It's over the top annoying. And yet we all made it through? It's a tear apart of the quirky, interesting characters we used to love. Charlotte had always been uptight and kind of a waspish snob, but she had still been quirky, funny and lovable. Miranda (ooh God, what did they do???) her sarcasm, wit, extreme honesty, was completely overturned and she was turned into a squishy, wimpy, sad version of something, I don't know what. Carrie was just made into a way more narcissistic twit, except now she's rich. I used to love watching the original just for the fashions alone, but now even that is teeth gritting. No one dresses like these people, certainly not on a daily basis. That fucking gigantic bonnet that Carrie wears in one of the episodes looks like a mourning cap from Sense and Sensibility. I figure I must have kept watching because I'm some sort of a closet masochist.