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Sex and the City: And Just Like That

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Shelga


    Like many women, I loved the show. The movies were dire, especially the second one, it was an embarrassment to women everywhere.

    Fully expect this to be awful, especially with no Samantha, who was the best character by far. I applaud Kim Cattrall for knowing when enough is enough. If they kill her off I’ll be mad, but I don’t know how else they’re going to explain her absence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,024 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Without Samantha who really was the sex in the city I can't see it working, Carrie became very annoying


  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Without Samantha who really was the sex in the city I can't see it working, Carrie became very annoying

    It was a very close call between her and the ginger pox


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    glasso wrote: »
    What is it going to be called - "Grannies in the hood"? , "Golden Girls on the Upper East Side"?
    And Just Like That?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,297 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Shelga wrote: »
    Like many women, I loved the show. The movies were dire, especially the second one, it was an embarrassment to women everywhere.

    Fully expect this to be awful, especially with no Samantha, who was the best character by far. I applaud Kim Cattrall for knowing when enough is enough. If they kill her off I’ll be mad, but I don’t know how else they’re going to explain her absence.

    Didn't the character Samantha have breast cancer? She was definitely the best one in it.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 415 ✭✭johnmck


    Good sweet baby...
    A new generation of women who think its alright to ride the cock carousel well into their 30s and then freak out when there's no "good" men left for them to settle down with


  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Didn't the character Samantha have breast cancer? She was definitely the best one in it.

    Kim Cattrall and SJP can't stand the sight of each other - well documented and admitted by both parties.

    Cattrall is also 9 or 10 years older than the rest of them from a wiki check.

    Probably has something to do with her not being in it also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    johnmck wrote: »
    Good sweet baby...
    A new generation of women who think its alright to ride the cock carousel well into their 30s and then freak out when there's no "good" men left for them to settle down with

    Ah look the obligatory man who can’t get laid has arrived.

    I’m not sure that a new series will work. It was very of its time and even watching old episodes it seems very dated. The fun of the show for me was when they were all single, it lost its edge once they settled down. And yes, without Samantha it will be a lesser show.


  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,709 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Totally agree with Eviltwin.

    This, like so many reboot ideas, should never have left the drawing board.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭rightmove


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Ah look the obligatory man who can’t get laid has arrived.

    johnmck - [if] this is an offer you CAN refuse, ..birds of a feather an all


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 415 ✭✭johnmck


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Ah look the obligatory man who can’t get laid has arrived.

    I’m not sure that a new series will work. It was very of its time and even watching old episodes it seems very dated. The fun of the show for me was when they were all single, it lost its edge once they settled down. And yes, without Samantha it will be a lesser show.

    I get laid plenty and often, thank you very much darling ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    They should call it “Skunks in the city”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    johnmck wrote: »
    I get laid plenty and often, thank you very much darling ;)


    Love dolls don't count.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭beerguts


    johnmck wrote: »
    I get laid plenty and often, thank you very much darling ;)

    She struck a nerve didn't she.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Without Samantha who really was the sex in the city I can't see it working, Carrie became very annoying

    She was always annoying.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 415 ✭✭johnmck


    beerguts wrote: »
    She struck a nerve didn't she.

    She hit my S2-S4 nerve root


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 415 ✭✭johnmck


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Love dolls don't count.

    Either do strapons


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,016 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    Half of the budget will be spent on makeup, they will need more foundation than the Empire State Building.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    In the hands of a good writer, there could be an interesting way to do this: Sex and the City was very much set in the pre-crash era and the characters always lived way outside the means of any normal person (and only one of them had a real job).

    The financial crash and rise of social media would have utterly crushed the career prospects of Carrie and Samantha, as a lawyer Miranda would probably still be doing okay and Charlotte (and later Carrrie)'s "career path" of marrying rich men is always a rather precarious one so there could be a good story arc for this in showing these pinnacles of grotesque consumerism (probably utterly failing to) cope with life on realistic income levels.

    I can't see them ever doing this, of course and have no doubt that the vulgarity will only be escalated as the cast and producers will be offered lucrative product placement deals by "prestige" brands who peddle their unethically produced fast fashion to the gullible simpletons who mistake the series for a lifestyle guide rather than the rather frivolous comedy it was.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Sleepy wrote: »
    In the hands of a good writer, there could be an interesting way to do this: Sex and the City was very much set in the pre-crash era and the characters always lived way outside the means of any normal person (and only one of them had a real job).

    The financial crash and rise of social media would have utterly crushed the career prospects of Carrie and Samantha, as a lawyer Miranda would probably still be doing okay and Charlotte (and later Carrrie)'s "career path" of marrying rich men is always a rather precarious one so there could be a good story arc for this in showing these pinnacles of grotesque consumerism (probably utterly failing to) cope with life on realistic income levels.

    When I first read about the second movie, I read this was the story route they'd be taking. Mr Big was supposed to have been hit hard by the recession and he and Carrie would be scaling back. As would some of the others to certain degrees. I was pretty interested to see that but ended up watching them going to the middle east for free on some sort of ultra-first class flight and staying in a hotel where they were each given massive suites and 24 hour personal servants.:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    That was quite the u-turn. Always loved Mark Kermode's evisceration of the second film:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Shelga


    Sleepy wrote: »
    That was quite the u-turn. Always loved Mark Kermode's evisceration of the second film:


    Haha, I still watch that clip when I want a laugh sometimes :pac:

    What annoys me (from listening to that podcast Origins, where they interviewed most of the cast members apart from Kim Cattrall) is that SJP et al seem to think we're crying out for more stories about them. I'm really not, and I was a huge fan of the show.

    They forfeited the right to enthusiasm about any other original SATC content with those two godawful movies. There's no reason to think this show is going to be anything other than brutal, and further taint the legacy of the series.

    Maybe there are some people who are constantly ask them when they are making more stuff, but anyone I know who enjoyed the show HATED the movies. The materialism and vapid selfishness on display in the second one in particular just makes me cringe to this day. Mark Kermode says it better and more hilariously than I ever could! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭Monokne


    I thought the first movie was superfluous but ok. The second was horrific though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    I liked how the second movie started with the wedding of the two recurring gay characters from the series. Even though both those men had utter disdain for each other in the series. But come the movie it’s time for a big gay wedding with a big Liza Minnelli number, so they just shove them both together as them both being gay is enough!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    John Corbett has signed on to return as Aidan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭qwerty13


    Shelga wrote: »
    Haha, I still watch that clip when I want a laugh sometimes :pac:

    What annoys me (from listening to that podcast Origins, where they interviewed most of the cast members apart from Kim Cattrall) is that SJP et al seem to think we're crying out for more stories about them. I'm really not, and I was a huge fan of the show.

    They forfeited the right to enthusiasm about any other original SATC content with those two godawful movies. There's no reason to think this show is going to be anything other than brutal, and further taint the legacy of the series.

    Maybe there are some people who are constantly ask them when they are making more stuff, but anyone I know who enjoyed the show HATED the movies. The materialism and vapid selfishness on display in the second one in particular just makes me cringe to this day. Mark Kermode says it better and more hilariously than I ever could! :D

    To be fair, the tv show had well gone down the route of materialism and vapid selfishness by the end! I used to love it, it actually had something to say when it started out. Sure, they were all good time girls, but it was fun. However, their worship of money, ridiculous clothes, and grasping for a lifestyle funded by rich guys just became so tedious by the end.

    I went to see the first film, and I felt that it had multiplied by 10 how entitled they all were by the end of the tv show. I didn’t watch the second film, and even reruns of the tv show have lost any appeal to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    qwerty13 wrote: »
    To be fair, the tv show had well gone down the route of materialism and vapid selfishness by the end! I used to love it, it actually had something to say when it started out. Sure, they were all good time girls, but it was fun. However, their worship of money, ridiculous clothes, and grasping for a lifestyle funded by rich guys just became so tedious by the end.

    I went to see the first film, and I felt that it had multiplied by 10 how entitled they all were by the end of the tv show. I didn’t watch the second film, and even reruns of the tv show have lost any appeal to me.

    I’m a guy who was a student at the time the TV series aired. I saw much of it because I had female housemates throughout college. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I thought it was fairly entertaining. Vapid and materialistic for sure, but many of the scenarios were pretty funny. Kim Cattrall also had natural comic timing. It was interesting to get an insight into the lives of single people in their 30s in large metropolitan cities.

    My wife recently made me watch the second movie on Netflix. I couldn’t get over how much the caliber of the plot lines had deteriorated. Kim Cattrall’s character had become a total caricature of herself. The red haired lady, who was sarcastic and an intellectually sharp lawyer, was transformed into a ditzy bimbo. Sarah Jessica Parker’s character was even more annoying than I remembered from the original run.

    The movie totally undermined the legacy of a series that was punctuated by some witty dialogue and somewhat captured the zeitgeist of the early years of the new millennium. They should just leave well enough alone, realizing that society has moved on and theirs is a story that no longer needs to be told.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,024 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Well did not expect that death



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,297 ✭✭✭Be right back




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Karlos77


    I hated mr big glad he died...he was a sap...aiden was much cooler...

    So weak the way he died on a spin bike in his apartment

    charlotte looks pathetic with the fakelips botox...she was the most beautiful of all 4 now she looks the worst

    Miranda looks like she's 80

    Carrie looks even twice as ugly ..the nose looks bigger


    The show is so weak without samantha



  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kim Cattrall is 65 - the production wouldn't be able to afford the KY Jelly costs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Shelga


    Not enjoying the nasty comments on here about women who have dared to age- just pathetic, unnecessary and mean.

    Regarding the show itself, it was not as bad as I was expecting, but felt really weird for the first while as I acclimatised to the 2021-ness of it all, and the fact that it's in HD or whatever and the original series was not- can anyone help explain what I mean?? Like you know when you watch the original show, it's clearly not HD, it's shot on film, which makes it look less high quality but the ultra HD thing makes me feel like I'm in the room with the characters and makes it harder for me to suspend my disbelief somehow- anyone know what I mean? Anyone?? Haha. I had the same feeling when watching the Gilmore Girls reboot compared to the original TV show.

    There were parts I liked, and parts I didn't. Overall I like Miranda's arc and am interested to see where the drinking thing is going- I think that's a realistic and interesting potential issue for a stressed out woman in her 50s. I liked that the fashion was still a thing but not the ultra consumerist crap of the films- well apart from Charlotte buying Oscar de la Renta for her bloody children!

    Did not buy whatsoever that Samantha wouldn't immediately be there for her best friend's husband's funeral, but am glad they didn't kill her off and no matter what they did there, they were kinda screwed. As others have said, felt all very meta and uncomfortable when they were discussing "the rift"- like SJP talking about Kim Cattrall, not Carrie talking about Samantha.

    I will obviously watch all of this until the end, haha, but there was no way it was ever going to be as rewatchable and classic as the original. Still on the fence about whether it was worth them doing or not.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭mary 2021


    it was falling over it self to cover every liberal thought, agenda in fact it was embarrassing. Turned it off after Big dropped 11% reduction in peleton shares you couldnt make it up :) ha ha ha



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭mary 2021





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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,149 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Oh Charlotte's face is so painful to watch. She's gorgeous and whatever she's had done she has just ruined herself. She has a stunning figure but she's bet into the clothes she's wearing, so unflattering.

    I too thought the rift was more about the actors than the characters. I suppose they had to make reference to her absence.

    I thought Smith was going to appear when Miranda went into Smiths bar.

    The characters themselves made so many references to their age it was tiresome...yes we know you are older so are we!!!

    Didn't expect the death! The secretary was featuring alot wonder if there's more to that....a love child will be such a cliche.

    The Brody storyline, no parents would be ok with that....fair enough letting girlfriend stay over on the understanding of discretion but Jesus not to that level of "noise" .

    It will be interesting to see where the storylines go.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,024 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1




  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Looks like he allegedly might have gone beyond horse-play in those situations.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,878 ✭✭✭✭gmisk




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,024 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    The only saving grace is Stanford and it's sad as the actor died



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69




  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hopefully justice can’t take its course for all - not sure if such alleged crimes can be prosecuted at this stage in the USA - depends on the states statute of limitations legislation.

    That article makes for grim reading.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,878 ✭✭✭✭gmisk




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,016 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    Trial by internet again, he is innocent until proven guilty.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    The text messages add quite a bit of credence to one of the accusers allegations.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,878 ✭✭✭✭gmisk




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,878 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Anyway back to the show.

    Episode 3 was dreadful.

    The non binary podcast comedian is absolutely abysmal, but the whole thing is just so dated and try hard, flagging every single storyline as well



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]



    Oh no! That makes me sad.

    I didn't know he had passed away until I read your comment. He looks well on the show, yet reports say he had pancreatic cancer. Only 57.

    I was a huge fan of the original series, and funnily enough, I have never watched any of the movies - so maybe that's a good thing. I am enjoying this for what it is, but I do miss Samantha.

    And as a woman in my 50s, who embraced her silver fox when I was 40 - I applaud Miranda's choice not to dye her hair!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    What was with Mr Bigs nickname? Was he supposed to be well endowed?



  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,211 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Can't see us finishing the rest of the series. One dead, one gone and the grey haired one. They're really clutching at straws. I'm out.



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