I watched Devil wears Prada 2

couldn't suspend my disbelief

July 13, 2026

This is a full spoiler warning. Everything here is spoilers. I watched both the first movie and the newest back to back And I wanted to write my thoughts down.

We see Andy as this anxious and nervous fresh out of college person in the first film. Which is fair in the first film. She is new, doesn't know what to say or when to say it and she's worried about caring too much about something that isn't like her. But man, wouldn't she have become more confident as a journalist with 20 years into the business having been everywhere? I don't know, maybe I'd still be terrified of my first boss as a 40 something year old.
What was on the nail was hiring Andy and giving her this enormous paycheck in the hopes that she will turn everything around with her first article, that is what is fully happening in corporate. Where companies are making big mistakes - getting rid of the workforce that knows ins and outs of important corners that are holding up the company, not giving appropriate raises while the executives take paychecks so large that are unfathomable by the rest of the staff, not knowing where to put real money etc etc, they hire some person with a large paycheck in the hopes that they will succeed against all odds while giving them no resources or autonomy to succeed.

However I was very disappointed that Andy as a character has not learnt much, she still entered the workplace having only seen miranda's memes and not doing research into what has happened at runway. For an award winning journalist, you'd expect research to be cakewalk. But here we are yet again. I will say though, there's only so much you can do in a day.

I think I just didn't enjoy the whole "I want you to fail" arc with Miranda either.
Seems spot on that Simone Ashley was the assistant that now tells her "you can't say things like that" and it doesn't change her behaviour.
Talking about Simone, back then in 2006 people could somewhat afford a luxury brand once in a while. Can an assistant really afford Dior, Chanel & Prada? In New York? I'm not so sure.

I wish I could've seen emily be competent in her own right (what did she even do at dior?). I don't know why she needed a lesson from Andy at the end of the movie to say she could do whatever she wanted, maybe emily wasn't even as fleshed out of a character in the first one to know what she could've done here. Other than that she was mean?
I also feel like "woman befriends a rich man to do her bidding" Come on... really?

I cannot ever imagine Miranda travelling in an economy flight, wouldn't she have amassed a fortune of her own by now? Surely, a business class flight to italy isn't something she would budge on as a person that owns that home in New york?

The overall theme of corporate takeovers, don't know what will happen to me is completely fair premise to pick in 2026, it is relatable and the random AI snippet was also certainly enjoyable but there needs to be more research work in terms of what the collective audience is going through to depict it well.
I understand wanting to give hope to the public that is getting shuffled as a workforce but the takeaway can't be to find another rich person to do a bigger takeover than the one before? And hopefully that person is on your team because you wrote an article about them a while back? How is this the hope for journalism?

How did Andy even get that interview with Sasha? By calling a lot? What I love seeing as an audience member is the clever way that you'd make this happen in this era of 2026, ofcourse the power of trying a lot but a big celebrity like her, that who doesn't even want to speak to miranda herself would give in to Andy just because she called a lot of people? I understand that Sasha wanted to break her news of separating from Benji but why Runway? Maybe because Andy had been writing better articles ? I don't feel fully convinced but ok. Never mind, they did this in 2006 too when she was getting the new Harry Potter book when admittedly, Daniel Radcliffe said recently even he wouldn't be able to get it.

Whatever, coming back to bigger takeover - I wish there was something more hopeful than "if this rich person won't save you, some other one will, don't worry take that bigger apartment, you won't get laid off", but we are, we all are. We are getting laid off. We are regretting our high rented apartments that was 20% of our paychecks or getting that mortgage or having that kid that we thought we could provide for. I don't expect Devil wears Prada to tell me how to organise and strike to bring about change. But if you're gonna tackle a heavy topic like layoffs and corporate takeovers, do it justice. Don't do everything behind closed doors and tell me voila, look at nervous, anxious Andy talking to people figuring it out. Not even showing what she said, who she said it to. It's Sherlock holmes all over again.

I don't know it was fun still, watch it if you feel like seeing Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci. I guess.

Also what the fuck was "You wanted to get rid of me and that's way you made dior hire me" with emily, girl shut the fuck up, I wish my boss that wanted to get rid of me set me up a different better job where I could still grow.

Also also what was that random Miranda book plot. Just go away.