I have had so many requests to do the movies, so I apologize that it took forever, but at least I finally got my ass in gear. I only saw the second movie once, because it was terrible, so rewatching that should be a trip. But before we get to the (I’m guessing) 99+ reasons Carrie Bradshaw is the Worst in the first movie, I want to say that even though this movie is bad, it is also tolerable. What is not tolerable? IMDB’s description of it:
A New York City writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
IT WAS NOT MIRANDA’S FAULT THAT BIG JILTED CARRIE. THAT IS NONSENSE. I AM GOING TO WRITE MORE WHEN WE GET THERE. THIS MAKES ME SO MAD I HAVE TO BE ALL CAPSY.
Now we are ready to explore all the reasons why Carrie Bradshaw is the WORST!
We don’t even make it past the opening credits montage before I can come up with multiple reasons. Although this dress is not one of them. SJP looks fucking fantastic.
#1 – She says in her voiceover that 20-something women come to New York to find the two Ls: Labels and Love. How about a fucking career? Adventure? Diversity? Good food? No, just labels and love? Okay then!
They all look amazing, but this looks like a lot of effort. Anyway…
#2 – Carrie refers to her friends as her meal ticket. This is of course because she put all their shit on blast in her books. And look, whatever, I am sure they knew about it, but in the first episode of AJLT, when they were trying to explain away Samantha, Carrie lamented that Sam thought of her as a human ATM, which is beyond ridiculous. When Carrie was publishing her first book, Samantha offered to be her publicist for like two martinis and a lunch. Carrie has been sucking her friends dry forever. DID YOU EVER PAY CHARLOTTE BACK FOR BUYING YOUR APARTMENT?
#3 – After the opening credits, we pick back up three years after Big rescued Carrie from her Parisian nightmare. She’s meeting him in front of 1010 Fifth Avenue, as they are looking for a place to buy. That’s right, they don’t live together yet! She’s the ONE but not the ONE enough to live in the same space? I did a quick Google. The units for sale range from $1.1 million to $18.5 million so we all know Big is picking up the check on this one. They walk in and ask about 3C. Yes, I know these aren’t 2008 prices but work with me here.
This is the 33rd apartment they have looked at. It is a piece of shit, so they decide maybe 34 will be their lucky number. The relator tells them they have an available unit not yet on the market. It is the penthouse.
Can we pause for a minute to appreciate how amazing SJP looks, AGAIN?
The place is HEAVEN (Carrie will call it Heaven on 5th many times) and she wonders why it is even available. It is on sale as the result of a nasty divorce, which Carrie does not understand until she opens the closet door in the master bedroom and sees that it is TINY. Big says he can build her a better closet. LOL when she asks, “Can we afford this?” AS IF SHE WAS GOING TO CONTRIBUTE.
#4 – She’s walking and talking with Miranda and Charlotte, telling them about her new, fabulous penthouse. Miranda is concerned that Big is paying for it and Carrie will be living there but won’t have any legal rights so wonders if she will be keeping the apartment that Charlotte bought her. Carrie is less concerned about that and more concerned that Miranda is jealous. Yes, Bradshaw, Miranda is jealous of the fact that you’re financially reliant on other people.
SIDEBAR AUCTION: They meet up with Samantha (“Hey Hollywood”, they yell, since that’s where she lives now, helping to manage Smith’s career) and head to an auction. The auction is for a billionaire’s jilted girlfriend who is selling all the jewelry he ever gave her. Samantha has her eye on a specific ring.
Samantha loses out to a lady who is bidding for someone over the phone. The ring goes for $55,000. Sam drew the line at 50K. Okaaaaayyyyyy. At that point, what is another five grand, but whatever?
#5 – Afterwards in the bathroom, Charlotte says she thought the auction would be more fun, but it is just sad. Then some random lady word vomits at them all about how she “knows her” (the jilted girlfriend) and she was so happy with her billionaire, but her friends begged her to marry the guy. Then, after ten years, he left her high and dry. This is all just to make Carrie think LONG AND HARD about her situation with Big. The random lady mic drops with this gem: “She was a smart girl until she fell in love.” Miranda and Carrie exchange A LOOK.
#6 – Big is cooking dinner when Carrie announces that she wants to sell her apartment and put it towards “Heaven on Fifth.” A couple of things – let’s assume the penthouse is $18.5 million. Her apartment is going to sell for, what? A million TOPS? (I tried to find out what a unit in that building would go for, but Chat GPT told me to screw off.) Yeah, way to contribute. Carrie wants to make her and Big a life in this apartment. And she will have no legal rights since they aren’t married. So Big asks if she wants to get married. She is obviously confused since this has never been on the table before, but they decide that yes, they should and want to get married. And no, Carrie doesn’t want a diamond, she just wants a REALLY BIG CLOSET.
SIDEBAR FACT CHECK – At lunch with the gals (minus Samantha), Carrie casually drops that she and Big decided to get married. Charlotte shrieks so loudly that everyone in the restaurant is staring at them. Charlotte stands up and announces to the whole place that her friend just got engaged to a man she has been dating for ten years. First of all, if this was three years post-Paris after she screamed at him for things never being different after six years, wouldn’t it be nine years instead of ten? Also, I know Big was always lurking no matter what, but we’re really not going to subtract however long she was with Aidan since they were FUCKING ENGAGED?
#7 – Carrie calls to break the engagement news to Samantha. When Carrie announces she has news, Sam assumes that she finally got Botox. Once Carrie sets her straight, Samantha gets all awkward and basically hangs up on her. She does call back to apologize. Carrie says, “It feels so different this time.” There are about seven red flags in those six words.
(This reminds me of when I was in my 20s and “dating” a complete asshole but kept telling my therapist, “It’s different when we’re alone!” and she did her best not to smack me because I deserved it.) Anyway, Samantha reluctantly agrees to be Carrie’s Maid of Honor.
#8 – Charlotte, Carrie, and Anthony are in the apartment Charlotte bought going over the wedding guest list. Carrie has 76 people, but Anthony says 75 is better, so she ruthlessly cuts someone off the list without a second thought. Yes, not only did Charlotte buy the apartment, but she’s also bought Carrie Anthony’s wedding planning services, which cannot be cheap.
I’m not sure how much his wedding planning services are, but this reaction to the dress Carrie has already picked out is priceless.
Carrie says it is simple and classic and exactly what she should marry Big in. When have her fashion choices EVER been simple and classic?
#9 – After her wedding announcement ends up on Page Six, we next see Carrie visiting Enid (aka Candy Berg) at Vogue. Enid tells her they are putting together their annual age issue, and they want her to do forty. Carrie asks who she will interview but Enid corrects her and says she is the subject. She will be in the magazine as the 40-year-old bride. In the magazine. In bridal couture. Carrie’s hesitation is so bullshit. All she’s ever cared about is fashion and being the center of attention.
After this photoshoot montage, Vivienne Westwood sends Carrie the dress she wore in said shoot, which immediately kicks her plain suit out of the picture.
#10 – She’s reading in bed with Big, a book called Love Letters of Great Men. She claims this is research for her new book, which is about what happens after you find love. I got this gem of a screenshot that made me LOL. I guess finding love means shoving books in your beloved’s face.
She reads him a bunch of lame-ass shit, starting with Beethoven. Also, thanks, IMDB/Amazon for this little tidbit:
They have a conversation about how Big has never written her a love letter because he has never had to be like the poor schmucks in her book who couldn’t just pick up a phone and text. Also, he says it is not his style.
#11- While Carrie returns her overdue library books (DOROTHY ZBORNAK WOULD NEVER), she sees two men making a delivery for a wedding. Carrie decides this is where she and Big will get married. Does he get a say in this or not??? No? Didn’t think so.
SIDEBAR UH-OH: Miranda and Steve are bickering at dinner and she snaps at him when he tells her she has milk on her lip from her cappuccino or whatever. The foam on the lip thing comes back later. After dinner, while Miranda and Steve are boning, she tells him to hurry up and finish so she can get some shuteye. Ouch.
#12 -The next day, Miranda asks the gals how often they each have sex because last night she just wanted to get it over with and that’s normal, right? Everyone gives her straight answers (Samantha=all day every day if it were possible, Charlotte=2-3x per week), except Carrie, who looks smug as shit and refuses to tell them how often she and Big DO IT.
SIDEBAR THE RING: Turns out Smith is the one who was bidding for Samantha’s ring over the phone, and he surprises her with it. Awwwww. But then he has to go to bed at 7:30pm for Actor reasons and while Samantha is in the hot tub, she hears and sees her new hot neighbor having sex. Like she can see everything. So, she decides to spy on him nightly. Gross.
#13 – Time for the new closet reveal. I love how the completion of Carrie’s dream closet is what makes her believe that Big is ACTUALLY marrying her. It is crazy that she needs a closet larger than most apartments in Manhattan.
#14 – Charlotte and Miranda are helping Carrie pack up the apartment that Charlotte bought her when Samantha shows up from LA with some champagne. The apartment sold very quickly, and Carrie jokes that means she priced it too low. I’m assuming the money from the purchase is going straight to Charlotte. No? Didn’t think so. Then we get a fashion show montage. It somehow takes three days to pack up all of Carrie’s shit.
SIDEBAR CHEATER: Miranda is unpacking groceries, going over plans for the next day, while Steve looks tortured. She finally asks him what’s wrong and he drops the bomb that he slept with someone else. This does not go over well. The next thing we see, Miranda is having lunch with the girls at some random hotel she is staying at with Brady, discussing custody arrangements.
#15 – Carrie tells Big it is wedding crunch time, but he is stressed because he got an email from their contractor who is working on Heaven on Fifth and is pushing back the move-in date. AGAIN. Carrie says the wedding tops the contractor unless they are inviting him, which would make the guest list 201. This very much expanded list is due to THE DRESS. The dress is so fabulous, I guess 125 more people need to see it. When Carrie asks Big how his vows are coming along, he finally declares his true feelings – that this whole thing is a circus and his third wedding and he could have just gone down to city hall. Carrie is so oblivious to his feelings this is all news to her.
SIDEBAR HooooBoy: Now we get to the rehearsal dinner. During Samantha’s speech, some jackass Big works with is making fun of how many times he has been married but Samantha shuts him down. While Big, Smith, Samantha, and Harry are smoking cigars outside, Steve gets out of a cab and asks Samantha to get Miranda because he really needs to talk to her. (Also, why is Steve now uninvited to everything? I mean, I get it. But I don’t get it. Got it?) When Miranda comes outside, she screams at Steve about how he BROKE them.
Miranda goes back inside and runs into Big, who asks her if she’s okay and she says, “You two are crazy to get married. Marriage ruins everything.” Ummmm….F—–. Now, as I will scream into the void, what Big does next is NOT Miranda’s fault but I mean, know your audience? Read the room? Say that shit to literally anyone else.
#16 – Carrie finds Big drinking alone at the bar. She instructs him to kiss her and make it a good one. The ladies are having a sleepover at Charlotte’s place. Later, Big calls Carrie to tell her he is struggling with his vows. He asks her if this is something they really want to do. Everything is great as it is. He doesn’t want to screw it up. Carrie tries to talk him off a ledge and convinces him that he is just experiencing writer’s block. The next day…
#17 – While Big is trying to get a hold of Carrie (after so many attempts calling her, couldn’t he call one of her friends?), Carrie and the gang arrive at the library only to be told Big is not there. Charlotte declares that they are 25 minutes late, so how is Big not there? I guess no one bothered to call him and tell him they were running late, at which point he could have talked to Carrie. Instead, she calls him to hear him say “I can’t do this.” And then we get to the meltdown. I will admit, I laughed when I saw this in the theater. Yes, it is humiliating to be left at the altar, but is a public tantrum in Midtown really necessary? I mean she screams at him that she is humiliated while humiliating herself.
#18 – Carrie is back at Charlotte’s, drinking straight vodka and claiming she feels nothing. She keeps saying she has nothing to wear. Charlotte reminds her she has her honeymoon clothes there. Oh yeah, Carrie prepaid for a fancy Mexican resort honeymoon on her CREDIT CARD YOU GUYS because she wanted to surprise Big. Yeah, her dropping a few grand on a honeymoon is the same thing as him buying a $20 million apartment.
SIDEBAR MIRANDA BLAMES HERSELF: She fesses up to Charlotte in the hallway about her little outburst at Big the night before. Miranda wants to tell Carrie but Charlotte tells her to find another time and furthermore, Big has always been weird about marriage. WHICH IS WHY THIS IS NOT MIRANDA’S FAULT.
SIDEBAR MEXICO: Since Samantha can’t get Carrie out of her reservation at the resort, she books three more tickets on the flight so the gals can go on Carrie’s honeymoon with her.
#19 – Upon arriving at the resort, Carrie climbs into bed, fully clothed, heels and all. Listen, I get wanting to just shut out the world, but at least do it in comfy clothes, not stilettos!
SIDEBAR SHE DESERVED TO SHIT HER PANTS: Charlotte is, for some reason, only eating the pudding from the pantry that was made in Poughkeepsie because for some reason the food at a 5-star Mexican resort is not good enough for her.
SIDEBAR SAMANTHA JONES, HERO: “Any thicker and you won’t be able to find it.” LMAO
#20 – When Carrie finally decides to get out of bed, the gals hit the hotel restaurant for dinner. She takes this opportunity to talk about what a bad guy Big is and then she says something about throwing away everything she’s learned over the past 20 years just to put his name on the honeymoon suite. I mean, I have approximately 900 reasons throughout this blog that detail why Big is an asshole but she’s just now admitting it?
#21- Remember how Carrie sold her apartment? Well, Miranda says the buyers are willing to sell it back to her at an escalated cost and will hit the bricks before she gets back from Mexico if she gives them more money. Where the fuck is she getting this money from? Also on WHAT PLANET would people who just bought a place and moved in agree to sell it back a month later and then move again?
#22 – Charlotte shitting her pants is finally what gets Carrie to laugh again. Then she decides she is ready to throw her phone into the ocean.
#23 – She returns to rainy and cold NYC, where her apartment and things are waiting for her. It’s a mega shit show that will require a ton of organization. She decides now is the time to hire an assistant. Jennifer Hudson, as Louise, wins this privilege, probably because when interviewing for the role, she tells Carrie she came to NYC to fall in love. Also, she is carrying a Louis Vuitton purse, so obvi she is the perfect fit.
Honestly? Cathy/Kathy, 2024. She is credited on IMDB as “Drunk Party Girl”. DPG stays up all night but still makes it to her interview!
SIDEBAR MIRANDA SEEMS RACIST: Miranda is looking for a new place in, I want to say Chinatown, and tells Magda and Brady they need to follow the white guy with the baby who just came out of a bodega because wherever he is going is where they “need to be.”
#24 – Carrie is reading Cinderella to Lily and when she finishes, she wants Lily to know that things don’t always work out in real life. Bitch, she’s three years old, dial it back. Anyway, she is reading to Lily because she is watching her while Charlotte is at the doctor’s office. It turns out that she’s knocked up. Good for her. Seriously. She’s thrilled.
#25 – Louise is trying to fix Carrie’s website and also announces Carrie has a ton of unanswered emails. Carrie says she’ll answer them now. Well, Louise will read them to her and Carrie will tell her how to respond. Up first, an email from Big. All it says is, I don’t know what to say. Bradshaw tells Louise to delete it, and in fact, set up a filter so that any email from him immediately goes in the trash where it belongs. Also, let’s take a look at all of these unanswered emails…
I would LOVE to hear her response to the subject I am so Hard right now. Couldn’t the writers have taken five extra minutes so her entire inbox wasn’t 99% spam?
#26 – She’s with Miranda at, I am assuming, Duane Reade, looking for Halloween costumes. Miranda needs one because all the other moms at Brady’s school dress up. They are both talking about their respective dudes shattering their hearts. Carrie mentions she keeps going over every detail of the week before her wedding trying to figure out what went wrong. Miranda is about to tell her about the Big outburst when Carrie spots the issue of Vogue she is featured in and probably forgets Miranda is even there with her. Her knee jerk reaction is to dye her hair brown.
#27 – Louise forces Carrie to finally get a new cell phone. With it comes a new number, which has a 347 area code. Apparently, this is not acceptable. She’s a 917 gal and always has been. I think this movie is partially the reason why I have a death grip on my 312 number – CHICAGO BABY. None of this 872 crap. Why am I even discussing this?
SIDEBAR SEX ON A STICK: This is how Samantha describes her neighbor to Carrie. I skipped over the scene with her and Smith having a talk and Samantha basically shitting over Los Angeles. She hates it. But she loves her neighbor. The end.
#28 – While on the phone with Samantha, Carrie is at a bookstore replacing books on display with her own. That’s fucking RUDE. Maybe support other authors?
SIDEBAR COMPASSION: Carrie and Louise are unpacking/organizing her closet when Carrie opens the box with her wedding dress. They have a conversation. Turns out, Louise is also heartbroken from her St. Louis boyfriend breaking up with her. Carrie takes her out for drinks. Louise talks about Will, her ex, and how she’s not giving up on love, and she even has a love keychain to prove it. This will be important later.
#29 – Carrie is shopping for a new desk with Charlotte. And I quote, “It’s all about the desk. If I find the desk, the writing will come, and it better come because I’m using my new book advance to pay the fancy decorator.” Yes, Carrie is redecorating her entire apartment with her book advance. Also, we learn Charlotte stopped running because she’s afraid something bad will happen during her pregnancy. Carrie reminds her that she shit her pants and that was her one bad thing of the year.
#30 – This purse she gives Louise as a Christmas gift.
SIDEBAR FINE: It is New Year’s Eve and Carrie is eating instant ramen at home and trying to write. Miranda calls because she’s lonely. Brady is with Steve. Miranda is sad. Carrie goes to Miranda’s to support her, even though Miranda insists she is fine. While this is a wonderful gesture, I have questions about the outfit.
We also get a montage.
Everyone else’s NYE:
- Charlotte/Harry/Lily: Hanging out on Park Ave with party horns and enjoying Charlotte’s pregnancy.
- Samantha/Smith: Champagne in front of a fireplace (I forgot to mention she adopted a dog that humps everything. The dog is humping a pillow as the clock strikes midnight.)
- Stanford: At a party with Anthony where they end up kissing. (YAY FINALLY)
- Louise: At a party in St. Louis where Will, her One, shows up. (They are back together by Valentine’s Day)
- Big: Somewhere eating alone. (It looks more like someone’s house than a bar but whatever)
- Steve/Brady: Asleep
SIDEBAR WHY:
If you couldn’t already tell by my 500 hints, I am not a fashionable person, I know nothing about labels, and if I could wear pajamas in public, I would. So these outfits in the winter, to me, are like….why? They are front row at Fashion Week thanks to Samantha the String Puller.
Miranda reminisces about past Saturdays she spent with Brady and Steve, and when talking about Steve, her face lights up. Charlotte REALLY wants her to forgive him but when Miranda asks if Carrie should forgive Big, that’s a hard NO. Charlotte even has a speech prepared in the event she ever runs into him.
#31 – Now we get to Valentine’s Day…this one is a HUMDINGER. Carrie and Miranda are at dinner together, slamming down wine, as they should be. We actually get some self-awareness from Ms. Bradshaw when she is talking about the Vogue article and all the “I” statements she made. Not one “we.” She says she deserved what she got for running around NYC like she finally had her happy ending. She says she’s the reason Big didn’t get out of the car. Miranda decides this is the perfect time/place to confess about her Big anti-marriage outburst. This, of course, opens the door for Carrie to throw that self-awareness into a fire and place the blame on her alter jilting squarely on Miranda’s shoulders.
While I do agree that Miranda should have tried to tell Carrie sooner, in no way did she RUIN Carrie’s marriage. If Big is going to let Miranda’s Bitter Betty comment alter the COURSE OF HIS LIFE, that’s on him. If Carrie could tell the night before, on the phone, that he was getting cold feet and told no one and acted as if nothing was wrong, that’s on her. This tracks with Carrie never admitting she ever did anything wrong. Always the victim, never the selfish piece of shit that needs to face consequences of her actions.
SIDEBAR SUSHI: Do I even have to talk about Samantha’s V-Day idea? No? Great.
#32 – Since Carrie refuses to answer any of Miranda’s calls or emails, Miranda sits outside Carrie’s apartment in a taxi until she comes home and forces her to talk.
To her credit, Carrie points out Miranda badgering her for forgiveness is a little rich since she won’t even CONSIDER forgiving Steve. Miranda says it is not the same thing. Carrie? “It’s forgiveness.” This leads to Miranda and Steve in couple’s therapy.
SIDEBAR Louise is engaged: Yay! Will Carrie go find Cathy/Kathy to replace her? One can only hope. Also, Louise says Heaven on Fifth has been sold and she has 60 days to vacate. Vacate what? Wasn’t all her stuff at Big’s because they hadn’t moved in yet?
SIDEBAR AWWW: Miranda’s deadline to meet or ditch Steve on the Brooklyn Bridge has arrived and she still hasn’t made a decision until she looks in the mirror and sees milk/foam on her upper lip. Decision made. I love this scene when they see each other. It’s so sweet. This is also why I cannot STAND how AJLT is having her be all, “I never loved him, the sex was never good, blah blah blah.” WE HAVE THE RECEIPTS, PEOPLE.
SIDEBAR SAMANTHA SEES SEX ON A STICK’S MEMBER: His name is Dante. He is outside showering when her dog runs onto his deck. He asks her to join him and she one hundo p wants to but runs away because she won’t cheat on Smith.
#33 – Back to blonde, Carrie is hosting Charlotte’s baby shower in her newly decorated apartment. Not a word about the book she’s supposed to be writing. When Samantha arrives, the camera tries to make it seem like she has a gut now and she’s gained all this weight but LOL no. She looks the same. But, according to her, “I eat, so I won’t cheat.” While the ladies are chatting and get Sam to realize she probably needs to break up with Smith, her dog is humping a $300 pillow. A THREE HUNDRED DOLLAR PILLOW? How much was this book advance?
SIDEBAR COMING AND GOING: Samantha flies back to LA to break up with Smith, then hops on a return flight to NYC to stay. As she returns, Louise is moving back to St. Louis.
SIDEBAR CHARLOTTE GETS TO GIVE HER SPEECH: She’s treating herself to lunch when she spots Big at the restaurant. She makes a huge deal about having to leave and of course, Big spots her and runs after her. After she screams that she curses the day he was born, her water breaks and he gives her a ride to the hospital.
#34 – At the hospital, Carrie meets Baby Rose and hears about the drama of Charlotte’s labor. Big stayed at the hospital until the baby was born. Harry tells Carrie that Big wants her to call him and also he’s apparently been writing her letters because he doesn’t have the 347 digits. She is POSITIVE he has never written to her until she gets home and realizes she asked Louise to filter all his messages into the TRASH. She notices a folder titled CB Assistant. She clicks on it and it prompts her for a password. She tries a couple of times, calls Louise to get it (gets her VM), then sees the love keychain Louise left with her and it turns out that’s the ticket in. Umm, Louise, for someone who is so tech-savvy, you picked the most insecure password on the planet. Well, it turns out Big HAS written to her. He copied all those poems from the love letter book. But in the very last email he sends, he has NOT plagiarized.
#35 – Louise calls back – today is day 60 and Carrie has until 6pm before they change the locks on Heaven. She says she doesn’t need to go there until Louise reminds her of the Manolo Blahnik’s she left in the closet. That kicks her ass into gear. She arrives to find Big in the closet and just like that (UGH I HAD TO) all is forgiven. They both apologize and then Big proposes.
They get married at City Hall and she wears the original suit she had planned on. And I guess she DOES finish her book because one of the last scenes is of her doing a book reading.
They end the movie with the gals going out for Samantha’s 50th.
They all look amazing. If I remember correctly, the second movie goes off the rails and is pretty racist from what people are telling me so that should be super fun (sarcasm font) to rewatch. Later gators!
Carrie Bradshaw is the Worst 
Bridget Everett (Kathy/Cathy) can be on my payroll anytime too- thx also for the reminder to watch her series (Somebody, Somewhere) on Max. And of course TYVM for recapping this whiplash of a movie (until the sequel at least…)
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1.) I’ve always wondered if the comment about Carrie being an ATM for Samantha was a dig at Kim Catrell for wanting to renegotiate her contract when SJP started getting 330k/episode and a producers credit. Apparently that’s when the strain in their working relationship started irl-who knows.
2.) That LV bag still makes me cringe to this day. THE. WORST. Speaking of people in this show deserving better, JH deserved wayyyyy better than that bag.
3.) Carrie is THE worst but Miranda is right up there for me. I can’t stand her (but I adore Cynthia Nixon so this comment is seriously just about the character) and found her to be really toxic.
4.) I’ve read all of your blogs and this is a general reference/thought about Aiden. Aiden was a very underdeveloped character. Everyone thought/thinks he’s a saint and maybe he is, but he’s so underdeveloped we never even saw his apartment-just a shitty cabin in the woods-so we honestly need to stop calling him saintly. One of your commenters thought him slapping the nicotine patch on Carrie was a little abusive and I agree. Had his character been more developed by the writers, I don’t think he would be viewed as a saint. On the other hand, if what we see is what we get with Aiden, meaning there’s nothing to develop and he’s really this boring, then he wasn’t meant for Carrie anyway. Aiden is boring AF. A muddy basketball court and a pet wild squirrel?? Yawn. He was good in bed. That doesn’t equate to sainthood or lasting relationship material and brining him back in AJLT only for him to say wait for me for 5 years was fantastic for him as a father but yawnnnnnn for the show.
5.) Your blog is great. Love it.
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love your blog did you do the second movie I cant find it ?
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Not yet but I will get to it, I just remember it being so bad!
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OK that is BS that Carrie has never kept a secret from Miranda! Wasn’t she hiding that she was sleeping with Big when she was engaged to Aiden? I’m sure there are other examples.
CB is a terrible role model. I feel like watching this show when I was in college really put me on the wrong track. She glorifies materialism, frivolous self-destructive promiscuity, and general shallowness. She’s so one dimensional. Carrie needs to f-ing meditate, drop some acid, go on some kind of spiritual retreat, get some enlightenment and get the f-out of this privileged rich NYC bubble. Grow up girlie! She’s freaking forty and cannot even realize she has always been her own worst enemy.
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these recaps are great. Thank you for the laughs. I love how you insert various versions of “the apartment Charlotte bought for her,” and can only hope they address this in the upcoming AJLT season.
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I read your blog in 3 days (AJLT not included tho), and it is AWESOME!!! Thank you for this analysis!!! When I watched SATC for the first time (I think I was still a teenager) I considered Carrie stupid because of my teenager views on stuff… Now I’m going to be 31 in 2 weeks, and some things she is going through are familiar to me, however, I dealt with them by now. BUT I ABSOLUTELY HATE how toxic and bad friend she is!!! And some of her mannerisms are more than annoying, they make me cringe so much. So yeah, she is indeed THE WORST!!! Looking forward to your analysis of the second movie 😃😃😃
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I too have a death grip on my 312 number!!!
Chicago baby!! 🙌🏻
Love the blog. I’m all in on it.
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Reading the blog while rewatching the OG series inspired me to finally watch the movies for the first time!
– Steve: WTF, really???
-Carrie/SJP looked absolutely stunning in that bridal shoot and changing her dress without consulting Big was fine (esp. since it was free) all of the other changes were not
-Was honestly shocked Smith was in this movie, I was expecting the opening montage to explain that he and Sam broke up basically for the same reasons they do in the movie. I was proud of Samantha for the way she handled all of it. I just wish the catalyst wasn’t her being attracted to some random guy, it would have been way better character development.
-Felt the exact same way about what Miranda “did”: that was the worst possible thing to say, BUT ALSO he’s a grown adult who made his own decision. And at least have the decency to have that conversation face to face. Also, my guess is that Steve was never officially uninvited, but that he bowed out gracefully.
-Charlotte, I love the loyalty, but personally I would be WAY more livid at Steve than Big. Getting left at the altar sucks, but getting cheated on, especially by your spouse, is a way bigger betrayal!
-Speaking of, why is everyone basically telling Miranda to just get over it (“When are you going to forgive Steve??”) while coddling Carrie????
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