Speaker 1: Why was it she eating pussy at this episode? The bosses? Anything?
Speaker 1: But why did we have to go through that or
Speaker 1: hook up with one of those girls and then get
Speaker 1: sued ver sexual flossment?
Speaker 2: Like that's a great PLOTLINEU.
Speaker 1: She's sheen ami no ma ma yo?
Speaker 3: What is your child trauma?
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: Your's going down the floor like.
Speaker 4: Round.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Like a Virgin, the show where we give
Speaker 1: yesterday's pop culture today's takes.
Speaker 2: I'm Rose DomU and I'm Fran Toronto.
Speaker 1: Okay, so how do we feel about the eight and
Speaker 1: of it all? Because I you know, I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: if the show was trying to make it look like
Speaker 1: they were moving too fast or trying to romanticize how
Speaker 1: fast they were moving, But either way, I thought they
Speaker 1: had really good chemistry and it bred is like believable
Speaker 1: to me of two people picking up a relationship for
Speaker 1: the third time and really just speed running it.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred percent real, right. The realism of the show,
Speaker 2: I think is sometimes strong suit and more often than
Speaker 2: not the thing that makes it really boring, you know,
Speaker 2: like Aiden coming into the fold right now and Carrie
Speaker 2: calling them immediately a wei so to speak. As Sema said,
Speaker 2: She's like, look, you're a we now, which I think
Speaker 2: was a really effective line, like this is a real
Speaker 2: quarrel that real friends go through. And I was like,
Speaker 2: everything about this feels earned. My issue with aid In
Speaker 2: and other plot loin plot points like him PLoP plot loins.
Speaker 2: Let's say that everything about Aiden and what happened, I'm
Speaker 2: so fried. Can you even hear? You can kind of
Speaker 2: hear in my voice that I I lost it a
Speaker 2: little throat, Yeah, I lost it during all invasion, I
Speaker 2: kind of lout giving.
Speaker 1: I actually think.
Speaker 2: It's even better, Like I think I sound a little swaffed,
Speaker 2: like a little you know what I mean, like just swuffed.
Speaker 4: Well you sound clock here, Oh wow wow now we okay, okay,
Speaker 4: But much like what you said, like what you said
Speaker 4: was extremely unpredictable, and I just I wish the show
Speaker 4: were unpredictable.
Speaker 2: Everything about Aiden in the show can be predicted. I
Speaker 2: could write now how he's going to be written off,
Speaker 2: what's going to happen between him and Carry, what the
Speaker 2: core tensions are going to be. I can figure out,
Speaker 2: like based on what Miranda is doing at the HRC,
Speaker 2: I can predict what's going to happen there. I feel
Speaker 2: like Charlotte getting a job back in gallery. Stuff that's
Speaker 2: extremely that we could have predicted that Slash probably did
Speaker 2: predict that. Like all of these things are things that
Speaker 2: we we know enough about the characters to actually really
Speaker 2: lay out the plotline. Same thing with Jada is like
Speaker 2: we knew how they were gonna go.
Speaker 3: You predicted the animal rescue shelter.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Well that I could never have predicted.
Speaker 3: But that's the thing, is like this is your unpredictable Yeah,
Speaker 3: at least this week, it only existed in service of
Speaker 3: Carrie's plot line, Like there were no solo scenes of
Speaker 3: cha except for that one where they were wandering around
Speaker 3: Carrie's apartment, which I did kind of enjoy that because
Speaker 3: and I almost wanted more of it of Chae being.
Speaker 1: Like who the fuck is this woman? Yeah that I'm
Speaker 1: weird randomly friends with why at her apartment.
Speaker 2: And like Carriere correcting people's like for their pronoun usage,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh my god, Like again, it's like
Speaker 2: a good ally for dummies, like a ward.
Speaker 1: But like I don't I don't understand why that you
Speaker 1: have such a problem with that though, because like it's
Speaker 1: good that she corrected.
Speaker 2: It is good. It's just why is this in the scene. So, like,
Speaker 2: if it's in the scene, if the writers have put
Speaker 2: the intent to put this in the scene, that means
Speaker 2: they are trying to say something about pronoun courtesy and
Speaker 2: how to address people properly in a workplace. And that
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. And this show, why would anybody care? As
Speaker 2: a Sex and the City viewer, it has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with the Sex and the City.
Speaker 3: Scene about pronouns, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think I think that line actually like
Speaker 1: mostly existed for the joke of Aiden lying into the
Speaker 1: neighbor and saying they them, which I think actually was
Speaker 1: a funny payoff for that moment.
Speaker 2: I didn't think it was that funny. But if it
Speaker 2: was just for that joke, like, that's fine. I I
Speaker 2: I'm rounding up to a point here about just predictability,
Speaker 2: And for me, it's like predictability and also the kind
Speaker 2: of tea the pedantic nature that I'm talking about, Like
Speaker 2: like in the original Sex and the City, the show
Speaker 2: can be very teaserly, right, Like, the show can be
Speaker 2: very like these things are good and these these things
Speaker 2: are bad, and this is what the show believes like
Speaker 2: the show had core tenants that it kind of ran
Speaker 2: by and believed in. And I think that it's okay
Speaker 2: for a show to believe in something or to be
Speaker 2: a kind of how to blah blah blah for dummies.
Speaker 2: But in the previous iteration of the show, the things
Speaker 2: it was teaching about were sex, intimacy, misogyny, like how
Speaker 2: to make it in a certain kind of workplace as
Speaker 2: a woman, how to be messy while also like sticking
Speaker 2: the landing. Like those are things that I think made
Speaker 2: the show really exciting. And the unpredictable elements were the sex, right,
Speaker 2: I feel like we just don't have the unpredictable sexual
Speaker 2: rockecy grompy kind of elements of in just like that.
Speaker 2: Like when Sima was in bed with that guy and
Speaker 2: he pulled out a penis pump, I was like, this
Speaker 2: is the show, Like I never could have predicted that
Speaker 2: this guy would have pulled out a penis pump, right.
Speaker 1: Even though that's a plotline from like nineteen ninety YXT.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes it's fine, but it's but it still could
Speaker 2: not have been predicted. And that is the show to me,
Speaker 2: That's what the show I should be doing.
Speaker 1: I get what you mean. And I do think the
Speaker 1: moment where this episode succeeded the most and where it
Speaker 1: felt the most like the show I wanted it to be,
Speaker 1: was also the moment that I could have predicted the least,
Speaker 1: which was Carrie asking Miranda that question was big, a
Speaker 1: big mistake? Like that was something I didn't see coming
Speaker 1: and like, should essentially be like the central question of
Speaker 1: this season, Carrie is entire relationship with Aiden and should
Speaker 1: fan outwards to impact the other character, you know, like
Speaker 1: of It is really exciting to have a storyline in
Speaker 1: which this woman whose husband died like gets back together
Speaker 1: with an old love and then thinks like, oh, was
Speaker 1: my whole life a mistake? Should I just have been
Speaker 1: with this guy all along? Like that is a worthwhile
Speaker 1: question for this show to ponder, and I do wish
Speaker 1: it was more interested in that and less interested in,
Speaker 1: you know, Miranda trying to be a good ally or
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't care about big so I
Speaker 2: care less about that question, but I agree it would
Speaker 2: be way more interesting than whatever it is they are
Speaker 2: spending time on. I just think that it's too it's
Speaker 2: still too self helpy, like the self helpy quality to
Speaker 2: the large majority of the plotlines in every episode really
Speaker 2: bums me out. I do still feel like it's very predictable.
Speaker 2: And Carrie reconciling her relationship with Aiden now, the rekindling
Speaker 2: with Now looks like in the context of Big is
Speaker 2: still trodden territory.
Speaker 1: To me.
Speaker 2: It's like in the first scene when she's laying in
Speaker 2: bed with Aiden and she like propped up, she like
Speaker 2: puts her feet on his chest, which is so hot.
Speaker 2: I like wanted to be like I just wanted to
Speaker 2: be like I wanted to Yes, I wanted to be
Speaker 2: like Aaron, put your whole put her whole Fern, Aaron,
Speaker 2: whatever the fuck his name is, Aiden, Aiden, put her
Speaker 2: whole foot in your mouth, in your mouth. I was like,
Speaker 2: if he if he like put his head down, put
Speaker 2: his entire mouth over her foot, but you feet listen.
Speaker 1: Sucked.
Speaker 2: Sucked, sucked. And then the rest of the episode is
Speaker 2: Carrie being like, I can't believe Big suck my toes.
Speaker 2: That is an episode of TV. I would be on
Speaker 2: the edge of my seat f I.
Speaker 1: But that's just not the show that I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't care. And also, you know, you know, her
Speaker 1: feet are gnarly from wearing all those heels as yeah, honey,
Speaker 1: I her toes are jacked if you want to hear
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