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When will they realize that none of us would actually date Austen?! Much less "hook up" (however you define it) with him.😂 Shep, JT, Craig trying to bring some story to this snooze of a season. Whitney himself even had to make an appearance and host an "event" at his mama's house just to get Shep and Austen together so they would "talk" on camera. I loved all the guys urging them to "talk here" and "talk now" while Shep acted like he wanted to go somewhere private. Way to really draaaaag out the scene and fill time. However, I did enjoy the extra glimpses we got of Patricia's house, rooms we had not seen before, so I give this episode 1 star. ⭐ ETA: I did enjoy seeing Whitney quite inebriated, so I'll add another half⭐. He was really up on Shep when he hugged him in greeting. Thought he was going to kiss Shep for a second there.

Season 2 is back today, October 5!

One of my best friends moved to Charleston in 1991 and I've visited her there once or twice a year ever since. Wonderful city! When this show was going to debut I teased her and her friends about it. A couple of them knew Shep and Thomas, and I'm pretty sure I met Thomas years ago at a party on a rooftop bar. They all claimed they would not watch but I know some of them did! I watched it just to catch glimpses of the city, Isle of Palms, and other areas and got hooked. Sadly it's gone so downhill and indeed you see so little of the city anymore, just bars they go to or occasionally a restaurant or someone's fine home like Madison's friend who hosted the wedding after-party. When Cameran got her real estate license at least we got to tour some of the beautiful houses she was selling and learn the history of them. Even seeing Patricia's and Thomas's houses was interesting. Most of the flavor and "charm" of the show is long gone. They can't milk this cow much longer.

No matter what Craig does I think I'll still enjoy watching him. I give him credit for coming on this show as the "poor" guy who Shep ridiculed for looking to have his drinks paid for. Meanwhile, despite Naomi's needling (or maybe due to her goading) he finished law school and passed the bar. Then he developed his pillow business and maintained his place on this show so he now has a lucrative income and a very nice house (and maybe one or two others that he rents out). He made his own path and has come out on top basically while rich-boy Shep has been treading water and at times made himself very unlikeable over 8 seasons. For me, Craig still has his "charm".

I love her being a mother and telling her 50-something son to sit up straight while he criticizes her artsy "form over function" chair selection. It's funny because they both have a dry wit that entertains while the rest of the show is mostly dull and repetitive. I also enjoy that there's obvious affection between them. I hope we get a short Pat-Whit interlude every episode. Not much else to look forward to. It finally struck me (I'm oblivious I guess) that the bountiful breasts on display are probably to attract a male audience to this show. I know a few husbands of friends who admit to watching it with their wife and "getting hooked" and now I can imagine why: Bros drinking together and talking about women, young blondes, and boobs spilling out of dresses. Shep really has shown his old-fashioned and misogynist attitudes from the first. He's always aware of his wealth and wanted a woman who could fit in with his family's "lifestyle", yet the older he grows the less likely that he'll find a good (attractive, educated, smart, mature, good morals, etc.) woman with some wealth and "background" that would want anything to do with him, such as expecting him to grow up and act like an adult. The thing about Shep is exactly what @izabella said, he doesn't want to be accountable to anyone. IMO it's because he's actually insecure and afraid that someone will expect more of him and that he couldn't live up to it. He's lucky he got this show or he'd just be bumming around Charleston piddling in "investment" businesses, golfing and drinking and bothering young women. Oh wait, that's basically what he does now. I'd say Whitney makes enough producer money now that he isn't relying on mommy's money anymore, although of course he knows he will inherit a lot. I love their interactions and would enjoy seeing a lot more of them. They actually have a bit of true Southern flair.

After watching the first two episodes of the season I think you were exactly right!

I think filming is usually started in early fall and wrapped by spring because it's SO hot and humid in Charleston during the other seasons. After the initial shutdowns of Covid I think they filmed a season in summer and everyone at the outdoor parties was clearly hot and sweaty = miserable. Who wants to dress up in full makeup with hot lights needed for filming in what is already 90º and 80% humidity? The crew probably hated it, too. I really miss Cameran although her choice to leave the show was clearly a wise one. Still wish she'd return for a season and help to remake the show. I'd love to see more parties at Patricia's (as long as they don't go completely off the rails with drunken fights). I really enjoy her convos with Whitney. It would be such a relief to get away from the focus being on the Terrible Trio of Shep, Craig, and Austen. They don't change, they just get older and more bloated and keep dating girls in their mid 20s. I agree. The most interesting characters are now off the show and the age 20-something "girlfriends of..." aren't interesting. Took me the whole episode to learn how to see the difference between Olivia and Taylor. Madison has always had what I once meanly called a "crooked mouth". Her lip injections minimize it somewhat but that and maybe other botox or something also has altered her looks, and I don't think for the better.

I think at least two other times in recent episodes Colin called Guillermo by the wrong "G" name and not Gizmo or one we've heard before. Need to do some rewatching. Just like Colin to do something low-key annoying like that. Well, we know that at some point Death learned how to play chess, so... Maybe Nandor prefers more active games. We saw that he knows how to play basketball. Guillermo gave some of the embezzled cash to his mother and also bought her new appliances. At first I was bummed until they gave Derek what he most wanted, a group of friends. Considering that he didn't intend to become a vampire and was lonely, being a zombie with pals is better. He was smiling.

Disney! Main Street Electrical Parade one of my favorite Disney World memories. Loved Laszlo getting a day at the beach for the first time in who knows how many hundred years.

I expected that the flooding would cause some buried bodies to be disinterred in their yard.😳

While it's true that Kim Cattrall had a lot of small parts but wasn't nearly as famous as SJP, when she first appeared in SATC many of us remembered her as the leading lady in Mannequin.

Aidan was more chill in SATC. Maybe this new iteration is like Steve being suddenly a doddering old guy. Aidan is amped up in his "old age". I also wonder how close filming of his appearances on this show were to filming "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3" (MBFGW3). In the brief scene or two where he's in the film's previews he seems exactly the same as he does here. (Though I guess the character Ian was also pretty chill.) When this series began I felt like the actors were having a hard time capturing their characters' personalities again. Maybe the same with John Corbett, he kind of forgot how he played Aidan before and followed whatever the director indicated or how he thought he should play it, resulting in a more amped-up Aidan.

I didn't read it as dismissing her concern, and he did continue the discussion. However, the "beautiful" adjective in "beautiful head" annoyed me. Why does she need to be told that her head is beautiful? Why does there need to be a compliment given? It did stop me for a moment because the reference to her "beauty" has no place in their serious discussion about her guilt over the sudden loss of the pregnancy. I'm tired of so much focus on "beauty". Self-confident women with a healthy self-image don't need constant validation of their "beauty" from their partners.

I love this article! White gets in some zingers. Carries "carried around a tiny, ghastly purse shaped like a pigeon" was a great reminder of my favorite funny scene of the entire series so far -- how the store clerk looked at Carrie when she opened the pigeon and took out chewing gum. Author Adam White also calls back to the series beginning and I recall that the episode where Big died was poignant and dramatic. And despite the often unnecessary awkwardness, I did like how at first Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte were shown as white women in their mid 50s "politely struggling through a world and a New York that has changed alongside them." The show acknowledged that ~15 years had passed for these characters and they are no longer the "young" women of the City. And that time has passed for us in the real world, too, and brought many social changes. Too bad the writers didn't know how to set our gals in today's society a bit better.

Put this show out of its misery! This season finale was a fine ending. I love Seema! Give her her own spinoff show with Carrie guesting for occasional visits, vacations, and evenings out. LTW and family are fine but also need their own show. They just had so little to do on this one. And I so wish Herbert had said he was giving up "politics" and then told LTW that he did not want to run for office but instead spend more time with their kids.

I figured Jackie made that hat himself. When he was stoned.

So my thoughts on the Aidan breakup. This is how I'm going to spin it for myself and call this series (not just this season) done. Carrie was surprised but ok with Aidan's breakup rationale because between Aidan's visits she had realized she wasn't "all in" on dealing with Wyatt's issues, and maybe with Aidan. She suspected that Aidan wasn't ready for a relationship with her after all due to subconscious issues from their past as well as that they were both years older and on different life tracks (as they always had been). The incompatibility reared its ugly head once again. He's Country Lurch, she's City Carrie. As she saw him back away she was right, they really were "back here again". She had her life in NYC and he had his in Virginia, including a troubled and needy teenage son. It was never going to be all of them gathered around the fireplace in her 4BR city showplace sipping hot chocolate and decorating the Christmas tree. His "I need to be there 24/7/365 for Wyatt so we can't see each other for 5 years" was real for him (however ridiculous and unhealthy it would be IRL) but at the same time a big OUT for both of them. A "noble" one she could accept and share with her friends. So she simply accepted his rationale and let him go. The farewell sex was a sweet thing because each secretly knew it was their goodbye. Then off she goes with Seema to the Greek islands for cosmos and fun. Big is gone, Aidan is gone, her youth as a girl in the city is gone, but friendship and Life goes on. Like I said, that's how I'm spinning it for myself because the drivel as it was shown to me is just not acceptable.

I don't know when the series was renewed so I've ended up thinking that MPK wrote this so that IF it was not, this is the series finale. And if so I'm totally ok with that (have wished it would be) and I'm ready to say goodbye and remember Carrie and Seema enjoying cocktails on the beach. Also, as some have said, there's the possibility of a time jump 5 years forward, or nearly five years, or three so that Wyatt is 18 and joins the military after high school or something. With the strikes who knows how long it will be before they can get the third season filmed and scheduled for broadcast? It really could take 3 years. Thanks for reminding us who "Anabelle Bronstein" was! I hadn't had time to look it up. That was actually a good/funny callback on the writers' part. Again as others have said, 3-5 years ahead means age 60 or older for our original main characters. They can still dress beautifully and have ups and downs in their relationships, of course. They can be in jobs they love or jobs they are ready to move on from. Carrie can be doing something interesting with her life AND dating. The "kids" will be graduating high school or college and off doing their own things. Get the focus back on the original gals and let the parents be empty-nesters. (LTW and family need their own spinoff. They have so little to do on AJLT.) But speaking from experience being over 60 is a different world for women, and not one that the current typists (led by MPK) can write well enough to make me watch. Hate-watch in order to snark, possibly, but really I've already endured these two seasons so I won't be signing up to MAX just to watch this show weekly ever again. Canceling today and will wait until something well-written and acted that I actually enjoy (such as "Our Flag Means Death") returns. Remember when she dated her city councilman (played by John Slattery)? I think she admitted to him that she didn't even know where her polling place was. She can be so ignorant.

Yes, I have the dubious honor of originating the use of "typists" instead of "writers" in a frustrated, snarky post about a previous AJLT episode. (Heh, 95% of my posts about this show have been snarky.) Thanks for the shout-out, T Summer! Carrie probably bought the first one, the apartment with "all the light", for cash after selling the apartment she and Big shared. She then sold that one so had another pile of cash. No idea what she did with that cash -- I have no doubt that Carrie would let it all sit in one bank account! Perhaps she then (about one year after selling Sunshine on the Hudson?) bought this new place also for cash. She would have made a profit on the Big+Carrie apartment, maybe came out nearly even on Sunshine, and now she seems content to settle into Gramercy Park Palace. If Carrie gained or lost a few hundred thousand here or there, she seems to have shrugged it off. (Easy come, easy go, eh?) The winner is Seema, who has made some nice commissions!

John Corbett in real life, maybe not. JC as Down-Home Aidan, for sure. Every episode since he re-appeared Aidan is becoming less appealing. That whole "I just gotta chat with the neighbors in the lobby" schtick and "Country Lurch" once again in the tighty whities = YUCK! He's like a big annoying slobbery puppy. Didn't catch who directed this episode but going with the take of JC fake dry-crying was a wrong choice. Why do they bother to give him teenage son problems? Just let Carrie step back and see the whole picture one day. That day long ago when he was in bed in his undies eating straight out of the bucket of KFC foretold the future. Yes, where is his passion for woodworking? So now he's raising chickens or something? The fashionable jacket was a ruse! He's gone country and lost whatever interesting soul he had.

I truly wish this would be the series finale.

It was. I tried to rewatch this episode and it's basically the one scene that I felt like watching a second time. Their real emotions were near the surface. I thought SJP made a choice to gulp down the drink because she was near tears. And maybe I guessed correctly. Almost every one (of the main characters, especially from SATC days) is coming off badly! Who says we're not doing that now? ;-)

When Charlotte said, "Oh, I paid for that apartment!" she was referring to having to put up with Bunny MacDougal as a mother-in-law!

That was so rude of MPK, the director, whoever to put Aidan out there in our faces like that! Not funny. Certainly not cute. That and his goofiness are starting to bug me. Are we seeing Aidan as he always was and we've just forgotten. I'm thinking Big was not a big mistake! Of all the new women I like Lisette best and we've barely seen her. Then Seema but they need to give her better storylines. I felt like the sex scenes with Nya were an echo of Samantha's but yeah, somehow off, a bit inauthentic or something. Kim Cattrall always gave the sex scenes her all. Glad Nya's getting it with the hot guy though.

My reaction was: "Who cares?" And please, don't tell me they're going to have it turn out that she doesn't understand perimenopause or that she has a tumor or something. Never heard of that before. I still can't believe that her husband is running for office mostly because she announced it at their anniversary dinner. He wasn't that committed to the idea, and running for office is a BIG commitment, taking a lot of time away from family, etc. That dinner was a kind of fun train wreck and I like the couple but their stories are ho-hum. A baby won't fix that. And Lisa will be really upset if he's not around to help with her late-in-life surprise baby.