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[THIS IS WHERE I USUALLY POST A CARTOON FROM THE BRILLIANT LÉO HAMELIN, BUT THE IMAGE UPLOAD BUTTON ISN’T WORKING RN SO PLEASE GO AND LOOK AT HER INSTAGRAM INSTEAD AND NORMAL DOODLES WILL RESUME NEXT WEEK] Welcome! If you’re reading this and are new to my newsletter (first of all, hi!! this is a newsletter about writing, creativity, making money online and generally feeling weird about all of the above). At the bottom of each issue, I curate a round-up of things I’ve been reading, watching, listening to and doing. These recommendations are only available in the email version of the newsletter, so if you usually read me in a browser, you’re missing out on them and what you should do is… And even if you do read this as an email, maybe you don’t manage to get all the way to the end. To remedy all this, this week I’m sharing a bumper pack of recommendations, complete with my thoughts about them. And if you make it all the way to the end, you’ll find a mini-review of And Just Like That. Consider this a one-off, upside-down issue of my newsletter. RELEVANT TO YOUR INTERESTS
As for what I’ve been watching lately, I saved this commentary for last, because there are spoilers for the season finale of And Just Like That below! I watched the first two episodes of And Just Like That with my bum clenched and my hands over my eyes. But then the show found its rhythm, as did I. It gave me exactly what I needed: something familiar to talk about with friends. To me, it still feels like the same show (I just call it Sex and the City in the group chat). The characters live in a disgustingly privileged bubble in New York and they had major blindspots the first time around and continue to have them now. As far as the effort to correct the show’s overtly white, heteronormative writing, that’s been undeniably awkward, to say the least. “Overbearing wokeness,” as the author Candice Brathwaite called it. But just like Brathwaite, I’m hopeful the show will get there in the end. If only for the simple reason that just as it was ground-breaking in its deception of the lives of 30-something women in the 1990s, a show about 50-something women in the 2020s is still something to be celebrated. It’s also a reboot and needs to be viewed within that genre. Much like there was uproar at how awful Rory was in the Gilmore Girls reboot, Carrie was also always terrible, our nostalgia just wiped that from our memories. I like that Carrie is still the same self-centred, bad friend who is only happy when she has a love interest to talk about. Speaking of which, the hot podcast dude! I blinked and missed him earlier in the season, but I’m delighted the show is finally giving us a glimmer of vintage SATC: a passionate crush for Carrie to fixate on and who makes her make bad decisions. As for the real ghost of the season, Samantha, I miss her terribly, but that text thing? A cheap shot! We all know that Kim Cattrall is not coming back, so just let that die and let’s move on. I don’t need that cliffhanger to tempt me into a second season, I’m already signed up for it. |
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