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I just need to say, Sarita Choudhury really classed up this joint.

Miranda really does owe Charlotte a trip to Paris, and I guess since she's running off to live in L.A., that won't happen. What I don't get is why, when Miranda dropped out, Carrie flips around and it's "oh, Miranda isn't going so sorry Charlotte, invitation rescinded"? It's always seemed like the "lightest" connection was Carrie-Charlotte, but if she wanted her two close friends to come along why isn't one still ok? Carrie being Carrie again. I guess proper little Charlotte is used to it!

They're just continuing the awful trend that they started in Movie #2. Remember Samantha frantically rubbing yam extract hormone cream (or whatever) into her crotch? These writers are the most uncouth people. None of the above was at all funny or truly necessary. I don't think I'm a total prude either, it's just offensive.

And also, although he declared his love for Carrie on that bridge in Paris, Big also (met and?) fell in love with Natasha in Paris. Maybe he even declared his love for Natasha on that very bridge, Carrie! Haha, people like Miranda being unkind to Carrie for finding comfort in believing Big is in Heaven. You mean Jackie, who Smoke married. Franklin is the hot "podcast" host who kisses Carrie at the end. Hey, some women love a guy who can make them laugh. But, didn't we see him having words with the podcast social media coordinator (there's a job title that didn't exist until the 21st century) about why they broke up? If he's been dating Smoke long enough to get married, why were they still annoyed with each other? (Need to rewatch that scene.) I do not recall Miranda's reaction to Samantha moving to LA to be with Smith, but thanks for reminding us that also happened. I agree that Rabbi Jen's line delivery was not good.

She even said so! The people I know who chose cremation for their spouse, parent, or child usually took into account the feelings of others, whether it was children or siblings or parent(s) of the deceased. Some chose to inter them, put them in a niche, or keep them at home in a single urn, and some distributed the ashes among a few loved ones to keep or scatter as they chose. There are options and Big's brother had the right to ask. He wanted to know if there was a place he could visit or if she might be planning a final ceremony he could attend. He also wanted to let her know there was a spot for John in the Preston crypt and that Carrie could have a place there also, if she chose, where she and John could "be together forever". And story-wise it worked to make her think about being "together forever" (like Steve who said he won't take off the ring) or if she was ready to take the next step in letting go.

Thoughts on the missed Mitzvah: Charlotte saying she "passed insane, like, three months ago". LOL! At least she's aware. Enjoyed Anthony saying of his hot fellas "They're all cut so, close enough" and Charlotte shushing him. Harry (Evan Handler) doesn't look as unhealthy thin as I'd first thought. He looks as if he's lost weight, maybe quickly (dieting for the show?), and a few people I've known who lost many pounds rather quickly looked unhealthily thin for a short time. Hope he's ok. Why is Carrie getting involved with her "boss"? He's much more in the role of a boss than Che was. Would have been nice to just end it on "...and this is Sex and the City" or when Franklin is telling her she'll improve and they're both smiling at each other. I don't like how she diminished Peter asking if he could kiss her (which can be sexy) and made it seem like the "spontaneous" unasked kiss in the elevator is the only way to have it feel sexy and passionate. I just thought, "Eh, so Carrie's got a man again."

Trysts in fancy hotel rooms are fun! ;-) The whole smoking thing bugs me hugely. Why is this show trying to make smoking come back? Ugh. It's not sexy! Very similar-looking guys. Or maybe guys who look like that are thick on the ground now in NYC. I mean, Carrie bagged two of them in record time. Maybe I need to go visit my friend there... SJP did not wear that dress well. Photos that show it on a runway model make it look much better. She was spilling out of the top (thus the "being swallowed" effect) and she wore it off the shoulder which ruined the design and intended look of the puffy sleeves. Her shoulders are nothing special so not much reason to show them. Why did it need to look like a ball gown anyway? She's not Cinderella.

What is wrong with these writers??? That dementia “joke” setup was ageist and tasteless. The brother of course should have said, “Where are John’s remains?” the first time, as a normal person would. And Carrie told the exact truth but I would have said simply that they were in my apartment. Thus he imagines an urn perhaps, not still in an unopened cardboard box on a shelf next to her “very best shoes”.

One scene that I liked and made me laugh was when Carrie called Jackie for advice on how to deal with her noisy neighbor on the stoop. They had a good interaction and as much as I disliked his podcast personality in the beginning, I ended up liking the character, except for the smoking. Why is this show trying to make smoking a thing? At least Carrie quit (again).

Exactly! The two people I know who like it have been wishy-washy in their praise. They like it because 1) they're revisiting characters they loved through all the many seasons and two movies and admit it's the nostalgia factor, and 2) because it's a light escape during winter blahs. That's what they told me after saying things like "I know, Miranda's story is a mess but..." and "Well, there are lots of problems, but..." It will still get renewed though.

I would watch S2 if Miranda and Che were jettisoned. Let them live happily ever after in La La Land but not on my screen. I also thought that Carrie could have had a line about sharing Big's ashes with his brother to be interred in the "family crypt" (that does sound so creepy!) and taken her small portion for (illegally) scattering from the bridge. Those gloves may have protected her from the ashes but that Eiffel Tower purse will have remnants of them since she didn't seem to have them in a baggie or something. Eh, maybe she's ok with that and intends to "retire" it or put it somewhere special as part of her memories of him. As if I didn't intensely dislike Miranda enough already, they way she challenged Carrie's belief was my final straw. The woman who was reading a book on how to be culturally appropriate in Abu Dhabi now scoffs at her widowed dear friend for taking comfort in one small thing. So rude and insensitive. No, MiRambo, Carrie doesn't have to continue to hold the same non-belief you do, especially when your entire personality has changed. I knew that the "you know you are free" lyrics would pop up somewhere when Carrie was ready to move on. It was done well though, and yes, Big was cheesy and sentimental. And I think John James Preston who took his mother to church would choose to be in the family crypt so I hope a portion of him is there. I could see why Carrie found it morbid that her BIL said he could "squeeze her in" (she is tiny, you know) when she of course imagines she will live many more years. It was a kind offer, as she acknowledged, and showed that he did consider her part of the Preston family. SJP/Carrie got the best story line and for the most part didn't have to act unhinged. As this episode ends Seema has filled the Samantha role quite well, and I love Sarita Choudhury, so I hope they'll let Samantha go rather than make her Carrie's occasional text buddy. Let her go, Show.

If you do want to hear more about the writing and decisions made, you can listen to the Writers' Room podcast in the Extras. I only listened to the one for Ep 9 because MPK was so self-satisfied with his writing and making such justifications that I won't listen to more. They seem to have been recorded well after the episodes were filmed because in the one I heard they mentioned (and laughed at) the huge negative audience reaction to Che.

I thought so, too! LOL. So are the LGBTQIA+ community members who are "advising" MPK and the writers totally fine with the transgender rabbi being continually referred to as "The Transgender Rabbi"? Did we ever hear her name? We get it, Charlotte and Harry found a transgender female rabbi. Then we saw her, and I guess because she doesn't look "obviously transgender" we have to keep hearing the label rather than her name, so that we will understand, this rabbi is TRANSGENDER! Another example of something being pushed too hard because the writers think they have to educate us. And is Charlotte/KD also having hearing problems? She was absolutely shouting in the restaurant in the brunch scene, and for most of the episode actually. I kept expecting the other diners to look at her in surprise.

I actually clicked the reactions options looking for one!

Apparently the possible Season 2 hasn't been written yet, so I say, "Don't do it, Kim!" ETA: Looks like I don't have to worry. MPK says he accepts that KC shut the door, but he realized that Samantha can continue to appear via text. I'm hoping that if they do continue to have Samantha texts in S2 that they at have her and Carrie "make up" in the interim and stop this ridiculous shit about how Samantha's "pride got damaged" over Carrie letting her go as her PR person. With the decision to cut the Big flashback, I wonder if the writers and editor revised any story lines we've been complaining about in order to fill that space.

Prior to the premiere John Corbett teased that he thought he would be in "quite a few" episodes, but that may have been a fake-out PR move to get viewers excited, although it's annoying if he deliberately lied about it. This article published January 30 asks if he'll be in the finale. I expected to see him once, maybe a brief encounter on the street where he tells Carrie he heard about Big and wishes her well. Maybe he could be with a grown up kid, mirroring when she saw him with a baby in one episode. That would have been poignant and the kind of thing fans are looking for. Didn't he and Steve co-own the bar when it opened? Did we see something in the show or films where he sold his share? I've been puzzled that there's been no mention of him at all.

AJLT Miranda has been made so unlikeable. Sure, the writers can remind us that people really do have these mid-life changes/crises and that miserable people sometimes blow up their lives in order to be "happy". In general, most of us don't like people who do this and hurt the ones who love them. Blindsiding your innocent spouse with "I want a divorce! I met someone!" isn't usually immediately met with "I just want you to be happy." And running off to that other someone while screaming "I'm in a rom-com!" is seen by most as ridiculous. I still don't know what we viewers were expected to make of that line. We see this behavior in real life and judge it, judge the person doing it, and usually find them wanting in morals, maturity, kindness, empathy, rationality, etc. So why do the writers expect us to think what Miranda is doing is just fine and should be cheered on and applauded? It's not about Che. It's about Miranda behaving in a stunningly awful way. If she were my friend, I'd rethink the friendship.

Apparently Andre and Nya have been together 15 years, and unfortunately we don't know their ages so it's harder to get a view on the overall relationship. I'd say it's 15 years total, we don't know how many married but it seems they've been very committed to and supportive of each other. My impression is also that they have been struggling for a long time and that's one reason they didn't try to have children sooner. First there was college and student debt, early jobs that didn't pay well, Andre is a musician and maybe has done ok but not brought in a lot of money. Nya continued on to get a Ph.D. so lots of time studying and lots of education expense, and now, yes, the need to "publish or perish". We don't know if she has tenure. Her remark about "We're still renting" says a lot, including that she is realistic about finances in crazy-expensive NYC. They may have only felt stable financially for the past few years. She is practical while Andre is wishful and not as aware of what having a baby would really mean for their lives. I don't at all disagree with the thought that Nya might need to step back from some part of busy her life in order to get pregnant. I'm sure she also realizes that she would have to do that once the child was born, and that's likely one of the reasons she's not enthusiastic about having one. She's likes her life as it is and knows it would change completely if she had a baby. We haven't seen Andre talking about pulling back on his music career (which might involve gigs at night) in order to be a SAH dad or one who puts in a lot of time with a baby and then toddler. The more I think about this couple, the more I like their story and wish it were an entirely different show. There's a lot to be explored here, especially with them being an African-American couple, and it could have started at an earlier point in their relationship and built from there. I'd watch that show, HBO. If there is a season 2 of this mess, I really hope Andre and Nya stay together after accepting that they won't have children. Or if they have a baby, it's after agreeing that Andre will be the primary caregiver. Oh and Charlotte did flip out. Remember the cardboard baby? ;-) ETA: For me, her blowup at Trey over "that cardboard baby!" was one of the most memorable and funniest scenes in all of SATC.

Nya said that if someone had put a baby in his guitar case he wouldn't even have noticed the baby. So it seems like he's been very dedicated to a music career.

I listened to the Writers' Room podcast for episode 9. Much of it annoyed me. The biggest thing: The writers are convinced that we viewers are unhappy with the Miranda-Che story line because we like and are so invested in Miranda-Steve. They are absolutely sticking to this and it's so demeaning to the viewers. They just don't get it. They are refusing to get it. These writers claim that viewers are hung up on Miranda and Steve being together. They will not admit that it's not that we can't handle a Miranda-Steve breakup, it's that we hate the way Miranda disregarded and diminished Steve as she ran heedlessly toward someone new, and that even now she is not admitting that she blindsided her husband and hurt him deeply. The message that's being sent is that Miranda was miserable so she now deserves her happiness and Steve deserved to get dumped. And now Cynthia Nixon is doubling down in this appearance on Watch What Happens Live and saying that often the other person in the marriage is also miserable but "they're just not admitting it". OMG. The conflation of Miranda and CN is complete. The one good thing I heard is that the writers have been getting LOTS of negative feedback on Miranda and Che. They bad thing is that they refuse to hear what the viewers are actually saying.

I thought Nya looked younger than she is maybe supposed to be on the show, which is in her early to mid 40s? I was guessing that Andre is in his late 30s. For all the shouting out of ages for the main characters, I don't think the ages of either of these has been stated. It seems like Nya is supposed to be about 10-12 years younger than Miranda, who is 55, if you hadn't heard.

I'm cool with your disagreement. It's been a long time since I've watched the Trey and Charlotte episodes so my memories are more like vague impressions. I also will feel much more sadness for Nya if they break up over this issue. As an older woman I do agree with your Side Note. I've known several women who pushed their husbands away after having children, and it wasn't because the men "didn't help" by doing their share of childcare or household chores. Never liked seeing that.

Yes, Trey's ED got fixed and then Charlotte focused on a new "problem" in their relationship. She needed a perfect baby or two (not cardboard!) to fulfill her little girl dreams of the perfect image of adult life. Didn't Trey at one point say something like "Aren't we enough?" Charlotte was putting a lot of pressure on a man who'd only recently been able to have actual sex with her. And I was never convinced that Charlotte really had a yearning for a child, something deep down, unlike Andre whose paternal instinct is kicking in hard. You can see he wants and maybe needs to be a father. Andre (that's his name) and Nya are interesting as a plausible story from the flip side. I think Andre is supposed to be younger than Nya by a few years, and Nya has achieved more professionally and financially, she is carrying a lot in the relationship already. So we're introduced to this seemingly happy couple and we get a glimpse of their dynamic (hot sex! fertility struggles) and then we're hit with the big one: Andre isn't going to be happy without a child; Nya thinks she won't be happy with one. What's that going to do to this couple? I like these two people and their story is valid, but plopping them into the middle of this show hasn't worked well. My suspicion is that Andre will be yet another husband who gets jettisoned so that more of these gals can be "single" and the show can focus on their (search for a man?) stories.

Double agree. It's heart-breakingly sad that Andre wants kids now after 15 years together, but that can and does happen. Life can throw a lot of curve balls at seemingly happy relationships. Nya doesn't want to try again and is relieved that she didn't get pregnant, for many valid reasons. Andre feels the yearning and it's kind of a biological thing he can't and doesn't want to deny. It truly sucks that it likely means the end of the marriage, but he should have his chance to fulfill that need. I don't think Nya wants to be a mom at all, so adoption is not the answer. I do wonder where they'll go with this, although I wish they had their own show and weren't stuck as peripherals in this mess.

But it's couture! When I help friends paint, I always wear something fresh off the runway. Last year's fashion would be too embarrassing. The idea that we now see Steve as competent, nice guy Steve instead of the doddering annoyance he was in Miranda's mind is not, alas, the writers' intentions. In the podcast they say that it first seems like Steve is being the good husband and dad, and even though the marriage is broken that it's a "family" event and he's still showing up, and that Miranda is so impressed by that. But, they say, he's actually there because he has an "agenda", which is to talk to Carrie. So the character assassination of Steve continues, even if only in the writers' minds.