I guess it’s not fair of me to take this stance, but I just cannot with men who ride their female partners about having a baby. It’s not just that the female partner is the one who’s going to deal with pregnancy and childbirth. Most likely, she’s also going to do more childrearing labor and get less credit for it.

In the previous episode, he tells Miranda he won’t fight for her. Now he’s never moving on? Which is it?

I suppose refusing to make any effort is not out of character for Steve, but there is a dissonance between these two scenes.

A lot of young women are intimidated by tampons. Many teens have never put anything in their vagina before. Of course they’ll be nervous about inserting a plastic applicator. They’ve never tried to penetrate the area!

I was hoping to hear more sympathy from Charlotte because she has a titled uterus (it is only…

Steve is a passive-aggressive jerk. He is a good guy in some moments, but he is constantly ignoring Miranda’s boundaries in SATC.

At no point would I ever ague that And Just Like That... is good. But I will argue the characters are in line with their SATC characterization.

I rewatched SATC a few months before AJLT. I have never seen the SATC movies. And jumping into AJLT from the end of season six felt extremely accurate. Nuanced and…

Miranda is visibly unhappy before she meets Che. I don’t think we’re supposed to believe Miranda throws her life away for Che. Che is a catalyst for an action Miranda wants to take already. She is unsatisfied with her marriage before she meets Che.

I don’t think that’s true. I think people excuse a man married to a woman who cheats with another man.

Personally, I think people are overly sensitive about fictional characters cheating. In real life, people cheat. Some of the people who cheat are good people who care about their partners. They are doing something…

People didn’t abandon Ansari because he treated a woman like a groupie (at best). The abandoned Ansari because he presented himself as a feminist ally and still treated women like groupies (at best).

“But as Steve rightly points out, this has been their dynamic for years. Miranda was always try to change him into something he wasn’t, way back to the SATC episode about the corduroy suit that led to their first breakup, instead of just being content with the way that things were.”

Why can’t Miranda buy Steve a suit,…

I haven’t seen the movies, but I think Steve’s behavior in this episode tracks with his character in the show. He is constantly taking Miranda’s desire for more as a personal attack. He does it again, here.

I’m not saying Miranda is always in the right. Sometimes, she pushes a little too far. But he’s constantly taking…

The writers made Steve a dumb jerking starting around his second episode. He’s been a dumb jerk for most of the show. This is not new.

Why does anyone not communicate anything to a partner? Miranda isn’t acting optimally, sure, but she’s acting in a perfectly realistic manner.

Yep. I grew up in Orange County when The OC aired. It was the worst. We were super famous for a few years with The OC, Laguna Beach, and the movie Orange County. The 00s... a rough time.

When did you see the movie though? I knew before the movie was released, though I didn’t seek out the info. I didn’t mind. I wasn’t in a rush to see it (though I did enjoy it). & I don’t think the information hurt my enjoyment in any way. It’s the premise of the film. Is that the level we’re using for spoilers now?

Not really! Everyone compares everything to Breaking Bad everywhere in the TV world. All TV drama & comedies with any sort of moral ambiguity are compared to Breaking Bad.

100%

Maybe. We’ll never know if Dexter would have killed Doakes because Lila killed him.

Yeah, no. The Dexter writers have killed more than enough women to prove Dexter has gone bad. Pretty much all the people’s who’s deaths are proof Dexter has gone bad or done wrong are woman. Rita. LaGuerta. Deb. Molly even.

I didn’t get the fuss about Only Murders in the Building. It’s fun but it’s just not substantial.

I can’t agree about The Other Two though. It is hilarious. The episode with the married couple pretending to be father and son? I can’t remember the last time I laughed that hard.

Why shouldn’t they? Disney channel sitcoms are fun and silly.

Game of Thrones is just as ridiculous as the average Disney channel sitcom but it’s considered prestige viewing for smart people.