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Totally. It's free market research for the writers.

Carrie has never changed in that regard - it seems like she's always expected she should be the #1 priority in her relationships whether it was Big having to move to Paris for his career, Carrie expecting Charlotte to at least offer resources for her down payment or now with Aidan having to put his kids first because they are in a serious situation. And what kills me is when Aidan did make Carrie his priority, she got hives and couldn't do it. I learned a long time ago that when you date a man with an ex-wife and kids, you always come in third. Kids first, ex-wife second and then you. If his ex-wife calls because the sump pump broke down, but you have dinner plans, guess whose plans are getting canceled. If she gets a flat tire or a dead battery and can't manage that herself, same thing, and sometimes it is out of pure spite. That's when you have to make a decision if its the right relationship for you. I'm not defending Carrie - I'm saying you have to check your expectations.

I may have mentioned it somewhere before, but I definitely have a ghost kitty in my house, and I've never owned a cat. I think he's been here for a long time and belonged to a set of previous owners - I live in the middle of a multi-unit condo. He's jumped on my bed quite a few times over the last 12 years, and its definitely different from what I think is my beloved first dog who passed two years ago. She walks around on the bed where ghost kitty jumps.

This gave me a very much needed laugh out loud 😊 Che had an axe to grind with their own failures, and in my opinion that's what the set was about, and it wasn't cool. It was like they took their journal, where it is perfectly appropriate and encouraged to write down whatever you want, however you want, but then they spewed it over the audience and Miranda was collateral damage. Miranda is the worst for the choices she has made that have hurt others and for parts of her attitude but it is absolutely not fair to judge her process of questioning her identity. Perhaps Che is projecting, and that would be a very compelling storyline for another show, and that doesn't make what they did okay. I was annoyed that Che got to walk off down the street with another very attractive NB person. Why does Che get a consolation prize? On another note, I loved when Brady rolled up on his bike and everyone was so happy in that moment. I don't know much, but hot dogs and clams sound really good right about now.

I always notice strange little details and I don’t have an id on Carrie’s shoes yet but they looked like they had plastic heel protectors on them. I really loved that scene.

I’m not even trying to be funny, my middle aged brain kept auto correcting Sam Smith to Stan Smith and that was not Stan Smith. But Sam Smith was lovely 💙

Omg Dolly Wells!! I loved Doll & Em ❤️

Ohhh. Are we to infer that Carrie sold the apartment well below market value so Lisette could afford to buy it?

I really wish the story was that the gallery manager was a woman closer to Charlotte's current size which is what I would expect a woman of her age who takes care of herself to look like. KD isn't as thin as she was when the original series aired i.e., she's not 20s/30s thin, and it would be nice if the storyline was more accepting of older middle aged women's bodies. They didn't have to go so overboard with a much larger woman to prove the point. I thought it was disrespectful to the gallery manager character. I know for me personally, since I didn't get married when everyone else was getting married, my still-single friends were a good 5-8 years younger than me, and they are all still so thin, where I have since rounded out. I get it, it's rough. I used to be a twig. SJP hasn't changed except for aging, and I think CN looks good too. KD's shape has changed (I hated the tennis dress last season) but for the most part they still dress her beautifully. I just think they could have gone around that topic in a much better way. ETA: I would have liked the gallery manager to be introduced exactly how she is under different circumstances not related to Charlotte's body confidence issues.

I love Charlotte's apartment in present times and I loved it when it was Trey's and had darker/more masculine decor. I always thought Charlotte was super bratty about the redecorating. Yes Bunny was interfering but that seems to be part of life and they played up the meddling mother-in-law cliche. Frances Sternhagen was hilarious as Bunny. My take on Wyatt is that he is on the autism spectrum and/or is neurodivergent because Kathy referred to him as "our puzzle". Except that the puzzle piece to symbolize autisim/asd isn't really used any longer. I wouldn't expect the writers to be aware of that /eyeroll As a side note, last night I watched the original Miranda pregnancy / Carrie and Aidan breakdown 2.0 episodes. My favorite line is Aidan saying she wouldn't even wear his ring on her f*cking finger. I'm just not buying Carrie in present day suddenly deciding that Aidan is her man. Especially with the way they have him behaving. Those behaviors were a lot of what she couldn't stand about him the first two times they tried to be together. It occurred to me that for Carrie the writers might be drawing from Candace Bushnell's Is there still Sex in the City. It's been a while since I read it, and I wasn't terribly impressed at the time. I don't know if I want to slog through it again.

Studying old houses is a bit of a hobby for me - I posted about Sonja Morgan’s townhouse remodel (which took place way back when she and OMM were making it their marital home) in the RHoNY thread. They put a multi-story addition on the back to create the second floor kitchen you see on the show and converted what I assume were once front bedrooms into huge bathrooms. I have to look through my New York books when I get home and see if there is anything on the real life place Carrie bought. I mean we know it was a set but I’m still really curious about it!

It’s a landmark steeped in nearly 200 years of history and tradition. The people who live around the perimeter are responsible to pay the annual fee for its maintenance and upkeep, not the city. That’s what private park means. It’s their collective garden that they pay for.

I know it’s very likely a set but I look at Carrie’s new all white place and cry for what would have been the original woodwork underneath 😭 We call all that white “getting Gorga-ed” or Gorgafied after Joe/Melissa Gorga and their horrible taste.

It's not just you. They made Aidan a caricature of himself, even more so than they did with the other OGs. The schtick they're making him do is incredibly annoying and overplayed. He has zero chill. I always thought Aidan was a little uptight with the cigarettes and stuff but now he's just ridiculous with the corny behavior. I think there's at least a 20-year age gap between Anthony and Giuseppe, which I agree is not uncommon, but it does become problematic down the road. Especially when you cross over into 25+ year gaps. It's all fun and games when a 50-60 year old can still go out and have fun with a 30-40 year old, but a much different story when the 60 year old hits 70 and beyond and their partner is still in the prime of their life. Been there, done that, and I see it a lot where I live, in the land of Peter Pan syndrome and what we call living on vacation. It's the worst.

I call it the Whoopi Goldberg clause. I don’t want somebody in my house 😊

I can’t believe Miranda didn’t recognize her gynecologist at Herbert’s party.

How Little House on the Prairie of MPK 🫤

Especially since Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker's real life pregnancies tanked Sex and the City, in my opinion. Season 4 was the last of Sex and the City as we knew it.

It is considered statutory rape in the State of New York!

Totally! I've said it before, Sara Ramirez is great with facial expressions and subtleties and Che, who is more of a minimalist from what we've seen, reacting to all of Carrie's frippery would have been hilarious. I saw the Eiffel tower bag and was afraid there was going to be an accident with whatever was left of Big inside. Which is pretty macabre but would be on brand for the writers doing Che dirty. As a side note to the mention of Seema's space and their summer plans, yeahhh my friends from college who all have husbands and families hint from time to time of coming to stay at my house for a "girls trip" because I live near the ocean and it's always been a firm no from me. I work from home and it wouldn't be any kind of vacation if I have to do all the shopping, cleaning and airport shuttling. We've never been able to take a trip because of their lifestyles. I'm not hosting 6 adult women because I'm able to on account of my lifestyle. I used to feel guilty about this but I don't anymore. /endrant hehe

I totally agree about the AirBnB thing being terrible - we see that a TON where I live. I'm in a historic tourist town and investors tried to cash in i.e., people with money from out of state who don't live in or stay at their properties, renting out to hooligans. The city cracked down on that thankfully. One use model where AirBnB is actually a good thing - I work in healthcare construction and our guys spend several weeks at a time at jobsites all around the country. It's more economical and more comfortable for them to rent an AirBnB while they're onsite than to stay in a hotel. They're at work all day and crash at night and they can shop/eat their own food and not be stuck in a hotel room. It works out really well for us and them. If you're a roadie, it's really nice to be able to buy the things you like and not have to subsist on fast food or restaurant food every single day. I loved the scene of Che walking through Carrie's bathroom/closet and being all wtf.

I am firmly Team Seema. I would have been very upset if I had been planning an adult single girl summer at a beautiful beach house and my friend suddenly coupled up with an old flame and wanted to bring her "boyfriend" along. That line of "he wouldn't be there that much" never in the history of ever, holds up. We have been putting up with Carrie and her boyfriendboyfriendmyboyfriend attachment style for 25 years. I'm overrr it. I definitely would have needed some space after that incident. It's always the same with Carrie, a man comes along and she drops everyone and everything. Once you get to be a certain age and it's happened to you enough times, you have absolutely NO time for it. I've been waiting for 20 years for my friends with kids to get to a point where we can take a real girls trip and I finally had to accept its never going to happen. There's always something else that's more important. And it's never us. I would kill to have a friend like Seema. I'm indifferent towards Aidan. To me the only thing he's guilty of is just being a regular guy. There's nothing terribly exciting about him, and we know Carrie does not do slow and steady, not even when Big settled down and wanted a quieter life. She had to go to Abu Dhabi and screw up. West Elm doesn't track. If they told us Design Within Reach which carries actual designer furniture, I'd have believed it. But West Elm is like every overpriced mass market furniture store out there. It's all inspired pieces of veneer and engineered wood. Not hand made pieces of solid reclaimed wood like Aidan produced.

I watched S3E8 of SatC last night and Charlotte had no idea what a kegel was.

I believe it was Wyclef Jean who uttered the immortal words "dolla dolla bill y'all."

I mean check out the Ralph Lauren commercial he did with Gigi Hadid, he could do the most subtle of facial expressions to play a role. You just can't take your eyes off him.