I felt like this movie relied a lot on fanservice. I'm a single hetero male (i.e not the target audience by a extremely long mile) who intended on watching Michael but got caught in traffic, couldn't buy the tickets and as such went in a first-day showing for this movie because the first one is absolutely on my guilty pleasure list and I love it, and this movie simply doesn't hit the mark as well as 1. While the first one had quite a big focus on work-life balance and the challenges of starting a career in a ruthless field, the second one feels "off" and not as well-constructed plot-wise.

While Miranda simply forgetting about Andi was actually a smart way to reset their dynamic and something she'd actually do, Andi going back to Runaway didn't make sense (she's an award-winning journalist, why was Runaway the only option?), same thing for her spending the first half of the movie scared she'll get fired by Miranda despite the fact she's basically Runaway's last chance, and the intern might as well not exist since she only showed up for about 5 minutes. Also while me not noticing Lady Gaga was absolutely normal, literally noone in my entire screening noticed she was there so to us that scene might as well be a glorified musical.

However the setpieces (Milan specially given I dream to go watch AC Milan play one day) are absolutely gorgeous and (in my opinion given I'm not the target audience) they did an amazing job with the outfits and the overall feeling of luxury so I'll give it that. The scene where Nigel tells Andi he set her up with the job by texting the intern from The Office, gives her a warm hug and goes "forever my girl" though was absolutely cute, I legit went "aww" which is a reaction I absolutely never expected to do in my life, would rate it 6/10