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Sex and The City Sequel: Some Suggestions

By Roy Edroso, Friday, Feb. 6 2009 @ 7:00AM
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Categories: I Loved New York, The Movies, Transitions
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It was inevitable. The first Sex and the City movie made over $400 million, so there had to be a sequel, and auteur Michael Patrick King has confirmed it. Filming starts this summer, with release expected in summer 2010. That means a year of splashy features, and another summer of young women from Fair Lawn getting their new high heels stuck between the cobblestones in the Meatpacking District.

Or does it? E! Online says the script isn't written yet. "So what should happen next?" they ask. "Let the suggestions begin!" Gladly.

carrie2.jpgBig's salary is capped at $500,000, and Carrie is replaced at the paper by a 19-year-old anal sex enthusiast with the nom de plume BrownEye, in honor of the Ivy League school she dropped out of. Money becomes tight, and Big finds that after a lifetime of Cohibas he cannot adjust to El Productos. After a series of comic moonlighting misadventures as a cab driver and new media consultant, he works contacts from his secret past as a NYPD detective and gets some shifts as a bouncer with his old pal Jesse L. Martin. Carrie starts a blog, which she makes racier to draw traffic ("How can I say I love you," her words scrolls across the MacBook screen, "when your balls are in my mouth?") but it still doesn't pay much, and they are forced to move to Greenpoint. There is a poignant, slow-motion moment when Carrie realizes Vera Wang isn't suitable for Studio B.

miranda.jpgWhen Carrie moves to Brooklyn, Miranda is conflicted by her feelings of superiority, provoking a crisis that convinces her she is a lesbian. "I sort of knew this was coming," says Steve. She quits her job, takes their kid and moves to a separatist community in Staten Island, where she runs a legal clinic at the co-op and writes a novel about a bisexual policewoman that is optioned for Jennifer Lopez. Rich and triumphant, she returns to her old home, where she retains Steve as a sort of nanny.

samantha.jpgSamantha resumes her PR business and becomes anorexic. She acquires a reputation for fainting at openings. She takes up with Brit bad boy Drake Fenton-Lewis (clearly modeled on Blake Fielder-Civil), with whom she shares unpleasant drug-fueled adventures and loses many clients, her apartment, and her drivers license. In desperation she takes a column with the Huffington Post, which is successful enough that she and Drake can afford a studio in Bushwick. Classic line: "I love you... but I love meth more."

charlotte.jpgHer bout of fertility seemingly at an end, Charlotte obsessively adopts children from various countries until she has one from each continent, including Antarctica, and Harry leaves her. She becomes despondent and, when she is picked up wandering the Upper East Side barefoot, dressed in a jumper and crying for "Mommy," she is briefly institutionalized and given shock treatments. She emerges from the sanatorium a virtual zombie, and is taken in by Miranda, who has renovated her apartment into a duplex to house Charlotte's children and now treats her old, addled friend as a ward and servant, sending her out to pick up cigarettes and sports drinks. When Miranda goes on a book tour, Charlotte limply submits to Steve's advances.

The wrap-up: Big and Jessie pull some drug deals and take over one of the many clubs that have closed in the new depression, turning it into seamy but profitable enterprise. The girls, having learned valuable life lessons, decide to renovate and live in an abandoned Victorian home in Asbury Park. Confused moviegoers spend weekends in summer 2010 drunkenly wandering the Jersey beach in Manolo Blahnik flip-flops developed as an affordable promotional tie-in to the film. Sex and the Sequel makes a fortune, and the cast signs up for a third movie set in the dystopian future, Sex and the City: Extinction.

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Comments (16)

Helen says:

I just love Sarah. I read here (www.projectweightloss.com) about her diet and workout routine and, wow, no wonder she’s so skinny.

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 6 2009 @ 9:00AM
ignatov says:

Who's Sarah?

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 6 2009 @ 10:37AM
Bill says:

Ho boy, this post is going to make the rounds.

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 6 2009 @ 10:45AM
jeremiah says:

absofuckinglutely brilliant

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 6 2009 @ 12:26PM
ohplease says:

As a *gasp* fan, I began reading this prepared to hate what was sure to be an onslaught of pure SATC-bashing, but you had me at "salary cap".

I have seen every episode at least twice and the movie three times -- and own both on DVD -- and I would actually love to see at least 50-60% of this in the actual sequel.

Excellent suggestions!

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 6 2009 @ 7:42PM
Jay B. says:

Shock therapy? Meth? BrownEye?! Jesus, edroso, you've gone commercial.

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 6 2009 @ 8:04PM
R. Porrofatto says:

Fabuloso, Edroso. Unlike the original, this is all clearly based in reality, with one exception: to my knowledge the Huffington Post doesn't pay squat.

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 6 2009 @ 8:30PM
cobbler says:

You forgot to incorporate the life-size lego statue of Miranda.

Maybe a homeless stock trader can be seen humping it in the background, or just peeing on it perhaps. The kids these days love the potty humor.

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 6 2009 @ 9:12PM
spanky says:

Haha! Hilarious. I didn't know you like SATC Edrosso... I love how crass you are. Give me more!

Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 7 2009 @ 2:52AM
ckh says:

Are they coming back to see the damage they've done in NYC? Or, just to hang out with all the pathetic, usually fat, twenty-somthing bitches who bugged the fuck out of their parents to get them an apartment where Carie lived? I think we need a S.I.T.C. sequal in North Korea and Tehran, that'll fix'em. Lets see how the axis of evil deals with yogurt eating, whining, daddy calling, gotta have everything I saw on tv with a little shitting dog, self-indulgent cunts like the ones the nyc has been forced to endure.

Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 7 2009 @ 8:18AM
Nance says:

A toast to the genius who walks among us.

Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 7 2009 @ 11:45AM
Nance says:

By the way, that first comment is spam.

Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 7 2009 @ 11:46AM
ROD says:

Sarah is a bitch - that's how she lost so much weight.

Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 7 2009 @ 1:05PM
raj says:

ohhh.. i like.. I have seen every episode at least twice and the movie three times.. i love that.

visit the site: http://www.free.eonlinetask.com

Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 7 2009 @ 2:23PM
par3182 says:

one word: menopause

Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 7 2009 @ 10:20PM
mary says:

thank you ckh.

Posted On: Sunday, Feb. 8 2009 @ 10:37PM

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