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How does it happen?
How brutal does it feel?
How absurd is it?
And at the same time, what new characters arrive to fill in the empty places?
How gracefully does the series manage to shoehorn them in?
Not only that, theres some impossible-to-ignore undercurrents in LTWs placement.
you’ve got the option to almost feel the online grid notes: Oh, the new show?
It will have Black people in it, right from the start!
Thats right, LTW, play hard to get!
Dont let these women just assume youre going to be in the group!
Enter Che Diaz, Carries nonbinary, half-Mexican, half-Irish, all comedian podcast-host boss.
Che makes jokes about sex and prods Carrie to be less prudish.
Now if only Miranda could manage to say the word podcast without looking like she wants to throw up.
Charlotte gets LTW, a more relaxed, more stylish, more effortlessly graceful socialite school mom.
Carrie gets Che, because podcasts are the new columns/blogs.
For Miranda, that person is Dr. Nya Wallace, a professor in Mirandas masters in human rights program.
Departures
Mr. Big(Chris Noth)Okay, this is the biggest spoiler.
You are not ready.
No one could possibly be ready, but here it is:Mr. Big dies.
Its not just that he dies, its that he diesfrom Peloton-ing too hard.
He Pelotons to death.
Hes up out of the seat!
Hes going so hard!
He completes the cooldown!
RIP, Mr. Big.
The question of what happened to Samantha comes up almost instantly.
Charlotte answers that she is no longer with [us], which Bitsy understandably!
interprets to mean that Samantha has passed away.
No, no, they reassure her.
Samantha has moved to London.
This couldve been enough.
But no.And Just Like That …was not going to let this go so easily.
We never even talk about her, Miranda tells Carrie.
She will not return voice-mails.
She will not answer texts.
The metatextual red flags are already waving frantically.
AndthenCarrie says, I thought I was more to her than an ATM.Gasp.
