And Just Like That, I cried from my own traumas of losing a loved one.

 

AND JUST LIKE THAT, I’M HOOKED.

I have been a diehard Sex and The City fan for as long as I can remember. I was just a kid when it all came out, but as I got older–I realized the significance of the show. I’m a New Englander and I really have spent most of my late teens and twenties in New York City. As a full-time professional union actress, I live, breathe and eat that city.

NEW YORK CITY GAL’

I’ve had my ups, my downs, my heartbreaks, losses and even a close friend I had treasured for twenty years has now left a huge hole in my life. Add the traumatic death of my father, and you’ve got a recipe for the real-life Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker). Sadly, I don’t have the big bucks for the pretty expensive shoes, multi-million dollar apartments, or the absolutely amazing dream job, I’m a freelance journalist who has been lucky enough to interview huge names and even forge friendships and relationships with them and publicists. Like Carrie, there are life experiences there.

 

THAT TRAUMATIC DEATH.

Seeing Mr. Big (Chris North) die made me absolutely sob my eyes out. My own father, I found in a similar position, only he wasn’t breathing. He didn’t die in front of me, I found him much later, similar to Carrie when she held onto him. The stiff movements, the eyes–I would do anything to bring him back. I don’t think it was necessary to kill off Big, I think even though Carrie had a true love in Aiden, they were good together when they got older.

NEW YORK DATING FROM HELL.

New York men especially have commitment issues, right around their twenties and thirties. Granted, I’ve been in a bad position that involved sexual assault with a forty-something-year-old man, but you tend to become a better person as you age, or so some do.

DIAL BACK THE ARROGANCE.

While I absolutely love Sara Ramirez (SPAMALOT, YES!), and they were my absolute inspiration for getting callbacks for Lady of the Lake over the years, the character they play is a typical New York egotistical person.

My last date involved such a person. The haircut. The behavior. Down to even being with married women. I don’t know about you, but I can’t be within two feet of someone like that. Sara portrays the character perfectly, as I’ve known some that are like that to a T.

As a bi-sexual woman, it’s few and far in between to find (not generalizing all lesbians, but the few that I’ve been acquainted with within the dating field) that don’t have these characteristics. If you’re out there? I have yet to meet you. And I want to.

DON’T BREAK YOUR STRIDE.

And Just Like That
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You can’t force someone to talk about something on a public Podcast that they aren’t comfortable with. No two people are exactly alike.

Yes, Carrie is bold in her own way, and she has gone through trauma after trauma, breakup after breakup, and even now with the unfortunate disappearance of Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), she’s still trying to plug along in her fifties.

MIRANDA IS STILL MIRANDA.

As for poor Miranda, who I honestly feel I am a mix of as well as Samantha (by her wit alone, I am not that sexually adventurous, though more power to her.), she puts her foot in her mouth at a huge college class, even though she had good intentions.

It would have been better to a; not to say anything at all, or say that the professor’s hair threw her off because it was short in the picture. In this case, as a woman of color myself–it would have been better just to not say anything.

HOSTILE PRONOUNS.

And while pronouns are extremely important, the fact that another character just jumped on Miranda for calling them a man, seemed really hostile.

A simple correction would do. I do like that they touched upon Covid and that Carrie made a cute joke about her sparkly gloves. That’s honestly a good idea. For subways and elevators. Why didn’t I think of that?

SISTERLY WOES.

I do feel bad for Charlotte’s (Kristin Davis) poor daughter Rose (Alexa Swinton), not only does she have to go along and wear matching florals like the rest of her family, but she is also living in her sister Lily’s shadow.

UNPACKING EPISODE ONE, WHEW.

As hard as episode one was to unpack, it’s definitely going to be a wonderful show that I wish could last forever!

 

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