Hana Chan

What he doesn't seem to grasp is that women who watch shows like SITC and AJLT want good stories to be told. Even stories that are at heart escapist fantasies need to have some solid grounding in characterization and plots that make sense (if only in their own universe). The problem with AJLT is that they took a very much loved franchise and characters and twisted them past the point of recognition. We wanted the characters to grow and mature and what we got were spoiled, privileged children who just drift through life and have no real stakes in anything that they do. It's all a fluff fantasy dressed in endless couture while forgetting that what got many of us watching this show were the stories of the women at the heart of the series. To be blunt, AJLT was an insult to our intelligence. There were a few honest, really good moments in the show but the majority of it was just garbage. Trying to play it that we just didn't want the show to change or that things might not turn out for the characters the way we wanted it's the point. We expected things to change. We just hoped that it would be done in a way that made sense and honored the original show.

Miranda was an asshole. Period.

I just remembered lugging home Mom's ashes from the memorial service and between the ashes and the stone urn, I got a good upper body workout. Mom would have approved.

I wasted enough time on the show itself. Sitting through a self-congratulatory "documentary" where they try to paint the character assassination we witnessed as something interesting that needs to be discussed and rehashed (in a serious way and not a snarky way that we do here)...

Considering just how long it takes to plan a bar mitzvah ceremony (my parents spent close to a year planning my brother's and that's not counting the months of training he went through in order to recite his portion of the haftarah), it was kind of idiotic to all of a sudden have Rock decide that Nope! This wasn't for them. Who cares that their parents spent a fortune on the party and had a few million people there. Rock gets to pull the plug on the whole thing at the very last second, If that were my family, Rock would have been going through the ceremony with my mom's shoe up their backside. But that really boils down to just why I can't stand these characters anymore. There are no consequences to their actions. They are the most self-involved, self-indulgent babies and I can't find it in me to get invested in their storylines (though Charlette bugged me the least this season, so... yay for her?). I had the same feelings that I had watching Glee those final seasons - where the good characters got crapped on while the most obnoxious, selfish ones (*coughRachelBerrycough*) get everything they want regardless of who they run over in the process. The writing was shoddy wish fulfillment and while there were a few good moments scattered here and there, for the most part this season absolutely ruined everything that I'd enjoyed about the original series. Miranda is irredeemable now and if I never have to see her on my tv again, I'll be a very happy person. As others have pointed out, there a difference between working to make yourself happy and fulfilled and doing so at the expense of everyone else. The way the show treated Steve and their marriage was an atrocity and they didn't have to go this way. The show has always been centered around the POV of the women, but the men were never treated as such non-entities. Steve (and Aiden and Big and Harry) were allowed to have their own perspectives and their wishes could come into conflict with what the female characters wanted. But Steve got reduced to a sad, pathetic man who just stood on the sidelines while his ex-wife (soon to be) cavorts around with her new partner. And the hell with her son, who likewise was not made any kind of a consideration in her behavior. Not to mention her professional commitments that she just threw in the trash. Miranda finding balance between her professional ambitions and her personal life has always been the interesting crux of her storylines and it was all tossed into the trash. Congratulations CN - you got what you wanted. Who cares if the audience hates it (despite all the PR efforts made to change opinions). Carrie's story could have been interesting, seeing her grieving her husband of more than a decade and trying to figure out where her life goes after this but like all storylines, it was handled badly. She should have been mortified that her husband's ashes were stashed away in a closet and not have Big's brother involved in deciding what to do next. When I made the decision to have my mother cremated, my dad and I immediately picked a beautiful urn and Mom's now in a prominent place in our house (where she will stay until Dad passes and then I will have their ashes interred together). The idea that she loved her husband, yet his ashes stayed in a cardboard box hidden away just rubbed me the wrong way. As did Carrie's attempts to date within months of Big's death. While the whole scene in Paris was beyond self-indulgent (with the OTT ballgown), seeing Carrie actually dealing with Big's remains in a way that was meaningful for her was more emotionally sincere (though not including his brother really bugged me). I really hope that the writers get the message that this series was not well-received or appreciated and that we (and the characters) deserved a lot better. Here's hoping that they leave this as a one-off and we don't have to deal with a second season of this idiocy.

I think that Steve is still somewhat in shock over Miranda's request to split and is in the denial part of the mourning phase. He still loves her so accepting that the relationship is over (and in Miranda's POV never was what Steven thought it was) is going to be difficult. He's going to need some time to come to grips with having his life upended.

It's pretty obvious from the media push about this storyline (including an interview with CN about how she loves this storyline for Miranda) that the powers that be are very aware of the backlash that the show is receiving. Specifically about Miranda's behavior. It is striking (and others have pointed out) that it's one thing for Miranda to be so dismissive about Steve's feelings (since she apparently never loved him). But her behavior with her son is really appalling. She isn't considering him at all. Most parents put a lot of effort into ensuring that their children and loved and that their security will not be impacted by a separation. Brady might be in his late teens, but he's still living at home so a conversation between him and his mother is something that should happen since she's the one walking out on the marriage. But then, the show has gone out of their way to paint Brady as a jerk and that he doesn't seem to have much of a relationship with his mother at this point so I guess that's just another excuse for Miranda to have her head totally up Che's cooch and not have any consideration for anyone other than herself. And it's really sickening that for a show that wants to be so "woke" and explore every 'ism possible that they have no qualms about mocking Steve's hearing loss (especially since DE has had hearing loss). It just seems especially petty and meanspirited.

Well, that was a whole lot of nothing. With the exception of Steve showing what a decent human being he is and that he deserves a whole lot better than his selfish idiot of a wife, this was an hour wasted.

If anything, this makes Miranda's behavior worse because when Steve cheated, he immediately accepted that what he did was wrong. That going through a sexual dry spell was not a reason to cheat on his wife and he wasn't allowed to use any of his reasons for cheating as an excuse. His cheating was treated as something bad and not a justifiable action because he was unhappy with the state of their marriage and he was still committed to trying to fix what was wrong and do right by his wife and son. Miranda totally gave up on their relationship long ago. She never brought up that she was unhappy and feeling neglected and unfulfilled and never gave Steve any real feedback on how she saw things. And her being unhappy is being treated as justification for not just cheating on her husband but unilaterally deciding that there was no salvaging their marriage. So if one of them was deserving of forgiveness and understanding, it sure as hell isn't Miranda IMO.

It happened in the first movie, when Miranda's and Steve's sex life dried up for a few months because she was so busy with work. He cheated on her one time and she spent the rest of the movie bemoaning about how betrayed she feels and making him crawl over broken glass in order to gain her forgiveness. Steve's behavior was clearly painted as being in the wrong and he worked to show his regret over what he did. What bugged me most of all (once we get past the perfect morphing of Miranda into Cynthia Nixon) is just how giddy Miranda was when she left Steve. There was absolutely no remorse over betraying her husband and then just blindsiding him with a demand to divorce. She spent that whole scene basically beating Steve down, making him and their relationship worthless in her eyes and all but ridiculing the fact that he's content with the life that she's so miserable in. There was no give and take, and no accepting that she is just as much to blame for things being wrong between them. It's all Nope! She met someone new and was discarding her husband (and son) like a pair of old shoes. And then laughing afterwards? It just shows that she had no compassion or empathy for her husband. She's getting what she wants and the hell with everyone else.

There are many of us who hit our 50s and discover that our lives aren't what we expected them to be (or dreamed them to be when we were younger). Life threw us curveballs that we had no choice but to deal with and we don't get the luxury of throwing up our hands and throwing everything in the fire because all we can focus on is ourselves. We accept that the responsibility that we have for others in our life might impact upon our personal happiness at times and that while we might not find our existences exciting and new every moment, we can have satisfaction with things. Miranda's life changed from what she thought it would be the instant she got pregnant and decided not to terminate. Having her son changed things for her. And it's telling that while Miranda is running away from her husband, she's running away from her son too. A son who is in his late teens and not an independent adult that she is right now abandoning because he, like his father and her job and everything else that isn't fulfilling her needs, isn't what she wants. And yes, the show has been portraying Brady as a jerk who walks all over his parents, but who's fault is that? Why didn't Miranda (and Steve) but their foot down about his behavior? It seems that like everything else, Miranda let things slide because she didn't care enough to get her life as it stood in order. Letting her son be an indulgent asshole and not communicating her needs with her husband allowed her to indulge her need to paint her life as unbearable. She pulled back so much that when things didn't go in the direction that she wanted, she could point at it as justification for ditching the whole thing. And maybe if this show existed in a vacuum and we didn't know Miranda from the previous series it might work. But we saw the woman who fell in love with the quiet, unassuming man that became her husband. We saw them building something that was different, but worked. And we saw Miranda happy and satisfied. We saw her caring enough about Steve to take in his mother who had dementia. We saw her be a loving mother. That is, until the show decided to retcon her entire history with Steve and have her paint it that she never really loved him. That's what makes her storyline so hard to swallow. Do marriages that were once happy and loving break down? Of course they do. Couples sometimes reach a point where they just don't see eye to eye anymore. Steve is content with their lives because he thought he had a partner who would be his companion through all things and Miranda ended up not being content. That can and does happen. But Miranda takes no ownership that her emotional and physical neglecting of her relationship with her husband and her son got her to this point. That the Harvard trained lawyer who could argue any point into the ground couldn't tell her husband what she was feeling or needing, or even to tell her son to keep his ho girlfriend out of her house. Instead she tries to get her husband to reenact her kitchen tryst with Che without telling him that she needs him sexually. Of course, the reality isn't that she wanted or needed him sexually. It was more about trying to prove to herself that they just didn't work as a couple anymore (if they ever did). She set Steve up to fail and when he did, it became more justification for her acting in the way that she did this episode. And she's doing the same thing with Che in a big way. She's not communicating, and for now, she seems to be accepting Che's terms for their relationship without understanding what that means. Che insisted that they don't do "traditional" and Miranda didn't bother to ask what that really means? Is it that Che doesn't believe in marriage or cohabiting? Or that she's polyamorous and that Miranda should not expect sexual fidelity from them? Abandoning the familiar for the unknown can be exciting, but Miranda threw a bomb into her marriage and destroyed it past the point of repair. Steve said it very clearly that he didn't have it in him to keep fighting for their relationship when she clearly didn't want to, so if she does arrive in Cleveland and find Che knees deep in another woman's pussy, it's going to come as a very rude and harsh awakening to just what she upended her life for. Sorry for the novel-length post, but I really miss original series Miranda.

Bingo. As an openly bisexual woman, I'm absolutely cringing at this storyline. It's pathetic that given the opportunity to explore a real challenge that some women who discover their desire to explore aspects of their sexuality that they never thought they had (or dared to admit that they did) later in life and deal fairly with the complications that it can bring, we get this trash. That toxic, hurtful behavior is excused because... hey! Representation! Of course, it feeds into the awful trope that bisexual women cannot be trusted because we're incapable of remaining monogamous regardless of our attractions. That if we decide that we meet someone that we're attracted to that is not our long-term partner, the logical thing is to bounce into bed with them regardless of the consequences to others. That it's okay to hurt your partner because you've got to be honest with yourself every second of the day. I'm totally surprised that they didn't trot out the other trope (based to some degree on reality), that lesbians have a hard suspicion of bisexual women and often won't get involved with one because they don't want to be left for a man, I'm rather shocked that Che didn't use that against Miranda, urging her to leave her husband in order to prove her queer credentials. Thankfully, a lot of other critics that I've seen are tearing the series apart, regardless of how hard the PR push is being made.

Let's be honest here. The only reason that Steve has been portrayed as a sexless, bumbling old fart is to justify Miranda's behavior. That if this was the Steve and we all knew from the original series (or even the first movie), there would have been no way to paint Miranda's behavior as sympathetic. Cheating on your long-term partner, is never "good" behavior. We saw that with Steve's infidelity and how he jumped through flaming hoops to win back her trust. Any reasons that he cited for cheating were treated as excuses, not justifications. Feeling unfulfilled wasn't allowed to be an excuse then. So now the shoe is on the other foot and Miranda is the one unhappy with the state of their relationship and the show is going out of their way to show that yes, their marriage is really that bad and it's totally understandable that Miranda would not just want out, but would have an affair. Because why shouldn't she give in to her attraction to the dazzling Che (however debatable we might find their charms) when the husband that she felt nothing for was such an pathetic creature? And now we get the divorce talk, where Miranda paints their marriage as a hell that she had to escape from and putting all the blame for the state of their relationship on Steve. That with him, their life was boring and she was being suffocated and accepted no responsibility for any role that she might have played in things going so poorly between them. No, it was all Steve for not being the ball of excitement that she desired. Now I will agree that when a marriage has broken down to this point, ending it is the best for both involved. But the show is doing everything possible to justify the cruelty that Miranda is displaying towards her husband. She's not just leaving him, but doing in an a vicious way by making it clear that he's just not good enough for her. That loving her and standing by her for so many years means nothing. He's boring and old and she's chasing something new and exciting. There is nothing that the show can do now that will make me have any sympathy for Miranda, and I only hope that Che ends up being what we suspect they will be in the end.

've loved SR ever since I saw them on Broadway in Spamalot. Four times. They have an amazing set of pipes and I wish that they would do something that would involve singing in the future. But I do guess that after they came out as nonbinary that acting jobs are not as forthcoming as they had in the past. Which is a real shame, and at first I was excited that they would get to play a nonbinary character in a high profile show. But then the show turned out to be awful and Che is the most obnoxious character of the bunch (though Miranda is currently beating them out for being gross). Which is a real shame because it's not taking advantage of SR's talents, and it's likely to tamp down on other opportunities to have characters who don't fit the usual gender norms featured so prominently.

Che put themself in that position by shoving their hand into Miranda without first making sure that her relationship wouldn't be damaged as a result. I've been around a number of polyamorous people (and were involved with some) and making sure that everyone was on the same page is critical to these relationships working. Che didn't ask and Miranda didn't tell them. Both are to blame. So Miranda, the brilliant lawyer, is totally pants at basic communication. She's not able to tell her husband, who loves her, that she's unhappy with their marriage and she can't tell her paramour that she's married and that her spouse expects Miranda to be faithful. And I'm supposed to like this character?

There are some very good shows and movies dealing with women at this stage in their lives, dealing with breakups, love, sex and the challenges of growing old in a world where a women's expiration date seems to be set at 35. One favorite is "Something's Got To Give" (also notable for Diane Keaton doing her first nude scene while in her 50s and getting it on with a hot, young Keanu Reeves). You can tell this kind of story about reaching your 50s and having questions about your life and if you're really happy. It's been done. But ruining Steve's character in order for Miranda to try batting for the other team just shows a lack of thought. It was possible to write this in a way that is respectful of both characters, even if Steve ended up hurt by Miranda asking for a divorce. And it doesn't help that it does come across as a thinly veiled attempt to have Miranda meld with the actress playing her, or that they're linking her to the most obnoxious character ever introduced on the show.

I agree with this to a point, but how Miranda decided to handle things is what makes me totally unsympathetic towards her. She might be unhappy, but if she doesn't tell her spouse that she's not happy with how their relationship is shaping up, gives him no opportunity to change the things that are making her unhappy, cheats on him and then blindsides him with her decision to walk away from their marriage, it's hard to see her behavior as anything other than pretty terrible.

Poking my head back in because the shoe finally fell and I have thoughts. In the hands of better writers on a better show, Miranda's situation could be an intriguing, even compelling storyline. There are plenty of people who hit their 50s and look at their lives, wondering how they got here and if they're really happy. The look at marriages that aren't loaded with excitement and get that "the grass is always greener somewhere else" thought running through their heads. Do they walk away from their marriages and take a chance on the unknown? Is it worth hurting a partner that didn't do anything wrong other than being familiar and a little boring? But this isn't a good show and these writers are taking the cheap and easy way out. They spent multiple episodes making Steve into a non-entity, with no agency or perspective on their lives. It's only now that he's allowed to express any feelings about their relationship and my heart absolutely broke for him. Miranda wasn't communicating to him before they reached this point that she wasn't happy and gave him no opportunities to change things in order for her to be happier. Instead he gets clobbered with the double whammy of her affair with Che and that she wants out of their marriage. Miranda might be right that in their 50s, they aren't "old" but they are hardly kids anymore. Miranda is having a mid-life crisis and she's no better than a man who leaves his wife for his 20-something secretary. If the show tried to get some kind of audience sympathy with Miranda's pleadings about how unhappy she is and that there has to be "more" in life, they utterly failed. Miranda came across as selfish and childish. When Steve cheated (yes, we remember the movies, show), he was deeply apologetic and made it clear that it had been a mistake and he still loved Miranda and wanted to be with her. He accepted responsibility for his actions and worked to gain her forgiveness. Why would she have taken his betrayal so strongly if she never loved him and didn't want to be with him? Now the tables are turned and rather than own up to the fact that she had hurt her partner, Miranda continues to paint their relationship as being the reason that she cheated. If if only she really loved Steve and their lives weren't so painfully boring... And maybe this wouldn't rub me the wrong way if this didn't feel like how my best friend's husband ended their marriage on their 19th anniversary. That he suddenly dropped it on her that he wasn't happy, wanted out and had no interest in counseling and trying to fix what he thought was wrong with their relationship. He never loved her, married her because he felt that was what everyone expected of him and after 19 years and 2 kids (that she had to put herself through in vitro in order to conceive), he was out the door and there was nothing she could do about it. Miranda's mind was made up long before she spoke with Steve. My sympathy for her is non-existent and I hope that when she catches up with Che, that they show her the same kind of consideration that she showed Steve.

There are so many problems with this show that I'm really not sure how the writers could have approached this without totally shitting all over the elements of the show that the audience had loved. You're dealing with three white, very financially privileged women at the stage of their lives where they naturally would reconsider a lot of things that they'd taken for granted. I've tried to think about how their storylines could have been handled in a more interest manner. Carrie - I would have had Big die, but rather than having Carrie now being a wealthy widow, I would have had her inheritance much smaller. That most of Big's wealth wasn't personal but tied up in his business and she now is a woman in her 50s with no husband, real job and no financial security. She now is not just facing the loss of her husband, but the life of ease that she had become accustomed to and is now facing starting over at an age where it's hard for women to get back into the workforce. She's out of place and out of touch and the career that she'd had before her marriage no longer applies. Miranda - I could see her going through something of a mid-life crisis, finding herself dissatisfied with her career and wondering if she was really living life to its fullest. With Steve's support (because he is a loving husband who wants his wife to be happy and because they can financially afford her to do so), Miranda quits her firm and uses her skills for a charitable organization. She might even get into politics. And she learned to relax and not control everything. For a woman who had been the most career-driven of the bunch, she finally realizes that she's more than just her current job. As for Brady, after being pushed to go into a lucrative career, he's pushing to explore a more artistic one that doesn't promise financial security, leading to arguments between him and his mother and between Miranda and Steve (Steve who would support Brady's interests). Charlotte's story I would leave pretty much alone as far as the kids go, but I could see her wondering if she'd really made the most of her life. She sees Carrie struggling after Big's death and Miranda having her career crisis and starts asking herself if she is more than just a well off housewife. I would also have given a more plausible reason explain Samantha's absence that didn't crap on her character and make her seem foolish and petty.

This really rubbed me the wrong way because it feels very much like how my best friend's marriage ended. On her 19th anniversary, her husband told her that he didn't love her, never loved her and wasn't willing to go to counseling because he had already decided that he wanted out and nothing would change his mind, Do people get married when they don't really love the other person? Sure? Was that what happened here? No, because we saw a fuckton of Miranda's POV where she navigated her relationship with Steve. She had already accepted being a single mother and had no worries about raising her son by herself. She married Steve because she loved him. Retconning a character's history to justify a new storyline is just evidence of shitty writing. Or catering to CN who wanted to basically transform her character into herself.

And I'm done. I'm trying to find a single redeeming quality for this show and failing at every turn. There is nothing engaging or interesting about this and it's painful to watch characters that I enjoyed being torn down and made into caricatures that I don't recognize anymore. It's one thing to show a character evolving and deciding that a relationship that had made them happy in the past no longer does and it's another to completely rewrite a character's history in order to fit a new narrative that they want to play with. Yes, I'm talking about Miranda. Or more, Cynthia Nixon because this is not Miranda Hobbs. If they want to have her explore bi (or pan) sexuality at her stage in life, that's fine. Boring and done before, but fine. And it's fine for them to show that she and her husband have drifted apart and that she no longer wants to be married. But to try to paint this that she never loved Steve at all? Do they think that none of us watched SITC or the movies? Do they think that we're going to forget how her relationship with Steve evolved, had it's highs and lows and open statements of love for one another. That even though they were very different people and her pregnancy was accidental, they built a sincere and genuine relationship. Now we're being told to ignore all that because she never loved him and she hated her life and... Miranda, you don't need to get fingered in Carrie's kitchen while she pees the bed (I'll get into that in a minute). You need to get your son's ho out of your house. You need to get into counseling and figure out what you want in life. And if it means ending your marriage, then at least have it make some kind of sense! This is just being insulting to the audience. And it shows a real weakness of the writing. Steve is just an accessory in Miranda's life. She's going to discard him like an out of season handbag for the new flashy thing that caught her interest. He has no agency or POV. He barely exists except to be an obstacle to what she now wants in life. I feel badly for the actor because I wonder if he would have agreed to revisit the show if he knew that his character would be treated like this. As for Carrie... I just don't care. It would have been mildly more interesting to see her actually deal with the health effects of being in her 50s (and joint problems are almost inevitable). But to see her bouncing back to her Jimmy Choos had me shrugging. I long since gave up on my high heels for daily wear because they are one of the things that I handled fine in my 30s that I can't any more. Do I even care about Charlotte? No. Do I care about any of these characters? No. The one thing that I'm taking away from this is that Kim is an astonishingly wise woman and dodged a major bullet. I don't think there is anything that can salvage this mess.

It's actually pretty common. When my mom passed away, my dad had absolutely no idea about the household finances. Mom paid all the bills so I spent quite some time in the weeks after she died seeing what needed to be paid and when, getting the log in information on the various accounts, having them transferred to me and working out a new budget (since Dad no longer had my mother's income & social security). He's spoken to his family and friends and this seems to be the norm of his generation. One spouse (usually the wife) manages the household and if something happens, the widow many not know what bills are due until the electricity gets turned off. Aren't they, with Miranda suddenly deciding that she might be bisexual because Che caused an awakening for her? My biggest issue with how they use queer characters is that these characters don't seem to exist except to play into the storylines of the leads. Even Stanford's and Anthony's marriage has no weight because the only time we see them is around Carrie or Charlotte. We don't see them just being a couple with one another and having their own storyline (even a small one). Che has no reason to be on the show except to provide something for Miranda to do. They're barely actual characters and more like props. I'll shit all over Glee from now until the cows come home, but at least their gay characters had their own storylines and conflicts. The most we're seeing here is Che's bad stand up routine and Stanford and Anthony arguing over who's the best gay coatrack to their chosen lady.

I don't know of a single man of Big's wealth that didn't have a pre-nup. Especially when there is such a huge financial disparity between him and his spouse. I have no doubt that Carrie got a very generous inheritance, but it's not going to be unlimited funds. I'm going to have to disagree on this. It is none of Carrie's business that Big decided to throw his ex a pittance (by his standards). And it's not her money being gifted to Natasha. I can understand Carrie wanting to speak to Natasha, but she had no right to stalk the woman after Natasha made it clear that she did not want to talk to Carrie and force the confrontation. Especially after how their last interaction went down. That Natasha didn't tell Carrie to go fuck herself speaks a lot more about Natasha as a person than Carrie. Carrie sought out Big after Big was married, had an affair with him, cheated on her own partner and had a hand in destroying Natasha's marriage (not to mention causing Natasha to break her front teeth). Carrie didn't sleep with a man that she didn't know was married - she chased after one. Natasha has her life together and clearly didn't need Big's apology inheritance. It's nice that Big had enough of a conscience to remember that he'd screwed his ex-wife over badly and wanted to make up for it in some small way. That was his business. Not Carrie's.

I think that Big loved Natasha as much as he was capable of loving anyone but they didn't click the way he and Carrie do. However deep we think that either of them are capable of genuinely caring for someone other than themselves, the key is that they understand one another and get along well enough to make a marriage work. It's not like we saw a whole lot of their married lives so we don't have much to really judge. The fact that Carrie knew nothing about Big's will or any of his wishes should he pass away before her isn't that unusual. When my mom got sick and died, there was the mad scramble to figure a lot of things out for my dad because she took care of all the household bills and accounts. He didn't know about life insurance policies that she still had, and I spent weeks getting things straightened out for him. It's actually pretty common for one spouse to be totally in the dark about the financial stuff. Having said that, with Big's level of wealth, he would have had a financial manager to take care of things and would have been a point person for Carrie to get access to accounts. Because bills have to get paid from somewhere and I don't see Big as the type to have a joint checking account with his wife.

Can I say, as a bisexual woman, that I utterly detest storylines where a woman discovers a sexual interest in other women later in life, so that means that she must torpedo her current relationship with a man in order to explore it? That bisexuals are completely incapable of fidelity because our lives are not complete if we don't explore every facet of our sexual curiosities? That physical relationships are the be all, end all? The way the show is teeing off Miranda to leave Steve is really gross. Plenty of marriages go through lulls, but to go years without physical intimacy with no clear reason? Is Steve physically incapable of sex at this point, or are they just just totally uninterested in one another? If Miranda was going to cheat or leave Steve, why not with a man? Why does it have to be a non-binary woman? Are the writers that desperate to have a queer storyline that they have to ruin one of the nicest relationships that the show ever had? It makes no sense except that perhaps Cynthia Nixon insisted upon it.