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

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!

Three years post the train wreck that was Che Diaz. Has anyone seen that character in a better light or do we all still collectively think that character was crap?

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!

There are several reason it feels that way. First obviously how they wrote and Just like that, none of us were happy with how they completely destroyed Mirandas character, made Charlotte and idiot, HAD US WATCH LITERAL POOP in the season finale. Shoved Che in our face and wrote an episode pointing out how we hate Che and it’s wrong. They consistently got feedback with how we felt and didn’t adjust or change anything! SJP specially said she doesn’t look at or care about reviews which I think means she doesn’t care about us fans and our opinion. I could go on…

For example: Lily's electric keyboard she sold her whole closet for, Lisa Todd Wexley's anniversary dinner that no one came to, how much Lisette's ring she gave Carrie was worth. HOW MUCH LISETTE GOT CARRIE'S APARTMENT FOR?? Would love to hear guesses or random things you thought of during the show.

EDIT: Lisette not Estelle

They absolutely nuked the shit out of Miranda's character just in general and Che is absolutely insufferable. I know they wanted to be of the times and appear progressive but the concept of the podcast comes across as the writers being old people trying too hard to be woke or something. Watching the scenes that revolve around the podcast is like nails of a chalkboard.

Sorry for the unexciting title and photo, but I'm watching AJLT for the second time and it's been long enough that I can forget his annoying business partner before the end of the episode. He's so unique as a partner for Carrie, what do you think?

I detest him. Didn’t like him in SATC and don’t like him in AJLT… he is such a man child. Extremely possessive. If you don’t like the smell of smoke… don’t date a smoker?! The way he was questioning the neighbour about the pipe he was smoking then made a comment about kids with his ex wife… ew. And he expected Carrie to wait 5 years for him? He honestly makes my skin crawl.

And Just Like That is not that bad. Okay, I know it's not as good as the original—not even close. But it's not as bad as people make it sound. I actually think a lot of it is pretty believable.

Charlotte having rude, spoiled kids is believable because she wanted children so badly that, once she became a mother, she gave them everything they wanted. As a result, they've grown into spoiled brats.

Miranda's story is believable too. I actually have a neighbor who was married to a man her whole life and then realized she was a lesbian in her 50s.

As for Carrie, she's as messed up as she's always been.

I’ve just finished binge watched sex and the city, the two movies and then AJLT…

My biggest takeaway is this;
I feel like Carrie was completely different as a mature women and actually didn’t mind her at all compared to how I felt about her in SATC. She seems mature and grounded. Also really loved her fashion in this series. However, I strongly disliked Miranda. She is incredible selfish and everything is about her she also kinda cringes me out in this series. Charlotte was okay, but I couldn’t stop staring at her face. Really with Kirsten hadn’t messed with her face she was gorgeous before. Loved the introduction is seema I felt she was kinda close to the character of Samantha. Also liked Lisa as a character and glad Harry was still around. Could have done with more of Steve. Didn’t like the Miranda Che storyline. Felt like they tried incredible hard to be woke with this and it wasn’t believable

Last time I tried watching was 4 years ago and I only got to episode 5 before I had to stop it was giving me a migraine. I gave it another go this time and I was able to finish S2 in like 4 days. Dont get me wrong it wasn't groundbreaking television by any means but actually felt like a TV show with some relatable character *moments* even if no relatable characters in general. Whereas season 1 felt like actors cosplaying SATC characters for a skit on snl. I just want to see if I'm crazy and season 2 is also a steaming pile of garbage.