Money Is Ruining Television

金钱正在毁掉电视

Depictions of extreme wealth are everywhere on the small screen and, well, it's all quite boring.

小荧幕上充斥着对极端财富的描绘,然而,这一切都相当乏味。

By Sophie Gilbert

作者:索菲·吉尔伯特

June 7, 2025, 8 AM ET

时间:2025年6月7日,上午8点 (美国东部时间)

Watching Carrie Bradshaw—erstwhile sex columnist, intrepid singleton, striver—float down the majestic staircase of her new Gramercy townhouse on a recent episode of And Just Like That while wearing a transparent tulle gown, on an errand to mail a letter, is one of the most cognitively dissonant television experiences I've had recently. And Just Like That has never been a particularly imaginative show with regard to women in midlife, but there's still something fundamentally off about seeing one of the canonical female characters of our era transformed into a Gilded Age archetype, worrying about a garden renovation and choosing back-ordered fabric for a chaise. Carrie, suddenly, has many hats. She communicates with a lover via handwritten notes while she waits for his liberation from the home front in Virginia.

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