And Just like that S3 con't (and hopefully S4) the one where we hope Carrie finally bins Aidan

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All welcome! spoilers allowed on ep release day once the ep is up in the UK.

Anyone but me worried about Charlotte's vertigo. Seemed like it could just be a plot device for the bed joke, but also maybe Harry is a red flag and she's the one seriously ill?

Miranda is as @Icebreakhell said a doppelganger of old Miranda and annoys me.

Aidan, just fuck off NOW. It's so tedious.

That entire karaoke scene was full of Broadway stars not singing. I know they gave George Washington his barbershop moment in the first episode but if I thought more highly of the writing team I’d suspect it was deliberate irony to keep Patty LuPone off the stage. (She did say ‘too much singing for me’ so there WAS a joke about it I guess).

I watched this episode like Miranda doing her work so missed finer points I suspect. Can I bear to watch again? LOVED the sex for Seema - it was proper fun to see and how nice not to have missionary.

My DH has had an op on his bits and I’d say Harry was being pretty realistic! I have no idea why Charlotte needed to fall over. That just felt too slapstick to me. The gallerinas’ repartee about building the Emin bed was funnier.

LTW and her crush on Marian and her sex life with Herbert feels like a return of the Miranda/Steve/Che stuff from series 1. Except obviously Marian is a far, far better prospect for any reasonable person.

Contine to love Joy and think she appears to be acting in a whole different show. I do wonder what drama if any they bring to Joy and Miranda as they have successfully created a really lovely, calm, ‘right’ relationship which is great but is that there where they will leave it?

I just can’t with Carrie and Aidan. It’s just awful. My player autorolled on to an old SATC afterwards (Miranda and Steve’s wedding) and it’s just painful to see the two side by side.

That was rubbish. I fast forwarded through half of it. Do not care about LTW’s storyline at all. Or Giuseppe’s mother. And Aidan and Carrie are so cringe together.

Did you notice the long suffering expression on Carrie's face when Aidan started blathering on about Wyatt? It clearly said " Your demonic spawn can now finally get the meds he needs. But I will have to coddle you now because you are a big man-baby".
Honestly the hot widowed teacher from S 1 has less emotional baggage.

I’d really like to watch this as I LOVED SATC, but…it’s so woke and virtue signally in the first episode…does it get better??

First episode of first series?

I can’t say it improves but it does go mad in various other directions as it progresses.

I knew as soon as Carrie said she was going for a meeting with the writer downstairs that Aidan would interrupt and find a reason to make her stay. And he’s basically turned up to see her because there’s no one at his home.
Imagine if he stayed? He will be lying on those lovely sheets eating fried chicken all over again.
I am worried about Charlotte as my friend’s daughter died of a brain tumour at 51 and started with vertigo.
I did not like seeing that naked woman on that Tracey Emin bed. It felt really uncomfortable.
I am really warming to Seema.
How does Lisa have so much money, when she’s been making the same documentary for years on end? I like the actress, but her character brings zero.
After Che, Miranda’s girlfriend is a cool breath of fresh air.
Carrie’s pink dress was gorgeous - much prefer that style than some of her bonkers outfits.

Actually if you loved SATC maybe just don’t get started on this. It’s like running into old friends you remember fondly and finding out they’ve turned into utter tossers. But everyone around you pretending they’re just the same like you’ve gone mad.

You also don’t yet realise just how MUCH Samantha brings to SATC. And so how much we all miss her now.

It literally made me feel a bit nauseous and @Doubleraspberry- I think you have explained it perfectly!!

That wasn’t a great episode really. Loved Carrie’s pink dress and Charlotte’s jumpsuit (her waist looked tiny). Not a lot happened. Where is it going with the vertigo. Glad Miranda binned the gin.

I hope Aidan heads back to his ranch home and doesn’t come back. Carrie can then get it on with Duncan.

It felt drawn out for the sake of it. FFS Miranda, just eat the f**king biscuit!

Liked Charlotte's dress at the gallery event.

Aidan is a twat. Carrie is a bigger one. The pink dress was nice though. That kid Wyatt gives me ire.

I like LTW acting and Joy.

A boring episode.

Oh my god WTF was that stripy thing Lisa was wearing?? The bow tops it all off.. like a PP said.. off duty clown

Aiden's hair is a disgrace, it looks like a wig, a bad one! Also why can't he just go to the shops while Carrie is below stairs & why is he moaning about Wyatt moving to Cathy's? Jesus wept surely that's a solution for now..

LTW’s clown suit with elephant was a horror, but loved her red jumpsuit. Loved Carrie’s gallery dress too.

yeah in fairness @WinWhenTheyreSinging Lisa's red jumpsuit was savage!! I needed that brain bleach after the clown horror

Straight off the bat, how bloody disrespectful of Aiden just to turn upend expect Carrie to be free for the week. I detected some strain in her voice as they climbed the stairs, and not just from lugging his stuff up the stairs. Why would she choose that horrible carpet for such a beautiful, classic house? Then Aiden's over the top "laughter" to moving her clothes, and his PA reaction to putting his stuff in the "cat's" room. Poor Shoe, has she been consulted? I really can't stand him.

Is it me or does he have the straight, flaccid mouth of a catfish? I can't stand watching them kiss. Urgghh! And I don't want to see his sex face!

Harry. Again, I feel like the old Harry spirit and humour is curiously back, now that he's ill. Lisa looked like a 3 ring circus tent in that striped number. I expected a unicyclist to appear behind her and a trapeze artist to descend from the ceiling. I liked Charlotte in her grey jumpsuit.

Aiden like a bloody toddler over Carrie going to work on her book. What have you got to eat, mummy? How long will you be gone, mummy? Moaning about bloody Wyatt not messaging back when she needs get to a pre-arranged work meeting. Clearly trying to make her feel guilty about leaving him to work. Calling Duncan "Dunkin' Donuts" to belittle him. Christ, why hasn't she got the ick?

Lisa's red jumpsuit looked great on her. Can't summon up the interest in her crush on Marion though.

Seema and Adam. Armpit sex and deodorant talk is not something I want to see or hear about, but I think they are cute together. I didn't understand the thing about Adam's name, but presumably it's significant to Seema in some way. I liked her glittery dress at the gallery though, big improvement on last week's brown.

I didn't like Carrie gallery dress and Miranda's was a bit meh. I liked Charlotte's though, she looked elegant. Before she fell on the Tracey Emin bed, that is. Why do the writers always want to humiliate Charlotte with bodily fluids?

Good for Miranda not drinking. Throwing the gin down the garbage chute was a bit mean on Joy.

Carrie is delusional, the "woman" is happy her stupid red-neck bird has come to shit on her garden. Wake up, woman!. What is in Aiden's bags? Why won't he tell her.

That was very short, 36 mins including ad break. Why didn't they follow through on Anthony's dinner with Gia, Gia with the gallery owner (2 lines for such a great actor like Victor Garber? Come on!), Miranda talking to Joy about her drink issues or Charlotte's vertigo instead of cutting the episode? Have they had to do this because they have stretched the series out this time? It felt so bitty and abrupt this episode.

The trailer for next week is already out. I've watched it and it feels like they have chopped a single episode into 2 parts, as story resolution seems to be in this next part. Carrie looking even more than ever like the fairytale princess I reckon she's cos-playing. Straight out of Frozen.

Just watched. Haven’t read thread today.

1. Cheeky Aiden turning up for however long without checking(?)
2. Has Aiden had some kind of brow lift?
3. Would the nude model not lie with her coochie facing the other way? Couldn’t concentrate with worry about what was on show.
4. Miranda wasting Joy’s gin! Sinful!
5. Loving. Seema and Adam.
6. Carrie is lying about Duncan .Its more than work.

I’ve had vertigo, it’s horrible. Started with labrynthitis 10 years ago and occasionally tears its head. Everything spins.

*rears

I've just seen the trailer and I won't mention the contents at all but throughout it Carrie is wearing such an awful outfit that I fear I won't be able to concentrate on anything else.

I didn't understand the thing about Adam's name, but presumably it's significant to Seema in some way.

His surname is Karma! I assume she was reacting the way anyone would! He said his mum changed it when he was a child so I guess she was a hippy. I still think he might be a trustafarian...

Oh right, I played it back twice and I thought he said "Carmen". Thanks, that makes sense of her reaction!

I thought she said Carmel.

Hated Carrie’s pink Barbie dress.

Not quite AJLT but look what I found in our local charity shop. 50p
I wonder if I’ll recognise any characters 😊
I also have SATC, Lipstick Jungle and Carrie Diaries

Had a vertigo once, in my early 30s. It was the worst feeling I have ever experienced! Couldn’t move, not even an inch without everything spinning uncontrollably. I couldn’t have stood up and staggered around like Charlotte: I was flat on my back in bed and could not move at all without feeling incredibly ill.