And Just Like That, "What's That Got To Do With Me?"

Episode 5: Friends Behaving Badly.

We’ve learned over the years that everyone associated with this show is defensive about how poorly received it is, and now the costume department is getting in on the action. From Page Six, on Bonnetgate:

“Do you want Carrie to walk through the park with Seema with a straw hat on from L.L.Bean? I don’t know, I can do it. I mean, I don’t want to,” [costume designer Molly] Rogers laments of the backlash, which saw viewers comparing Sarah Jessica Parker to Strawberry Shortcake.

“That kind of annoyed me, because I think, at this point, we’re all a big family, we all watch the show, we know what it is. That fazes you?” she says.

So her take is, essentially, that the viewers are being dense? Sigh. I’ll give her this: If the rest of the show were well-executed, we might have had a LOT more patience in reserve for things like Hell’s Bonnet. But it isn’t, so we don’t. Our nerves are FRAYED. Nobody over there — anywhere on staff — seems to have made intelligent attempts to figure out who these wo…