Brittany Luce

Well, yeah, all these books, podcasts, movies, TV shows are her sons.

That's a really good point.

I mean, Sex and the City absolutely jumped to mind for me when I was reading this book.

Not just because it's like four women with different personalities or whatever, but you could actually really see the craft on the page as far as the dialogue and the storytelling is concerned.

But the perspective shifts.

I think Sex and the City is one of the best television shows of all time.

And it is because when you watch that show, something that's missing from a lot of similar shows now that I also see in this book, Waiting to Exhale, and that I think Macmillan does such an incredible job of doing is constant perspective shifts.

When you watch an episode of, say, Sex and the City, and you compare it to a similar show from the 2010s or from the 2020s, something that is missing is that you feel like nothing happens when you watch it.

And when you go back and watch an episode of Sex and the City,

Every single woman has a plot line that moves her overarching, like full season arc forward.

And that's what it was like reading this book.

Each woman had a distinctive voice.

I could see and hear their conversation in my mind.

Because Macmillan knew these characters so well and gave them such distinct personalities on the page.

And that's how it felt like it reminded me of an episode of Sex and the City.

And I think actually probably definitely influenced, whether they realized it or not, influenced the writing of the show because it was constant handoff.

But I do feel like I agree with you, though, that like the film and even just like the place that the book holds in our culture, there isn't really anything I can think of that replaces it on the same level at all.

Right.

No.

Okay.