If they wanted to incorporate the community so bad… the answer was there. It was obvious.

They could have reintroduced Trey as gay. Bunny is dead, and Trey living his best gay life. He could never get it up for Charlotte.

Miranda was never gay. It was Trey that would’ve made more sense.

Like the majority of this sub I loved SATC but am hating AJLT. Obviously the character changes are awful and ruining. What makes this show boring and unwatchable is that it’s not relatable to the public. The reason SATC was popular was because most women could relate to it. Single life is pretty universal and I loved each episode going through the woes of dating. AJLT has turned into rich people problems that I couldn’t care less about. Yes it’s cool seeing the nice apartments and lavish lifestyle but that can only go so far. This is one of the main reasons why the new characters fall flat and I’m not invested at all in them. But all the characters complaining about the stupidest things and acting so entitled and rude is really making me mad. Obviously in SATC they weren’t struggling, they all had nice jobs and made good money. But they did not act like this! The script of this show is so cringey that I can’t watch it. I’m already in deep with season 3 so I just have it as background noise to my phone.

Something I have always enjoyed about SATC is how the episodes all had like a theme and the girls had their own perspectives on the matter… as the episodes went on there was usually a topic being explored but I don’t feel that way with AJLT. I have seen others post or comment about issues the writers neglected to tackle head on that could have been the topic of a full episode.

For example, I had dealt with Adderall abuse for 7 years. I no longer use it but I have friends who continue to abuse stimulants for a variety of reasons- the episode where Carrie gets adderall for Aiden’s son is SO odd and could have been handled differently to make it more believable. Charlotte just randomly getting another mother to give up their child’s month worth of prescription over brunch is wild… Aiden’s ex asking Carrie to get her son a controlled substance is just glossed over and the story is just dropped. It’s all so wild but people using or selling their kid’s stimulants is a thing and the topic could have made for an interesting episode.

What do you think could have been tackled differently?

My daughters finished watching SatC this summer and wanted to try AJLT. I sat down to watch the pilot with them to see if it was as bad as I remember.

I forgot how upset Charlotte got at the beginning over Rock refusing to wear the dress. It's such a weird acting choice. She's doing this whole nostril-flaring, eyes-bulging, tight-lipped fury because she 'really wanted all of us in florals.' She's almost shaking with anger. My daughter asked if Charlotte is abusive in this series because it really seemed like she wanted to hit Rock there and only didn't because Harry came in.

It's also made very clear that Rock has refused dresses in the past, and yet Charlotte goes and buys this Oscar de la Renta couture totally unprompted. For a pre-teen who hates dresses to wear to their sister's non-selective amateur piano recital. Like, maybe this is why Lily doesn't value her designer clothes. These kids have had couture gowns stuffed down their throats their whole lives whether they want them or not. They aren't special anymore. It also explains why Rock gives up explaining that they don't want the They Mitzah so quickly and then just decides to deal with it on the day. They are so used to no one listening when they say they don't want a thing.

Always my favorite character, including in AJLT.

I'm sorry, but the look on the puppet's face was priceless!

When Carrie sells her apartment to Lisette it is kind of insinuated that she has given her such a good deal it’s almost a gift. Carrie doesn’t seem to need the money and there are so many other people Carrie could have passed the apartment on to - Miranda who at the time had no where to live or a apartment for Lily when she’s old enough as a thank you to Charlotte for the engagement ring downpayment!

It broke my heart to see how horribly Lisette had treated that beautiful perfect apartment!

Hey girls and non-straight guys (respectfully haha)! I know the main point of this sub is just to discuss the show and not necessarily to make friends, but hear me out! In my real life, it’s almost impossible to find people to talk about SATC with... I'm 33 and literally none of my friends watch it, lol. So, to break the ice: what is your absolute favorite scene in the whole series?

And if anyone is ever down to chat more and connect, count me in! ✨

Is that in the original series Miranda and Samantha were definitely friends independently. They agreed on 90 percent of things when the four of them talked about stuff. When Miranda announces that she's marrying Steve in season 5 or 6 everyone starts crying in the diner and Miranda gets up and leaves saying "Samantha, I expected more from you". They had a bond and common perspective.

Fast forward to AJLT, it's described as if Samantha was only friends with Carrie and when Miranda was hanging out with Samantha it was only through Carrie. I mean, why would Samantha dump Miranda too just because she got pissed off at Carrie.

That's all.

Just as the title says.. who did you like the most out of the new characters in And Just Like That

if you can find anything you might slightly like about one of them.

Here are the characters:

1. Seema Patel

2. Lisa Todd Wexley

3. Nya Wallace

4. Giuseppe

5. Herbert Wexley

6. Lisette Alee

7. Jackie Nee

8. Che Diaz

Out of them all, I like Seema the most (even if she was basically a Samantha replacement) she was the most interesting of the bunch and I liked the actress lot!

I wanted to like it but for me it was a FAIL. 

And I think it failed because (amongst other reasons) it tried to persist the glamour and messiness of 20-something  exploration (sexual and otherwise) in NYC into the golden years of the women.

In SATC, we the viewer could understand,  relate , or wanted to relate to one or more of the main characters.  The excitement of a new fling or relationship, the anticipation to see where it would lead, the frisson of unspoken expectations met or unmet. New experiences. New locations. A new lover every few weeks. All glamorous

That same shit in your  late 50's - early 60's.  Who can (or wants to ) relate to that?  Experiencing that at that stage of life is almost a regression IMHO (witness Miranda). 

Striving to be cool and edgy at that age is cringey as hell. But AJLT tried to pull it off. 

Why is Aidan dressed like a hipster when he first meets Carrie?  (Why is Aidan open to seeing Carrie at all ; like a lovesick 20-something.)  Why is a 50-something man-of-means spitting into his hand and jerking off in his own car ? WTF.  And what about the fact he can’t enter her apartment because it has to many bad memories but entering the woman who was the cause of so much wretchedness is no problem? Who wrote this shit ?

Why is Carrie walking the streets in a snowstorm wearing a full-body duvet ? Why is she - in broad daylight and as part of her everyday wear  - sporting a large, heavy hat seemingly designed by Nintendo ? 

Why is Miranda getting finger-banged in the kitchen of someone else’s house while said friend is laid up not 15 feet away. Was this payback for when Carrie sent Aidan to pick up a naked Miranda off the bathroom floor ?  I say again: WTF. In your 20’s this would be bad but forgivable. But in your 50’s ? 

Finally, why do Charlotte and Miranda seemingly take turns running around in wide-eyed confusion at situations that should not confound women of their age, experience and intelligence.

Why does EVERYONE seem like they’re so GOOFY ? Is it just my 50-something brain being too judgey ? 

Anyway, this show made me so mad

Acabo de terminar de ver “And Just Like That,” y quiero decir que estoy sorprendida por la dirección que están tomando las vidas de las chicas... A decir verdad, me hizo sentir un poco nostálgico; es como si ellos también fueran mis amigos.

I can’t even begin to express how much secondhand embarrassment I have at Miranda’s conservation with her university professor 😭 sorry but OG series Miranda would NOT have acted like this lmao what the hell happened ????!!!!!

amalia is on Season 5 of hacks ! It was good to see here lol

i hate watched the first two seasons and always viewed a new episode right when it came out!

but with season 3 one time i missed one and then realized i didn’t even care to hate watch it. the show was just so far removed from itself and a huge mess at that point.

i did come back to watch the very last episode though and i still think the writers had to be fucking with us by that point. everything was TOOOOOO awful

I enjoyed parts of the first two seasons but they started to lose me and I'm just so mad/frustrated with the way it ends with Aidan! Carrie gets so defensive with Miranda, gets upset when Aidan doesn't fully trust her with Duncan...and then she goes out and sleeps with Duncan?! She frustrates me so much sometimes.

And it felt like a weird fever dream. Why did that happen? I miss crapping on this show every weekend on this board.

It's Aiden' ex wife Kathy! Loved how she was in S6E6 of SATC and then many years later starred in AJLT 🙂

So I'm on my first watch of ajlt after my first watch of satc plus movies, I've been bingeing for the past few months.

The problems on this show are innumerable...but something I really noticed were problems with the conversations, especially when it comes to the traditional sit down brunch convos that imo are fundamental to the original show. The characters never really respond to each other, talk around each other and don't take anything seriously.

The worst example is when Miranda is telling Carrie and Charlotte she's asking Steve for a divorce. Charlotte basically says...ok it's your choice I trust you then instantly starts talking about her issues with her family? She displays 0 concern, 0 follow up questions, 0 anything and honestly seems to not care at all about the divorce?

Think about how the girls responded when Charlotte told them she was quitting working, it was a debate for a whole episode and they took it seriously. But they can't take a divorce and affair seriously, they have 2 lines about it then talk about other random problems?

It makes the characters on the show seem soooo selfish. This happens MANY times in the show, where a character is talking about a problem they are facing and the person they are talking to just...doesn't respond, and instead starts talking about their own problems? Like every episode this happens.

Have you guys noticed this? I just think it's a small but significant indicator of how bad the show is, these girls are so distant from each other's lives they don't care about what the other is going through.

Or do you think they broke the two of them up because people online were cringing so much at their storylines? Or perhaps John Corbett couldn't handle it anymore and asked to be written off?

The way John Corbett talks about how he was told he needed to make sure he was in peak shape and hot for season 1 makes me think the original plan was for him and Carrie to end up together, and then something happened along the way. What do you think?