As viewers, we have been given access to all of Miranda’s hidden drinks, which makes it clear that she is veering into problematic territory. It would be easy to characterize these exchanges as self-absorbed on Carrie’s part, yet the truth is more complicated. “Miranda’s alcohol problem seems to have materialized out of a crisis and disappeared just as quickly.” Miranda nearly screams her response-“no!”-before the two move on to the next topic. “So you don’t think you need to quit?” Carrie asks after a pause, an implied “right?” hanging off the end of her sentence. The conversation contains many eye rolls about Charlotte judging Miranda for having three cocktails at a comedy show. In last week’s episode, Miranda vents to Carrie about the book she believes Charlotte sent her about quitting drinking. We see this in several exchanges, like Carrie’s dismissive response to Charlotte bringing up red flags around Miranda’s drinking and Miranda’s annoyance with Charlotte for making a comment when she suggests ordering champagne at lunch. But AJLT depicts a more realistic, complex version of being friends as an adult, namely the ways in which our friends, despite loving us, do not always have the bandwidth to address our struggles. One of the cornerstones of Sex and t he City has always been the way it depicted female friendships I grew up believing that best friends met for brunch every weekend, took leisurely walks around New York City, and ended conversations with quippy puns. Craig Blankenhorn // HBOĭespite these clichés, one aspect of Miranda’s drinking journey does feel more nuanced: the responses she receives from Carrie and Charlotte. Miranda drinks wine in her apartment on And Just Like That. I know this to be true because I kept drinking for the better part of my twenties despite my blackouts, simply because I didn’t think they qualified me for sobriety. And portraying alcoholism as an illness that only affects people over 50 perpetuates a myth that leaves many younger drinkers like myself feeling alienated. This means that many people are drinking problematically in their 20s and 30s and showing signs of alcohol use disorder long before the on-screen stereotypes suggest. But in a survey of alcohol dependents conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, over two-thirds were diagnosable before the age of 25. Miranda’s story also feels like one we have been told many times: the sad, middle-aged person who is triggered (by divorce, depression, or general malaise) into having a drinking problem. Many of us drank at appropriate times and in all the right places, but still struggled with our grip on alcohol and what it meant for our lives. For starters, plenty of people with drinking problems don’t sneak off to bars, take shots in the middle of the day, or cheat on their husbands (sorry, Steve). And in the two most recent episodes, Miranda hit her own version of rock bottom, getting drunk in the middle of the day, having sex with Carrie’s boss (in Carrie’s kitchen), and ultimately pouring her liquor stash down the sink in an attempt to quit drinking.Īs a viewer with over four years of sobriety, parts of Miranda’s storyline feel stereotypical-and frustrating. At the start of the show, we saw Miranda sneaking nips in her backpack and ordering wine before noon, presumably jittery about going back to graduate school and unhappy in her marriage. It turns out I was more of a Miranda, at least according to her storyline in the series’s long-awaited reboot And Just Like That. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
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