And Just Like That (The Anthony Appreciation Society)

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First thread….
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4819133-and-just-like-that

Spoilers etc.
Everyone posts when they’ve seen the episode so probably best to avoid the thread until you’re up to date.

Ha yes, I can just about forgive him for the abomination that was Ross Geller after seeing him in BOB. Might need to have a BOB binge watch now!

Can you remember Carrie making a pie in some ridiculous hill billy girl outfit, then dropping it because she saw a squirrel and went bananas about hating the country. That’s the real Carrie - playing make believe/dress up and not actually caring about reality until it bursts her stupid fantasy bubble. And ffs, isn’t Central Park stuffed with squirrels? How will she cope with any sort of country life if she can’t cope with a common city animal?

*going bananas

That’s the real Carrie - playing make believe/dress up and not actually caring about reality until it bursts her stupid fantasy bubble

All of this!!

Jumping on so I don’t lose the thread again- absolutely Carrie is finding it intoxicating to jump back in with Aiden, but I still think they’re both playing out a fantasy. I think he was being silly over not going back up to the flat- it’s been two decades, she redecorated, you’d have a drink and crack a joke about the floor still looking nice. I also don’t think it’ll end well and I don’t think her sons will be over the moon about meeting her either. I was cringing at the scene in Che’s apartment when she came home and they were cooking- it was screaming ‘LOOK AT US! Are we not so loved up and connected?!’ It just smacked of playing house like a pair of early twenty somethings that lived with their parents might act out as a novelty when they had the house to themselves.

Something about them is feeling really try-hard, for me.

I don’t think her sons will be over the moon about meeting her either.

Or Carrie them.

Sorry, sorry Che- when THEY came home.

Yes I do remember this. As if she would have ever made a pie. She barely eats never mind pastry based stodge 😂

The whole Norfolk farmhouses thing was stupid. They were clearly houses in England, they didn’t look American.

Separately Howard’s End is in Hertfordshire not Norfolk.

Exactly this @LittleBearPad

Plus, we've already seen that Carrie is now relatively tech-savvy so there's no way she wouldn't have known that she was looking at English homes, not American. The style and architecture is so different you couldn't mix them up

So ignorant and crass.
self parody of the American who would think Norfolk / Herefordshiyah/ Wooochestershishiyuh are one and all in the same thing

except she is apparently a well travelled, well read, cosmopolitan woman. 🤔

Always a giveaway when the listings prices appear in pounds, and not dollars too, you’d have thought.

Although that episode did give us the very funny scene of Samantha nipping to the next door farm to get milk for Carrie, her milking a cow and bedding Young MacDonald - ee eye ee eye oh!

Do you think now that MPK has hooked in Kim Catrall for a cameo, they might do a spin off of Samantha’s adventures in Europe? I miss her.

The internet results were so very obviously English that I found myself wondering rewound to see if I'd missed the bit where Aiden actually commuted transatlantically.

Off the back of this thread I watched SATC2 movie at the weekend. Good Lord it was so bad. Carrie is a complete dick head in it, so selfish. I was cringing throughout at the stereotyping and the way they portrayed Samantha - being sexually liberated does not mean you can't be respectful of another culture in a foreign country; no wonder she wanted no part of AJLT. The Irish nanny too, they may as well have dressed her up as a leprechaun ffs. Best scene in it was Charlotte and Miranda talking about motherhood (and anything with Anthony obvs).

SATC2. The film that gave us the term "Laurence of my Labia"...

Cringe

Huge cringe 😬 😂

Ah, you see, that is SO BAD that it became one of the best bits of the film for me.

The films were terrible. So bad.

I remember Charlotte being jealous of the Irish, nanny as far as Harry was concerned, but she turned out to be a lesbian so that was all fine

One of the many mysteries of SATC2, is why Abu Dhabi agreed to have its name dragged through the mud, and their citizens portrayed in such an awful manner. I'm not defending AD (which has an awful human rights record and deserves to be criticised), I just don't know why they would go along with it. I guess there was a bit of woke washing of women's rights - they wear designer gear under their oppressive outer garments, so that's ok. But then the state will turn on Western women stepping out of the lines laid down by local men - and that's good advertising how?

Miranda's cringe worthy transformation began in this film with her "Interfrentions". Kim Catrall must have felt humiliated by some of her scenes, especially the one with the condoms in the square surrounded by local men. Samantha, the mistress of public relations and understanding her surroundings, would never have created a situation where she was being arrested for sex crimes. Charlotte was once again made the fool and the butt of Carrie being a bitch (first the pooing herself in SATC1, then the camel toe nonsense in this film). The romanticisation of Indian labourers who get stuck in these states far away from family, and sometimes never getting out because their human rights are practically non existent. It's all so lousy, a turd of a film, wrapped up in cheap, nasty rhinestones.

I think I read that they filmed SATC2 in Morocco as Abu Dabi refused to let them film there. (The article I read that in was a critique of the film at the time it came out though so I may be misremembering it)

I also remember rolling my eyes at Samantha's portrayal in that film, she's a very successful woman who owns a PR firm, surely she knows how to behave in different settings yet she seems to act like some rich kid idiot not understanding how the cultural differences would work.

Tbh the whole film was just an awful "look at our luxery" type of tone deaf silliness.

I can’t tell you how often I’ve watched the Mark Kermode rant on SATC2. If anyone hasn’t seen it I urge you to seek it out now.

My sympathies. It’s shit.

I agree - it was epic and I concur with him totally. Here it is:

I actually quite liked the first film, but the second was just offensive. No wonder Kim Cattrall fled.

Absolutely all of this, and the posts that followed. A car crash of a film - I'm off to watch the Mark Kermode rant.