Miranda didn’t dump her career. She took the summer off/turned down an internship. It is prioritizing her relationship over her career, but it’s not comparable to Carrie quitting to go to Paris is season 6 SATC (you didn’t make that comparison but many have). And I think that also makes a lot more sense at 55. At 35,…

People lose their sh over cheating. It’s strange. Obviously, cheating isn’t cool, but it’s hardly the worst thing you could do to someone.

I’m on record with my hate for Steve, so I was happy just to see Miranda leave Steve. Sorrynotsorry. But I don’t think that’s a fair take. When Miranda brings her problems to Steve, he tells her he’s not willing to make an effort.

Miranda was level headed in some ways (career) and not others (dates). All the characters had their moments of wisdom and their moments of wackiness. The show was a comedy, after all.

I don’t think The Che X Miranda storyline worked well, but I do find the level of hate for it strange.

Most of the love interests on SATC were total dbags. It’s really not that strange to see a SATC character fall for an emotionally unavailable ahole who rudely blows their smoke everywhere.

Miranda - Nya makes a lot more sense & Nya is a much better contrast to Steve (though it is somewhat more plausible she’d fall for Che because of Steve. They have the same immaturity).

Yep. My dad attends or hosts an Oscar party every year. He loves movies, middle brow to high brow (well middle to high-brow). He’s the audience. Old school movie and celebrity fans are the Oscar audience. People who watch ET and read celebrity magazines, people who actually go to the theater. Not people who prefer to…

The Half of It was great.

I haven’t run the numbers, but I’d bet good money romantic comedies are criticized for contrived plots at a rate several times that of other genres. Action movies have contrived plots too, but I rarely hear people criticize them. In fact, I rarely hear actual fans of any genre complain about contrived plots. People…

“Who is this for” is an interesting question.

The Fresh Prince came up in one of my late 00s college classes. Everyone in the (small yet diverse) class loved the show. When it came out, we had not yet internalized the idea the content was not for me.

There weren’t social media sites telling people what was for them or…

The original run of Futurama is still one of my favorite shows. The movies, overall, are even decent. But the Comedy Central seasons? That is not Futurama. That is a weird, uncanny valley version of Futurama.

To be fair, a very large percent of the love interests on SATC were extremely annoying. Especially the long term love interests. Few are hated universally by fans but most are hated by a certain segment of fans. Steve and Aiden are passive aggressive. Big is straight up toxic. Richard is somehow even more toxic.

Everyon…

Um, what? Steve is constantly threatened by Miranda’s success and shaming her for being high achiever. Remember the honeymoon? she’s the one who’s wrong because she doesn’t want to hang for four days straight. (Yeah, I know they’re getting down on their honeymoon, but that’s few hours a day max. After awhile, you…

The end of HTGAWM freed up a lot of her time.

Yeah, Nick Cage & Keanu are 100% on us.

I wouldn’t say I like it. I would say I find it a plausible take on the SATC + 15 years (minus a lot of subtlety in the writing). I find AJLT a fascinating train wreck. (Not for any qualities it has as much as for how it fails and succeeds to update its source material).

I love the idea of satirizing the domestic psychological thriller, but where do you go? The underlying premise of the genre is “we don’t believe women” and the books are mostly about whether or not we should believe a woman’s perceptions. That’s just... not prime comedy material unless you go really dark and really…

I 100% do not want to see this and do not think it’s funny, but Scary Movie is primarily parodying Scream, which is already a horror parody, so this is not a new problem.

I enjoyed The Good Place well enough but I don’t know if I’d say Bell was great on it. She was good. But she was never as funny as her co-stars. She’s playing the straight man role, so she’s not given as much opportunity to be funny, but she’s also just... not as funny IMO.

Witty is already stretching it.