‘Sex and the City’ Sequel: Fifty-Somethings Discover It’s Not Easy Being Woke

The sequel to Intercourse and the Metropolis is right here. HBO Max started streaming the primary two episodes of And Simply Like That… on December 9. Quick ahead twenty years and we discover three of the 4 women battling center age, main loss, and teenage kids.

Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is lacking from the group of 4. Her absence is defined by a transfer to London for her job. Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon) are left to proceed the story. What jumps out of the tales of every lady is that Miranda is changing into nearly a parody of a lady riddled with liberal white guilt.

In Episode One, “Hi there It’s Me”, Miranda goes again to highschool for a Masters in Human Rights to go together with her diploma in legislation. Her professor, Dr. Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman), is a black lady and Miranda makes a idiot of herself attempting to show how woke she is to her.

Dr. Wallace: I’m the professor.

Miranda: Wa– Y- You are the professor?

Dr. Wallace: Yeah.

Miranda: You are Nya Wallace? 

Dr. Wallace: Sure. Why do you appear so stunned?

Miranda: Effectively, your braids.

Dr. Wallace: A legislation professor cannot have hair like mine? Why is that?

Miranda: Oh, no, no, no. I did not, I did not imply due to the braids. I used to be, I used to be– I, I used to be simply thrown as a result of the braids are, are so totally different than the hair in your picture on the Columbia web site. My remark had nothing in anyway to do with it being a Black coiffure. I, I knew that you simply have been Black after I signed up for this class. Uh, that was essential to me.

Dr. Wallace: You signed up for this class as a result of I am Black?

Miranda: Effectively, not simply since you’re Black. I picked this class as a result of… you are such a power in academia on high of all the things you do as a neighborhood activist. God, I sound like such a brown- nostril. I imply, um… please simply overlook that I ever stated something about your hair. Hair has… nothing in anyway to do with, uh, appropriateness, or intelligence, or gravitas, clearly. I imply, do I appear like somebody who attaches any significance to hair? I, I let mine go grey, and I do not care if it makes me look outdated. Not that I am ageist. Do I sound ageist?

Dr. Wallace: You really need me to reply that query?

Miranda: I’m so sorry for taking everybody’s time. This isn’t in any respect who I’m. I’ll simply be quiet now.

Later, as Miranda runs into the professor within the subway station, Miranda explains she has simply left a thirty-year profession in company legislation as a result of she “couldn’t be part of the issue anymore.” She says, “I used to be at residence watching CNN when the Muslim ban was initiated and I noticed all these attorneys out on the airport providing help, after which the subsequent factor I knew, I used to be in a cab on the best way to JFK.” She needed to “do one thing, something, as a result of, you realize, my sporting a pink pussy hat simply wasn’t reducing it.” Her Trump-derangement exhibits as she repeats the trope of a Muslim ban, which broadened restrictions the Obama administration put in place, and she or he notes the silliness of the pink pussy hats that got here into trend with The Resistance to Donald Trump’s election.

Carrie’s profession nonetheless entails writing. She’s writing books now and, since that is 2021, she is doing a podcast. The host of the podcast is Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez). I do know, I assumed Che was a nod to Che Guevara, however it’s quick for Cheryl. “Do I appear like a Cheryl?” the self-described “queer, non-binary, Mexican, Irish diva” asks.

Carrie has hassle loosening up as a subject on the podcast is masturbation, particularly masturbating in public. Carrie declines to take part within the dialog and brushes the questions off. Later, within the elevator, Che advises Carrie to talk up and never simply nervously giggle. She stated the viewers will make a meme of her as an uptight cisgender lady. “Step your pussy up.” Ugh.

Episode Two, “Little Black Gown” begins off with Miranda’s teenage son and his girlfriend having intercourse in his room. Miranda and her husband, Steve, enable her to sleep at their home with him. How progressive of them. Within the first episode, Miranda even tells the women that she stepped on a used condom in his room together with her naked toes one morning. Eww.

This episode features a scene the place Miranda overreacts and all however accuses a safety guard checking IDs at Columbia Regulation Faculty of being racist for not permitting Dr. Wallace by way of with out exhibiting hers.

Dr. Wallace:  I, I simply want to search out my ID. It is in right here someplace. It will simply be a second. Sorry, sorry.

Guard: Please step to the aspect till you do.

Dr. Wallace: No, no. It is, it is proper right here. I am just–

Miranda: Uh, hiya. That is Professor Nya Wallace. She teaches legislation right here. You possibly can let her by way of.

Guard: Not with out an ID I am unable to.

Miranda: I, I can vouch for her. Uh, right here. I- I am Miranda Hobbes. I am in her class.

Guard: Yeah, properly, you ain’t her.

Dr. Wallace: Miranda, it is okay. It is in right here someplace. Only one extra place. If not, I will step out. I am sorry.

Miranda: I, I do not perceive why you are questioning her id.

Guard: I am not questioning her id. I am waitin’ for her to indicate me her ID.

Miranda: Effectively, it is fascinating since you barely glanced at mine after I went by way of. Might I’ve your identify?

Guard: No.

Dr. Wallace: Right here it’s, right here it’s.

Guard: Thanks. Come on by way of, Professor Wallace.

The guard isn’t hassling black folks, he’s doing his job. Wallace asks Miranda why she feels compelled to query the motives of the guard and Miranda says that her anti-racist coaching taught her, “You must communicate on it, you must name it out.” Wallace tells Miranda that “this isn’t To Kill a Mockingbird” and she or he “didn’t want a good-hearted lawyer to defend me.” Ouch.

Will Miranda be taught to breathe and never leap to rescue Dr. Wallace at each flip? Wallace says that Miranda has a white savior complicated. That sounds about proper. Keep tuned.

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