I was a massive Sex and the City fan. And after the 2nd movie, I was devastated and disappointed at how far it had fallen in terms of character development and writing. What I didn't realise was that this was a prototype leading up to this - whatever you want to call it - reboot.
If the movies were consumerist garbage promoting great wealth and fashion labels - this is intended to shove the woke agenda so far down your throat, you can't get it out.
While Charlotte and Carrie already lost my respect, at least we still have Miranda and Samantha right?
Dead wrong.
Samantha is gone, owning to Kim Cattrall's refusal to participate because of the way she was treated and excluded by her co stars, in particular SJP. Her absence is felt strongly and the dynamic between the main girls just doesn't work without her.
Miranda. Oh my God where do I begin?
It is amazing how writers can take a beloved character with strength and loyalty and completely butcher her to the point of being totally unrecognisable from her Sex and the City counterpart. In the series, she is awkwardly and accidentally racist towards her friends and bosses. She becomes an alcoholic and falls in love with a non binary woman called Che (Don't even get me started on that character - the absolute worst I have seen on TV in a long time) and cheats multiple times on her husband Steve, despite being absolutely devastated when he admitted to having sex once in the first movie.
Miranda was once a level headed, smart, independent, loyal, stubborn, pragmatic lawyer. But in this installment, she's a ditzy, unfaithful, alcoholic, needy teenager in a 50 something year old body. Apparently the actress wanted the character to go through the same journey that she went through - coming out as bisexual and then queer and marrying a woman. Sacrificing a brilliant, empowering character for the sake of "authenticity" is the worst thing one can do in writing in my opinion.
None of the main character's offspring are remotely likeable. Charlotte's daughter Rose "doesn't feel like a girl" and wants to be named Rock, cut her hair and have they them pronouns because...it's woke now? Miranda's son Brady is an obnoxious brat who treats his parents like dirt. I doubt Miranda and Steve would have raised their son to be like this.
Carrie's husband Big dies in the first episode, which is sad, but then she never shuts up about it - and downplays everyone else's problems because of it.
Although it's not a surprise that she hasn't matured either. The problem with Carrie Bradshaw is not that she's selfish, insecure, callous, unfaithful, frightened of commitment and incredibly needy and whiny - it's that she never appears to learn from her mistakes. Even when people point it out to her, or she realises it herself, she immediately makes it about her seconds later.
It is no surprise that Cattrall didn't want to return to this abysmal car wreck of a series. It does make sense, however, that it's no longer called Sex and The City because it doesn't resemble the original series in any shape of form.
In the words of Samantha Jones:
"You can forget Samba!"
If the movies were consumerist garbage promoting great wealth and fashion labels - this is intended to shove the woke agenda so far down your throat, you can't get it out.
While Charlotte and Carrie already lost my respect, at least we still have Miranda and Samantha right?
Dead wrong.
Samantha is gone, owning to Kim Cattrall's refusal to participate because of the way she was treated and excluded by her co stars, in particular SJP. Her absence is felt strongly and the dynamic between the main girls just doesn't work without her.
Miranda. Oh my God where do I begin?
It is amazing how writers can take a beloved character with strength and loyalty and completely butcher her to the point of being totally unrecognisable from her Sex and the City counterpart. In the series, she is awkwardly and accidentally racist towards her friends and bosses. She becomes an alcoholic and falls in love with a non binary woman called Che (Don't even get me started on that character - the absolute worst I have seen on TV in a long time) and cheats multiple times on her husband Steve, despite being absolutely devastated when he admitted to having sex once in the first movie.
Miranda was once a level headed, smart, independent, loyal, stubborn, pragmatic lawyer. But in this installment, she's a ditzy, unfaithful, alcoholic, needy teenager in a 50 something year old body. Apparently the actress wanted the character to go through the same journey that she went through - coming out as bisexual and then queer and marrying a woman. Sacrificing a brilliant, empowering character for the sake of "authenticity" is the worst thing one can do in writing in my opinion.
None of the main character's offspring are remotely likeable. Charlotte's daughter Rose "doesn't feel like a girl" and wants to be named Rock, cut her hair and have they them pronouns because...it's woke now? Miranda's son Brady is an obnoxious brat who treats his parents like dirt. I doubt Miranda and Steve would have raised their son to be like this.
Carrie's husband Big dies in the first episode, which is sad, but then she never shuts up about it - and downplays everyone else's problems because of it.
Although it's not a surprise that she hasn't matured either. The problem with Carrie Bradshaw is not that she's selfish, insecure, callous, unfaithful, frightened of commitment and incredibly needy and whiny - it's that she never appears to learn from her mistakes. Even when people point it out to her, or she realises it herself, she immediately makes it about her seconds later.
It is no surprise that Cattrall didn't want to return to this abysmal car wreck of a series. It does make sense, however, that it's no longer called Sex and The City because it doesn't resemble the original series in any shape of form.
In the words of Samantha Jones:
"You can forget Samba!"