from a huge CRINGE factor. Aiden made the right decision to flee!
Aiden was a jerk.
Everything that was amazing and fun about SATC, they took out of AJLT. I only casually watched it & even then found it horribly misguided and annoying.
Now the reasons why people actually watch it is just to see if it’ll “get any better” or “how bad can it get?” Sooner or later people will get bored & stop watching all together..
SATC is one of my top 3 shows…. To watch AJLT was heartbreaking… it was a huge let down to watch how they turned their backs on their beloved characters (Samantha, Big, STANFORD) It was so disheartening to watch our beloved heroines for the sake of getting with the woke times. The movie magic of the 90s/Y2K is gone forever 😢
Totally agree with you. Cannot believe these actresses agreed to do this. It’s sad.
Because there was a woke audience that it pandered to but couldnt sustain bc wokeness is selfdestructive!
They didn't have much choice. Samantha didn't want to come back, Big was accused of sex crimes, i believe, and Stanford died in real life.
Don't throw the word "woke" around so casually. It's OFFENSIVE. If you mean people of color, dammit, say so. As a black woman who was a huge fan of SATC back in the day, I, too, was annoyed by their shoehorning black and brown characters into the mix so blatantly. It was ridiculous, unrealistic, and insulting.
@@simonrex3714Excellent observation!
I loved the scene with Miranda and Magda in the series finale. It brings tears every time.
My husband and I loved Sex and the City. We couldn’t watch And Just Like That. We thought it was awful
If forced to watch an ensemble 0f old women, I'll stick with golden girls..
They killed BIG off! 1st mistake....
Thank goodness everyone else found the kids spoiled overindulged brats! Brady was the closest to real, but who knows any kids aka young people like them? Lily especially, it was so obvious that the writers were trying to put an adopted Chinese girl into a rich American family and not offend anyone by using old Asian stereotypes.
I can’t believe this crappy sequel makes any money. I could not even get through the first episode of the first season. Awful , abject failure, ugh
I thought in AJLT Season 1, the best acting was Steve (David Eigenberg) when he spoke with Carrie (they were painting) about his failing marriage. He's the best actor and they marginalized him then trivialized him in Season 2, up until I quit watching all together. And...for goodness' sake...they make it seem like being in your 50s is the step before complete body breakdown!!! The fifties are the new forties!!!!
I went from being a fan, to not even enjoying seeing Sarah J Parker on camera. Her snobbery and mean girl behavior are all I see now.
Kim Cattrall was the coworker sjp did not feel better than.
A spot on description of this show. As a non white person, the diversity casting are shells except Lisa. Why are they playing in the viewers face? They could’ve organically blended the lives of the older characters with the younger characters and build from there. They need new writers
And who idea was it to have Carrie wait for a man for 5 years?
Your video is an exquisite revenge for what we've suffered through. Thank you!
What went wrong for me is actually the sex. 🤷♀️. I’m absolutely NOT a prude, but too many sex scenes are just thrown in just to be there, without really being relevant to the storyline. It comes off as crass and kinda gross. I stopped watching.
Agreed 👍 I really didn't like the sex scene of miranda and che... gross
Yeah seema is annoying and needy as a friend. Obviously this show is a money grab.
I’m going back to Bugs Bunny as my sole TV watching.
You're funny.
I had to laugh! At some point it became ridiculous.
Carrie inherits millions from her husband.
She had to have hip surgery and can't afford to stay in the hospital for a few days? Let alone go home in a cab where a private nurse will take care of her.
No! She's transported home in a bread truck.
Her old and again new relationship does not want to go to her old apartment. (bad karma)
And what about the apartment where she lived with her late husband, isn't that good enough?
Thank you so much for making this video. What a bomb- totally unlikable characters - self-indulgent writing ( the 12 year olds writing it thought “ I like it-so everyone else will!” You also had to tolerate the story line between Miranda and the totally unwatchable woman they matched her with. Don’t know her name - don’t care.
I never watched the original show cause i thought it wasn't funny and a golden girls rip off. I watched one scene of "and just like that" where the ladies were wondering if middle school boys thought they were attractive. Gross.
golden girls was about older women than these
>>one scene of "and just like that" where the ladies were wondering if middle school boys thought they were attractive
And that made me roll my eyes back into my head. That's something I have never thought about, even when I was in middle school. I'm in my 50s now and am definitely not thinking about it now. 😂
The magic of Samantha as a character, I laughed more from this small clip of Samantha 4:29 than I did during the entire one and a half episodes of AJLT that I managed to get through before I gave up on the show.
I used to be a HUGE fan of SATC but couldn’t find the heart to watch latest release as I find the new cast and latest topics ridiculous. I just couldn’t waste my valuable time to connect to the storyline. Carrie dealing with grief but then move on to dating different men and having sex with different men like she did when she was single.
I really feel, the reason why the show Sex and the City WAS so very good is simply because it was so relatable, in so many ways, the dating life, the boyfriends, the breakups, the sex stories, the city life, the close girlfriends relationships, the talks, the real talks, and even the differences in careers of the girls, and their financial situations differences, and it was talked about. Most of us could say we've had the experiences or have had those same questions or conversations with our girlfriends, and could easily relate to the single gal city life. Now, it's painfully unrelatable, it's just not even near what most of us can relate to, and there is less humor. The ridiculous wealth, the over the top clothes, makeup, cosmetic surgeries, the wealth, again, and the arrogance and pompus attitudes, like most people in that space, they do not even know they are that way, and this is what I see in the show. Arrogant wealthy people, that are too stuck on themselves, to really be with each other (and the audience). I really miss Carrie's narrative that was a big thing that made the shows feel like you were actully included in what was happening with the girls, and in the show, like you were a participant, that could relate. Her questions, typed, on the screen, spoken outloud and discussed by her narrative was really something to always think about, and again, more often than not, relatable, then the show it was something to look forward to watching, like visiting with friends and hanging out. But NOW, it's a different show, that's lost touch with the spirt of the original successful show; the close friends and the sharing of thoughts and conversations and experiences. The history is there with the friends, but they seem to be different people, that we just don't know any more.... maybe like real life... people and places changes... sometimes for the best and sometimes not. There are so many real opportunities that could be explored in this new series, that are missed and overlooked, or only touched on. I still have hope, and will watch the next season, hoping it comes somewhat back to what WAS.
It is very difficult for me to phantom they have decided to make a 3rd season of this trainwreck. It is a boring, unrelatable, cringy, patronizing, depressing, unfunny piece of crap.
Is there nothing else to watch on TV ? ‘Just like that’ was depressing could have been inspiring about middle age women’s friendships.
The most disappointing thing about AJLT is that none of the original characters have had even a single ounce of growth as people. If I was trapped in an elevator with these 3 women, I would chew through my own wrists.
It's worse than not growing; they've regressed.
The thing that I think killed it was that the show used to be about relatable topics that you normally wouldn't hear anyone talk about (women being that open with their sex lives wasn't as common at the time). Now it's about topics that literally everyone talks about
What went wrong? MPK
Smart and on point. I thought what made the first series brilliant was Carrie's voice-over narrative. We knew exactly the point of view in which to view the lives of the other characters. It was the narrative glue that held four divergent plot trajectories into a cohesive whole. This coupled with the hyper aesthetic of haut couture and labels made the series visually stunning to watch but never losing the relatability of the characters. SATC is absolutely one of the most brilliant series ever made which it makes it impossible for me to endure AJLT.
I agree with you about the voice overs. They made the show intimate for viewers.
AJLT was so damned disappointing because every one of the main characters had doubled down on being the most obnoxiously self-absorbed privilege nitwit who decides to detonate their life when things don't go their way, with no thought about the schrapnel they spray about--and no indication that there has been any personal growth or indication that they have learned anything in the years between show movie and show. Perhaps not only Ms. Catrall but Samantha Jones realized that she simply cannot carry on being this incredibly narcissistic. I am a fan of a certain level of aspirational escapism, but all of Carrie's "problems" were mostly solved by marrying rich--and then when he had the good taste to die quickly while she is relatively young, she can now have the life of a wealthy widow. Quite frankly she seemed more distraught when he left her at the altar than when he died.
I honestly suspect SATC was so popular because the fans were young and experienced so the plot holes and general stupidity was ignored. The first time I saw it in a hotel room at 21 being a careful budgeter because of my dad I gasped at the bad financial decisions Carry made. It annoyed me but I don’t think most people are raised by massive cheapskates(he made me pay for my feminine hygiene products in high school so I worked for basic necessities)missed it. Younger audiences are more educated, more educated by internet access, and not the target audience. Those of us were young with the first go are dealing with being closer to retirement and paying for kid’s college and where we might consider watching people without those problems this show is not it. We have dealt with enough vain self absorbed weirdos at this point to want to watch them toss their wealth around.
and many of us have done things like get our parents through hip replacement so we know what that is like and the silliness of Carry’s situation.
Your prep work for the videos is PHENOMENAL !!!!! The visuals to go with your narrative are so engaging and unny, they add a layer as powerful as the points you are making..... this is simply lovely !!! You are my new discovery and you have a loyal fan.... 😁😁😁
and what about fashion, 98% of Carrrie's outfits are horrendous to say the least
I still have nightmares about the sleeping bag coat and smoking outfit 💀
It was the worst! I’m 64 and wouldn’t be caught in some of the horrible clothes they had the ladies in. They looked in their 70s. And the acting was so bad that any scene with Kristin Davis in it, I had to fast forward!
Honestly, what AJLT makes me think of is what Mad magazine would have done to SATC.
I gave it one episode. I was planning to watch it all, but the scene where BIG dies made Carrie look so stupid and useless. A New Yorker with not only a cell phone, but a smart phone, and she essentially does nothing to try to save him. Call 911? If he was going to die, they should have had her find him dead. The way they did it was infuriating.
When they bring these people back, they are always in arrested development. We like these characters, Will, Grace, Charlotte, Frasier, Samantha....we want to know what happened to them? We want to see that Will became a Partner and is wildly successful. The Grace got married to a man that loves her and replaced Will. That Jack is no longer couch surfing at 50. The Charlotte, found her fairytale. That Frasier has started a new phase of his life, is happily married and has a great career. But now, they bring them all back in their 50+ and they are still acting like they are 35 and that their promising lives never progressed to anything. They were aspirational, and they come back as a let down!
I'm devastated that they are bringing back Frasier. It's my favourite sitcom of all time and I'd like it to stay that way. Hands off😡
@@em1503 Don't watch the remake. The new cast can't come together in the same way. And frankly it's missing the sophisticated and farcical humor that distinguished the original. Frasier is also a bit in arrested development. This is my favorite sitcom ever too, so I'm leaving it where it was.
I loved SATC, literally can’t face having it ruined by watching the reboot 😢
so far there's only been two revival series that were great - Will and Grace, and Ducktales. That's saying something.
Great review! I couldn’t even get past the first two episodes of Season 1 but your review got my attention.
There is one massive thing to look forward to in season 3. Che will NOT be back. HALLELUJAH !
AJLT is a great example of what happens when you care more about money than creating good characters and stories.
I will say that after watching the Charmed reboot, I found myself enjoying it. Especially the 1st and 4th seasons.
Am I right in thinking that near the end, the reboot began tying itself into the original series?
@@thecrustyfox You are correct sir. In the Series Finale, the girls are transported to a parallel world and end up at the house from the original series.
I am honestly so over this perpetual thing Hollywood has with making the main character in a show or movie THE most boring uninteresting character involved. Carrie was a crap character. prudish, dull, not a lick of personality and my god was she preachy.
🤣🤣 I feel like you took all the thoughts I’ve had about AJLT out of my head and placed them in this video. So many of the things you mentioned - from the annoying kids to the undoing of happy endings to the inconsistent behavior of the characters - are things I’ve vocalized to anyone who’ll listen. I hated hated HATED S1 of AJLT so much that I canceled HBO Max. I refuse to watch any more, and I refuse to acknowledge it as a continuation of SATC. It’s so infuriating. But I thank you for making this video and expressing what we, the true SATC fans, feel about this exceedingly awful show.
THEY all got ''money in the city'' especially Miranda otherwise it is sad to watch
Aiden in tighty whities. That sums up this whole failure.
Very “grandpa’s out in the yard again” energy 😭
Wait, Miranda, the feirce feminist, who didnt beat around the bush, was often the only one with a bit of sense, is now a drunk gay with no opinion? OK...
I think that the title of this show should have been "And just when you thought these characters couldn't get any more obnoxious"! Or AJWYTTCCGAMO for short 😂
I have a question.....What happened to Charolette's character? Kristen seems very out of it. Many of her lines are forced. Bad writing and bad delivery. Oh noooooo😛😜😝
I've seen her in a couple movies and honestly I don't think she's a very good actress LOL. She kind of just seemed like she was playing Charlotte in both of them. Maybe once the essence of Charlotte changed, she didn't know how to act out the character. I'm just guessing, I actually haven't seen the new show
I was a diehard SATC fan, haven’t watched any AJLT and glad I haven’t. No Samantha, no point.
They really jumped the shark in the second movie. The 1st was great. The series really destroyed Sex in the City like they never even knew what the first series was. Miranda already experimented with a woman and decided she wasn't gay. In fact, Miranda was very self aware, and she absolutely wouldn't reinvent herself to help people. Her character was always the best at expecting people to do the hard work.
As for Carrie, killing someone off is a lazy plot device. Just like making someone cheat in a relationship is just ignoring that people have other ways of being destructive in a relationship.
At least Charlotte being OCD about her children being perfect is within her character. Yet they used the tokenism here as well as a plot device by making her daughter changing her gender. This could have stood alone if they didn't make every new plot have to include a diverse character just to be diverse. The substance was sucked right out, abd instead we were stuck with 3 trite woman. It was absolutely unwatchable and I do not even think Kim Cattrall could have saved it! She was smart to stay FAR away.
It was fucking appalling. I was the biggest SATC fan on planet earth. The minute Cattrall wouldn’t do it, it was already over. In addition, to all the DREADFUL details of AJLT.
MPK is deluded. As is SJP. He said the 2nd film was actually great & treated too harshly. That will tell you where his level of reality is. Now, I love the 2nd movie because I love the gals but relative to the original show or even the 1st one, it’s nowhere near. And there’s no redemption for him. A tired, old KWEEN wearing skinny jeans because he thinks the kids think it’s hip.
AJLT absolutely eviscerates the incredible legacy of SATC.
Also, Will & Grace (sort of) got their revival to be pretty okay. Though without Rosario, who knows!
By the time of the last SATC episode, we had grown up and realised what a terrible self-centred friend Carrie was. She was horrible. When i estch it now, Carrie is my least favourite character.
I think you’ve just described the thesis of my Sex and the Sh*tty series 👌🏻
@thecrustyfox Hi 👋. I love Samantha. She drops everything for the others, even when they treat her badly.
As I write this, I realise in the later series real life echoed the tv show. Samantha always had to do more for the others to be considered part of the group. No wonder she dumped them and went her own way.
I think Samantha made the show bearable because she was rational but interesting, she was so true to herself and her character was the only one that truly grew. Without her it's like watching a person sabotage their own train and then whine and wonder "why is there a trainwreck? The universe hates me!".
Why did the showrunners think that THE most prudish and most uninteresting character was the perfect person to preach to others about sex?
I thought season 1 was alright. It had its atrocities, mostly just the forced inclusivity and the hard to watch character of chea. Its forced and out of place to say the absolute least. Then season two came and the writers may or may not have just documented what transpired with the character in a inland empire style. That or just an snl skit where they just pop in an unexpecting Character for a gag. Then there’s this cardinal fuckery where they just undid the entire series story arch of big. Having a whole segment of watching Chea’s character having her own screen time to Kerry leaning in to Aiden in this grand sex in the city style saying the line “ maybe that was a BIG mistake” talking about what an audience watched be built pretty much for a whole long running series, two movies, and a whole season of a spin off .. I’d say it was a “big” mistake 😬 literally a half of the run time of season two is a slap in the face to the series and one of the most grinding pieces of film I’ve watched and my neighbor had me watch all 7 season of pretty little liars. Now that I say that I’m realizing all this did was match that. It may not have beat it, but it’s still an near unattainable feat. They minus well bring steinfeld back for a “pride month event”, it would be more watchable.
I sat through 3 episodes... For old time's sake... It was sooo cringe... The characters did a literal 180!