August 4, 2023 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Why was it she eating pussy at this episode? The bosses? Anything?
But why did we have to go through that or
hook up with one of those girls and then get
sued ver sexual flossment?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Like that's a great PLOTLINEU.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
She's sheen ami no ma ma yo?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What is your child trauma?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I am.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Your's going down the floor like.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Round.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Welcome to Like a Virgin, the show where we give
yesterday's pop culture today's takes.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm Rose DomU and I'm Fran Toronto.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, so how do we feel about the eight and
of it all? Because I you know, I wasn't sure
if the show was trying to make it look like
they were moving too fast or trying to romanticize how
(01:15):
fast they were moving, But either way, I thought they
had really good chemistry and it bred is like believable
to me of two people picking up a relationship for
the third time and really just speed running it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's one hundred percent real, right. The realism of the show,
I think is sometimes strong suit and more often than
not the thing that makes it really boring, you know,
like Aiden coming into the fold right now and Carrie
calling them immediately a wei so to speak. As Sema said,
She's like, look, you're a we now, which I think
was a really effective line, like this is a real
(01:53):
quarrel that real friends go through. And I was like,
everything about this feels earned. My issue with aid In
and other plot loin plot points like him PLoP plot loins.
Let's say that everything about Aiden and what happened, I'm
so fried. Can you even hear? You can kind of
(02:15):
hear in my voice that I I lost it a
little throat, Yeah, I lost it during all invasion, I
kind of lout giving.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I actually think.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's even better, Like I think I sound a little swaffed,
like a little you know what I mean, like just swuffed.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Well you sound clock here, Oh wow wow now we okay, okay,
But much like what you said, like what you said
was extremely unpredictable, and I just I wish the show
were unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Everything about Aiden in the show can be predicted. I
could write now how he's going to be written off,
what's going to happen between him and Carry, what the
core tensions are going to be. I can figure out,
like based on what Miranda is doing at the HRC,
I can predict what's going to happen there. I feel
like Charlotte getting a job back in gallery. Stuff that's
extremely that we could have predicted that Slash probably did
(03:06):
predict that. Like all of these things are things that
we we know enough about the characters to actually really
lay out the plotline. Same thing with Jada is like
we knew how they were gonna go.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You predicted the animal rescue shelter.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh my god, Well that I could never have predicted.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But that's the thing, is like this is your unpredictable Yeah,
at least this week, it only existed in service of
Carrie's plot line, Like there were no solo scenes of
cha except for that one where they were wandering around
Carrie's apartment, which I did kind of enjoy that because
and I almost wanted more of it of Chae being.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Like who the fuck is this woman? Yeah that I'm
weird randomly friends with why at her apartment.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And like Carriere correcting people's like for their pronoun usage,
and I'm like, oh my god, Like again, it's like
a good ally for dummies, like a ward.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
But like I don't I don't understand why that you
have such a problem with that though, because like it's
good that she corrected.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It is good. It's just why is this in the scene. So, like,
if it's in the scene, if the writers have put
the intent to put this in the scene, that means
they are trying to say something about pronoun courtesy and
how to address people properly in a workplace. And that
doesn't matter. And this show, why would anybody care? As
(04:31):
a Sex and the City viewer, it has nothing to
do with the Sex and the City.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Scene about pronouns, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, well, I think I think that line actually like
mostly existed for the joke of Aiden lying into the
neighbor and saying they them, which I think actually was
a funny payoff for that moment.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I didn't think it was that funny. But if it
was just for that joke, like, that's fine. I I
I'm rounding up to a point here about just predictability,
And for me, it's like predictability and also the kind
of tea the pedantic nature that I'm talking about, Like
like in the original Sex and the City, the show
(05:13):
can be very teaserly, right, Like, the show can be
very like these things are good and these these things
are bad, and this is what the show believes like
the show had core tenants that it kind of ran
by and believed in. And I think that it's okay
for a show to believe in something or to be
a kind of how to blah blah blah for dummies.
But in the previous iteration of the show, the things
(05:34):
it was teaching about were sex, intimacy, misogyny, like how
to make it in a certain kind of workplace as
a woman, how to be messy while also like sticking
the landing. Like those are things that I think made
the show really exciting. And the unpredictable elements were the sex, right,
(05:56):
I feel like we just don't have the unpredictable sexual
rockecy grompy kind of elements of in just like that.
Like when Sima was in bed with that guy and
he pulled out a penis pump, I was like, this
is the show, Like I never could have predicted that
this guy would have pulled out a penis pump, right.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Even though that's a plotline from like nineteen ninety YXT.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yes, yes it's fine, but it's but it still could
not have been predicted. And that is the show to me,
That's what the show I should be doing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I get what you mean. And I do think the
moment where this episode succeeded the most and where it
felt the most like the show I wanted it to be,
was also the moment that I could have predicted the least,
which was Carrie asking Miranda that question was big, a
big mistake? Like that was something I didn't see coming
(06:45):
and like, should essentially be like the central question of
this season, Carrie is entire relationship with Aiden and should
fan outwards to impact the other character, you know, like
of It is really exciting to have a storyline in
(07:06):
which this woman whose husband died like gets back together
with an old love and then thinks like, oh, was
my whole life a mistake? Should I just have been
with this guy all along? Like that is a worthwhile
question for this show to ponder, and I do wish
it was more interested in that and less interested in,
(07:27):
you know, Miranda trying to be a good ally or
whatever the fuck?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, I mean, I don't care about big so I
care less about that question, but I agree it would
be way more interesting than whatever it is they are
spending time on. I just think that it's too it's
still too self helpy, like the self helpy quality to
the large majority of the plotlines in every episode really
(07:54):
bums me out. I do still feel like it's very predictable.
And Carrie reconciling her relationship with Aiden now, the rekindling
with Now looks like in the context of Big is
still trodden territory.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
To me.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's like in the first scene when she's laying in
bed with Aiden and she like propped up, she like
puts her feet on his chest, which is so hot.
I like wanted to be like I just wanted to
be like I wanted to Yes, I wanted to be
like Aaron, put your whole put her whole Fern, Aaron,
whatever the fuck his name is, Aiden, Aiden, put her
(08:28):
whole foot in your mouth, in your mouth. I was like,
if he if he like put his head down, put
his entire mouth over her foot, but you feet listen.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Sucked.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Sucked, sucked. And then the rest of the episode is
Carrie being like, I can't believe Big suck my toes.
That is an episode of TV. I would be on
the edge of my seat f I.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But that's just not the show that I don't care.
I don't care. And also, you know, you know, her
feet are gnarly from wearing all those heels as yeah, honey,
I her toes are jacked if you want to hear
all of our thoughts. But men just like that go
to patroon dot com, slash like a virgin and become
(09:15):
a patron
Why was it she eating pussy at this episode? The bosses? Anything?
But why did we have to go through that or
hook up with one of those girls and then get
sued ver sexual flossment?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Like that's a great PLOTLINEU.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
She's sheen ami no ma ma yo?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What is your child trauma?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I am.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Your's going down the floor like.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Round.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Welcome to Like a Virgin, the show where we give
yesterday's pop culture today's takes.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm Rose DomU and I'm Fran Toronto.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, so how do we feel about the eight and
of it all? Because I you know, I wasn't sure
if the show was trying to make it look like
they were moving too fast or trying to romanticize how
(01:15):
fast they were moving, But either way, I thought they
had really good chemistry and it bred is like believable
to me of two people picking up a relationship for
the third time and really just speed running it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's one hundred percent real, right. The realism of the show,
I think is sometimes strong suit and more often than
not the thing that makes it really boring, you know,
like Aiden coming into the fold right now and Carrie
calling them immediately a wei so to speak. As Sema said,
She's like, look, you're a we now, which I think
was a really effective line, like this is a real
(01:53):
quarrel that real friends go through. And I was like,
everything about this feels earned. My issue with aid In
and other plot loin plot points like him PLoP plot loins.
Let's say that everything about Aiden and what happened, I'm
so fried. Can you even hear? You can kind of
(02:15):
hear in my voice that I I lost it a
little throat, Yeah, I lost it during all invasion, I
kind of lout giving.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I actually think.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's even better, Like I think I sound a little swaffed,
like a little you know what I mean, like just swuffed.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Well you sound clock here, Oh wow wow now we okay, okay,
But much like what you said, like what you said
was extremely unpredictable, and I just I wish the show
were unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Everything about Aiden in the show can be predicted. I
could write now how he's going to be written off,
what's going to happen between him and Carry, what the
core tensions are going to be. I can figure out,
like based on what Miranda is doing at the HRC,
I can predict what's going to happen there. I feel
like Charlotte getting a job back in gallery. Stuff that's
extremely that we could have predicted that Slash probably did
(03:06):
predict that. Like all of these things are things that
we we know enough about the characters to actually really
lay out the plotline. Same thing with Jada is like
we knew how they were gonna go.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You predicted the animal rescue shelter.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh my god, Well that I could never have predicted.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But that's the thing, is like this is your unpredictable Yeah,
at least this week, it only existed in service of
Carrie's plot line, Like there were no solo scenes of
cha except for that one where they were wandering around
Carrie's apartment, which I did kind of enjoy that because
and I almost wanted more of it of Chae being.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Like who the fuck is this woman? Yeah that I'm
weird randomly friends with why at her apartment.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And like Carriere correcting people's like for their pronoun usage,
and I'm like, oh my god, Like again, it's like
a good ally for dummies, like a ward.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
But like I don't I don't understand why that you
have such a problem with that though, because like it's
good that she corrected.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It is good. It's just why is this in the scene. So, like,
if it's in the scene, if the writers have put
the intent to put this in the scene, that means
they are trying to say something about pronoun courtesy and
how to address people properly in a workplace. And that
doesn't matter. And this show, why would anybody care? As
(04:31):
a Sex and the City viewer, it has nothing to
do with the Sex and the City.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Scene about pronouns, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, well, I think I think that line actually like
mostly existed for the joke of Aiden lying into the
neighbor and saying they them, which I think actually was
a funny payoff for that moment.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I didn't think it was that funny. But if it
was just for that joke, like, that's fine. I I
I'm rounding up to a point here about just predictability,
And for me, it's like predictability and also the kind
of tea the pedantic nature that I'm talking about, Like
like in the original Sex and the City, the show
(05:13):
can be very teaserly, right, Like, the show can be
very like these things are good and these these things
are bad, and this is what the show believes like
the show had core tenants that it kind of ran
by and believed in. And I think that it's okay
for a show to believe in something or to be
a kind of how to blah blah blah for dummies.
But in the previous iteration of the show, the things
(05:34):
it was teaching about were sex, intimacy, misogyny, like how
to make it in a certain kind of workplace as
a woman, how to be messy while also like sticking
the landing. Like those are things that I think made
the show really exciting. And the unpredictable elements were the sex, right,
(05:56):
I feel like we just don't have the unpredictable sexual
rockecy grompy kind of elements of in just like that.
Like when Sima was in bed with that guy and
he pulled out a penis pump, I was like, this
is the show, Like I never could have predicted that
this guy would have pulled out a penis pump, right.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Even though that's a plotline from like nineteen ninety YXT.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yes, yes it's fine, but it's but it still could
not have been predicted. And that is the show to me,
That's what the show I should be doing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I get what you mean. And I do think the
moment where this episode succeeded the most and where it
felt the most like the show I wanted it to be,
was also the moment that I could have predicted the least,
which was Carrie asking Miranda that question was big, a
big mistake? Like that was something I didn't see coming
(06:45):
and like, should essentially be like the central question of
this season, Carrie is entire relationship with Aiden and should
fan outwards to impact the other character, you know, like
of It is really exciting to have a storyline in
(07:06):
which this woman whose husband died like gets back together
with an old love and then thinks like, oh, was
my whole life a mistake? Should I just have been
with this guy all along? Like that is a worthwhile
question for this show to ponder, and I do wish
it was more interested in that and less interested in,
(07:27):
you know, Miranda trying to be a good ally or
whatever the fuck?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, I mean, I don't care about big so I
care less about that question, but I agree it would
be way more interesting than whatever it is they are
spending time on. I just think that it's too it's
still too self helpy, like the self helpy quality to
the large majority of the plotlines in every episode really
(07:54):
bums me out. I do still feel like it's very predictable.
And Carrie reconciling her relationship with Aiden now, the rekindling
with Now looks like in the context of Big is
still trodden territory.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
To me.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's like in the first scene when she's laying in
bed with Aiden and she like propped up, she like
puts her feet on his chest, which is so hot.
I like wanted to be like I just wanted to
be like I wanted to Yes, I wanted to be
like Aaron, put your whole put her whole Fern, Aaron,
whatever the fuck his name is, Aiden, Aiden, put her
(08:28):
whole foot in your mouth, in your mouth. I was like,
if he if he like put his head down, put
his entire mouth over her foot, but you feet listen.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Sucked.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Sucked, sucked. And then the rest of the episode is
Carrie being like, I can't believe Big suck my toes.
That is an episode of TV. I would be on
the edge of my seat f I.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But that's just not the show that I don't care.
I don't care. And also, you know, you know, her
feet are gnarly from wearing all those heels as yeah, honey,
I her toes are jacked if you want to hear
all of our thoughts. But men just like that go
to patroon dot com, slash like a virgin and become
(09:15):
a patron
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