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Morning Report: Spotify Stock Actually Recovers After Neil Young’s Exit, Barry Manilow Has Not Pulled Out

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Morning Report: Spotify Stock Actually Recovers After Neil Young’s Exit, Barry Manilow Has Not Pulled Out

Here’s the latest on the Neil Young-Spotify feud:

This morning the Spotify stock sagged a bit but now it’s recovered and going up actually. Spotify stock is down $20 or so since Tuesday when Young first demanded that Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan’s misinformation disseminated on his podcast.

There was some talk of other artists joining in with Young, but so far no one has taken a side. A rumor started that Barry Manilow, of all people, was pulling his music off the streamer in solidarity with Young. But Manilow never said a word, and no one knows where that started. Plus, Manilow sold his catalog in 2020 to Hipgnosis Music. He probably doesn’t have the right to yank it anyway.

I empathize with Neil Young. We are living in a peculiar time when rednecks and lunkheads are interfering with public health and education. That a man waiting for a heart transplant refuses to take the vaccine for COVID really spells it out. There’s no basic sense of logic. Did these people always exist, or did Trump enable them? Everyday there are reports of anti-vaxxers dying and it seems to no impact on their fellow dolts. Go figure.

As for Neil, he streams his own music through the Neil Young Archives, which puts him a different position than most artists. Also, there must be some people listening to him on his defunct Pono player, right?

Scorching Doc About Poisoned Russian Activist-Journalist Alexei Navalny Is Real But Reads Like The Best Robert Ludlum

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Scorching Doc About Poisoned Russian Activist-Journalist Alexei Navalny Is Real But Reads Like The Best Robert Ludlum

The most important movie at the Sundance Film Festival played out day before yesterday but I only got watch it tonight.

Daniel Rorer’s “Navalny” is the absolutely stunning account of what happened to Alexei Navalny, the Russian activist and self styled journalist who was poisoned on a flight on Vladimir Putin’s orders in 2020, nearly died, recovered in Berlin, and has now served a year in a Russian prison.

It’s a terrifying story, one that Robert Ludlum would have written. It sounds like “Gorky Park,” and if Rorer didn’t show the investigation into what happened step by step you’d say this is preposterous and could never happen.

But it did. Once Navalny recovered he joined forces with Christo Grozev, the chief investigator of Netherlands-based journalism outfit Bellingcat. Grozeev, who like everyone else here is on camera and very forthcoming, figure out that Navalny had been dosed with Novichok, a nearly undetectable nerve agent. Putin had already killed or nearly killed others with this drug.  Grozev says he was shocked that Putin had been so brazen. “It was like leaving a signature,” he tells Rorer.

Using investigative skills to plumb the web, Grozev figures out that 12 scientists are working in a Russian lab that supposedly makes soft drinks. They also deduce through cross referencing that the scientists were flying the same route in Russia as Navalny just before his infamous poisoning. Grozev says: “It was a domestic assassination scheme on an international scale.”

Navalny became so violently ill on the plane so quickly that the pilots landed. Navalny was saved by quick thinking– and as one of the poisoners admits to Navalny in a kind of psychedelic phone call later–they had the antidote. As we all know, Navalny was rushed to Berlin with his wife, who he was traveling with, and recovered over several months.

But during the recovery Navalny and Grosev pieced together the whole conspiracy to kill the anti-Putin activist. They were able to get phone numbers for the 12 scientists and in that stunning, psychedelic phone call, with documentary cameras rolling in real time, Navalny gets one of them to admit to the whole thing and describe it in chilling detail. When they hang up, Navalny and Grosev are certain this man will be killed himself for being duped on the phone.

CNNFilms has bought this documentary and will show it sometime soon, no doubt. “Navalny” will blow your mind, if not for the whole uncovering of this scandal, but because Navalny returned to Russia, was instantly imprisoned and has not been seen since. Couple this with Putin’s looming threat to invade Ukraine, and believe me, you won’t be able to sleep. Everything we ever thought about Putin and Russia is true, and worse than imagined.

Rorer will win awards. But what will happen to Navalny will not be glamorous. I don’t even know if prayers will work.

Neil Young’s Music Isn’t Completely Off Spotify, There’s Still Quite a Lot He Can’t Control

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Neil Young’s Music Isn’t Completely Off Spotify, There’s Still Quite a Lot He Can’t Control

Neil Young has now loudly pulled all his solo albums off of Spotify. He’s protesting the streamer’s loyalty to podcaster Joe Rogan, a right wing lunatic who dispenses false information about COVID and vaccines.

Gone from Spotify are Young’s beloved bestsellers such as “After the Goldrush” and “Harvest,”  not to mention “Comes a Time,” and “Rust Never Sleeps” plus a couple dozen others.

But Neil Young is still available on Spotify because the prolific rocker has a lot of other music out there. His records with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills Nash & Young all remain, as well a plethora of guest star performances on other albums.

The result is that “Southern Man” is removed, but the live version with CSNY is still available. You can still stream “Mr. Soul” and “Expecting to Fly” from the Springfield, and so on. Besides the CSNY album “Deja Vu,” which people of a certain age know by heart, there’s a group album from 1999 called “Looking Forward” that I’ve totally forgotten but has some pretty good Young songs and vocals.

Spotify is like the Hotel California: you can check in but you can never check out!

 

Legend: Steven Spielberg Becomes First Director to Receive DGA Nominations in Six Consecutive Decades

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Legend: Steven Spielberg Becomes First Director to Receive DGA Nominations in Six Consecutive Decades

Steven Spielberg was just nominated for a DGA Award.

The first time the 76 year old was nominated for a DGA Award was 1976, for “Jaws.” He is now the first director to be nominated for the DGA in six consecutive decades.

His first win was in 1986 for “The Color Purple.” He won again in 1994 for “Schindler’s List,” again in 1999 for “Saving Private Ryan.” This is his 13th total nomination. His last one was in 2013 for “Lincoln.”

Rarely has a movie been as mishandled as “West Side Story.” But this nomination is a good sign. I really felt that “WSS” was the movie of the year. It missed a SAG Ensemble nom, and has been overlooked in some other areas. But now it looks like the Academy will come through. “WSS” and “Belfast” are the top choices for Best Picture.

Bravo, Steven Spielberg! What a career! And it’s far from from ending.

Directors Guild Nominations Clarify Oscar Race Perfectly: Spielberg, Branagh, PTA, Campion, Villeneuve

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Directors Guild Nominations Clarify Oscar Race Perfectly: Spielberg, Branagh, PTA, Campion, Villeneuve

That’s it.

The DGA noms are out and they are exactly right.

Steven Spielberg for “West Side Story”

Paul Thomas Anderson for “Licorice Pizza”

Jane Campion for “Power of the Dog”

Kenneth Branagh for “Belfast”

Denis Villeneuve for “Dune”

Congrats! Those should be the top 5 directors from the Academy.

FIRST TIME FEATURES

Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter”

Rebecca Hall for “Passing”

Tatiana Huezo for “Prayers for the Stolen”

Lin-Manuel Miranda for “Tick, Tick… Boom!”

Michael Sarnoski for “Pig”

Emma Seligman for “Shiva Baby”

Review: Janet Jackson Finally Reveals the Story of Her “Secret” Child in Disarming, Well Told Documentary

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Review: Janet Jackson Finally Reveals the Story of Her “Secret” Child in Disarming, Well Told Documentary

Janet Jackson — if you didn’t already love her, you really will after you watch the A&E documentary set for Friday and Saturday night.

The doc is in four parts, two parts each night. The press only received the Friday pieces. I think they’re holding the Saturday stuff for real time review because it includes info about the Justin Timberlake Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction.

The real meat of the Friday night episodes is all about Janet’s private life– her first two marriages, and the story of her “secret” child.

No surprise here: there was no secret child. But rumors have always followed Janet that she gave birth to a child fathered by first husband James DeBarge. It wasn’t true, Janet assures us, and so does her sister Rebbie (pronounced Reebie).

What we do get from the Friday night segments are Janet unplugged, especially candid about her late father, Joseph, who was physically abusive and “mean” to all the kids. He drove them to stardom by being unsparing. Eventually they all left him, and he spent the rest of his life trying to get back in. In rare home videos and long unseen interviews, the look of unhappiness on all the kids’ faces when they were young and his sway is shocking. It’s no wonder things worked out so badly for Michael, and for many of the others.

Janet says she really didn’t want to be a performer or singer. She says she wanted to go to Pepperdine University and study business law. Her father simply told her that wasn’t happening, and she would go straight in the family business.

What’s clear if you know the Jacksons’ story is that Janet wanted to get out that house in Encino ASAP. Sister Rebbie left at 18 to get married and have kids. Janet was trapped by the business. But she did a similar thing. At 16, she married James DeBarge to get away from her father. The problem, she says, was that DeBarge was using drugs starting on their honeymoon when he disappeared on the first night. It only got worse from there. And as she she indicates tearfully, she was really in love with him. Their marriage only lasted a year. (I don’t know why anyone thought she could have fit a pregnancy and childbirth in there, too.)

Janet’s second marriage, to Rene Elizondo Jr, is in the second part of Friday’s showing. We won’t find out until Saturday why that marriage fell apart, but it’s interesting that both of the marriages had elopements or secret weddings. Janet wanted to make sure her father didn’t derail her plans. The second part on Friday night also chronicles the making of her “Control” album with the ever affable Jimmy Jam Harris and Terry Lewis. So far unmentioned in this part of the saga is John McClain, a family friend who was working at A&M Records and guided Janet’s recording career. He is now the co-executor of Michael Jackson’s estate.

As far as Michael Jackson goes, there’s some nice home movie footage. Janet concedes that their close relationship fractured after “Thriller.” And Michael was not much help in launching her career. Indeed, Michael– as Bob Jones outlined in his book (whether fans like it or not) — did not want his brothers and sisters to succeed. That Janet did is really her greatest triumph.

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Kanye West Will Offer “Donda 2” Exec Produced by Future, on 2-22-22, Maybe (You Never Know)

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Kanye West Will Offer “Donda 2” Exec Produced by Future, on 2-22-22, Maybe (You Never Know)

“Donda 2” is coming. Maybe.

Kanye West says he’s releasing the sequel to his album, “Donda,” on 2-22-22. That’s February 22nd.

But will it happen then? “Donda” was promised many times and took weeks to materialize as a real release. Kanye — Ye, to those who care — held “listening sessions” in stadiums all over the place but was still working on the album.

This time the release date may be met on time. After all, these tracks are likely the left overs from “Donda,” and Ye has had months to work on them.

Interesting: rapper Future is listed as Executive Producer.

Producers Guild Nominates “West Side Story,” “Belfast,” 2 from Netflix, 2 from Warner Bros., Snubs “Gucci”

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Producers Guild Nominates “West Side Story,” “Belfast,” 2 from Netflix, 2 from Warner Bros., Snubs “Gucci”

Here are the films nominated by the Producers Guild of America for 2022:. The PGA is a pretty good indicator of Best Picture nominees, and if this is the group, it’s fine. The notable omission is “House of Gucci,” which is surprising.

Also coming today, soon, Directors Guild and Writers Guild nominees.

Being the Ricardos

Belfast

CODA

Don’t Look Up

Dune

King Richard

Licorice Pizza

Tick Tick Boom

West Side Story

Directors Guild Thought “Succession” Was the Only Well Directed Drama on TV This Year

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Directors Guild Thought “Succession” Was the Only Well Directed Drama on TV This Year

The DGA thought “Succession” was the only well directed drama on TV this season. All five nominees for Best Directing, Drama went to the HBO show. Now, I love this show, but all five? No other shows? That is completely ridiculous and wrong. If I were a TV director in the DGA, I’d be mighty unhappy with that decision. “Billions,” “Bridgerton,” and “Yellowstone” were just some of the shows ignored and snubbed. (I’m assuming “The Crown” was off season, but I may be wrong.) Just crazy.

Anyway, “Succession” isn’t ‘directed. I thought it was cinema verite. Aren’t the Roys real? They seem like it.

 

 

DRAMATIC SERIES

KEVIN BRAY
Succession, “Retired Janitors of Idaho”
(HBO)

Mr. Bray’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Gabrielle Mahon, Scott Ferguson First Assistant Director: John Silvestri
Second Assistant Director: Nicholas Notte
Second Second Assistant Directors: Jimmy Rosario, Nicole Payson Location Manager: Paul Eskenazi

MARK MYLOD
Succession, “All the Bells Say”
(HBO)

Mr. Mylod’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Gabrielle Mahon, Scott Ferguson First Assistant Director: Christo Morse
Second Assistant Directors: Michelle Flevotomas, Nicholas Notte Location Manager: Paul Eskenazi

ANDRIJ PAREKH
Succession, “What It Takes”
(HBO)

Mr. Parekh’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Gabrielle Mahon, Scott Ferguson First Assistant Director: Christo Morse
Second Assistant Director: Michelle Flevotomas
Second Second Assistant Directors: Jimmy Rosario, Nicole Payson Location Manager: Paul Eskenazi

ROBERT PULCINI & SHARI SPRINGER BERMAN
Succession, “Lion in the Meadow”
(HBO)

Mr. Pulcini & Ms. Berman’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Gabrielle Mahon, Scott Ferguson First Assistant Director: Christo Morse
Second Assistant Director: Michelle Flevotomas Second Second Assistant Director: Jimmy Rosario
Additional Second Assistant Director: Nicole Payson Location Manager: Paul Eskenazi

LORENE SCAFARIA
Succession, “Too Much Birthday”
(HBO)

Ms. Scafaria’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Gabrielle Mahon, Scott Ferguson First Assistant Director: John Silvestri
Second Assistant Director: Nicholas Notte
Second Second Assistant Directors: Jimmy Rosario, Nicole Payson

Additional Second Assistant Director: Matt O’Shea Location Manager: Paul Eskenazi

COMEDY SERIES

LUCIA ANIELLO
Hacks, “There Is No Line”
(HBO Max)

Ms. Aniello’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Melanie J. Elin, David Hyman First Assistant Director: Jeff Rosenberg
Second Assistant Director: Erin Stern Linares
Second Second Assistant Director: Heidi Hinzman
Additional Second Assistant Director: Alaina Neumann

MJ DELANEY
Ted Lasso, “No Weddings and a Funeral”
(Apple TV+)

ERICA DUNTON
Ted Lasso, “Rainbow”
(Apple TV+)

SAM JONES
Ted Lasso, “Beard After Hours”
(Apple TV+)

MIKE WHITE
The White Lotus, “Mysterious Monkeys”
(HBO)

Mr. White’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Mark Kamine First Assistant Director: Justin Ritson Second Assistant Director: Joe Landry

Second Second Assistant Director: Dais Kasagawa

MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES

BARRY JENKINS
The Underground Railroad
(Amazon)

Mr. Jenkins’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Richleigh Heagh First Assistant Director: Liz Tan
Second Assistant Director: Elaine Wood
Second Second Assistant Director: Wayne Witherspoon
Additional Second Assistant Directors: Jesse Carmona, AJ Bruno

BARRY LEVINSON
Dopesick, “First Bottle”
(Hulu)

Mr. Levinson’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Marc Hammer First Assistant Director: Karen Kane
Second Assistant Director: Chelsea Ryan Petrucci Second Second Assistant Director: Alex Bonner

HIRO MURAI
Station Eleven, “Wheel of Fire”
(HBO Max)

Mr. Murai’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Dana Scott, David Nicksay First Assistant Director: Jennifer Wilkinson
Location Manager: Stefan Nikolov

DANNY STRONG
Dopesick, “The People vs. Purdue Pharma”
(Hulu)

Mr. Strong’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Marc Hammer First Assistant Director: Donald Murphy Second Assistant Director: Peter Dress
Second Second Assistant Director: Alex Bonner

CRAIG ZOBEL
Mare of Easttown
(HBO)

Mr. Zobel’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Karen Wacker, Ron Schmidt First Assistant Director: Kayse Goodell
Second Assistant Director: Jackson Rowe
Second Second Assistant Directors: Blair Howley, Findlay Zotter Additional Second Assistant Directors: Findlay Zotter, Laura Hoyt

VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING

PAUL G. CASEY
Real Time With Bill Maher, “Episode 1935: Fareed Zakaria, Chris Christie, Eric Adams”
(HBO)

Mr. Casey’s Directorial Team:
Associate Director: Stacy Talbot
Stage Managers: Brian Anderson, Patrick Whitney

JIM HOSKINSON
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Episode 1105”
(CBS)

Mr. Hoskinson’s Directorial Team:
Associate Directors: Yvonne De Mare, Karen Yaeger Stage Managers: Mark McKenna, Jeff Leib

DON ROY KING
Saturday Night Live, ” Keegan-Michael Key; Olivia Rodrigo”
(NBC)

Mr. King’s Directorial Team:
Associate Directors: Michael Mancini, Michael Poole, Laura Ouziel-Mack Stage Managers: Gena Rositano, Chris Kelly, Eddie Valk

DAVID PAUL MEYER
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, “Episode 26112”
(Comedy Central)

Mr. Meyer’s Directorial Team:
Associate Director: Kira Klang Hopf Stage Manager: Bennymar Almonte

PAUL PENNOLINO & CHRISTOPHER WERNER
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, “Episode 830 – Season Finale”
(HBO)

Mr. Pennolino & Mr. Werner’s Directorial Team:
Associate Director: Elliot Mendelson
Stage Managers: Mark McKenna, Craig Spinney

VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – SPECIALS

IAN BERGER
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents, “Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse – Into the Magaverse”
(Comedy Central)

BO BURNHAM
Bo Burnham: Inside
(Netflix)

PAUL DUGDALE
Adele: One Night Only
(CBS)

Mr. Dugdale’s Directorial Team:
Associate Director: Hayley Collett
Stage Managers: Gary Natoli, Erica Christensen, Zachary Figures, Jackie Stathis

STAN LATHAN
Dave Chappelle: The Closer
(Netflix)

Mr. Lathan’s Directorial Team:
Associate Director: Sara Niimi Stage Manager: Valdez Flagg

GLENN P. WEISS
The 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors
(CBS)

Mr. Weiss’s Directorial Team:
Associate Directors: Ken Diego, Susan Kopensky, Ricky Kirshner, Lisa R. Anderson, Lori Margules
Stage Managers: John Esposito, Doug Fogel, Jeffry Gitter, Arthur Lewis, Tammy Raab, Karen Tasch Weiss

REALITY PROGRAMS

JOSEPH GUIDRY
Full Bloom, “Final Floral Face Off”
(HBO Max)

Mr. Guidry’s Directorial Team:
Associate Director: Sean P. Galvin
Stage Managers: Myeisha Abram, Kristianna LaRoda, Rachel Shimko

PATRICK MCMANUS
American Ninja Warrior, “1304: Qualifiers 4”
(NBC)

Mr. McManus’s Directorial Team:
Associate Director: David Massey
Stage Managers: Jeff Simms, T.J. Ganser, Wolfgang Delgado

RAMY ROMANY
Making the Cut, “Brand Statement”
(Amazon)

Mr. Romany’s Directorial Team:
Associate Director: Ryan Bunnell
Stage Managers: Will Baker, Brady Hess

BEN SIMMS
Running Wild with Bear Grylls, “Gina Carano In The Dolomites”
(National Geographic Channel)

Mr. Simms’s Directorial Team:
Associate Director: Jeff Simms

ADAM VETRI
Getaway Driver, “Electric Shock”
(Discovery Channel)

Mr. Vetri’s Directorial Team:
First Assistant Director: John Esposito Second Assistant Director: Eric Pai

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

JAMES BOBIN
The Mysterious Benedict Society, “A Bunch of Smart Orphans”
(Disney+)

Mr. Bobin’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Grace Gilroy

MICHAEL LEMBECK
The J Team
(Paramount+)

PHILL LEWIS
Head of the Class, “Three More Years”
(HBO Max)

Mr. Lewis’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Susan M. Crank First Assistant Director: Rebecca Baughman Second Assistant Director: Oliver Garrett
Associate Director: Tim Clark

SMRITI MUNDHRA
Through Our Eyes, “Shelter”
(HBO Max)

JEFF WADLOW
Are You Afraid of the Dark?, “The Tale of the Darkhouse”
(Nickelodeon)

COMMERCIALS

STEVE AYSON
(MJZ)
Anthem, Mattress Firm – Droga5
Unit Production Manager: Adriana Cebada-Mora First Assistant Director: George Nessis
Second Assistant Directors: Jesse Carmona, Brent Martin
Award Speech, Miller Lite – DDB Chicago
Networking, Miller Lite – DDB Chicago

KATHRYN BIGELOW
(SMUGGLER)
Hollywood In Your Pocket, iPhone 13 – Media Arts Lab
First Assistant Directors: Allison Kunzman, Arle Bordas Second Assistant Director: Abbey Hansen
Second Second Assistant Director: Cody Maher

IAN PONS JEWELL
(RESET)
ECG, Apple Watch – Apple Sleep, Apple Watch – Apple Time, Squarespace – Squarespace
Your Mom’s Short Ribs, Instacart – Goodby Silverstein

HENRY-ALEX RUBIN
(SMUGGLER)
Teenage Dream, Sandy Hook Promise – BBDO – New York First Assistant Director: Anthony Dimino
Second Assistant Director: David Ebel

BRADFORD YOUNG
(Serial Pictures x Somesuch)
Super. Human., Channel 4 Paralympics – 4Creative First Assistant Director: Jez Oakley

DOCUMENTARY

JESSICA KINGDON
Ascension
(Paramount+)

STANLEY NELSON
Attica
(Showtime)

RAOUL PECK
Exterminate All the Brutes
(HBO)

Mr. Peck’s Directorial Team:
First Assistant Director: Mathias Honoré

AHMIR “QUESTLOVE” THOMPSON
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
(Searchlight Pictures)

ELIZABETH CHAI VASARHELYI & JIMMY CHIN
The Rescue
(National Geographic)

Ms.Vasarhelyi & Mr. Chin’s Directorial Team:
First Assistant Director: Joey Coughlin

Review: And Just Like That, Miranda’s Drinking Problem Has Disappeared, “SATC” 2.0 Likely to Be Renewed

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Review: And Just Like That, Miranda’s Drinking Problem Has Disappeared, “SATC” 2.0 Likely to Be Renewed

First: “Sex and the City: And Just Like That” will likely be renewed any day now. It’s mindless enough, has the franchise name, and Michael Patrick King has set up enough new stories that they can do 10 more of these things without too much trouble.

Second: Today, episode 9 of the first 10 drops to the ground like a watermelon from David Letterman’s old window. It seemed like Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) had a drinking problem. She drank like a fish, everywhere, even stopped into Smith’s seedy Bar on Eighth Avenue for a morning drink. But that has all evaporated now. What could have been an Emmy winning storyline for Nixon has just frittered away. Instead, Miranda has dumped her husband for Che, so all her problems are so yesterday.

I may be one of the few people who can’t stand Che. It’s just too much of her. And too much of the relationship at the expense of Miranda’s marriage to Steve. Nixon is such a fine actress, I can watch her do anything. But the whole thing has felt forced.

Charlotte (Kristin Davis) has the best stories thanks to her daughters and her own navigating new friends who happen to be Black. Nicole Ari Parker and Chris Jackson are killing it as the Wexleys. I so want to see more of them. I want Paula Patton to play Lisa’s sister. I want the Wexleys to get their own show.

I also love Nya (Karen Pittman) and her husband is played by Shy Baldwin from “Mrs, Maisel,” the one and only Leroy McClain. But introducing two couples makes the chances for “Sex and the City” to be a little dull, no? As for Sarita Choudhury as the realtor, the jury is still out. She’s terrific, but the character so far has been there to prop up the fourth leg of the table with Kim Cattrall gone. But all of these new characters are so well drawn, they could literally move to their own series.

Carrie: is a mess. They’ve made her a rich widow. I have no idea what she does (the podcast is idiotic) in the New York literary world. She used to be a striver, a freelance writer who needed money and was navigating life in the city as a single girl. Now she’s “the white girl who writes checks.” Yikes. Take the money away from her, it’s holding her back as a character. And bring back Brenda Vaccaro!

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