Ronald Young Jr.

I have like two main issues of which I'm sure we'll get into.

But other than that, in terms of me watching it and leaving, there were probably halfway through, I was just like, do I like this movie better than the original?

No, that's wild.

I would never like this more than the original, but I definitely liked it a lot.

So I think it was a good sequel and a good template for what sequels should be.

I feel like in terms of Miranda, there's a lot to say between 2006 and 2026 in terms of our relationship with a character like Miranda.

who at the time really didn't exist in front of media, especially not as a woman.

Whereas we've had 20 years of all of kind of our relationships, whether it be with women behaving like men or things that we would accept from men coming from the mouths of women that are somehow critiqued in this very specific way.

We've had a long journey of that until now.

So I feel like when you walk into a movie like this, we have the benefit of knowing that this exists.

Already, even though in a lot of ways, Miranda Priestly is the tip of the spear for this, especially in media, I felt like she was the same, especially when she's in meetings and they're having people that are kind of reeling her in, in accordance with like all of the ways in which you're not supposed to behave poorly.

They're kind of dinging her on every one of those lines that she's saying, which I really enjoyed.

For me, it probably feels like it's more broadly comedic because we're expecting it in a way that we were not expecting it in 2006.

Yeah.

For me personally, because I really didn't see a difference between her character then and now.

She's older and has been like, oh, now I got to hang up my own coat.

What's the world coming to?

I felt like that part was, it felt like an accurate evolution of that character in 2026.

I would have liked Andy to have been in a relationship that was just successful.

I don't think that we needed the tension or don't have it at all.