And Just Like That star Kristen Davis is offering her thoughts on one of the show’s most polarizing additions: Che Diaz, played by Sara Ramirez.
On a recent episode of Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen asked Davis about Che’s stand-up comedy set (if you can even call it that). Critics and audiences blasted the character’s humor as unfunny and didactic on social media.
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“Oh Andy, don’t put me on the spot,” Davis begged when pressed by Cohen. “You’re going to get me in trouble with Michael Patrick [King].”
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Davis went on to explain that she didn’t think the stand-up set was supposed to be funny.
“You know, I think it’s meant to be more like ‘hmmm’ type comedy, you know, ‘oooh, oh’,” she explained, somewhat awkwardly.
#AJLT star @KristinDavis shares her thoughts on Che Diaz’s comedy. #WWHL pic.twitter.com/Z0xkmQTI9D
— Watch What Happens Live! (@BravoWWHL) January 21, 2022
And Just Like That has earned a mostly negative response from Sex and the City fans and critics alike, with the character of Che Diaz drawing some of the harshest criticisms.
Defenders applaud the show for including a non-binary character (played by a non-binary actor in Ramirez), while critics have complained that the character feels shoe-horned into the action to help the show appear more “woke.” The character has also attracted criticism for their relationship with Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), causing her to cheat on her longtime husband.
Now, some thoughts on Che Diaz from the Twitterverse…
Podcasts hosts are so easy to crush on—they reliably check in with you every week—sometimes multiple times—asking nothing in return (except if you’re Patreon). Che Diaz not included.
— Diana Metzger (@iamdianametzger) January 26, 2022
https://twitter.com/solomonraymusic/status/1486355764159545347
https://twitter.com/lil_satan_/status/1486341204899995654
What have they done to poor Steve? I just absolutely love him… And what are your thoughts on Miranda and Che? Is she going to get her heart broken? pic.twitter.com/n9bM7cb8pE#WednesdayWisdom #AndJustLikeThat #AJLT #Miranda #mirandahobbes #chediaz #satc
— Angie Greaves (@AngieGreaves) January 26, 2022
Che Diaz taking down #AJLT pic.twitter.com/SbayLzQrDQ
— Jonathan Paige Kent (@CheaterBrand) January 26, 2022
https://twitter.com/alicelolhi/status/1486274590477361155
https://twitter.com/genah/status/1486225814567936000
https://twitter.com/okthenprincess/status/1486189715653021701
I’m loving me some Che Diaz ? #AndJustLikeThat
— ??????? ?????? ???? (@_kushhqueeen) January 26, 2022
Maybe Che Diaz is doing some Andy Kauffman-esque character who is purposely dragging us through excruciating cringe and we just don’t get the joke…like it’s going way over our head.
— LUGO (@JLugoMiller) January 26, 2022
Cam
You see this a LOT in TV or movies. Somebody’s supposed to be a comedian, but the routine or jokes just aren’t funny. It’s like they hired actual comedy writers but none of them wanted to sell their good stuff.
Che’s routine sounded more like a PSA at a high school.
Tombear
Gross vant!
LumpyPillows
In general, I like the reboot. I’m a fan of the ladies. Not happy with the super-woke stuff, but it is what it is. Che is problematic, but I’m willing to see where it goes. Wish Samantha was there, but I think she’s gone bitter and a bit nuts. Still like her though. Love how they just moved her to London and are using the character anyway. LOL. Not getting paid, Kim…
Jack
The biggest travesty in television history is turning hard as nails boss bitch Miranda Hobbs into a clumsy, erratic high school girl fumbling her way through every part of her life. WTF? I can reluctantly co-sign on a lot with this show. This whole thing (and Che’) is BS.
Cam
Miranda and Steve!
Miranda went to a fumbling insecure awkward problem and they wrote Steve like he was some introverted virgin who’d never walked outside his house without getting lost.
The guy was a bartender in NYC, who opened his own place, and slept with a lot of women before giving Miranda 2 orgasms the first time they slept together. And now he supposedly doesn’t even remember how to finger her??
It’s like the writers hate both of them.
cuteguy
What a wasted opportunity to make a non binary character so vile and unlikable. Queen Kim was smart to avoid this trainwreck.
bachy
I like Che! I’m reading them as a kind of cross between a comedian and a life coach; sorta like a gay Tony Robbins. Ramirez’ performance of the character is very layered, and not a gleaming bi-gender “role model.” They’re mysterious and complicated. Miranda’s obsession with them is weird, but weird things happen in New York, people!
SATC was sexually outrageous and forward-thinking in the 90s. AJLT is doing the same thing in 2022. Get with it!
Jack
I just don’t see Che as complicated or mysterious. They are just selfish and obnoxious. They carelessly screw Miranda in her friends kitchen knowing she’s married and then they become sanctimonious about Miranda being married AND they want a polyamorous lifestyle. There is nothing Tony Robbins about Che Diaz.
Heywood Jablowme
“Didactic” would actually be an improvement. If another character were to ask something naive like, “well, how are you different from a butch lesbian?”, Che would probably just snarl “Educate yourself!” That’s become a depressingly common non-binary response to anyone who’s trying to, um, educate oneself.
I had given up on the show but after reading this I saw four more episodes. Damn, I hate it that I’m ending up hating all these characters! It’s just as well Samantha left. And lots of things just seem extremely unlikely, e.g. why would a professor at Columbia Law invite a student to dinner, especially now, isn’t there a rule against that?
BigJohnSF
LOL when people refer to Che as “they” I always think they are body shaming Sara Ramirez.
IvanPH
I hate what this show has done to both Charlotte and Miranda.
Charlotte has lived in NYC her entire life but they made her naive and clueless when it comes to interacting with people of color. That is just not believable.
And it is also not believable that a woman would only start to develop attraction to a person of the same sex in her mid-50s. I mean, seriously? They have already made the show queer inclusive by featuring Che Diaz. Was it really necessary to turn Miranda queer too?
And why did they make Steve deaf? Men in their 50s don’t lose their hearing. Ugh.
radiooutmike
So, no one ever has listened to loud music when they were young? And no one has ever come out later in life?
ScottOnEarth
People love to live and wallow in negativity, criticizing a fictitious comic as unfunny, while also constantly criticizing every aspect of ‘And Just Like That….” It’s not SATC because these women have matured but it’s a good show with wonderful actors. No one ever has anything good/productive to say about much of anything because it makes their bleak lives seem somehow better when they knock others.