Our long national nightmare is over

NOOOOO!

Good riddance, kill it with fire.

I know it's expensive to produce, but it does bring in the ratings for HBO. I wonder what the deal is?

*gasp*....today we mourn

What the fuck are we going to hate watch together now?

Garbage show filled with the ugliest people on television.

Burn the negatives.

OP do you mean Sarah Jessica Parker's career or the reboot?

And Just Like That...The Movie. She can't let this gravy train go.

It really could have been so much better.

MPK lost me at "popular series."

I hope it ends with Carrie’s entire unearned wealth stolen by a nonbinary financial advisor and she has to resort to being a prostitute for the blind. Miranda suffocates to death while eating another fat woman’s pussy. And the dumb one gets run over her by her Asian daughter who is trying to learn to drive.

Cattrall and Fields are fucking laughing their asses off.

I'll be back.

R12. Chip or W.C.?

Time for a DIVORCE reboot!!!!!

Atrocious, witless writing and plots bordering on science fiction. Toss in an insufferable crew of decrepit, homely crones and it might be the worst program currently on television.

This cancellation is like a relief, akin to a huge dump after a week of constipation.

Parker, sadly, is being put out to pasture.

[quote] Cattrall and Fields

Never heard of them.

It’s Field. No extra S. Patricia FIELD.

The entire show was like a practical joke. When one plot involves a mean, nasty lesbian having sex with a nun played by Rosie O’Donnell, it’s like o giant troll on the audience from the show runners. It’s as if they were daring HBO to cancel it.

But -what will we hate watch now?

I actually liked "Divorce" much more than this. AJLT spent three seasons trying to find a compelling storyline for at least one of its characters, without much success.

I guess it’s back to selling ugly shoes for SJP.

R12 The FUCK are they laughing about? They ain't got jobs either.

Here’s hoping the last scene is her waking up and saying it was all a dream.

The lack of hype to usher in this last season said it all; even the network and producers and publicity staff couldn't fucking be bothered.

It's an end long overdue.

R15 Divorce was The Wire compared to AJLT.

Good! That's what they get!

Let's hope Cynthia doesn't fuck up TGA the way she's fucked up this one by inserting herself into the writing process.

Like pigs to the trough DL's best come slobbering back to the SJP/horse puns, Will they take their own words to heart and put themselves out to pasture now that the race has ended? .

I know it wasn't good, but, damn, I found it really comforting.

Hopefully, this allows Cynthia more time to spend on hunger strikes, ironing her wife’s jockstrap and being an unlikeable, angry lesbian.

Actually R21, that was one of the funnier episodes.

[quote] Let's hope Cynthia doesn't fuck up TGA the way she's fucked up this one by inserting herself into the writing process.

I've decided Ada will reveal herself to be a lesbian, and will have an affair with a non-binary Hispanic-Irish stand-up comic who is especially good at finger-banging.

Julian, take note.

R33 I second that emotion. It's a very ugly country filled with mean victims and want to be dictators. I work in it and when I go home at the end of the week I want something that soothes me. These familiar faces - in many ways as calming as watching The Golden Girls-let me breathe. Yes the writing is sub par compared to even their second film. I never laughed out loud and hard the way I did when that pussy shot in Samantha's face. I think for me I saw it as a thin drama. Michael Patrick lost all sense of place and timing and purpose. Often their comic moments made me think how much I really miss SATC. This show made SATC look The Wire. I mean were we really going watch Carries at 65 dating. If you are happy she ended up with Big then your show is done. I don't blame the actors. Really good parts are few- get the money while you can. Acting is job not enlightenment. I won't miss it but I will miss the characters( except Aidan. I never liked him and I always thought he wasn't smart enough for Carrie). But I'll live. This why Mary Tyler Moore stopped her show. A sitcom only has a short shelf life. Or else it will end up like MASH.

R11 needs to be an executive at HBO. Hell, give him the whole goddamn network. I'd pay to watch that. Everyone in America would pay to watch that.

And WHAT WILL WE HATE-WATCH TOGETHER?

How about...The Gilded Age? That show sucks too, right?

I watched it and will miss it even though I have felt it could have been a much, much better show. They shot themselves in the foot by starting off the show with Big dying and having sad Carrie moping around the first season. The show should have started with Carrie already having gotten over his death. Also, that Che Diaz was a complete washout from the get go. No way Miranda would have fallen head over heels with that person as her first foray into lesbianism. And they should have focused on Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte, and possibly Anthony, as the main characters, with more guest appearances from actors from the original series. The new women just never clicked.

Cynthia Nixon wrecked her own character, like she does everything else. I know everyone likes to paint Cattrall or SJP as the villainess of the series, but it's really Nixon.

The crusty old sardine can just couldn't stand to play it straight anymore, or to play a part as-written. She had to bring her batshit politics into it, and drag down the whole show. She's like a low-rent Susan Sarandon, always ranting and hijacking other people's microphones for her screeds nobody wants to hear.

Check this, Red: No one wants to see a story about menopausal shrews going dyke at 60. No one wants to be shame-baited by a podcast host of indeterminate gender. No one wants to see an awful character dump her decent-guy husband and Get Her Groove Back with a series of woefully unattractive Big Lesbian Mules. That may be your disgusting personal life, but it's not your character. And nobody tunes in to see YOU.

Are we sure Sarah Jessica hasn’t gone lesbo, too? Just look at her spouse. Billie Jean King called it a dyke.

Sarah Jessica is sucking up to Cynthia to get her something, anything on the Gilded Age. I would love to see her as a downstairs maid who gets trampled on by Mrs. Fish heading to the buffet.

[quote]Check this, Red: No one wants to see a story about menopausal shrews going dyke at 60.

But everyone wants to see a story about literal caftan-wearing old queens on "Mid-Century Modern"? Cunt, please. Get the fuck over your MOMMY ISSUES and sick misogyny already.

[quote]I know it's expensive to produce, but it does bring in the ratings for HBO.

Ha! It started out shitty and got progressively shittier. Entirely predictable given SJP alienating a core cast member. The anemic ratings reflect it.

"While And Just Like That… started strong in terms of new HBO Max signups as well as ratings, with a premiere ranking among the top 10 in HBO Max’s history, viewership has waned over time. The Season 3 premiere was watched by 429,000 households, per Samba TV, down from 463,000 in Season 2."

For comparison's sake, "The Last of Us" averaged 32 MILLION viewers an episode. Even the shitty "House of the Dragon" got 25 mil each ep. AJLT barely got a million, even after factoring in beyond daily + 3 ratings. And are you cunts aware that THOSE cunts (on the show) collectively made $5 million per episode? "The Last of Us" has a TOTAL budget of $10 mil per ep, even when Pedro was on.

AJLT could've been decent without that shrew Sarah Jessica and her faghag-BFF MPK – and with the COMPLETE original cast – but they got fucked that one harder than me at Studio 54 in '79. There is truly zero financial argument for a show that is beyond tired and CLEARLY not resonating with anyone over the age of 35.

I saw this and thought The Orange Menace bought the dirt farm.

I hate to say, "wishful thinking" but it was.

R43 = Cynthia.

[quote] But everyone wants to see a story about literal caftan-wearing old queens on "Mid-Century Modern"?

Actually, they don’t. It was cancelled after one season.

Try doing your homework before screeding, R43. You look like a fool.

We'll always have Che Diaz.

[quote] Cattrall and Fields

Totie Fields?

It's DEAD to US!

My spouse and I watch it every week and pause repeatedly to ask how can it be this bad? But still we watch.

But, honestly, how the hell could this be so bad? They must have had so much money thrown at them. I’d say AI was writing the scripts but AI is better than this. Most writers don’t have work. How the hell couldn’t they find a few good ones in the unemployment lines?

Such a shame. I was so looking forward to this remake.

I’m the same age as most of them. This could have been the new Golden Girls and not a sad replay of daring in your 30s when you’re in your 60s.

Post menopause, fellas, no woman is focused on sex. That’s why so many of us take up gardening. We take up hobbies, hang out with friends, enjoy a lack of drama.

Carrie was the least relatable of the bunch. How did they get this so wrong?

[quote]Such a shame. I was so looking forward to this remake.

That was your first mistake.

I hate watched it until Steve's wife got fingered while she was supposed to be taking care of Carrie. Who gets fingered in their sick friend's kitchen?

Truly the ugliest cast in the history of television.

Kim Cattrall could give them all seizures by saying she’s happy to do as many scenes as they want in the finale [bold] : o

Sorry Mom @ r43

Best news I've heard in awhile.

[quote] Totie Fields?

QUITTER!

They should write off the series as a dream and Carrie waking up next to Mr. Big. Or maybe some of the Square Pegs surviving castmembers.

Mid‑Century Modern has not been cancelled. The 10-episode first season premiered on Hulu on March 28, 2025, and has received strong reviews (around 89% on Rotten Tomatoes) and solid viewership. Hulu hasn’t announced a renewal yet, but the creator has expressed interest in a Season 2, making cancellation unlikely at this stage. Still around it seems.

Kim Cattrall was smart to avoid this dumpster fire, even though she could've made a ton of $$$. I admire that about her.

End it with Gracie Law waking up next to Jack Burton and asking him to remind her never to eat Chongqing hotpot just before going to bed again.

[quote] Or maybe some of the Square Pegs surviving castmembers.

I like that idea.

I kind of wish they’d hired Valerie Cherish to play Samantha in this horror show. That would have been so funny.

Note to Self: TLDR: Lisa Kudrow should do guest spots on bad shows as Val.

OP You got my hopes up, I thought you were going to say Trump croaked.

The Square Pegs set kept Colombian coke cartels in business, from what I've heard.

Carrie is a bitch!

Seema will be hanging out at a bar in a town near you soon.

Where is the Miranda spinoff?

R69 I said that!

[quote]R67 Carrie is a bitch! — The entire planet

And an addled Charlotte Rae.

This thread is like 75% one person, if not more.

Oh thank FUCK for that. I could never understand how it kept getting renewed.

they shoot horses, don't they?

Glue factory R74. She's well overdue too.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I have always been intrigued by her interest in shoes.

If the NYPost had any balls left, they'd put this story at the top of their Entertainment section with the headline "HBO'S HATED 'SEX' SEQUEL OFF TO THE GLUE FACTORY!"

Neither of those shows (SATC and AJLT) ever appealed to me. Now that it's finally canceled I'm fairly certain I will go to my grave only ever having seen SJP in "Square Pegs" and that Christmas movie.

I actually enjoy the "Family Stone" - Luke Wilson keeps shouting "Jordan Marsh!" which warms the cockles of my suburban Boston heart

R79 = Drunken Frau

That movie sucked out loud. Total granny chick flick, and not the best one out there.

Pity.

Loved SATC. Hated the sequels.

My favorite character was the proto gay one, Samantha.

The original focussed on single women in their 30s navigating the dating scene in NYC. AJLT should have focussed on widow Carrie, divorcee Miranda and widow with two kids Charlotte navigating the dating scene in their 50s. Instead they introduced useless, dull characters the audience didn't connect with and hired NYU students to write the scripts. It deserved to fail.

Sorry but I refused to watch without Samantha. Shouldn't have offered her a Brinks Truck filled with cash.

R60 = written by AI.

R79. “Ed Wood” is a good movie if you haven’t seen it

I was surprised it lasted more than one season....We were fans of the original show but we could only watch one episode then 15 minutes of the second

I couldn't make it past the beginning of season 2. It was as enjoyable as a root canal. Charlotte and Miranda seemed brain damaged compared to their previous selves. I don't care about their bratty kids. And the heavy handed wokeness was the cherry on the shit sundae.

Do I have to sign up and pay extra just to watch the final episode of this crap?

[quote]Kim Cattrall could give them all seizures by saying she’s happy to do as many scenes as they want in the finale : o

Samantha in the finale acting like everything's OK now would be a perfect ending. Get the $ Kim!

I suspect HBO realized that this was not going to be the syndication bonanza and space filler that SATC was. It may draw in first run audiences, but it probably doesn't generate re-watchings like a truly popular show. Hate watching is not something one does repeatedly.

If the show was truly camp rather than just plain incompetent, it might have more of a future---even a movie that often is quite dull like "Valley of the Dolls" has substantial camp appeal and if SJP realized how silly her character was, she could become the next Faye Dunaway with a bit more scenery chewing. And Charlotte has always had camp potential with her prissy Fifth Avenue outlook.

HBO Max did not cancel. Showrunner was out of ideas, cast was tired and ready to move on, and producer has checked out. HBO Max was prepared to renew. It is a marquee property.

r92's post could have been written in Season 1.

It's about time this show, and its creator, were put out to pasture.

R93, it was three long seasons of a poorly written, weak series. However it is an A+ property to HBO Max. It is prestige and with SATC on streaming platforms now, it was destined to get more viewers.

Guess it's back to watching Mr. Ed reruns now.

Please...you're slashing their wrists over it. You'd watch and then pretend to be outraged over it and asking yourself why it still existed. It's because of most of you we got 3 seasons to begin with.

R97 "your" not "their"

You have to admit, this would have been a totally different show if Kim Cattrall has returned.

What!? No more clicikity-clack shoes on parade? Oh-hhhhh, no!!!!!!

[quote]They must have had so much money thrown at them. I’d say AI was writing the scripts but AI is better than this. Most writers don’t have work. How the hell couldn’t they find a few good ones in the unemployment lines?

It was pointed out by one view that Nicole Ari Parker's character mentioned her dead father in the first season. And then here we are having him dying again. The show was completely lazy in its writing.

The show also lost a huge character in it AJLT run - the City itself. Sarah always said that it was a main character but the women were hardly in it. It wasn't involved in any of their storylines. That is the problem when all of your characters are fabulously wealthy that money is never an object. It's not realistic, not for NYC. You have Carrie begrudgingly moving into a 16 million dollar palace in the west village. You have rats in your back yard? Rip it out and spend 50k putting in a new one. Feeling lost? Have a fight with your boyfriend over a $7500 dining table. You came across the apartment of your dreams? Ok, just go ahead and bid 150k over asking. You run a stupid bread delivery service on the Upper East Side, the likes of which didn't even exist in gayest era of Chelsea? Open that storefront that is probably 75k a month in rent. Money is a huge issue in NYC, even with people who have it, because they always want more and are never living within their means. It was WILDLY unrealistic, and something no NYer could even relate to, rich or poor.

I feel especially sorry for Sebastiano Pigazzi who had to show up for work and bring life to a jumpsuit and a dildo. If you are writing that kind of shit, you hate actors.

Gramercy, not the WV.

I hope Sebastiano Pigazzi gets more work off of this. I don’t see anyone else getting a career boost based on their work here. Well, maybe Logan Marshall Greene, who successfully reminded people he is still an actor.

[quote]R55 Kim Cattrall could give them all seizures by saying she’s happy to do as many scenes as they want in the finale : o

[quote]R90 Samantha in the finale acting like everything's OK now would be a perfect ending. Get the $ Kim!

Cattrall should show up perfectly punctual and professional on the set for final episode, bearing shiny good luck gifts for everyone!

Give a little speech about how thrilling it is to be reunited…

After it wraps, decline to do another movie.

I’m ready to take on the role of Carrie in the remake.

Oh you precious pumpkins. There will be reunion movies until SJP croaks. This is like Cher's farewell tour...her final shows until the next ones.

[quote]The show also lost a huge character in it AJLT run - the City itself.

SATC premiered in the late 90's when the city was still an avenue of possibilities for many. But even as the original was ending, that idea was starting to become unrealistic. And the original show was in danger of becoming a parody of itself had it stayed on much longer.

I feel at this point, SJP should do a 180-career wise. Lay low for a few years and take roles in small, independent films. People forget that she was a good, versatile actress in the 80's and 90's. But she's become too identified with one role for the last 20 years. Look at Demi, Pam Anderson and Jamie Lee and see how they reinvited their careers. There's no reason SJP couldn't do something similar.

Someone here must know: Does MPK actually believe people enjoyed this dreck? Or is he aware that this was a truly humiliating outing?

This show was doomed from the start by not having Samantha, who was the most popular character. Letting Cynthia Nixon remake Miranda into herself completely destroyed it.

I was so looking forward to watching Miranda: The Grandma Years.

[quote]I hope it ends with Carrie’s entire unearned wealth stolen by a nonbinary financial advisor and she has to resort to being a prostitute for the blind.

Yes it would have to be for the blind.

You don’t even have to be that familiar with the original series or the tacky movies to hate this show.

It’s warm and wonderful how it just throws open the floodgates of free flowing hate for everyone.

The outpouring’s so vast. It’s universal.

[quote]SATC premiered in the late 90's when the city was still an avenue of possibilities for many. But even as the original was ending, that idea was starting to become unrealistic.

Exactly. It costs a fortune to live in the city now, and upward mobility is much more difficult. And even if you CAN move up, a six figure salary doesn't really cut it anymore. You need to be RICH.

Too stupid ^ too funny.

It's true r116

D117 is typing from the 90s. You’re a day late and several dollars short

R117^

I look forward to Carrie's funeral episode.

No I'm typing from 2025. The city is exhorbitantly expensive and upward mobility isn't as easy as it once was.

The original series worked, mostly, because Carrie was sort of a relatable New Yorker. She was into fashion, lived beyond her means, but felt like some semblance of a real person. Late in the run of the original series, they started to have her become something of a celebrity and the relatability died. By the time the series ended and the two films were made, Carrie was wearing haute couture that would probably not be seen outside of the Met Gala red carpet and Paris Fashion Week. Same with the new series, which I didn't watch (but I have seen pictures). The makers of this show really lost their way long ago. Add to the mix the blatant wokeness and it stunk even more.

As I wrote. Nothing new. That IS the City…for the longest time.

I’ve lived it.

r123 NYC has always cost more, but the cost of living is disproportionaley much MUCH higher than it used to be.

So true about Cynthia Nixon. She wouldn't come back unless her DEMANDS were met, i.e. turning Miranda into Cynthia and it was horrible. She is so insufferbale IRL and that's what Miranda became.

[quote] She had to bring her batshit politics into it, and drag down the whole show. She's like a low-rent Susan Sarandon, always ranting and hijacking other people's microphones for her screeds nobody wants to hear.44

Hasn't Cynthia gone on a "hunger strike" for something or other a couple of times now?

SJP's ego ruined the series. I laughed out love every time she was having sex without removing her bra. And for all of her serious literary creds, she allowed such junk to represent her. What was going on in the writers room when someone suggested a freak jerking off to a puppet?

[quote] she was having sex without removing her bra

Would you have preferred a nude scene? Be grateful she didn't show us her shriveled lumps.

If SATC hadn't come along SJP would have had a nice career in indies and on stage. But she wouldn't have the money she has now. She's very good in The Family Stone and I can definitely see her doing ensemble type work. She would be smart to stay away from Carrie type characters.

SATC and Friends had a huge role in making boring dipshit idiots from flyoverland move to NYC. Those shows did a lot of damage.

^ And the dreaded 4 person walk down the sidewalk. I used to move but now I stand my ground. YOU'RE NOT ON SATC, YOU COWS!

Kim posted IT'S THE END OF A VERY LONG WEEK on Instagram so, of course, people think she's talking about AJLT. Why?

In the 90s New York was still an artistic, cultural and entertainment capital. Think Basquiat, Scorsese, Spike Lee, Woody Allen, Vera Wang, Donna Karin, Mapplethorpe . . . Where are their equivalents today in New York City?

It was also the days of the Limelight, The Tunnel, The Roxy, The Palladium . . . when people went out and socialized instead of using social media to hookup.

Broadway in the 90s still hadn't become the venue for jukebox musicals and film to Broadway adaptations: Death becomes Her, The Great Gatsby, Sunset Blvd, Back to the Future, The Notebook, Some Like It Hot, Beetlejuice, Pretty Woman, Tootsie, Mrs. Doubtfire . . .

Robert died in 1989. Basquiat died a year earlier. I’ll stop your stupidly right there.

Basquiat and Mapplethorpe's reputations really grew in the 90s, r134. I think that's what r133 was trying to say.

Anyway, he's correct about everything else. NYC today has lost a lot of what made it unique. It's basically a playground for the international filthy rich and trustafarians.

[quote] I’ll stop your stupidly right there.

OMFG. What you YOU like YOUR parting gift to be?

[quote]She would be smart to stay away from Carrie type characters.

She won’t. She’s not smart. She’ll continue to be Carrie until she dies.

As it was then.

…plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose…

This stupid show is OVER.

Who’s this Karin named Donna?🤣

They should have had a Lexi Featherstone series. She was the best part of that whole show.

R134 I stand corrected.

R135 Thank you. My basic point is correct. And just because an artist dies doesn't mean that their art, influence and reputation die with them. Andy Warhol died in 1987. Yet he remained an important part of New York culture. A culture that unfortunately really no longer exists

Keep on truckin’

Karin in Manhatta

I really wonder what would have happened had Darren Star stayed with the show. I feel like things started to go downhill when Michael Patrick King took over.

[Quote] I’ll stop your stupidly right there.

Oh, dear!

But you understood it just the same, didn’t ya Blanche.

Why would someone like Cynthia Nixon, who purports herself to be a serious actress, want to play a character that's basically Cynthia Nixon? Doesn't seem like much of a challenge nor does it require any acting skill.

I assume it is to push visibility for LGBTQ characters on tv.

I would watch a Che spinoff, I really would!

She should stop claiming she's an actress if she's really a political activist.

Quick! Somebody break the news to Maureen Callahan!

r109

I have been listening to Kristin Davis' podcast about SATC and she brings up the hate for the new show often

Death by DEI.

[Quote] Hasn't Cynthia gone on a "hunger strike" for something or other a couple of times now?

She's never stopped eating pussy

[Quote] Who’s this Karin named Donna?🤣

But you still understood who they meant didn't you Blanche

In high school R134 ex Californian in Manhattan was voted most likely to die alone.

[quote]the original series worked, mostly, because Carrie was sort of a relatable New Yorker. She was into fashion, lived beyond her means, but felt like some semblance of a real person.

Always thought the original show worked because it was ultimately a show about loneliness: how a person can be in the midst of a crowd of people, and yet feel complete alone. And that's what made the show enjoyable; some times the women were able to go come together and comfort each each, but somethings they just had to soldier on by themselves. I actually think this show might have been a good thing (though maybe a more complicated story) if is centered around how being an older woman means being invisible, a person no one wants to listen to even though you know some shit, your body going haywire & your doctor won't help you (now that I list this, it would be a depressing show). But anyway, the sort of Old Lady Fantasy that it turned into...ridiculous.

I hate watched the first two seasons and started season three with the same expectation/intention, but something odd happened a couple of episodes in: I started to really enjoy it. I know I’m probably alone in that but I think getting rid of that Che monstrosity and the second token black woman (Miranda’s friend) helped keep it a bit tighter character-wise. It wasn’t just one episode either, I’ve enjoyed all of it. It’s felt a lot more like the original series.

So all I’d say is if anyone here loved Sex and the City but gave up with season 1 or 2 of And Just Like Shat, and hasn’t bothered with season 3 yet, give it a go.

Kim Cattrall — who did not appear in the revival series, save a Season 2 cameo — posted a cryptic message on Friday.

“It’s the end of a very long week ❤️💋,” she wrote alongside a photo of a sunset over a body of water. Cattrall appeared as Samantha Jones in the original “Sex and the City” series that aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004.

What's Kristin Davis going to do now? She's a very limited actress.

Count her money.

Honest question. Why does Kristin Davis have a career? She is one note.

Well, she doesn’t really have a career outside this role, does she?

Kristin Davis' agent has a sloppy bush.

Based on her legs alone, Kristen Davis would have been better suited pulling plows through fields or baby calves out of their mothers.

[quote] But everyone wants to see a story about literal caftan-wearing old queens on "Mid-Century Modern"?

MCM was, comparatively speaking, utterly charming compared to AJLT.

Ha, R131, SaTC introduced this? Why are female gaggles incapable of walking in line, behind each other? I always thought it’s to avoid perceived ranking.

How much does an extra who sits in a restaurant scene make?

MCM is terrible with its canned laughter.

[quote]They should have had a Lexi Featherstone series. She was the best part of that whole show.

Kristen Johnston stole every scene in her one episode, she was fantastic. It's too bad Lexi was killed off, she should've been a recurring character who popped up here and there.

R171: Lexi would have been like all of her characters--best in small does.

Lexi Featherstone would be 77 now.

Correction, 71. The episode is from 2004.

In the episode, she clearly says “God Carrie, I’m 40 years old, can you fucking believe it?!”

What year are we in?

She would be a bit younger than 61 because Brady is only 20 currently.

I am certain the HBO/MAX executives almost fell off their fine leather chairs after seeing Miranda trotting in the buff through Carrie's hallway.

What I found almost as annoying as Miranda's late in life lesbianism was her late in life alcoholism, especially when the writers, having invented it, didn't know what to do with it, so they started walking it back.

SJP is way too far up her own ass. She genuinely believes the world thinks SATC and Carrie are more iconic and more treasured than they are. There is nothing "light touch" about SJP, but she cosplays lightness non stop. I don't actively dislike her but she's like a pesky persistent housefly.

SJP has been looking grim and depressed for two years, both on-camera and off-camera. WTF is wrong with the her lately? No one wants to be around a constant downer.

Kristin Davis was always the weak link of the four actresses, but she did have some really good moments in the original series, especially during the Trey stuff. And I do think she was the most beautiful. I’m super gay, but if I was straight, Charlotte would be the most fuckable to me.

R181 SJP doesn’t like aging or becoming irrelevant. She wants Carrie to be a timeless icon who she will forever get recognition for. However, Gen Z doesn’t give a shit and doesn’t like SATC.

[quote] SJP is way too far up her own ass. She genuinely believes the world thinks SATC and Carrie are more iconic and more treasured than they are.

Gee, where would she get that idea? Maybe because of all the people bitching that SATC "ruined" New York and brought in too many flyover tourists and transplants trying to emulate the gals?

But SATC didn't to that. It's a meme repeated by mouth breathers who are mistaken they are urban sophisticates. SJP and SATC are blips. Any "transplant" moving to NYC is immediately confronted with reality of NYC that has zilch to do with SATC.

SATC had a huge impact on the city. It was more than just a blip. I lived through it. I am sure it was already in progress, but it really changed the perception of the meat packing district. The idea of the High Line wouldn’t have happened if that area hadn’t been reimagined they way it was with the help of the show and Samantha living there.

Miranda is gross-looking at the scene last season where she was decked out with a strap-on was unbearable. CRINGE!!!! Charlotte is simply brain dead and of NO interest at all.

R186 Nice try. Samantha’s Meatpacking District loft was introduced in Season 3 (2000). The High Line redevelopment movement (Friends of the High Line) started in 1999,

Diane von Fürstenberg opened her store there in 1997. Alexander McQueen’s first US store was 1999.

R188 the Friends of the Highline maybe have gathered for their first meeting in 1999 but the highline itself wasn’t opened for another ten years. The show itself had all of its offices in the Chelsea Market by 1996. I should know, I worked on the pilot. They shot a lot of stuff in and around the Meat Packing District. Trust me all of the sex clubs were still there including the Lure, Manhole, the trans hookers and the johns. The show played a huge part in people trapesing down there to check it out. It became club, shopping, restaurant central, driving out everything else.

You changed your argument. "The idea of the High Line wouldn’t have happened if that area hadn’t been reimagined they way it was with the help of the show and Samantha living there." This is false.

[quote] Miranda is gross-looking at the scene last season where she was decked out with a strap-on was unbearable.

Miranda in a strap-on is a harbinger of the end times.

R191 I didn’t change my main idea. The Friends of the Highline was formed in 1999 to preserve the Highline from demolition and they had some vague idea of turning it into some public space - which would happen until some ten later. The show played a major role in turning this area around which played a part in the Highline finally got funding to move forward.

“ Yes, "Sex and the City" played a significant role in transforming the Meatpacking District. The show's frequent use of the area as a filming location, particularly with Samantha Jones's character residing there, significantly boosted its popularity and desirability, leading to a wave of new businesses and residents”.

“While the High Line's development as a public park also played a major role, the show's popularity helped draw attention to the area and its potential for redevelopment. ”

-AI

You realise that is AI generating a positive response, from field info, not research and sources. AI takes your prompt and gives the positive answer to what it thinks you want to hear.

Show me any quantifiable proof SATC had on NYC demographics.

[quote]But SATC didn't to that. It's a meme repeated by mouth breathers who are mistaken they are urban sophisticates. SJP and SATC are blips. Any "transplant" moving to NYC is immediately confronted with reality of NYC that has zilch to do with SATC.

Bless your heart.😂

Sex and the City changed my life. I left my abusive husband in a small town and moved to NYC and became a barfly and had sex with close to 1000 men before 2008. With every orgasm I felt a bit closer to Samantha. Still looking for my rich Jewish husband like Charlotte's. I learned to love shoes I couldn't afford thanks to Carrie and became snarky and cynical along the way, sort of like Miranda. Thanks girls!

You can’t take away from the fact that it made me a whore … a PROUD WHORE!

“ Shhhooooeeeeessssssss”

R198 No television series did that, darlin'

R197 = Billy Porter.

R194 with Hudson Yards as a prime example many neighborhoods in New York have undergone a transformation in the last decade nothing to do with TV or Sex in the City.

I never said it did. Hudson yards not the meat packing district. But you deserve a cookie for pointing out that yes, NYC does change. I didn’t say SATC is responsible for NYC. I merely said the show had a huge impact on the city - mostly in people’s perception of how safe it was at the time. Shows do this, change people’s perceptions of a place.

Friends and SATC definitely had an impact on the city, this has been discussed for decades now. Lots of boring flyover basic dipshits moving to NY because of those shows.

I thought this was common knowledge.

I dont believe for a second that boring flyover basic dipshits moved to NYC because of friends. What jobs would they be qualified for if they are dipshits? I think this is an "urban legend" giving such sitcoms powers they never had. I will agree there might be an average midwesterner who somehow does get a dream to move to a big glamorous city, NY, SF, LA and Friends might be a push. But the move is more personally motivated than a sitcom brainwashing. I HAVE lived in NY, SF, London and Paris. I have never had anyone tell me they moved to such cities because of a TV show.

r205 you mustn't have been in NYC then. Hordes of basic bitches came here because of those shows. They were largely bankrolled by their parents. NYU expanded to become a blight on the city. Those shows made NYC very appealing.

Of course there were other factors, but Friends and SATC did have a role. NYers have talked about this endlessly for decades. Hell, Fran Lebowitz has built an entire second career over talking about boring people moving to the city in droves.

And the TOURISTS. JFC. "Friends" tours and "SATC" tours. Godawful.

[quote]What jobs would they be qualified for if they are dipshits?

You've never worked in PR or event planning!😂😂

The High Line troll is certifiable. Nuts.

I can’t believe there’s actually a demented High Line troll. The DL really has evolved from the old days 😵‍💫

SJP was quite the bombshell. She was basically nude on the MTV awards.

She’s always had a banging body and good hair. The face is the issue

I will give you the tourist. And maybe a bit of the NYU crowd for a few years. Many things drove the NYU expansion. Very odd. I will now tell you as story. A bank in geneva contacted my swiss boarding school where I was a teacher before I moved to university teaching. They needed tutors for global vips. One of my first students was the daughter of a Korean VVIP. She was obsessed with Sex and the City so I used it to teach her English and a lot about American culture - gender, class and NYC culture too. It was fun.

^ Yeesh give it a rest.

Good lord r212 you're obviously not familiar with NYC, esp. back then. Anyone can tell you the influence Friends and Sex and the City had on NY.

Felicity did more to boost applications to NYU. That, an accepting almost any international student with a dollar-denominated bank account. Lol

the 2000s saw a run on all these expensive private b list universities because they were never getting into the premier state university of their state let alone the ivies. And what R215 said. NYU was maxed out on middle-class kids STUPID enough to take massive loans for an undergraduate diploma from NYU. For 20-30 years. NYU was the SINGLE biggest creator of undergraduate student loan debt per student, in the USA. So they started recruiting all cash paying students as well. NYU was MISERLY with endowment funded student financial aid for a very very long time.

r216 yes there were several factors, but the "cleaning up" of NYC and the fantasy versions of NYC depicted on Friends and SATC definitely played a role. If NYC was still Death Wish and Taxi Driver in the Flyover American public's consciousness, believe me they wouldn't have been moving here.

R217 that is a softer sell and I can go along with it.

Yes Rudy G and then Bloomberg looked around and thought, this city needs to look more like a tv sitcom. That’s the ticket!

Can we get back to Che Diaz already?

r219 I hope you're just trying to be funny.

[quoteCan we get back to Che Diaz already?

Nobody wants to see her ugly fat ass again for the rest of their lives.

Trying? I am funny.

And I don’t accept a word of this spewed shit that SITC actually led to a changed landscape. As always in NYC: the High Line, the Meatpacking, Hudson River Park, new TS and dozens of other neighborhood changes since the early 90s came about because of one thing only: real estate $.

This looks like heaven.

That’s the pre-rape and assault video. Where’s the video from later in the evening?

r223 it's a fact that Friends and SATC had a role in it. This has been discussed ad nauseum for many years amongst NYers. Just because you say something doesn't make it true.

Were there sidewalk cafes in NYC, like in R224 video, before SATC?

No, never, until the second season of SITC. The City Council changed the code after SJP demanded action.

A*

How can Friends have made much impact upon NYC? It featured opening credits that might have been filmed in front of a suburban fountain in Des Moines, cardboard sets, and almost no street scenes that even suggested a sense of place?

Yes, it painted NYC as benign and livable but only in the most non-specific of ways. It was a neutered version of Urbania, not s specific city. We're it not for the cheesy Joey Treviano accent, it was Any Generic Big City.

SATC at least in its initial form was at least a paean to NYC and featured real urban images and real looking sets and actual locations. Love it or hate it --and the balance always tipped heavily to the former-- it at least painted an image of a specific place and time. Calculated in purpose but a loving tribute that was the glue the bound the characters and stories. And specific. It wasn't mistakable for a minute for Cleveland or L.A. or any other US city. NYC was absolutely a character, fictional but with enough real locations and plausibility and old tropes to push it along.

The two shows were night and day in how they handled their NYC setting -- one only nominally, sometimes NYC, the other absolutely, centrally "only in NYC" with the images to prove it.

Maybe it's just my perception but that centrality of NYC as key character seemed to wane a bit in SATC and was never very strongly or realistically present in AJLT, where it was more an afterthought.

I moved there because of Seinfeld

You make a good point. In any event neither show “changed” NY unless you live on Perry Street or near Magnolia Bakery.

I moved here because of Mad About You. It was my dream to work at Paragon on Broadway.

I moved to Brooklyn to sniff the fragrant nylon bikini underwear of Vinnie Barbarino types.

R214 I lived in New York City from 1988 to 2006 and I was not aware of hordes of people arriving here because of TV shows nor did anybody I know talk about it.

I do know that when Bloomberg became mayor there was a boom in building and real estate and more and more chain stores were opening up in New York. It became a playground for millionaires.

I now live across the Hudson and the entire skyline of the West Side of New York has changed. So many new high rise budlings west of 10th avenue in midtown.

There’s a whole yard full of them!

R169 Usually minimum wage.

[quote] Love it or hate it --and the balance always tipped heavily to the former

Please realize you are not speaking for everyone, though you're pretending you are.

I always despised the original show, and so did many people I know.

My grandparents moved here because of Lucy and The Honeymooners

I did a master’s at the Sorbonne in the 1990s because obviously, as a fancy gay fellow with delusions of grandeur, I felt compelled to cosplay an American heiress with literary ambitions. Within the week, I heard a muttered complaint from across the courtyard: “Encore un pédé américain qui croit être Françoise Sagan… Putain, c’est la faute à Jacqueline Bouvier.”

I moved to New York because of Everybody Loves Raymond.

I moved to NY in spite of Everyone Loves Raymond.

Parfait R240!

Yes, Sex and the City had a significant impact on New York City — culturally, socially, and even economically. Here’s how:

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1. Boosted NYC’s Global Image • The show romanticized New York as the ultimate place for fashion, love, and career ambition. • It helped brand NYC — especially Manhattan — as a glamorous destination, particularly for young women. • Tourism boards even leveraged the show’s popularity to promote NYC as a travel hotspot.

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2. Increased Tourism • SATC-themed tours became (and still are) popular, bringing fans to locations like: • Carrie Bradshaw’s stoop (66 Perry Street, West Village) • Magnolia Bakery (for cupcakes) • Bars/restaurants featured in the show (e.g. Buddakan, The Loeb Boathouse) • NYC saw a rise in “TV tourism” — people visiting locations they saw in pop culture.

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3. Influenced Local Businesses • Cupcake shops, cocktail bars, and luxury boutiques benefited. • Magnolia Bakery’s popularity exploded after it was featured. • Cosmopolitan cocktails saw a major spike in sales. • Boutiques and high-end fashion shops in SoHo and the Meatpacking District became go-to spots for trend-seeking shoppers.

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4. Changed Fashion Culture • The show turned NYC into a “fashion capital” in pop culture, thanks to Patricia Field’s iconic costume design. • Carrie Bradshaw’s obsession with Manolo Blahniks helped revive the brand and others like Jimmy Choo. • Many NYC women — and beyond — mimicked the characters’ high-fashion, mix-and-match style.

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5. Reflected and Shaped Social Attitudes • SATC openly discussed sex, dating, friendship, and female independence in a way that was bold for TV at the time. • It mirrored the changing dynamics of single urban life, especially for women. • Though it was criticized for lacking diversity, it still pushed certain conversations into the mainstream.

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6. Real Estate Influence • It idealized neighborhoods like the West Village, SoHo, and the Upper East Side, contributing to gentrification and rising rents. • Carrie’s fictional apartment created unrealistic expectations — a journalist with a rent-controlled brownstone? Unlikely!

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In short: Sex and the City didn’t just reflect NYC culture — it actively shaped it. The show’s legacy is still visible in tourism, real estate, fashion, and the global image of NYC today.

I enjoyed the early seasons, they were fun. The show really influenced the way women dressed. The Fendi Baquette became the "it" bag because Sarah Jessical Parker wore it. Nice bag.

I'd like to see more women carrying Bottega Veneta bags now. They are very appealing, keep the brand in mind if you're considering a Christmas gift for a woman. Sister, mother, friend, wife.. I have no ties to the brand but they make nice stuff.

Every single thing in your AI -generated list other than the cupcakes happened before or irrespective of a cable sitcom. Ian’s just like that, your complete ignorance is more entertaining and LOL Funny than any episode of AJLT.

visible in tourism, real estate, fashion, and the global image of NYC today.….

Utter horseshit. I mean like the piles of horseshit that stink up CPS. That level of horseshit.

I blame SATC for the invasion of bridge-and-tunnel bachelorette parties.

That part seems exactly right, R249. The B&T bachelorette parties and girls' brunches and other feminine frolickery is the factual bit, even seen in trickle-down parallels in much smaller and decidedly less exciting cities.

No doubt some women saw it as the impetus for their move to NYC just as others modelled their mini-transformations on Emily in Paris or some other inspiration. But draw a graph of the population change over SATC years in NYC and then superimpose another ragged line of women who attribute their move to NYC directly to that source and it would be a tiny part indeed.

SATC contributed at most secondary urban effects: higher rents, brunch, gaggles of girls having drinks, lines at cupcake venues, overspending on shoes. It did not spur urban design change, rather it simply reflected changes already well established: middle aged women ad execs contemplating a loft in the Meatpacking District precisely because that boat was already quite well launched.

I moved to New York because of “Law & Order: SVU.” It was so glamorous.

r250 there were tons of young basic bitches who were influenced to move to NYC by SATC. This is well-established and has been discussed for many years. I don't know why you're so weird about it.

My parents moved to Queens to cosplay Edith & Archie

Are you a teenager? Or did you grow up in a cave?

…tons of young basic bitches who have been influenced to move to NYC for decades, for well over a hundred years, by books, magazines, plays, movies and a hundred tv shows…before Sarah first neighed on HBO.

R244 - your post has a likely AI score of 82%. Not that it’s against the law, or anything. But do you have an original thought on this that wasn’t created by a random server?

Yes r255. This thread is full of them. AND I posted AI.

And R254 no one is saying SATC is the only show that has ever influenced NYC. All I am saying is that. SATC had an undeniable and often talked about huge influence on the perception of NYC.

r254 of course they have. The thing is that in the 90s/early 2000s Friends and SATC had a big influence on young basic bitches/bros moving to NYC. This is just a fact, weird that you're so adamant that it didn't play a role.

[quote]All I am saying is that. SATC had an undeniable and often talked about huge influence on the perception of NYC.

It was basically an advertisement for the new, cleaned-up NYC that started in the 90s. No more grit and danger like 70s/80s NY, now it was fun and fabulous and friendly! Basically propaganda, in a way. It was the culmination of all the shit that had been happening throughout the decade. And basic flyovers took notice. NYC was all about cosmos and overpriced muffins and shopping and just general basic boring nothingness.

R257 and just like that, you repeat the same nonsense. Get an original thought and come back to us.

r259 sorry but you're just wrong.

I moved to New York because of “Death Wish.” It seemed so dangerous and exciting.

r261 your posts are so funny and witty

Much better than r260 and et al’s ramblings of Sarah Jessica’s butterfly effect.

Sarah walked in stilettos, so Hudson Yards could live! Blather, blather.

r263 nobody said that, just that SATC and Friends did play a role, among other factors.

[Quote] visible in tourism, real estate, fashion, and the global image of NYC today.….

Have you been to New York City this century?

Central Perk lived, so the West Village could survive!

R265. Much less the last century, amitirite! The SATC thesis posts are inane.

[quote] AND I posted AI

Blocked.

I love the posters who announce when they've blocked another poster, as if we were all breathlessly waiting for who would be the next target of their hissyfit.

I moved to Chicago because of “Good Times.” Cabrini Green seemed so full of fresh energy and community.

r270 you're a tedious bore. Or an Aspie. Or perhaps both.

R262 R270

R271

Florida Evans and JJ brought all of those basic bitches/bros, from downstate and Iowa and ND, to Chicago in the 80s and 90s. It’s a well-known fact that the Loop never would have made it without them good times..

Was that a show? Never watched it!!

Milwaukee is still recovering from the onslaught of residents and development that followed “Laverne & Shirley.” There was a whole industry that emerged for selling single gloves to put on beer bottles during brewery tours. Not to mention the surge in basement apartment rentals.. You can’t deny this impact.

It’s well-known to everyone. I don’t understand why people don’t get that they literally saved Milwaukee.

The roommates who made Milwaukee famous

OK, definitely an Aspie.

I moved to Philadelphia because it’s always sunny there.

Vermont almost lost its statehood until “Newhart” literally put it back on the map. Thousands of new residents started opening bed and breakfasts filled with colorful, oddball characters. Women with huge tits started wearing tight sweaters throughout the year, changing the fashion scene forever. Maple syrup sales suddenly skyrocketed. Bernie Sanders still calls it “the miracle” to this day. You can’t deny the impact.

Some of you must remember that "Six and the City" blog that DL followed for a while. Not only did the frau drag her entire family to NY, she even adopted a Chinese baby.

r282 DL had a field day with that cunt.

Yes, she was a mess! She really thought she was living that SATC lifestyle, meanwhile all her sons had to share a broom closet as a bedroom. Fuck them kids.

Then her brother-in-law (I think) died in some newsworthy way and put an end to all our fun.

If it wasn’t for “Sex and the City,” New York would have probably shut down years ago. It really had nothing going for it and zero reputation until a show about four vapid sluts fucking their way across town appeared on cable TV. They should really re-sculpt the Statue of Liberty’s face to resemble Sarah Jessica Parker as she made people realize that New York City actually exists. It was basically a less high-profile Osh Kosh, Wisconsin before those four walking Petri dishes appeared on the scene. Now, it’s filled with businesses, restaurants and young people wanting to fuck and drink cocktails. All because of “Sex and the City.”

Thank you, Sarah Jessica. You saved New York.

The last 10 or so posts are hilarious. I hadn't checked this thread in weeks, (I stopped watchin AJLT after the first 6 episodes).

So glad I stopped by today!

You have to admit though without these four vapid sluts we would not have a Magnolia Bakery on every fucking corner.

Oh yeah, they also destroyed the charm of Bleecker Street.

It is a fact that Sex & the City popularized the cupcake. They had been forgotten for decades before the show put them on the radar again. They've been incredibly popular ever since.

Still not funny r288. You just seem insane.

R287 Bleecker has gone through multiple iterations in just the last 25 years. As of today it’s going fine without any Carrieshit.

R290, When I lived there it had antique stores and record stores and restaurants next to funeral homes. Quentin Crisp roamed the street. Last time I visited it was banks, frozen yoghurt stores, and overpriced fashion boutiques. Obviously, I am Eldergay.

So now, suddenly, her townhouse was legally a condo (or coop) and she doesn’t own the lower level. That makes no sense—she never would have been able to redo that garden on her own.

And now she’s mad her old place has been modified. Boo hoo.

She will be back in her old hovel at the end.

Are they saying Big wasn't able to afford to buy a freestanding townhouse outright?

Whose the idiot at HBO who greenlit "Sex In The City WITHOUT Samantha"? I bet HBO thinks twice before they give Darren Star another "straight-to-series" order.

I’m sure Cynthia is drowning her sorrows in obese, sweaty pussy and virtue signaling.

Is Kristin still dating John Travolta? Their sexual chemistry was like napalm. 🔥

Is Kristen Davis a clam?

Is pussy hound Travolta two timing Kristen Davis with Deborra-Lee Furness?

R295 if you don't understand the different applications of "whose" and "who's" then you're really in no position to call anybody else an idiot.

R300 = Whose you talking about?

She’s the poster girl for overaged women with long curling locks artfully arranged to frame the old face.

This has something to do with Cynthia Nixon supporting Mamdani

[bold] Wait for it [/bold]------>> The final episode -----> Carries phone rings. -----> She answers. ---->> She screams [bold] "Samantha's DEAD?!!" [/bold]....The screen goes black...

Filmed after HBO told her they were wrapping it up. The ultimate "Fuck You" to Kim Cattrall for not returning. Would SJP really let KC off the hook for tanking SJPs last gasp for SATC fame? Why would she? We'll know next week.

Well I ,for one, will miss watching it every Thursday. Gonna relish these last episodes.

This scene killed the show.

(And me, almost.)

Revisiting this two-year-old Reddit thread reminds that the AJLT hate isn't just DL.

[quote]I seriously hate this version of Miranda.

[quote]She’s weak. Everything the audience loved about her is gone

[quote]At this point I've just accepted MPK had a lobotomy and forgot who the og characters actually are, AJLT is a parallel time-line

[quote]That’s the only reasonable explanation. I accept that people change as they grow older, but Miranda has hard boundaries on a lot of things, and apparently she’s cool with breaking all of them a decade later?!? She was sure she wasn’t into women, now she’s queer. Her career was everything to her. She gave it up. She was incredibly independent and refused to beg for any of her partners. As soon as she sees Che, she’s head over heels, becomes this needy person, early Carrie with Big. Hates kinky stuff, even dirty talk, but now she’s into BDSM stuff.

[quote]Dunno if i wanna ruin my memory more with this. Miranda so out of character and Charlottes new face are just to much to take.

[quote] She’s weak. Everything the audience loved about her is gone.

The audience never even liked her. She was a mean, rude, unlikable bitch who treated people like shit and gave off major dyke vibes.

She was the ugly one and the fact that she got anyone to fuck her at all was the most unrealistic element of the show.

Does BIG come back from the DEAD& fucks Carrie's "stretched out HOLLAND TUNNEL OF HER PUSSY" and strangles Carrie to Death screaming "You cancelled me from your shitty fucking show because of Fake Me too allegations but you're still married to that FAG HUSBAND BRODERICK". FUCKING HORSE-FACED BITCH!!

Surprise, Carrie is moving to Amsterdam where she's met someone who can truly satisfy her.

I guess I’m not surprised at all the love for Samantha here, but the role was pretty one-note, with too much sniggering. When Cattrall was given the rare chance to show some depth (like Miranda’s mother’s death) she was indeed terrific, however.

The link in R304 is interesting. Cattrall doesn't come off all that well, but hardly a monster. It sounds like making SJP an executive producer and bumping up her salary was the start of things. SJP was always the star and the focal point of the show, so it seems a bit sour grapes. Cattrall wanting WB to develop properties seemed a bit excessive as the price of her making the third film.

Cattrall was right, though, that cat fights make news on women's shows but no one seems to pursue them on more male shows---someone has to be totally out of control like David Caruso to get that treatment on a male-dominated show.

Nonetheless, everything the start of AJLT since makes it easy to see that Samantha was essential to the show. Creating a Samantha-lite (Seema) didn't work---she lacked wit and they never really let her be a sexual animal or smart business person. Also, there really was no reason to dumb down Miranda, even if Nixon wanted her to be closer to Nixon's real life. She could be unlucky in love with women and still be the show's one conventional feminist. The girlfriend with unhealthy dog attachments was just as annoying as Che, although at least she didn't have a lame standup act.

My guess is that the show doesn't pick-up many re-watchings which would suggest that no one will want it for syndication (unlike SATC) and that making back the production costs would be unlikely.

This always summed up the entire history, for me.

February 2018

When Cattrall's 55-year-old brother was found dead in Canada, Parker wrote condolences on Cattrall's Instagram. According to US Weekly, she said, "Dearest Kim, my love and condolences to you and yours and Godspeed to your beloved brother. Xx."

When asked about her decision to comment, despite the feud, Parker told Entertainment Tonight, "If somebody in your life, whether you're in touch with them or not, [is] suffering for any reason, it's involuntary that you want to convey condolences or sadness or just let someone know you're thinking about them."

A source close to Parker also told PEOPLE that when Cattrall's brother was announced missing, Parker privately called and texted Cattrall.

27 February 2018

However, in response to comment, Cattrall posted an Instagram slamming Parker for "exploiting" her brother's death. In her caption, she wrote, "My Mom asked me today 'When will that @sarahjessicaparker, that hypocrite, leave you alone?' Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona."

Can we all admit that Cattrall was the problem? She has personality issues. Sarah, Cynthia and Kristen all get along, so common sense says that Kim was the problem.

[quote]even if Nixon wanted her to be closer to Nixon's real life.

Nixon's real life is repulsive to 99% of the population, what a stupid decision to let her have free reign over her character. They should've told her in no uncertain terms it wasn't going to happen.

"Cynthia honey, you may enjoy being face-down in a hideous fat bulldyke's pussy, but most people find it disgusting and vomit-inducing. We're not going to go in that direction on the show. Sorry, babe."

[quote]SJP was always the star and the focal point of the show,

Mistake number one. It's really more of an ensemble show with the action revolving around SJP's character. There's a difference between being the anchor of a show and being the star. It wasn't Carrie's Sex and the City.

Plus Kim had a career that rivaled SJP's in terms of longevity and range. It was beyond insulting to reduce her to supporting tier while one actress tried to hog all the glory.

I've posted this before, but back in 1998 I was walking around the Union Square area and stumbled across a shoot that was happening on the patio of a restaurant (I can't for the life of me remember the name of the place), having no idea what they were filming.

This was before SATC premiered, and there were four women sitting at a table being filmed. I immediately recognized SJP and Kim Cattrall and didn't have a clue who the other two women were. SJP was quite witchy-looking and her nose looks bigger in person. Kim Cattrall was wearing very heavy makeup, troweled on. Looking at the woman I later found out was Cynthia Nixon, my first thought was "she looks like a lesbian." My first thought looking at the woman I later found out was Kristen Davis was "holy shit is she gorgeous!" The camera does not do Kristin Davis justice, she was stunning when I saw her in person that day. This may have been the pilot episode, I have no idea. Of course I found out what they were filming when SATC premiered later that year.

I watched them film for a little while, then walked on and went about my business.

And sorry about misspelling Kristin Davis's name, before the DL schoolmarms correct me.

The first season was film in the summer if 1997–do better.

I was there when the first episode was shot. It included a car scene on West 22nd between the WSH and 10th Ave/High Line, in the first version of the gallery district, where DIA was. I walked passed the AD and interrupted the street scene. She yelled get out, and I told her to fuck off—I needed to get to the gym at Chelsea Piers.

OK r319 but the show premiered in the summer of 1998. So I saw some episode of the first season being filmed in the spring of 1998.

[quote]She yelled get out, and I told her to fuck off—I needed to get to the gym at Chelsea Piers.

Wow, you sound like a real prize.

FAFO —far west side in the 90s

[Quote] Plus Kim had a career that rivaled SJP's in terms of longevity and range.

indeed

Aren’t they resurrecting “Melrose Place” again? Could Kristin’s worthless cunt character be revived from the dead?

She really stinks up any project she’s on.

R317, I worked on the pilot episode as an intern. That would have been the summer of 1997. Susan Seidelman of Deslerately Seeking Susan fame was directing the pilot. I distinctly remember she was helping to produce One Tough Cop with Stephen Baldwin as well at the time, and I was copying daily scripts for both. It was a huge open loft and Darren Star’s office was there. And the big gay casting director who does everything - I forget his name. The offices were in the Chelsea. Market upstairs. The Market was literally just a food market then. Funny thing is I don’t think I ever saw the pilot because I was a poor student and didn’t have HBO. But I attended the scene with Kim Cattrall and some guy she was on a date with. I just remember the red was so vibrant and it was shot down in the Next Model Management building near Tribeca. Susan let me stand just behind her monitor and watch with her. Cool memory.

I was an acting student at NYU and tried to get all of my teachers in on auditions. At that point they were still casting Kristen’s part I think.. One of my teachers being none other than Felicity Huffman , ot Flika as her friends called her. None of them got the part, obviously. But I DID see them pop up in episodes over the years which was really cool.

Anyway, the restaurant you are probably trying to remember is possibly the Blue Water Grill. It was there next to the Coffee Shop for years.

Thanks for the dish, R325.

I moved to NYC in '99, and my first job was across from Chelsea Market. I remember hearing Oz was shot in the studios upstairs; I was titillated by that, hoped to bump into Chris Meloni.

Agree, the restaurant was probably Blue Water Grill. They had a big, filming-friendly patio.

Blue Water Grill was probably it. It had a big patio.

Netizens are ripping on a controversial 18-year-old Maxim article that listed the most “unattractive” women in showbiz — with “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker topping the Mount Rushmore of alleged off-putting celebs. The unflattering ranking came to light via a Reddit post that raised eyebrows online.

[Quote] She yelled get out, and I told her to fuck off—I needed to get to the gym at Chelsea Piers.

[Quote] Wow, you sound like a real prize.

sounds like a typical- I'm the center of the universe- 90s New Yorker

Why doesn't she look like that all the time? Her usual look is Margaret Hamilton waking up without coffee.

R308: i think the audience did start to like Miranda around season 3 but definitely season 4 when her mom died. She was very one dimensional in season 1 and most of 2 but they softened her and gave her a more rounded personality in later seasons. Not enough to justify the pathetic unsure-of/herself lesbian mess we got in AJLT though.

^^^Sooooo, no BIG ZOMBIE coming back to eat Aiden& make Carrie a Zombie!!^^^

I don't think the viewers want to see Carrie as a Grandmother.

If MPK and SJP claim they made the decision to end the story arc this season, why is she trying to shop more episodes to Netflix? The new version should be called And Just Like That with Mayor Mamdani a place where the woke and DEI never die.

Che Diaz was one of the worst characters in the history of television. She was just repulsive.

Cynthia Nixon has the worst taste in women and she decided to make Miranda the same way.

[quote] Can we all admit that Cattrall was the problem?

Not at all.

She had nothing to to do with smashing the legacy of SATC, that was all vain SJP, obnoxious Cynthia and stupid Kristin.

Is Big going to make a Cuomo cumback?

[quote] Netizens are ripping on a controversial 18-year-old Maxim article that listed the most “unattractive” women in showbiz — with “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker topping the Mount Rushmore of alleged off-putting celebs. The unflattering ranking came to light via a Reddit post that raised eyebrows online.

Let me guess. “Netizens” = Gen Z and they find a nearly 20-year-old long forgotten article in dead magazine Maxim “problematic.”

Things must be slow in outrage land today when they have to dig up decades-old lad mag articles to feed their outrage addiction.

What a worthless group of people.