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Like some of you, I’ve always thought Berger was the best match for Carrie, but that was a really shitty thing he did to her. It would have been nice to have the “closure” of them running into each other (it’s NY, after all), and Berger apologizing to her. But maybe never hearing back from him again is also closure.
I don’t have that strong of feelings for Aidan, one way or another. I think he’s a nice enough guy that wasn’t a good fit for Carrie in the long run. Even if they have gotten married, I feel it would end in divorce pretty fast. But I still don’t like how Carrie screwed him over - the cheating, the engagement (she should have said no if she was wavering), and most of all, her forcing him to be friends with Big. It’s a different thing to be friendly with other exes, but Big was the guy you cheated on him with - have some compassion and common sense if he’s not really in the mood to be friends with Big.
More than that though- I know they’re going for the nostalgia, but what does it say about the writing and creative team that they have to dig into the past to make the audience hooked? It’s plain lazy. Why not write a totally new guy for Carrie, and make their story grow organically over the season? I thought her podcast producer had potential. But if not him, why not another new one? This is Manhattan! I’m pretty sure someone out there should be a good fit for her, if she’s really looking.
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On 7/24/2023 at 12:01 PM, Leeds said:
Thanks. (Seems like a weird trailer to show with that film, though in retrospect, perhaps not!)
I thought the same as you when I first heard about Barbie, but having read some of the posts here I'm thinking I might be persuaded to go and see it with friends at one of our local "watch a second-run movie while you drink a decent pint of beer and eat a mediocre slice of pizza" places.
I also cringed when I first saw the trailer. I thought it was going to be a campy, cheesy exercise into Barbie, that has the makings of a huge flop. But the more promos I saw, and the more I hear Greta and Margot talked about the movie, I got curious enough to watch it. I did play with Barbies when I was little, so there’s that. And it didn’t disappoint.
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3 hours ago, T Summer said:
This is hilarious that we are all so invested in these fictional characters...
LOL. Count me in. I think it just goes to show how beloved the original series was - despite its issues (lack of diversity, how it handled LQBTQ, etc.) The original series struck a chord with the single and even married ladies during its time.
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On 7/23/2023 at 2:45 PM, Drogo said:
Not to punish her for her success, but because he was ashamed of his failure. He was absolutely broke. Miranda wouldn’t let him live in the places he could afford because they were such shit.
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. But this part here, somehow makes Miranda the devil incarnate? It was nice of Miranda to let Steve live in until he can find a livable enough place, but maybe Steve could give back the courtesy to not give out HER phone number for potential hookups and find another way to talk to women.
On 7/23/2023 at 2:45 PM, Drogo said:And the cheating, well… a year of nothing then a “just get it over with”? It speaks volumes that even her friends were with him on that one.
This reeks of "well, she couldn't quite get thin fast enough after the pregnancy, she got fat and ugly..." I don't think there's ever an excuse for cheating. Not to discount the very real problems of a sexless marriage - because it is an important problem - but the solution for Steve was to sleep with someone else? To also "just get it over with" on his part? Hooray for honesty I guess. If it was a real problem he can't get over with, why not leave Miranda, just as people were saying that Miranda should have left their loveless marriage first before being involved with Che.
As for her friends - they didn't agree that the cheating was ok. After a certain time had passed, they think Miranda should try to hear him out and see if she could forgive him as he's apologized quite profusely.
I agree though that if they couldn't find a way to treat his character with enough decency based on the first series, they should have just killed him off (as they did Big), or have Miranda started AJLT as a divorced woman already, with references here and there as to why they separated. The pandemic was already a good built-in excuse for that - real long-term couples have separated and divorced during that time.
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I saw it and while the stunts were visually impressive, I think Tom Cruise got too indulgent in this movie. Cut maybe 10-15 mins each of the car chase scene and the train scene, and this whole story could have been finished in one movie.
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From Variety - what scene almost got cut if Greta didn’t stand her ground:
Gerwig revealed that it was suggested she cut out the scene where Barbie (Margot Robbie) meets an elderly woman on a bench and tells her she's beautiful.
"I love that scene so much," Gerwig told Rolling Stone. "And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She's a legend. It's a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way -- it doesn't lead anywhere. And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, 'Well, you could cut it. And actually, the story would move on just the same.' And I said, 'If I cut the scene, I don't know what this movie is about.'"[\quote]
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So far this is the best Barbenheimer poster I’ve seen:
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This was such a fun movie! I enjoyed it far more than I thought I would. Without really getting into the stupid “go woke, go broke” narrative around this film (which thankfully didn’t hold the film back), I liked how Greta skillfully navigated the decades-long issues of Barbie the brand and the doll itself (which has existed even before “woke” existed), without being preachy about it.
13 hours ago, phalange said:I loved when Barbie told the elderly woman she's beautiful and the woman just said, "I know."
That was my favorite scene too. Margot took her time looking at the woman with awe before telling her “You’re beautiful.” People never grow old in Barbieland so Barbie seeing someone old for the first time and appreciating it greatly was a nice touch.
I know Ryan Gosling is getting a lot of well-deserved love and even early Oscar buzz, but I thought Margot did as equally fantastic and I think she should also be getting Oscar buzz. For some reason, this performance reminded me a lot of Reese’s Elle in Legally Blonde (first movie) - another performance that was criminally underrated and underappreciated in the awards circuit that frankly deserved more.
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On 5/28/2023 at 10:29 PM, Bastet said:
I appreciate that the flashbacks never show the violence, so there's no chance of a scene meant to convey the horror instead playing as gratuitous or exploitative. We don't even see Weinstein other than the back of his head, and occasionally hear his voice. This is a thoughtfully made film, and it's not a coincidence it was written and directed by women (based, of course, on the book written by the two women who broke the story in the NYT).
This is one of the shining moments of the film. For a story that tackles an issue that can easily be sensationalized and even be exploitative, they went with a quieter but more impactful approach. That scene where it shows different hotel hallways while it plays the voice recording of one of the women that Harvey harrassed was more powerful had they actually shown what happened in the room. It signifies that it wasn’t just one incident, with one hotel, with one woman.
And the recounting of the assistants without having the simultaneous flashbacks of what actually happened in the room was also very well done. Focusing on the words of the assistants gave what happened to them more gravitas than if the actual visuals were provided. And it gave the actresses themselves a chance to shine, without relegating their voices in the background.
As you said, it’s no surprise that the film handled very sensitive topics like this more delicately and thoughtfully since women are in-charge of both the script and direction. I want to think that that was also a very conscious choice of everyone involved, since one of the major complaints against Weinstein that came out later was that he would order to have more gratuitous sex scenes that have no importance in the film (Salma Hayek and Frida).
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I just saw this movie last night, and it was so well done! Like @Bastet said, I’m surprised it didn’t get the same mileage as Spotlight - another movie I enjoyed - seeing as it has the same structure and tone. I wonder if it’s because, while he has been banished from the industry forever, that Hollywood isn’t yet ready to confront its own systemic failures that allowed Weinstein and others to flourish, so in that sense, this movie got “shadowbanned” somehow from the awards circuit, so it gets less attention. It only made a soft landing in BAFTA. Which is quite funny in the sense that it was the assistants in the London Miramax office who broke the story wide open for Megan and Jodi.
I really like watching how the two women worked together, how they went to interviews as a pair, how they divided the work, without ever resorting to “that’s my scoop, or that’s my source!” catfights. When Jodi cried in the end when Ashley Judd finally agreed to go on record, I loved how Megan was so happy for Jody. Zoe and Carey had great chemistry together. Patricia Clarkson as their very calm and “voice of reason” boss also did very well.
On 5/28/2023 at 10:29 PM, Bastet said:while it leaves out how The New York Times squashed Harvey Weinstein stories for years,
They actually did touch on this briefly at the beginning, when Jodi was talking to Rose McGowan. Rose admonished Jodi that NYT didn’t do anything about her story, despite telling a lot of people about it, and that when she even spoke at a rally about women being harrased by powerful men, the story and event ended up on the NYT Style Section instead. Dean also mentioned being contacted by Harvey a lot of times previously (alluding to the the past incidents of being able to squash the story).
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I was watching Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, and in the beginning where Miranda was ranting to Carrie about getting pregnant due to a mercy fuck with Steve, she let it slip she didn’t use a condom - she felt like she didn’t need to because he only has ball. And Carrie silently admonished her like “you didn’t use a condom?” “He only has one ball, Carrie!”
So for Carrie to get all indignant now for using a condom during sex is weird. Unless she only thinks of a condom as a way to prevent pregnancy and nothing esle, which would be weird because you would think a sex writer would know it also has other uses - i.e. preventing STDs.
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18 minutes ago, txhorns79 said:
I think Miranda worried about appearances plenty. I can think of the episode where she imagined she would die alone and be eaten by her cat, where she got braces and immediately got them yanked, gained weight due to the baby, complained about the reaction to her being a single woman at her mother's funeral, freaked out over moving to Brooklyn, etc. That isn't to say appearances consumed her, but I think she was very aware of them.
I guess I should have prefaced and specify re: her dating and preferences of men, Miranda seemed to be the least snobbish and vain amongst the four. Charlotte seemed to be always very aware of the status of guys she’s dating - his surname, his numerals, his suits, his occupation, etc. Carrie, less so, but I think part of the reason she was drawn to Big, aside from him being the unattainable, was his stature. She’s also dated well off guys like Aidan and Berger. And we know Samantha was just concerned about one thing.
On personal appearances, yes of course, all of them are very conscious and very vain. Because - in Carrie voice - they live in Manhattan, after all.
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9 hours ago, T Summer said:
Just a few things I think about in regards to the Steve / Miranda pairing, the SATC one, that is. It's not like I think Steve did nothing wrong, but no one is all good or all bad. I don't expect to change anyone's opinion or anything.
If Miranda hadn't really loved Steve she'd have gone on and gotten more deeply involved with Dr. Rob and just dealt with him as Brady's dad.
Plus at a time when it benefited no one but him, she encouraged Steve to follow his dream and open his own bar with Aiden. She knew he'd feel better about himself if he was a businessman as opposed to another almost 40 year old bartender in NYC.
The suit conflict; Miranda genuinely wanted to treat him to a modern suit and have him with her at that company function and introduce him to her piers. I could never ever see say Charlotte not caring that the guy in the picture was making less money and being content to do more of the paying ... or even Carrie, for that matter. That signaled to me she cared about the person, not what he could do for her.
Same goes when it came to planning a wedding. Charlotte was concerned with Trey being perfect "on paper" and the 14K Vera Wang dress and went ahead and walked down the aisle despite `ahem` problems and not being on the same page as far as wanting a family and all. Miranda was content to get married in a city garden because she wanted to be with Steve and didn't care about impressing people.
You add in her support when he had cancer and her caring for his mother and she was in no way always horrible to Steve, IMO.
I hate that he cheated on her (sexless period or not), but she must have loved Steve and been heavily invested in the relationship to have decided she could and would forgive him and move on.
You summed up perfectly why I loved their love story the most, even over the main pairing of Carrie/Big.
There was a tinge of sadness in Miranda when Steve fulfilled his dream but not with her. And Steve even acknowledged that he would not have the guts to pursue it if it weren’t for Miranda.
The suit episode, I can’t forget about Miranda saying “Forget the suit…” while trying hard not to cry, knowing Steve was going to break up with her because he was highly insecure.
Re: Steve’s mom - it was Miranda who told Steve his mom could live with them. Steve didn’t have to ask.
Miranda didn’t care the Steve didn’t have money, or that he wasn’t from a pedigreed family, or that she won’t have the fancy wedding, or fancy ring. She was just really drawn to him, that’s why I think Steve was the one for Miranda. For the high-powered attorney, the overachiever, caustic, sarcastic character among the four ladies, she was the one who worried the least about appearances and money.
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1 hour ago, luna1122again said:
Miranda definitely loved Steve at one point.
Yeah, I’m confused that this is even a debatable point. Miranda didn’t ask Steve to get back together because she was jealous of Debbie - she was in a healthy, loving relationship with a man who was crazy about her and Brady, a man who is more on her “level,” so to speak, than Steve ever was. But she realized that while she had the “perfect” man, she truly loved the “flawed” one more, because Steve was “the one.”
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15 minutes ago, amarante said:
There is nothing to suggest that Carrie was infertile or that having or not having children wasn't a conscious decision. If Big built her that closet I am reasonably certain he would have been fine with having a child with her if that was what something she pined for. With his money, it wouldn't even have crimped their life style although they would have been rich married with children like Charlotte.
I was under the impression that Carrie and Big being childless was a conscious decision. There was a scene in movie #2 at the beginning where Carrie gifted Big a Rolex that had the inscription at the back “Just Us Two,” or something like that. I also thought that Carrie mentioned to the girls in passing that she and Big were fine not having children.
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16 hours ago, T Summer said:
I didn't care for Steve saying Miranda never wanted Brady. That seems out of character for him. Just because Brady wasn't planned and Miranda considered abortion doesn't mean she didn't want a child once she really considered her options, the timing and how she'd make it work etc.
As I recall she was 37 and had recently been to the Gynecologist and had been told she had an anomaly like a tipped uterus or something and she said it was against all the odds her getting pregnant with that, and Steve having one testicle and all. Once she realized there may not be a later date to have a baby she decided she did want one, and that it may be now or never.
Also in shitty movie #2 at the end she shows up in time for little Brady's school play or whatever and tells Steve she took a job at a smaller law firm where she'd have more flexibility and be able to make Brady's activities from now on because it was important to her.
I agree. I know there’s a lot of Steve fans out there, moreso because of how AJLT chose to end their relationship. And while I loved their love story - Miranda ending up with someone totally unexpected for someone like her - I’m not a huge fan of Steve himself.
Before there was Berger, there was Steve. Steve couldn’t handle Miranda’s success and so he broke it off. And still had the temerity to live in Miranda’s apartment while he looked for a place, even giving Miranda’s OWN landline number to a girl he met for a hookup.
In movie #1, he cheated on her. Took awhile but she forgave him and took him back. I wonder why Miranda never threw that back at him when he was saying all those horrible stuff to her, especially the Brady part. That was just below the belt.
Maybe their relationship eventually had to end. Love fades. But it was just really shitty writing that did it in. A more thoughtful breakup would have put their relationship in perspective and make people remember that they are both flawed people, who both made mistakes in the past, and there’s really no one to blame.
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I think this might be my favorite episode of this series, but that's not really saying much. Michael King ruined Miranda's character forever, but it was nice to see that fire was still in there, when she finally stopped walking on eggshells with Che and finally told them off. That was a long time coming, but for Miranda fans, probably a little bit cathartic too. That was the Miranda we've all come to know and love - the one who walked off when her date wanted to watch porn while having sex with her, the one who told Steve "great sex, amazing" in a sarcastic tone after their first encounter, the one who automatically said "no" when Carrie was considering a final romantic encounter with Big before he moved to Napa, and told to her face that she should have ended up with Aidan instead. Miranda never bent over for anyone the way she bent over for Che. It was just so uncharacteristic. And Che never showed anything that they deserve that kind of devotion, from anyone, anyway.
I'm also glad Steve told her off. That was also a long time coming. Steve is tired of being the nice guy and rightly so.
I may be one of the very few, but with 1.5 seasons in, I realize I do miss Carrie's narration. There was just something in her narration that always tied everything together in an episode.
I hope this is the end of Che and we don't see them again.
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I just realized, that Miranda tiptoeing out of their room at 5 in the morning so as not to disturb Che, but ended up bumping the chair, hurting herself, and Che got extremely pissed is the perfect symbolism for their relationship - Miranda having to be extra careful not to piss them off, and even with her best intentions, ends up pissing them anyway.
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Carrie giving up on George because he’s up against a deadline reminds me of Carrie giving up on Petrovsky and Paris because she’s been to all the museums and ate all the croissants in all the cafes in TWO WEEKS!!!
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After the thrill of her sexual awakening, I don’t see what else Miranda sees in Che. They may be the most selfish person Miranda has ever dated - only thinks about themselves, Miranda don’t do this or that, Miranda do this or that. The relationship is according to their rules alone.
I mean, in two seasons, what sweet thing has Che done FOR Miranda (and no, finger-banging her in Carrie’s kitchen doesn’t count)? I just don’t buy this pairing, because it’s just lacking romance and tenderness. This has been a one-sided relationship where all Miranda does is give and all Che does is take. And another reason why I freaking hate that they destroyed Miranda’s character this way, because old school Miranda will never be in a relationship this selfish.
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I just finished S2 E7 and wow, what a fantastic episode! Probably the best of the series so far. I didn't care much for the Richie character in S1 - in fact, I almost gave up on the show because I could not take in all the swearing and yelling and the "COUSIN!!!" every 2 minutes. I really liked it that they toned down Richie this season and gave him a great episode to shine.
I'm one of those people who enjoy fine dining, so this season is more interesting to me than S1, although I did end up liking S1 as a whole, the sum of its parts. I've been to the famous one in California, and another one in CA too but unfortunately got burned down. The service is truly topnotch and personalized. Before I had the impression that these kinds of restaurants would have the hoity toity attitude, but so far I've been quite as impressed with the service as we were with the food. So I guess that's why I especially enjoyed E7. It was nice to see the inner workings of the service in fine dining, because most of the time, when fine dining is featured in shows, it's mostly about the food.
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I get that both prosecution and the defense try underhanded tactics, but I really like that the judge put Mickey in his place when the prosecution revealed their ace - “you engineered all of this to force her hand, and you just can’t unring the bell now that you don’t like your hand.”
Much as Mickey called her bluff, the DA called his bluff too. I like it. Especially since Mickey is slowly finding out that Lisa isn’t as honest as she seems and as innocent as she insists.
I also like it that Lorna called out Mickey on his assholery. It’s so unfair of him to question Lorna’s commitment to the case and the job when she has been pulling all-nighters to write motions he knows are only for show, and to go through boxes for discovery. I’m glad she told him to fuck off.
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The original ending didn't bother me that much. I've always thought Ben was the endgame, especially since she "conquered" the high school jock, and got that itch out of her. The heroine of the story always goes back to the "boy next door," which is pretty much what I expected.
Even though it's a "happy ending," I think that little speech by Ben the morning after is foreboding that things may not eventually work out and they'll grow apart and move on. In the heat of the moment, it seemed they were content in giving it a second go-around and do-over, and then they say their goodbyes. And then Ben realizes that he actually wanted to try to work it out with Devi, key word being try. John McEnroe's last words also refer that it may not last.
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12 minutes ago, luna1122again said:
Yes, when they got back together, he got passive aggressive when he realized Big was still hanging around. I think his reaction was fairly normal, if not the most grownup way to handle it.
This is one of the worst parts of SATC for me. In the real world, it’s normal and human to ask your current partner to not be friendly with his/her ex. If y’all eventually get friends, organically, then sure.
But Carrie forced Aidan on that issue. She had a huge drama about how Big would always be a part of her life somehow and even had the gall to invite him up to AIDAN’s cabin when he’s the guy she cheated on him with. Then Carrie even had more temerity to act like how and why Aidan could not understand that Big is suffering and so she invited him up. What, Big doesn’t have any drinking buddies of his own that he can drown his sorrows with or another young model he could bang for one night while he gets over his actress ex?
If I were Aidan I would have thrown them both out of his cabin instead of giving Big the couch.
Definitely one of the episodes that shows how selfish and self-absorbed Carrie is.
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S02.09: There Goes The Neighborhood
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MPK is really re-writing and re-visioning SATC with AJLT. I guess he can make the argument that Carrie is in a different place now (no longer the NY, selfish lady and someone who has already settled into adulthood and the things that mattered then don't matter now), but I still don't like this happy ending for Carrie and Aidan, even if I had like Aidan as a character.