And just like that season 3 starts May 30th

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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?

You've just reminded me that Kristin Davis can actually act! The miscarriage storyline was so well done. I think her face might be less over filled than in previous seasons. It's just so hard to act when you can't move your face properly. She's resorted to exaggerated stereotypical posh woman cliche facial expressions and posh yelling at everyone. I saw a YouTube short of the moment Carrie finds out Big isn't coming to the wedding and Charlotte's facial expression was heartbreaking. She used to be able to emote and now it's blank.

@8misskitty8 and more to the point how does she earn money if she is taking 8 years on a documentary - that wardrobe ( revolting as some of it is in my opinion) doesn’t come cheap

Her husband is a seriously wealthy finance guy, the documentary is a passion project which even made, would make her buttons (or capable of only BUYING buttons)

The Aidan storyline is terrible it’s making a mockery of independent women, taking them right back to being thirty something again putting up with the same crap as if they’ve never matured.

the bakery is a ridiculous storyline too. The sight of those men is enough to put you off.

i do love the show though, i wonder if Steve will be in it this time?

Have now watched episode 3 . I hate Carrie and Aidan together .It seems like Carrie just turns into a pathetic and insecure girlfriend - which is a difficult watch . Carrie is fabulously wealthy , has an amazing friendship group and an interesting career that she can work on when she wants. She doesn’t really need a man for validation and if there is one in her life , he should be there to enhance it . Aidan is not doing that !!
I also intensely hate the ad of the series which seems to be played constantly . The one where Aidan smashes Carrie’s window and she does a really annoying laugh .
Carrie could in SATC be a rubbish friend who prioritised her boyfriends over them . The moral of the show was that guys may come and go , but your real loves ( as I think Big said ) were your friends who were a constant in your life . So why do we have to see Carrie putting up with Aidan treating her badly .
I know Carrie bought the huge house as she assumed that Aidan and his three sons would stay over regularly . But it isn’t their house as it was bought by her ( I assume with some of her earnings but a huge chunk from
Big’s estate ) . In the previous episode Carrie wouldn’t buy a table she loved until she had checked in with Aidan . He then said he didn’t like it . So she didn’t buy it .

I was also slightly perturbed in the previous episode when Carrie and Aiden were eating breakfast at her house . It was such a tiny table - she even had to put some breakfast items on the window sill as there was no room . Why would such a huge house have such a small kitchen ? Or even if there was a bigger kitchen elsewhere in the house , why didn’t they eat there
?
Rant over . …On the whole I am enjoying it better this season .

I’m enjoying it more this season, too. I am just taking it for what it is - a visual treat (the clothes, locations, interiors) and seeing where the characters go. It bears no resemblance at all to the SATC series, all the characters seem to have been replaced by AI but I can’t give up on it, it’s like it’s my duty to watch.

I do find there are lots of loose ends - what was the point of the smuggled meds storyline, it didn’t go anywhere. Same as meeting up with Lisette last week and her throwing her phone so it hit that guy in a bar. Maybe that is how shows are written now, White Lotus was the same with loose threads all over the place.

Seema is obviously the new Samantha but in reality she would hate a sap like Carrie banging on about that wet lettuce Aidan all the time.

Hot Fellas bakery or whatever it’s called is old fashioned sexist nonsense, no way would this work in NYC with all the amazing bakeries they have, what woman would go into a tacky themed place like that to buy a seeded loaf from a Chippendale?

But, I’ll press on with it.

There’s a Hot Fellas pop up this weekend in New York:

https://www.instagram.com/macantone/?hl=en

I think Hot Fella’s is aimed at gay men. Maybe the drug storyline hasn’t played out yet. Aiden looked a bit confused, as if he a was an unaware Cathy had asked for the medicine. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I don't care about the drugs storyline. It features either Cathy or Wyatt, two characters I have zero interest or investment in, and/or Aidan, a character I disliked in SATC and now loathe. There are TOO MANY characters in this series and I don't have it in me to engage with them.

Carrie said last episode she was renovating her huge house, waiting 6 months for fabric etc. As Aiden was really into cooking when they used Che’s apartment, maybe there’s a plan to put a new kitchen in?
Id like to see Carrie visit Lisette so we can see what she did with her old apartment!

this is great... thanks!

I love the Anthony/Giuseppe dynamic, both on and off screen. They frequently like each other's comments on IG and seem to genuinely have a nice bond irl.

I am doing a SATC rewatch atm and have sucked teen dds in. Their views are quite interesting. Dd1 adores Samantha. I think I forgot how funny some of her one liners were. They are cringe (dd literally watched bobo the bush through her fingers) but dd sees her as supportive to her friends and true to herself and likes that.

Both love Harry and Charlotte and see them as couple goals. They found the Trey storyline interesting with the ‘perfect’ man not being perfect (dd1s bf is having boy trouble in that she has a nice boy interested in her but bf wants the perfect boy. Dd1 was like ‘you need Harry not Trey).

Miranda they don’t quite get, they love Antony and Stanford. Carrie they get a bit bored of.

they CANNOT stand Aiden! Dd1 picked it up after they get back together and she keeps saying ‘but he’s mean to her, he’s not forgiven her, why is she putting up with him’. They thought Berger was a massive man baby. Big they can’t see the appeal but they do think he actually likes her. Probably because they’ve picked it up from half way so didn’t see the behaviour at the start.

worryingly we are now at petrophsky (sp) and dd2 thinks he’s hot for an older man….

You’re brave with teens. Some of the SATC Samantha scenes are 😳😳

Why is Carrie putting up with Aiden relegating her to the guest house like she’s a dirty secret. Also why on earth is his ex phoning her up to bring drugs, and she does it. This is just a stupid storyline. Get rid of Aiden.

I can't remember if I've said this before, but it's something I've thought for a long time since the ending of SATC, how Carrie changed in the movies, and now with the Aiden storyline: I think this is Carrie in fairy tale mode, the same mode the character has been in since SATC's ending, when Big "rescued" her from Paris.

Her rejection of her marriage to Big is akin to her waking up from a 20 year spell and realising she was rescued by a wicked wizard. Her one true prince is still out there!

In AJLT with Aiden, she's in princess mode, patiently waiting for Prince Aidan to slay his dragons, after which he can come to her. Or she's Penelope to his Odysseus, staying true and resisting other suiters while he's on his 5 year quest with his son.

In this episode, we have Aidan "rescuing" Carrie (after the car mishap). But it's not their time yet. So where does he put her? The visual imagery at the end of the episode makes her look like she's in a tower, separated from her prince, whose dragons haven't been slayed yet. She's lost her belongings (still in the car boot), but she's the resourceful princess who will merrily carry on, like all the other fairy princesses who lose their princess trappings but carry on regardless because they strong and faithful that they will get their happy ending if they are patient.

All the other friend characters are her sidekicks - her dwarfs or some such!

Kathy and the meds. Is that Kathy in wicked witch/evil queen mode persuading Carrie to bring poison apples to Aiden and his son? What was that look he gave her when she handed them over?

All of this fairy tale fluff feeds into Carrie's fiction writing. Her passages sound like Mills & Boon.

Edit: Should have added. This is all in stark contact to the Carrie of SATC, who repeatedly rolled her eyes at all the "fake" romance stuff, a theme running through her time with Alexandr Petrovsky - telling him to dial down the Russian romanticism. Right up until they were in Paris and she told him she wanted crazy, impossible love - which miraculously arrived in the form of Big to "rescue" her.

I googled Kathy as recognised the actress but couldn’t place her & turns out she’s married to Berger in real life!

I assume there’s more to the adderall storyline to come but totally not interested in anything to do with Aiden. Really hope Carrie dumps him soon & finds a fabulous man who treats her properly!

I wish we had more Steve. Old Steve from SATC. Not the doddering AJLT one.
I always liked him the best of all the men.

Did anyone notice Charlotte's gallery-Kasabian- is named after a Manson girl?

I don't know that is so very deserving of anyone particularly fabulous 🤣. I mean, she's grand, attractive, rich etc but also vain, shallow and self obsessed. Her re-writing of her time with Big to suit the current narrative of re-uniting with Aiden paints her in a very poor light. She has such main character syndrome.

What’s a Manson girl?

Follower of Charles Manson.

She is the main character @theleafandnotthetree so I’m fine with that! I love all of them & loving the series!

Fair!

'However, Carrie NEVER wears nail polish'

Well, almost never. She had dark red nails during the episodes featuring John Slattery as the peeing politician but I think it was literally 2 or 3 episodes and then back to bare nails

There were some funny lines this week like 'my high school crush was Jesus' 😁 the whole Hot Fellas thing is very SATC. The original show often treated gay men as a cross between pets and accessories. Enjoyed LTW showing up with the cavalry! Although they could have made more of it and given her a good entrance line at least

Aidan gets worse every week. Dear god what an arsehole. The Adderol storyline was weird, I hope it goes somewhere. Or maybe I don't really care

Adored SJP's very fitted glamorous pink dress with the more slouchy striped cardigan and crazy heels. Very Carrie

I'm here for Seema and the gardener, if it becomes a thing

The Kathy actress was also Miranda's colleague, Fern, in SATC. Memorable for keeping tabs on Miranda when she was falling behind on her 60 hour working week as a new mum.

I thought the guy who employed her at the gallery, after they met at LTW’s anniversary dinner, was Mark Kasabian?