Anthony Marantino is the only And Just Like That … character living in the original series’ glory days.
, it seems fair to declare its most valuable player so far. It’s not Miranda, who’s gone from making Che her personality to ditching Miriam Shor for being a disorganized writer with a messy, small apartment. It’s not Che, whose career as a stand-up comic is over just because her crummy pilot didn’t go well. It’s also not Carrie, whose weird attitudes toward podcast suppository ad copy and conversations about pegging call into question whether she was ever actually a sex columnist.
Anthony is both the funniest character on this show and the only one living in a reality that even remotely resembles the one viewers inhabit. Okay, fine: Most of us don’t have a bunch of buff men in skimpy onesies working to deliver bread for us. Still, Anthony continues to be a pragmatist who, thanks to Mario Cantone, spikes all the punch in his line deliveries and calls his friends on their increasingly erratic bullshit.
When Charlotte’s daughter Lily forces everyone to listen to her heartfelt ballad “The Power of Privilege,” Anthony mutters, “Who is she, Lily Eilish?” which is an appropriate response to a young lady attempting to sound profound while wearing a winter beanie. Four episodes later, when Charlotte neglects to make a lunch reservation at Nobu for Lily and her boyfriend and Lily has a hissy fit , Anthony says what everyone’s thinking: “Boo-hoo. You’re 17 years old.
There are times when Anthony can seem caught in the trap of playing the classic gay best friend, a person who exists to pepper his quips all over scenes that are really about other people. But in
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