And Just Like That..is anyone actually enjoy it?

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I’m three episodes in, and I’m like “meh”
Not very funny and depressing…
Hate all the “box ticking “ it’s overtaking the show
Charlottes daughter can’t just be a tom boy ( which in itself would be funny ) she has to be -whatever they were saying? Transgender?
3 min “comedy sketch” about being Bi….?
Charlotte and Stanford don’t like each other?
Big wanking ..( eew)
Steve just going “eh? What?”
Carrie totally ignoring Charlottes warning about Miranda’s drinking?
Miranda’s Prof saying she was a White Saviour when trying to point out to the guard he was being unreasonable?
Everyone mentioning their age every scene?
Why would Carrie be putting herself through the embarrassment of a vulgar podcast when she’s clearly retired writing and married to a millionaire?

I’m debating whether to just imagine them, all running home from the desert where my imagination left left after SATC2 …

I did not enjoy it at first, but I kept going and watched the whole season and eventually came to really like it. There were some cringe moments but I think there was in the original series!

@RoyKentsChestHair

Yeah I liked the teacher guy too, we didn’t see enough of the producer to give a shit. Obvs he’s handsome but who even is he?

I kind of thought that was the point. All that build up and over-thinking with the teacher, but when it came down to it what she needed was a hot guy that she wanted to snog.

Though he had blown smoke up her arse by encouraging her to strike out with her own podcast, so that obviously helped!

I really enjoyed it.

I found the Miranda storyline plausible in that I think there are people who go to ‘find themselves’ and their identify and they are invariably fucking selfish. They really don’t care what damage they do because their commitment to authenticity (their own - not yours) is so intense they don’t GAF about anyone else.

The radio guy she kisses at the end....I remember wondering in the earlier episodes if anything would happen between them.

He seemed an ancillary character, but there were a couple of scenes where the camera lingered on him and he looked like he was looking at her in a "l like you" type way.

It was never reflected in the same look back (mostly as he was producing and she was at the podcast table with Che and that other guy).

So it didn't come as a huge surprise when he had a bit more of a voice in the last episode and then went onto kiss her. It was all planned.

Not interested at all after the reviews I've read plus the complete nonsense of the films.

Such a shame as the original show was so good.

@KhaleesiOfChaos

Not interested at all after the reviews I've read plus the complete nonsense of the films.

Such a shame as the original show was so good.

I've never understood people who read reviews and base their opinion on others people's opinions. Odd.

I enjoyed it, nowhere near as good as SATC but very watchable.

@MissTrip82

I really enjoyed it.

I found the Miranda storyline plausible in that I think there are people who go to ‘find themselves’ and their identify and they are invariably fucking selfish. They really don’t care what damage they do because their commitment to authenticity (their own - not yours) is so intense they don’t GAF about anyone else.

I agree that's plausible though maybe an odd choice for a main role viewers are meant to connect with. It's more the romance with che, the specifics of it, that seem off. It's hard to imagine it playing out that way.

I've read a few online pieces on it, from a varying range of sources, and the one thing that unites all of them is that the Che Diaz character failed, and that therefore it dragged everything else down.

Other than that, there's mixed views on the success of other new characters/storylines, not all of which I remotely agree with, but it's interesting to see other perspectives.

But literally none of them thought that Che, being Che, was right.

@MissTrip82

I really enjoyed it.

I found the Miranda storyline plausible in that I think there are people who go to ‘find themselves’ and their identify and they are invariably fucking selfish. They really don’t care what damage they do because their commitment to authenticity (their own - not yours) is so intense they don’t GAF about anyone else.

I agree, this is true. However, it sounds from interviews with the writers and Cynthia Nixon that we were seriously supposed to empathise with and applaud Miranda’s s behaviour as empowering (whilst sparing a thought for how “difficult” it is for others) not shake ou

Sorry posted whilst typing by mistake.

…not shake our heads and think she’s become selfish.

That said, I wonder if they were inspired by the likes of Elizabeth “Eat, Pray, Love” Gilbert - held up as an inspiration to many, many women but a self-confessed adulterer who’s life story mirrors Miranda’s. I can see how the writers might see Elizabeth “self discovery” receiving adulation and thus expecting similar for Miranda.

I think if Steve was made more unpleasant - an affair or two of his own perhaps - we might have had more sympathy. Or if she'd accepted she was actually a lesbian and was unfulfilled even - not just a I'm madly in love and I don't see the gender but the person, type thing. Che is clearly a transitional relationship, not a keeper!

Ancient Steve was another thing no one liked now I think of it. I saw an interview with the actor at the launch of the series and he comes across as twenty years younger. He also doesn’t speak the same way but he does describe himself as doing a ‘bad Brooklyn accent’ for the show.

Just noticed the episode where Carrie takes Berger to Prada, the sales assistant looks like Camille's husband in Emily in Paris and pretty sure he also appeared in AJLT...

I meant Sylvie's husband and it is him, William Abadie.

Is Sylvie’s husband the guy who Seema hooked up with? I recognized him too! I thought it was her lover, no?

Steve really pissed me off... My DH is the same age, would have been in similar jobs to Steve. He hasn’t become ancient, sitting in the sofa eating ice cream & watching telly... He’s older, but still into the same things!

"I have found AJLT unbelievably depressing. Artificial, superficial, unbelievable, inauthentic, charmless and alienating. All the fluff and froth of the original without any of the wit or authenticity."
This, sadly. I have been watching some of the old SATC and the way the characters contrast and complement each other, the way they get space to be themselves. And the warmth and humour. None of that is here any more. Characters are pushed into plots to fit the storylines the writers have in mind and it just feels weird.
Not that it's all bad. I think Carrie's storyline worked best. Charlotte's was nothingy and Miranda's, well, it's all been said.

"Or they could have made Nya lesbian and not bothered with the fertility storyline at all, it hasn't added anything except to act as a source of strain in Nya's marriage."

I think it was done to tie in with Miranda and her ambivalent feelings about marriage and motherhood. She is now where Nya could be. She wasn't sure about having Brady.

Season two confirmed parade.com/1329188/tinadonvito/and-just-like-that-season-2/

Oh I am actually pleased! Plenty of time for them to assess the feedback as well.

Hopefully Cynthia Nixon will have very limited input in the second series.

I can't imagine they'll bring back Che after all the backlash for that character.

They might not bring Che back…

heatworld.com/celebrity/news/recast-samantha-just-like-that/

Glad you all had somewhere to vent!
I never did make it past the 3rd episode!

Yeah , not for me. Ill not be watching a second series
Ill be back watching reruns on sky comedy

I'm so pleased there's a season 2, I loved it!

Me too

It would be weird to have a Samantha who is not Kim Catrall! Hope that doesn't happen.

And yes, please get rid of 'Che'. Or at least stop her from doing stand-up. Not funny.