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It feels like the scriptwriters are all 20 years old and imagining what life after 50 is like...everyone's deaf, dying, drunk, or having hip surgery, and nobody has ever met a black person before.

Lilykins said:

Why can’t girls just be tomboys now - why do they suddenly have to become a boy?!

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I'm a gay woman and quite girly now (long hair, wear make-up, etc.), but I was very much a tomboy as a kid in the 90s/early 00s. It really scares me how much young women who aren't super-feminine are now almost pressured to identify as something other than female. I wonder how many are being pushed down a medical pathway of transitioning when they aren't even old enough to vote or drink.

My girlfriend is in her 40s (9 years older than me) and is a more masculine-presenting woman (what used to be called 'butch', I guess). When she was growing up/in her 20s it was more acceptable for a lesbian to look like her, but now it's almost as if people are offended that she calls herself a woman. She is perfectly happy to be a woman – she just happens to be a woman with short hair who doesn't like dresses!

What's happening is called progress and you get called a terf/transphobe if you say anything even vaguely critical, but it feels extremely regressive to me. It's forcing young people to conform to extremely outdated gender stereotypes instead of letting them just be. Ironically, out of all the people on this show, the only one who had a sensible response to the Rose storyline was Anthony, the gayest of gay men.

It’s 2021 and we’re all arguing over whether a woman is attractive or not. Come on everyone.

Here's my ideal series ending scenario that will definitely not happen (but a girl can dream):

• Carrie buys a fabulous apartment, writes a wildly successful book and embraces life as a single middle-aged woman AND IS FINE WITH IT.
• Charlotte and Harry continue to be happy, content and obviously in love with each other. Rose realises she might like girls and that that doesn't mean she has to be a boy, embraces gender non-conformity and gets on with just BEING TWELVE. Lily becomes a piano prodigy and has an Instagram account where she wears all the fabulous classic 90s Carrie outfits that were gifted to her.
• Miranda realises Che is more of a love-the-one-you're-in kind of person and tries to get back with Steve. Unfortunately, Debbie happened to wander into Steve's bar still looking smoking hot and they get together again. Brady goes off to college (somehow he found time to get accepted into Harvard in between shagging his girlfriend) and Miranda and Steve have to sell the house. Miranda moves into Carrie's old apartment, quits her human rights course and spends her days browsing Tattle and internet-stalking Che.
• Smith moves back to New York, bumps into Anthony and they fall in love (hey, if Miranda can go gay overnight, why not?). We all know Anthony's a nice little package with good arms and a high tight ass.
• Seema starts dating Aidan, who she meets through one of her real estate clients. Carrie HAS MANY FEELINGS about this.
• All the new women-of-colour besties get the fuck out of dodge when they realise these white chicks are batshit insane. Che's Netflix special bombs and she starts dating Louis CK.

Have I missed anyone?

Wingingmotherhood said:

Miranda is definitely going to catch Che doing someone isn’t she?

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Plot Twist

Miranda surprises Che, but walks in on this

Very traditional said:

I did actually feel really sorry for Charlotte and Harry in this episode, and of course I like Anthony who seems to have been allowed to keep his original personality.

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Yes, Harry I felt for in this episode. They said exactly what I was thinking. If I had teachers talking to me like that I would be angry.

Anthony is brilliant, and hasn’t had a personality transplant like everyone else.

Imaging your boss coming into your home while you're recovering from surgery, out of it on medication, then proceeds to stink your home out with weed and finger your married friend in the kitchen in front of you, while you piss the bed.
Fucking get yourselves in the BIN

I know the writing is on the wall for it unlikely to be renewed. But anyone else hope it is and they learn from the reviews and what us fans have to say about it?

Or maybe they've damaged the show so much there's no way to go back?

It's frustrating, as there's so much potential.

I'd like to:

* Have fewer stories going on at once.
* Bring back a running theme to each episode, with the background stories happening across the episodes.
* Have the show less preachy and trying to tick every single box.
* See the show be inclusive, bit not screaming about it, other shows do this perfectly well.
* See more of NYC.
* Have fewer main characters vying for airtime / storylines.
* See a stop with the lame stereotypes, being in your 50s isn't all about hip replacements and grey hair.
* See the return Miranda's backbone and cynicism.
* BRING THE HUMOUR BACK!

I think the biggest problem with AJLT is that they’re not relatable anymore. I mean in SATC, they had a lifestyle I could only dream about, but they went to clubs and bars and the men they dated all sucked. Sure, I couldn’t afford $400 shoes, but I understood what it was like to fancy someone who wouldn’t commit. Now their problems are ‘my Met Gala dress doesn’t fit!’ ‘My daughter has sold all her designer clothes to buy a keyboard so she can sing whiny songs about how privileged she is!’ ‘My non binary, half Mexican, half Irish comedian lover left me stranded at the beach because she had to convince Tony Danza to play her dad on a sitcom!’ We’ve all been there, especially the last one They’re so far removed from the normies now that we have to have Carrie having a hip replacement and poaching eggs, because that’s what middle aged women are all about, right?!

I liked when Steve said that this is marriage, and implied it had been a rocky road until recently. That things we don’t know about happened and he was the one sorting it out and fighting for them.

To most people that would be a great life; very good job and studying in human rights (shows she’s always restless and wanting more). Lovely house with a terrific husband. Endless designer clothes, shoes and bags. Great friends. Lots of time to go out for meals, drinks with friends. A great son (I know he’s a brat to us). A patient, easy going, handsome husband that is content with their life. That’s more than most peoples. I know friends whose husbands are useless and it’s like having a second child, or a husband you have to tip toe around or a drinker. Life isn’t always exciting, most of it is boring. Steve showed an interest sex wise the other week, or at least enough to try again and talk about it. I don’t think she tried enough.
I know she’s full of teenage infatuation, but they seem by teenagers and the grass is always greener on the other side.
Sorry for Rampling but I’m team Steve

Just caught up…

Between Carrie flinging her own piss around the room and Miranda attempting to communicate with whales (I’m surprised Steve couldn’t hear her from miles away through his hearing aids….Miranda what did you shay?? *inaudible throat chanting*) I feel we have missed out on discussing what was perhaps the most disturbing part of the episode for me:

SEEING THE HALLWAY AND STAIRS OF CARRIES APARTMENT BUILDING

I don’t know why this was so unnerving for me, it felt like I should look away

And just like that... it was 1998 again

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em69 said:

My moneys on Burger

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He's sorry
He can't
Don't hate him

Meowsy said:

Honest question - how do you look at

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and get “beautiful”?

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She has a lovely figure, gorgeous hair, beautiful skin and really good bone structure.

Why do we rarely see posts or reports classifying men as handsome and ugly? Why do we always do this to women, as though it's an important part of deciding if they have any value as a person?

And it's always awkward because you find something ugly about everyone and usually, it's your own insecurity that you are projecting. It's harder to compliment the same sex when you can't compliment yourself because you only ever see "bad" points.

I want Aidan to show up looking scorching hot and Carrie to bat her eyelashes at him. He replies "not you toots, you had your chance" . He turns to Steve, Steves nods yes and climbs onto the back of Aidan's motorbike and then ride off into the sunset together to live in Aidan's cabin in the woods as a best friends banjo playing double act called "Binary Cis Hot"

If there's any hope for the show, Che needs to die in a freak fingering accident in episode 1.

Webster1357 said:

Me trying to care about anyone in AJLT…

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me every time Che is on screen…

You are a comic?!?!

Am I the only person who clearly remembers the episode where Miranda pretends to be lesbian to get ahead with her boss at a work function, kisses her date in the elevator and feels nothing? Because watching Miranda have a sudden revelation about her sexuality after they made such a point in the original series that her androgynous look doesn't automatically mean queer is really hurting my head

Lady_H said:

Love it. Absolutely right, Steve has committed the crime of being a heterosexual middle-aged white bloke and must be punished accordingly.

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You are so right and it fucking kills me because Miranda and Steve have such a nuanced storyline built over literally years and it culminates with REAL personal growth for Miranda (remember when Magda tells her “real love is what you did. You love” when she’s looking after Steve’s mum with dementia, and it’s such a MOMENT because miranda had been so resistant to the idea of being a wife, a mum, living in Brooklyn, caring about others, etc etc. And now they’ve just fucked that beautiful arc with some out of character bullshit. I don’t even like Steve and he deserved better, so did their story. Bit like Samantha chucking Smith in the movie. What a load of bs.