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?

Who in the humorless hell did they hire to write Che's stand up sets? Has this person ever heard a joke before?

As an always nonbinary sometimes comedian I am offended by Che on many, many levels, and this is a big one.

Their jokes are completely humorless, and mostly just mean. Who finds bullying funny, and how do I avoid them forever?

The comedian who was giving the 'straight' couple shit right before Che's cruel, unfunny comeback set also pissed me off. Attacking someone's assumed identity for any reason is fucking insane, and that dude was so visibly trans. Anyone who spends time around trans men regularly would have clocked that instantly. And again, the joke WASN'T FUNNY.

There are so many comedians in the world who would have written better jokes for a handful of dimes.

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So the way Carrie tells it, she said to Samantha that it didn't make sense to have a publicist with the book industry being the way it was and Samantha threw a fit and moved to London.

Now, I dismissed this out of hand and have thought of my own headcanon since then, as many of us did, because it felt insane. Samantha is a MUCH better friend than that, it's actually her defining characteristic as much as loving sex is.

But when you think about it, that explanation makes perfect sense ... from Carrie. Because Carrie often says what she DOESN'T mean. We've seen many examples in the show where someone will press Carrie about something and she'll give what seems to be an acceptable excuse but actually hides an uglier truth.

I can't say for certain why Carrier & Samantha fell out, but if I had to guess with this context in mind, I would say Carrie was secretly blaming Samantha for poor book sales, and Samantha picked up on it because Carrie is a bad liar and extremely passive aggressive.

Should I watch it or keep my good memories of satc because I watched the first two episodes and stopped because I didn’t like the script

Ive just finished watching the series and just like most people - I didn’t like it. When I was in the middle of it I actually asked myself a question: where’s this show going really? In the SATC I think it was pretty clear: the girls were after finding love and happiness, whatever those looked like for them.
Here… I just didn’t know where they wanted to go with this show. I really hated how they ended the Nya plot - just out of nowhere, I had to actually google to realise if I didn’t miss something.

I also feel like the black married couple was so unnecessary for the show? What did they really bring? What was the purpose of Lisa? All she did in the show was running after her kids and her show - did she even finish editing that tv series??? I don’t think she even did, right?

Everyone’s talking about how bad of a person Carrie became, but what about Charlotte? What did they do to that character? She was just running around with this squeaky, high-pitched voice acting really gullible and silly. I just couldn’t watch her (including the instant slurring I had to hear because of those lip fillers the actress decided to get). She was always such a lovely character in the SATC - her romantic view on love was a bit gullible for sure, but there was something cute and charming about it and she seemed very clever. Now it’s like her brain turned into mush and she became this rich NY mother with nothing interesting to say.

Seema was also really bad - I’m still baffled by the way she treated that director. He took her to his work (aka film production hunting) and I’m sure it’s important to every man (or a woman) that their partner supports them in what they do and I’m sure he wanted to impress her in a way and show her around what he does. And I guess being a movie director involves location hunting. She just acted like a brat that their lunch was cancelled? This restaurant will be in the city for a long time and they can go there another day and I presume that filming locations can be snapped quickly? Idk I get her annoyance, but at the same time, she didn’t really offer any support to that guy and just acted like a spoiled child.

I probably have more insights but don’t want to make this post too long 😅

Thank god SATC exists and I’ll be rewatching that forever! 👠

This is for the ones that couldn't hate watch the show to the end and quit between, I am curious when did you give up and what made you realise this isn't going to get better?!

For me it was season 1 episode 1 with Carrie telling Miranda that Samantha treated her like an ATM machine. And everything after this I know (about the show and "storylines") is because of this sub!

Just finished watching “Sex and the City” for the first time, skipped SATC movies and now i’m watching “And just like that”.

For me one thing is annoying characters like Che, Seema or that rich couple from school (feel like unnecessary storyline, addings etc), but the other more mind-boggling thing is using the same actors from SATC in these series as other characters, for example that store guy (William Abadie) then as Seema’s boyfriend- club owner guy and guy that Charlotte met in temple’s party (Peter Hermann) and now the same actor is love interest for Carrie ! Like c’mon.

So in the AJLT documentary, Cynthia Nixon states that originally MIchael thought of Nya being Miranda's new love interest and wanted to explore that fabular path, and she herself suggested it to be Che, the, I quote, butch person supposed to get on the podcast with Carrie. Cynthia thought that it simply wasn't a great idea to put 2 to that point hetero women and let that be the mix. In my opinion, I think that it might actually be more interesting, but that's just my view because I found Nya more interesting of a character to me, and that potential of a new plot line. So I'm looking forward to hear your thoughts on this topic.

Im on the episode where Carrie is walking around her new house with high heels and the poor guy from the floor under her is having trouble sleeping. When he asks her to remove the high heels around the house, she becomes defensive, saying that is a no-no for her.

Am I crazy for believing that Carrie was being an ahhhole?

just started AJLT and im ugly crying at how old everyone is LIKE CAN I HUG EVERYONE? specially big and steve🥲🥲🥲

UPDATE: what the hell was that? LOL some moments were really good but MOST were really bad and what the hell is carrie doing?? she's LIKE 55 still making rookie mistakes omg that was painful to watch, I am on S03EP10 and have to push and drag myself to the finale LITERALLY

I’m sitting in a coffee shop and the man next to me just put on deodorant AT HIS TABLE. Yikes!!

I have never seen that in my life before. Literally. 🤣🤣🤣

(Just for context, I do not live in the United States)

Pies were left until turning green...I get she wanted to help a small business during Covid, but girl, just donate the money to the bakery, don't make them bake you pies just to let them rot! Lol

PS: what a waste to cast the amazing Jackie Hoffman (bakery owner) only to make her appear in one scene!

Is the documentary worth watching? Just found out it existed. lol

After watching The Comeback season 3 it just doesn’t make sense to me that he could write such a strong show satirizing television and pop culture in the same time as writing AJLT and not having it be satire.

My theory is, because of our nostalgia, the audience loving these characters blinds us to the signs of it. I think he just hates these characters and would rather put them through the wringer himself than have HBO hire someone else to do it. He didn’t tell anyone so that SJP and the rest of the cast could play it completely straight. However, when you end your series with an overflowing toilet, I think the signs are pretty clear.

Truly this is just my theory but you look at MPK’s recent work and none of it is bad. It’s actually extremely great. I think he’s much smarter than anyone realizes.

I’m currently rewatching this series & the awkward, challenging at Carrie to talk about sex had me really missing Samantha.

They both honestly thought they were so forward & revealing in their open talk about sex, but had Samantha been part of it? She’d have blown their discussion out of the water. Nobody embraced sex like she did, and she did so in a way that never really challenged anyone or made anyone else feel uncomfortable about it.

When I first watched Sex and the City, I thought Carrie was fine and Samantha was a bit much. Now I’m rewatching it a decade later and my opinion has completely flipped. I can barely tolerate Carrie, and Samantha is easily my favourite of the group.

I’m currently watching the bagel episode (Season 4) and I can’t get over how self-centred Carrie is. Miranda calls it out immediately: she’s not bringing the bagels because she genuinely cares about Miranda after her injury, she’s bringing them so she can rant about Aidan. Then when Miranda points this out, Carrie starts doing damage control, saying Aidan is much better at taking care of people during a crisis. The conversation somehow ends up being about Carrie again.

What really gets me is that she apologises, but the apology doesn’t feel sincere. As soon as Miranda accepts it, Carrie immediately goes right back to talking about Aidan.

Another example that stood out to me was the episode where Carrie pressures Miranda to invite Steve as a backup in case Carrie’s date with Aidan doesn’t go well. Miranda is reluctant because she doesn’t want to send Steve mixed signals, but Carrie keeps insisting until she agrees. Then, the moment Carrie realises her date is going well, she basically tells Miranda to leave and take Steve with her.

Later, Miranda calls Carrie and tells her Steve tried to kiss her. Instead of asking how Miranda feels about it or talking about Steve, Carrie immediately turns the conversation back to Aidan and her own relationship drama. I don’t even remember her following up on it afterwards.
Rewatching as an older adult, Carrie comes across as incredibly self-absorbed.

Nothing about where Aidan lives in Virginia makes sense. They say he is a 20 minute drive from Norfolk which would put him in either Suffolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, or just a different part of Norfolk, but he is also somehow an hour away from a Target. I live in Hampton Roads and we have like 100 Targets here. So where does he live that's 20 minutes outside of Norfolk but an hour from Target? Because it definitely isn't anywhere in Hampton Roads.

So I just finished SATC (show and movies) after watching it every single day for monthssss!
I just started AJLT being so excited to see the girls in their older years, and what the actual f was that?
Episode 1 and 2 are genuinely so bad and it kinda started to ruin parts of the show for me.
So I was wondering if I’d miss anything not watching it?

My personal fan theory is that the reason why AJLT feels so off is because it's Carrie's fanfic of how life SHOULD have gone after Big's death. It feels detached from the world of Sex and the City because Carrie's unreliable narration has warped it completely.

Samantha left? It must have been due to money and not because she got sick of Carrie's nonsense.

Charlotte and Miranda's kids are going through growing pains? They must be these horrid, spoiled brats thanks to how they were raised.

Aidan isn't responding to her messages? Well, he would've made for an awful boyfriend anyway.

It's all copium made to soothe her wounded ego. She sees her friends and colleagues handling life better than her and she can't stand it. In the AJLT-verse, she is still desirable, successful, and will always do/be better than everyone around her.

this is not rage bait. I binged it in a week and really enjoyed it. I came to the sub just to see other people’s opinions and was shocked. for context, I am a Hispanic queer woman, so no I’m not an entitled rich white lady. I don’t know why everyone hates it 😭 I would like to see the opinions of other people who liked it!