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PF doesn't really go into details.
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/patricia-field-cynthia-nixon
Molly is the costume designer on AJLT.
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11 minutes ago, Rightside said:
Does anyone think Meghan really writes this word for word?
"I finally got Covid and it was so horrible it made me doubt if America will ever recover from this pandemic. It WILL but not with moronic Biden in charge"
It doesn't say if she was boosted.
She said they got sick several weeks ago and she has been miserable ever since. Was that before or after she posted pics of her and Ben and Liberty outside in the woods looking pretty damn happy? I also have a hard time believing she didn't give hourly Twitter updates on her health.
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19 minutes ago, mojoween said:This is neat. I especially love the bar trivia. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tom-bradys-playoff-loss-means-this-56-year-qb-curse-will-continue-for-at-least-one-more-season/
I had to think for a second to remember who he played for. Houston.
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26 minutes ago, Welshman in Ca said:
I always wondered why this was described as a scandal. I & everyone I know presumed this was the way these places have always worked anyway and not one person was surprised. Most were surprised how cheap it was relatively speaking.
It was a scandal because they got caught. And as @Haleth said there was also fraud involved. It wasn't just "donating" money.
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10 hours ago, RealHousewife said:
Miranda's style was my least favorite, but I do think most of what she wore suited her. She wasn't froufrou like Charlotte. Every now and then I did hate her looks though.
Patricia Field had this to say about Cynthia Nixon.
"I know those gals! Sarah Jessica [Parker] thinks she knows everything – and she does. Cynthia Nixon thinks she knows everything – and she doesn’t! Even today, when I speak with Molly, it's about Cynthia. I say, 'I remember what you are going through.'"
I always thought Miranda was dressed so poorly compared to the other three. I had originally thought it was because Patricia Field didn't know how to dress the character but now I'm inclined to believe CN thought she knew better how to dress Miranda.
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26 minutes ago, luna1122 said:
Miranda apparently was discontented but never actually tried to do anything about it. I wonder if she hadn't met Che if she'd ever have addressed it or just gone on being unhappy without changing anything. It's sadly realistic that most people won't do anything about a situation until they have a new person or place to go.
She was also drinking a lot. Would she have been open to having an affair if she hadn't developed a drinking problem? I haven't made up my mind if she fell for Che or fell for the first person that showed her any attention. As other posters have said instead of dealing with the issues that led her to start drinking she has turned from the bottle to Che. Miranda needs therapy. If you are that unhappy you can't rely on someone or something to make you happy. Because once that goes away you are going to be even more unhappier.
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19 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
Then there are the parents that buy their kids' admissions. Remember the scandal with Felicia Huffman and Aunt Becky Lori Loughlin.
And as Joy mentioned yesterday Jared Kushner's parents gave Harvard 10 million dollars to get him a spot.
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No Aaron there are so many other reasons to not root for you.
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31 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:
I know Carrie doesn’t have to worry about money in retirement, but why not have her focus more on her next book venture. If they wanted to do a podcast have her host her own.
I think having Carrie do the podcast was just a way to introduce Che.
31 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:I wonder why they aged down Brady and Lily?
As so many others have said if they wanted to have Brady still living at home they could have just had him home from college because of Covid or it was cheaper than living in the dorms. As for Lily I don't know what the writers were thinking.
31 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:I didn’t mind the additions of the new ladies- LTW, Naya and Seema are all very different but could be really interesting if written better.
If I was writing this show I would have made LTW, Nya and Seema friends already but without Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda knowing that and have them just happen to all run into each other. Honestly I think if LTW, Nya and Seema were friends I would rather watch them.
31 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:that was FUNNY.
Funny has been hard to come by on this show. I might have cracked a smile but I know I have not laughed out loud once watching any episode.
40 minutes ago, Jillybean said:For me (close in age to the three remaining main characters), SATC had many relatable themes, plotlines, etc, while AJLT has none.
I'm also in their age range and on SATC I definitely related to Samantha and Miranda and Carrie on my worst days. But on this show I don't find anything relatable.
On 1/24/2022 at 11:58 PM, Black Knight said:Obviously those of us who never liked Miranda/Steve 2.0 (manchild version) would have been fine with the divorce, and even Miranda/Steve fans might have admitted it wasn't implausible that eventually they decided to divorce at some point between the second movie and the start of AJLT. They were never a rock-solid couple.
As someone who never liked them together I find it plausible their marriage isn't working anymore. It's just the way they have written it. Miranda is spiraling but Steve doesn't see it. Miranda chooses to have an affair and only tells her husband when her lover says she has to. So much of this could have happened before the show started. Did we really need to see Miranda be such a hypocrite? Even if she gets a giant dose of comeuppance her character is ruined for me.
On 1/24/2022 at 11:58 PM, Black Knight said:The closest to that in the SATC universe is Charlotte/Harry.
If they ever broke them up I think that would be my deal breaker. They have been my favorite couple since Harry proposed.
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19 hours ago, Buckeye71034 said:
Lisa was right. Affirmative Action is complicated. Most definitely not as simple and easy as Sunny or Whoopi was letting on.
In a perfect world people would be admitted to colleges simply based on their grades. But we do not live in a perfect world. We do not know what implicit bias people who work in college admissions offices have. There could be racists. There could also be people who think students from red states or blue states aren't deserving of a spot. I do agree with Sunny on there being way too many legacy spots. Back in the late 90s I worked for a company that contracted with a small private college. My son would have been ineligible to attend tuition free because I didn't work for the college. However children of college employees could attend tuition free. But only if you were a salaried employee or professor. Which meant the children of the hourly employees such as the janitors and employees who took care of the grounds were excluded. I thought that was a very shitty rule.
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1 hour ago, tennisgurl said:
But then, I guess I'll be happy if we don't end the show finding out that the father dropped dead a week ago and this has all been a long winded way to tell the son he has a new daddy, who is the one she loved all along.
Good God they couldn't be stupid enough to do that again could they?
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11 minutes ago, RedHawk said:
Do the writers think we sympathize with her losing control of her life so badly?
I think they do. They have shown me they really don't know or don't care what women in their 50s are really like. Despite the fact they have three actresses in their 50s portraying the three main characters.
One thing SATC was really good at was viewers weren't expected to sympathize with the characters. Sure there were times we did but I don't think the stories were written with that purpose in mind. We watched the women live their lives and sometimes we related to them. Sometimes we thought they were making huge mistakes. But overall mostly we enjoyed watching their stories.
But this storyline with Miranda they have tried so hard to tilt things so the audience will be on Miranda's side. I keep hoping this is just a set up for us to see Miranda be dealt a big dose of reality but I wouldn't bet on it.
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7 minutes ago, Hana Chan said:
Miranda totally gave up on their relationship long ago.
And we didn't get to see that. We only have Miranda's point of view. At the end of the first movie they recommitted to each other and the second movie they seemed fine. But now because the writers (and Cynthia Nixon) want to tell this specific story we have Miranda telling Carrie how unhappy she is. If they had done the third movie instead of this series and they had shown Miranda and Steve growing apart and her meeting someone I think we probably would have been more open to that.
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37 minutes ago, Blergh said:
And, at this point, all Miss Swift has done is respond to Mr. Albarn's evidently false claim about her musical authorship.
Yes. It's not like she has gotten into a Twitter feud with insults being hurled back and forth. She simply set the record straight.
38 minutes ago, Blergh said:She hasn't actually said she plans to launch a slander suit against him for having made that claim.
I don't think she will. He apologized, as lacking as it was, which I think is all she wanted.
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20 minutes ago, luna1122 said:
It was also my memory that Steve was reading Proust when they first met. I have a habit of zooming in on pics or pausing shows to see what books are being read, so I assume that's what I did. The clip got posted here but I couldn't make it out, but I also haven't gone back to watch the actual episode again. I need to.
I just watched that scene and I couldn't make out the title but the book did look like it had a ribbon on the cover. The kind that say it is an award winner.
Regardless of what the name of the book was the Steve we met that episode was not the Steve he became as his relationship with Miranda got more serious. And as many of us has said I have no idea why they seemed to dumb him down.
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10 hours ago, Irlandesa said:
Even worse is that he later praises Billie Eilish and her brother as a co-writing duo. So he confuses his complaint.
I caught that too. Maybe he just likes Eilish and doesn't like Swift.
11 hours ago, Bastet said:That's quite a false equivalency between publicly making a spurious claim and publicly refuting that lie.
Yes. I think she felt the need to respond because this wasn't just someone saying he didn't like her music. This was someone who was saying she wasn't actually writing her music. I would have responded too.
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9 minutes ago, Hana Chan said:
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.
Yes but he didn't leave her. He knew he made a mistake and wanted forgiveness. Now if he had told her our life means nothing to me and oh by the way I met someone Miranda would have made his life even more hellish. And no way would have Carrie told her to forgive him if Steve had wanted to come back.
12 minutes ago, Hana Chan said: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.
Her using the phrase rom com was just so wrong. Yes I get that she thinks she is living that but we the audience don't see it that way. If we don't get to see Miranda finally understand how awful she has been acting then this whole series will have been a colossal waste of my time.
15 minutes ago, Hana Chan said: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.
I said on an earlier thread if this is supposed be Cynthia Nixon's story I feel compassion for her ex.
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5 hours ago, Ms Blue Jay said:
I think Miranda was attracted to Steve at first because he was assertive and put her in her place, not because he was some intellectual giant.
I agree with this. She wasn't always nice to him and he called her out on it.
Miranda I always thought needed a man with a strong personality to match her strong personality. But seeing how she acts around Che she seems to have lost that personality while sitting on the couch eating ice cream.
4 hours ago, Hana Chan said: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.
I don't know if it was the writer's intent but I think having Brady behave so awfully with regards to having his girlfriend stay over and have loud sex in the room besides his parent's room was to have us think Miranda should happily walk away from him and Steve.
4 hours ago, Hana Chan said:And maybe if this show existed in a vacuum and we didn't know Miranda from the previous series it might work.
Actually I think that character would also be intensely disliked.
4 hours ago, Hana Chan said: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 is one of the big problems with this storyline. It's being shown as none of this is Miranda's fault. We are supposed to feel sorry her and say you go girl get your happiness. Could you imagine if this was a man doing this?
4 hours ago, Hana Chan said: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?
I hate how Miranda is with Che. She comes across as so desperate. Like she is willing to accept whatever crumbs Che throws her way.
4 hours ago, Hana Chan said: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.
I have this sinking feeling we aren't going to see Cleveland. I look for the show to pick up at some point after Miranda flew to Cleveland. This show hasn't shown a lot of things they should have shown. The writers would probably argue they didn't have enough time but I think it's just that they didn't want to deal with some things.
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8 hours ago, Black Knight said:
I don't think Sam trolled for married guys; I just don't think she was someone who cared per se about the morality of sleeping with a married man. She didn't specifically pursue married men, but if she met one she was attracted to who reciprocated her attraction, then she was fine with it. She was the type who would think that it's strictly on the person who took vows. What she didn't want were two things: 1) drama - no wife finding out about the affair 2) no men leaving their wives to be with her, because she didn't want to commit.
Feel free to judge me but I have a lot in common with Samantha. Probably why she was always my favorite.
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13 hours ago, TheGreenKnight said:
I think it deserved commenting on for exactly the reason Sunny said, that these figures want to turn everything (even M&M's) into a "culture war" issue.
My problem with the M & M thing is the company said they are putting the female M & M in a lower heel/sneaker because they think that is more representative of their consumer. Does candy have demographics? Do people who wear high heels not eat M & M's? Maybe I took it personally because I do in fact wear high heels and have been known to eat M & M's. But I do agree Tucker Carlson will use anything to continue his fantasy of it's a war on conservatism.
14 hours ago, Blissfool said:And then they followed it by talking about Tiktok's West Elm Caleb
As soon as I hear the words Tik Tok I instantly zone out. Could.not.care.less.
17 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:Yes, he is. Like Ana said--each family has a STOOPID. And this guy is the Kennedys'.
True but he isn't just stupid. He is dangerous. If he wasn't a Kennedy nobody would pay him any attention. But his name gives him some credibility with people who are already poised to believe what some people call disinformation but I call lies. From what I have read his wife Cheryl Hines doesn't share his anti vax beliefs.
17 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:Loved Whoopi ripping Bill Mahr a new one. Like she said, NOBODY wants to live like this, but we don’t want people to die either! Why is that so hard to understand? What an ass.
Bill Maher is always going to be Bill Maher. His beliefs are always going to be about being able to do whatever he wants to do. Everyone else be damned.
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It was interesting to read how even though there is queer representation on the show, it's not necessarily being done in the way queer people would have liked.
Made worse by the fact there are at least two LGBTQ writers on staff. And of course Cynthia Nixon and Sara Ramirez.
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4 minutes ago, Lethallyfab said:
For frick’s sake, the original show had an episode devoted to a subplot where Samantha worried that she was HIV+ and even *that* had the writers mining a few laughs from it.
I still literally laugh out loud whenever I watch that episode and Samantha starts to faint when the doctor asks to see her in that room.
They did tackle serious subjects and injected humor without minimalizing the seriousness of things. They also would show the heartbreak of things without it being too depressing. Miranda’s mom dying and Charlotte's miscarriage come to mind.
AJLT doesn't do any of that. And honestly they aren't even trying.
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1 hour ago, txhorns79 said:
I don't recall Steve saying he cheatineted because he wasn't getting any at home. My thought was the lack of sex was just a symptom of larger problems between he and Miranda. I think that kind of has repeated itself with AJLT.
For me I thought that was the implication.
And you are right it seems to have happened again and this time it's Miranda who sought it elsewhere. So why does she get to think she is in a rom com when she excoriated Steve for only straying once and not even emotionally investing in someone else like she has?
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And Just Like That in the Media
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I liked Miranda in SATC. I even identified with her a lot. However never did I once think she should be the focus of the show.
I think most of us here thought Cynthia Nixon had an agenda with this show and it seems we were right.