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AJLT... With spoilers!

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ReeseWitherfork · 09/12/2021 12:06

Just finished episode one and need to talk about it!!!

Didn't like much of the episode to be honest. But the ending! I'm floored! Was not expecting that.

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GreenClock · 06/01/2022 19:27

Anthony saved that episode. I also think that SJP is a very realistic widow, I’m enjoying her acting.

Janice Turner us spot on.

I didn’t realise that the writing team had been infiltrated by that weird group. It explains a lot.

I liked the Diwali scenes (Seema, like Anthony, is lifting the show) but didn’t believe that a 55yo university educated New Yorker wouldn’t have been aware of what it was until now.

More Steve and Harry would be good.

AsYouWishButtercup · 06/01/2022 19:30

Loved Carrie’s Diwali outfit - especially the hair!

Did not miss Che this week. Could have done without seeing the grotesque flashbacks

CloseYourEyesAndSee · 06/01/2022 19:51

@VodselForDinner

A scene in today’s episode really bothered me…

Surely Miranda could have disengaged the vibrator before speaking to Brady? Seriously, who does that?

Yeah that was grim A call back to the scene where he was a baby and she was shrieking 'mummy's coming' whilst having an orgasm?
Unihorn · 06/01/2022 20:45

Loved this week's, except for the vibrator scene which I could've done without!

VodselForDinner · 06/01/2022 20:59

I can't believe they managed to get Madhur Jaffrey to play her mother!

Seema’s dad was also a familiar face. He was the waiter she kissed when she was stood up.

AJLT... With spoilers!
CloseYourEyesAndSee · 06/01/2022 21:02

@VodselForDinner

I can't believe they managed to get Madhur Jaffrey to play her mother!

Seema’s dad was also a familiar face. He was the waiter she kissed when she was stood up.

I thought it was him!!!
Wanderingowl · 06/01/2022 21:33

To be entirely fair to Carrie/the writers, the Hindu population of New York is about 20% of the population of the UK and it's grown more recently so hasn't yet had anything like the cultural impact as the UK Hindu population has. So Diwali would not be so universally known about. None of the American commentators on Reddit/Youtube seem to think she should have an awareness of what Diwali is.

I enjoyed the first half of the picnic scene. But once the conversation went from being about Miranda cheating to the awkward forced lecture around Che's gender/Miranda's sexuality it went from enjoyable to painful in an instant. I know Charlotte is Charlotte, but she wouldn't care in that way about Miranda's sexuality. She would care about adultery/the end of Miranda's marriage. She would have asked a lot more questions about what it meant for Miranda and Steve than bothering to tell Miranda she's not progressive enough to be 'pansexual.' So it was sad for it to go from the first scene where I was actually enjoying it a little bit for real, to turning straight into a weird, awkward life lesson on queer acceptance or whatever.

And fucking hell, the vibrator scene. What the actual hell!!!! No wonder Brady thinks it's ok to loudly fuck his girlfriend in the next room. And how could anyone actually continue onto an orgasm while talking about mundane shit about a math tutor to anyone, never mind your own child?

Also Carrie's outfit in the storage unit was next level ridiculous.

Pl242 · 06/01/2022 21:34

Kristoff from Frozen/King George from Hamilton as the plastic surgeon was a surprise.

StripeySnail · 06/01/2022 21:55

I thought tonight's episode was ridiculously boring!

AJLT has its faults and isn't a patch on SATC but I have enjoyed the other episodes. Tonight's was the worst so far for me though.

Yorkshirelass04 · 06/01/2022 22:47

I thought the plastic surgery scene was cute and thought provoking but the rest of it was tedious and preachy as usual.

I will continue to watch it out of duty not because it raises a smile anymore.

boogiewithasuitcase · 06/01/2022 22:55

Cynthia Nixon directed this week's episode. Which explains a lot...

JacquelineCarlyle · 06/01/2022 23:53

I thought this weeks episode was great and am enjoying it each week.

Carrie not knowing about Diwali wasn't a surprise to me, having lived in the US for quite some time. It's not something that would be on their radar unless they had a Hindu friend (which we know Carrie hasn't had, until now!) as it's not widely reported / celebrated outside of those who directly celebrate.

Thanks for pointing out who the doctor was - it was annoying me that I couldn't place him!

HaveringWavering · 07/01/2022 00:02

I haven’t read the whole thread so apologies if I’m repeating anything, but the smoking really surprised me! Not so much Che and the spliffs but Carrie and Seema smoking fags, inside and out. In the back of a car ffs, who does that? I get that it’s meant to be harking back to the original but we’ve definitely moved in from fags, surely? I know I have…

The rest of it- patchy and weird in places but I’m letting it wash over me and just enjoying; there is enough of the feel of SATC in its heyday to keep me happy and I like seeing the old characters and can live with them not being entirely consistent.

Sara Ramirez was quite good playing a dialled-down Che type in Madam Secretary and did anyone recognise Seema as Saul’s wife Meera from Homeland? Madhur Jaffrey as her Mum, good spot!

I wonder if we’ll see Aidan or Berger or The Russian again?

GellerYeller · 07/01/2022 00:27

I think it's confirmed that Aidan will return @HaveringWavering.
Can't believe that was Samantha's waiter and the dr who was in Hamilton!
Anthony had such funny moments in the original SATC: 'hates it!' (In Vera Wang), 'Chanello', and his bridezilla who gave herself a stroke but 'pulled it together for the big day'. Grin. Glad he's getting more screen time now.

GreenClock · 07/01/2022 00:31

Tangent, but the Aiden actor married Bo Derek quite recently.

GellerYeller · 07/01/2022 00:36

Also I was convinced when Carrie said 'this isn't healthy' into thin air in her apartment that they had hastily edited out a Big flashback/apparition!

HaveringWavering · 07/01/2022 00:36

Yes great spot re Jonathon Groff, I knew he seemed familiar! Also played Jesse leader of the rival school choir in Glee of course.

Oh also the husband of Charlotte’s school Mom friend was also in Hamilton, he played George Washington.

Thatswhatmamasaid · 07/01/2022 02:02

I also can't believe Seema's dad was Samantha's waiter in SATC good catch! In my mind I imagined he looked the same after all these years Blush.

Agree with the PP who said that Miranda's vibrator moment was a callback to the 'mommy's coming' episode.

Madhur Jaffrey's daughter Sakinah was in the SATC episode 'Splat!'.

I am enjoying looking out for the Easter Eggs and callbacks in the new series more than anything else. I hope if there is another season they could get rid of Che and the other podcast guy and turn down the wokeness just a little bit. Kim Catrall doing a cameo would be brilliant but that is unlikely.

boogiewithasuitcase · 07/01/2022 08:58

What I did really like was the theme of how the characters were finding the strength to adapt to their changed life situations and how this also included Anthony and Seema, perhaps Nya too, I'm not sure yet.

I was surprised to see Miranda doing the household laundry - didn't she have a housekeeper in the original series? It felt stereotypical and not true to her character, for me.

Youdoyoutoday · 07/01/2022 09:02

@Wanderingowl and Charlotte turning up to the storage unit dressed as Jackie O! 🤦‍♀️

NurseButtercup · 07/01/2022 09:10

@Yorkshirelass04

I thought the plastic surgery scene was cute and thought provoking but the rest of it was tedious and preachy as usual.

I will continue to watch it out of duty not because it raises a smile anymore.

I will continue to watch it out of duty not because it raises a smile anymore

What??

Why are you being a martyr?

You do realise that watching TV is designed for entertainment & relaxation??

MustardLoseIt · 07/01/2022 09:18

I've enjoyed the last couple of episodes a lot more. I'm looking forward to watching it each week! Carries outfits are glorious as always.

HaveringWavering · 07/01/2022 09:21

@boogiewithasuitcase

What I did really like was the theme of how the characters were finding the strength to adapt to their changed life situations and how this also included Anthony and Seema, perhaps Nya too, I'm not sure yet.

I was surprised to see Miranda doing the household laundry - didn't she have a housekeeper in the original series? It felt stereotypical and not true to her character, for me.

Of course, Miranda had “Mohgda” and she was a housekeeper/cleaner before she became Brady’s nanny didn’t she?

They are skating over the fact that Miranda spent 15 years as a partner in a New York corporate law firm (I remember the episode where she made partner). I work in this field so I know that the money she would have earned by 55 would have been more than enough to retire very comfortably, especially with only one child to support. To be fair, they haven’t really suggested that her stepping away has had significant financial implications, but it’s actually not such a big deal generally as lots of them retire quite early.
Perhaps a doing the laundry was supposed to suggest tightened belts, but I think that even people with a housekeeper probably do set foot in their own laundry room from time to time! And she did have a nice separate utility!

HaveringWavering · 07/01/2022 09:24

It was actually much more unrealistic in the original series that Miranda as a young corporate lawyer aiming for partnership ever finished work before 10pm or had a weekend free, and managed to go on any dates at all. The hours are notoriously brutal.

NurseButtercup · 07/01/2022 09:26

@LondonWolf

I have a lot to criticise - the wokeness/Miranda is excruciating - but a lot to love too. Anthony, Harry and I don’t even mind Charlotte and her nonsense. Carrie I always loved anyway - flawed and self absorbed as she is. I don’t even mind Che as a character though fast forwarded through the “comedy” routine and her kitchen scene with Miranda. Mostly I am enjoying it and I wouldn’t miss an episode which tells me I am hooked. I think these days that people love to slate and criticise and find “problematic” more than they love to praise and SM amplifies those attitudes and makes it seem as though the target of the criticism is utterly despised when in reality most people are probably not bothered/quite enjoying it. I’d like to see it renewed but the Loving To Hate on SM will prevent that.
I understood the intention for AJLT was only to be a one off series, which would explain why they are trying to shoe horn in so many topics. At this stage a 2nd series would be a surprise bonus (in my opinion).

I think these days that people love to slate and criticise and find “problematic” more than they love to praise and SM amplifies those attitudes and makes it seem as though the target of the criticism is utterly despised when in reality most people are probably not bothered/quite enjoying it

I agree with this. When a TV show is bad, people turn off and stop talking about it. People are telling on themselves with their commitment to detail exactly why they hate it and why they are so personally offended lmao.