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And just like that season 3 starts May 30th

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Netaporter · 01/05/2024 23:21

Anyone wanna join in with the pre-screening goss and hype?

Me first… SJP has posted her run through nameplate on insta. But so has this actor - a rumoured love interest for Miranda? What do we think?

And just like that season 3 starts May 30th
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greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 08:41

CharlotteRumpling · 01/06/2025 07:13

You can just tell that scene was written by a man.
No woman would find that sexy.

Didn’t see the licking. What’s that about? Men don’t need lube to wank….. do they? Been married 29 years, maybe things have changed .😂

Doubleraspberry · 01/06/2025 08:46

The internet tells me that lubrication can be required for circumcised men to wank effectively. I guess way more common in the States than here. File under: things I don’t really want to know more about.

greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 08:47

Doubleraspberry · 01/06/2025 08:46

The internet tells me that lubrication can be required for circumcised men to wank effectively. I guess way more common in the States than here. File under: things I don’t really want to know more about.

Ohhh! Thanks for that. Filed.

greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 08:49

Seem to remember Big using it too when that other cringe scene in series 1 happened- Carrie asked him to masturbate as part of her ‘column’ research-pardon the pun.😳

theleafandnotthetree · 01/06/2025 08:53

Crikeyalmighty · 31/05/2025 09:27

Are you all watching the same thing as me - I’ve always been a huge fan, although totally hated the Che character - to me it feels stilted, awkward , poorly written , charlottes acting is truly terrible plus she looks frozen and odd - I feel sorry for SjP and Cynthia Nixon who are better than this. Plus the wokeness is still off the scale, I’m totally all for representation but the idea a swanky restaurant in New York is wall to wall well off black people simply is fantasy land and makes it feel inauthentic . and I’ve been to NY lots of times. I also don’t like any of the new characters. It’s all very disjointed, the wanking stuff was really yukky and there’s an awful lot of chronic overacting - SJP and Cynthia Nixon excepted

I have actually been to that restaurant and it is not that swanky, moreso very hip and I can confirm that there were very many black people there, why wouldn't there be? I was dead chuffed to see it in the show, we went when I was in New York with my children 2 years ago.

greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 08:54

Also just wanted to vent about the Aiden 5 year wait request. These teen boys go on school trips maybe or holiday with their mum? How come he can’t see Carrie then? Or she could fly there and see him while they are at school/ college. Just unacceptable I’m afraid Aiden and I hope we’re gonna see Carrie dump him.

Netaporter · 01/06/2025 09:46

dayswithaY · 01/06/2025 07:22

This is always my problem with this show and SATC, male writers who get it wrong. Like Charlotte being a shrieking housewife and Miranda falling for Che.

They really did their audience dirty when Carrie said Aidan was the love of her life, not Big. What have we been watching all these years then? That was the main premise of the show, Carrie always wanting Big but never getting what she wanted from him. Aidan was always second best.

That van scene has just given the ick to every single viewer. I feel sorry for Carrie, she needs to be rescued.

Seema is gorgeous but every time I see her I just think she must stink of fags.

The issue of Chris Noth being cancelled IRL was dealt with via the storyline. I was annoyed about it too.

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Crikeyalmighty · 01/06/2025 10:38

@theleafandnotthetree yes someone explained earlier what it is and in Harlem - I was clearly tea making at that point , so got it wrong !!

greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 12:40

I’m just rewatching after reading the absolute pasting that the press has given it. A bit harsh I think - The Independent’s write-up. I mean it’s not supposed to be a perfect group of humans living in Manhatten. Charlotte has always been a bit prim and Carrie always dressed ostentatiously. That hat though! One mystery solved- LTW took our rattan solar string lights and reworked them into a statement necklace!!
The other thing that I noticed is all the eating of ice cream, fries and burgers and booze. These women clearly only eat green salads and lean protein.
Having said that I’m happy to suspend reality for the most part.

CharlotteRumpling · 01/06/2025 12:42

I have a theory about Charlotte's story arc but I can't voice it, I guess. But it's just a hunch.

DappledThings · 01/06/2025 12:43

CharlotteRumpling · 01/06/2025 12:42

I have a theory about Charlotte's story arc but I can't voice it, I guess. But it's just a hunch.

Why can't you? It's not a spoiler if it's just your guesses

CharlotteRumpling · 01/06/2025 12:45

ok. I think Harry is going to be unwell. He had some medical procedure last season, no? Or he skipped it.

Netaporter · 01/06/2025 12:48

CharlotteRumpling · 01/06/2025 12:45

ok. I think Harry is going to be unwell. He had some medical procedure last season, no? Or he skipped it.

I’ve already said this upthread 😂

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greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 12:48

Hmmm I thought he was ok in the end. Why is Carrie still wearing bras in bed … alone? I get the no nudity thing but has she heard of PJs?

Netaporter · 01/06/2025 12:49

Crikeyalmighty · 01/06/2025 10:38

@theleafandnotthetree yes someone explained earlier what it is and in Harlem - I was clearly tea making at that point , so got it wrong !!

It was me 😂

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Netaporter · 01/06/2025 12:50

greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 12:48

Hmmm I thought he was ok in the end. Why is Carrie still wearing bras in bed … alone? I get the no nudity thing but has she heard of PJs?

It’s as far as she is prepared to go apparently. PJ’s are a Charlotte thing I think?

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Netaporter · 01/06/2025 12:51

greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 08:54

Also just wanted to vent about the Aiden 5 year wait request. These teen boys go on school trips maybe or holiday with their mum? How come he can’t see Carrie then? Or she could fly there and see him while they are at school/ college. Just unacceptable I’m afraid Aiden and I hope we’re gonna see Carrie dump him.

Hopefully it is a plot device to get rid of him 🤞

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CharlotteRumpling · 01/06/2025 12:51

Netaporter · 01/06/2025 12:48

I’ve already said this upthread 😂

Oh! It seems signposted.

I would like Steve back. I know everybody always found him annoying but I liked him. Apart from when he cheated.

But please god no Brady. What a creepy, weepy, inconsiderate teen.

greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 12:52

Netaporter · 01/06/2025 12:50

It’s as far as she is prepared to go apparently. PJ’s are a Charlotte thing I think?

Maybe a satin camisole? Don’t buy the underwired lacy bra in bed. No woman sleeps like that. Not alone anyway. Again, male writing

Netaporter · 01/06/2025 12:53

greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 08:49

Seem to remember Big using it too when that other cringe scene in series 1 happened- Carrie asked him to masturbate as part of her ‘column’ research-pardon the pun.😳

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Also completely cringe.

This is stuff we know goes on behind closed doors - like knickers we wore during periods. No one needs to see those either. 😂

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greengreyblue · 01/06/2025 12:58

Michael Patrick King , the writer, is a gay 70 year old so maybe we are getting a little too much insight into the workings of male anatomy! 😂
Having said that, this is a follow up to sex and the city but I feel that felt more in tune with women.

CharlotteRumpling · 01/06/2025 12:59

Another example of male writing: once kick ass Miranda enduring Brady's incessant noisy sex and rudeness.
As if!

PurplebeadedFendi · 01/06/2025 13:01

Netaporter · 31/05/2025 09:09

Because I’d imagine they are setting her up to move in with Carrie? No way Miranda would not have invested her cash into a property.

I agree.

I am continually confused about where Miranda's money went. Given that she made partner early in the SATC series (series 2 I think), she'd have been a fairly senior equity partner by the start of the movies and easily on 7 figures by the time she left her first firm in Movie 2. Granted she moved to another firm that was a bit more friendly at the end of the second movie, but I doubt she took too much of a salary hit.

Miranda had a lovely Manhattan apartment for years and probably made a lot of money on the sale, even if she had a mortgage, They bought the house in Brooklyn quite a few years before the area really took off and house prices soared. Never sold it/upgraded, Steve did all the work on it - as he yelled at her in the last series! Had the house for at least 17 years. I would be amazed if it had a mortgage or anything other than a very small mortgage when they sold it. I would have hoped she'd have put in place all the necessary legal measures to protect her equity on divorce, since Steve appears to have paid in zero (name not on the mortgage), as well as having a decent pre-nup in place.

Steve's bar was financed by Aiden, and there's no suggestion Miranda sank any money into it. For that matter, where did all Steve's money go?18-20 years of running a successful Manhattan bar - he must have made something.

One child. presumably privately educated. Not at college, so no funds spent there. Granted they had to pay for Magda's salary for years and Mary's care fees at the end. But still, that's not going to burn through a top lawyer's equity share to the extent that they are struggling for money. I don't understand how they ended up in a position where Miranda was having to sofa surf post Che, and is now living in a Airbnb and not buying a place of her own.

PurplebeadedFendi · 01/06/2025 13:13

Are you all watching the same thing as me - I’ve always been a huge fan, although totally hated the Che character - to me it feels stilted, awkward , poorly written , charlottes acting is truly terrible plus she looks frozen and odd - I feel sorry for SjP and Cynthia Nixon who are better than this.

@Crikeyalmighty I want to say I have a form of AJLT Stockholm Syndrome. At first I hated it and fought against it. Then I hate watched Series 1&2 for the second time. Then I watched it all again, and found myself quietly enjoying it. Then I positively looked forward to the 3rd series. And it's complete garbage, but I am enjoying it! I'm Michael Patrick Whotsit's thought prisoner, and I am no longer fighting it, just accepting the beautiful, decadent ridiculousness of it all.

Doubleraspberry · 01/06/2025 13:14

HBO showed a trailer for the rest of the series after the episode was broadcast which you can find online. It’s a bit spoilery as you’d expect!