Sex And The City sequel series And Just Like That… premieres in December
Fans will find out the real drama between Carrie and Big this winter
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Sex And The City fans have dealt with so many rumors surrounding revival series And Just Like That…’s plot in the past few months. Is Mr. Big dead? Or just divorced from Carrie? Or is the couple’s actually fine after a bumpy start to their marriage in the movie? And who’s actually going to replace Samantha as the only one in the friend group who’s still having plenty of sex in the city?
We’ll find out right in time for the holidays, as HBO Max just announced that the sequel series to Sex And The City debuts in December.
According to the official logline, the new version of the show “follows Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.”
It’s vague enough, so it looks like HBO Max is keeping a very tight lid on any spoilers so fans can remain intrigued by whatever the actual drama in this series will be. As we reported back in July, a picture of an alleged leaked script shared by Page Six strongly hinted that things weren’t going well for Carrie and Mr. Big.
Carrie’s dialogue in the script reads, “I was doing well, wasn’t I doing well? Before this? I mean, I was doing the podcast, I was washing my hair. Yes, I wasn’t eating or sleeping, but at least I felt good about my marriage. Now I’m just one of the wives he was taking care of?”
The script also showed that Stanford would be hanging out with the trio more, while Samantha’s out of the picture. However, Willie Garson—who played Stanford—died in September. He was set to reprise his role in And Just Like That…
HBO Max has yet to share how the show will address Stanford’s absence in the rest of the episodes.
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At this point, this “joke” has gotten so old, it should only appear in an email that has been forwarded five times.
Unfortunately, SJP and horses are inexorably linked for me.Much like Catherine the Great.
yay I’m excited, I always think the recent critique of Carrie being selfish and therefore a bad show a weird take . The show never tried to pretend otherwise, but it still asked us to care about the characters and their flaws (as flawed as a character was allowed to be written in the early aughts).I’m nervous how clunky their attempt at addressing the very white lens Carrie and the girls experience Manhattan through will be tho.
Miranda dated Blair Underwood…. And then left him for Steve. I still don’t get that.
Miranda was too insecure to ever be with Underwood, she settled with who wouldn’t push her too far out of her comfort zone. It’s maybe the wrong decision but I also get it, Steve was that comfort love.
I have to disagree. I really feel as if the original show really wanted the viewers to think that Carrie was a flawed, but still likable and relatable person. And most viewers accepted it hook/line/sinker.I personally didn’t start watching the show until S4/5 after hearing so many people talk about it – and Carrie – specifically (ie, her fashion, her love life, how real she allegedly was). So I came into the show pretty late compared to everyone else who had experienced its zeitgeist in real time. The first episode I saw (with a group of people/stans) was when Samantha got the chemical peel and her face was F-ed up for Carrie’s book party. I distinctly remember being appalled by how selfish Carrie was in not caring at all that her friend was temporarily disfigured and more about how it was ruining her party. When I brought this up about awful Carrie seemed (at the viewing party) people acted as if I pulled my pants down and took a massive dump on the living room floor. Even though I became a fan if the show and first movie (and particularly Miranda), I never, ever got why people liked or claimed to identify with Carrie. So I’m heartened that people now recognize that Carrie is a terrible narcissist.In regards to addressing how too white the original show is, are you saying you’re concerned the attempt to rectify it could come across as forced?
I remember talking about how shitty Carrie could be when I was watching it in its heyday, but at the same time I still liked her even though she was a narcissist lol. She is a writer after all, and I give her character credit for allowing women characters to be deeply flawed and selfish and still worth caring about. I think Carrie in an archetype that’s allowed a lot of evolution in characters like Hannah in Girls and Annie in Shrill. And yes, I’m scared it will be too forced in its attempt to rectify the white lens. I’d rather see Carrie and Charlotte do some of their own interrogation instead of forcing that labour onto some other character of colour.Anyway, I know people try to flick SATC off as inconsequential, but I like discussing it because I think it had a big impact culturally. Maybe seeing how these archetypes have evolved into more nuanced versions in other shows is reason enough they shouldn’t have revisited it, but here we are.
It’s a great show and Carrie is the anti-heroine. (There should be more of them, but she and Nancy Botwin were both definitely two early ones before Elizabeth Jennings kicked the GD door down.) In many ways, the show is about an asymmetry in the core friendship – Carrie is by far the worst of the four as a person and a friend. But that’s reality – the world is lousy with Carries. (Certainly more relatable than Tony Soprano or Walter White.)
exactly, I don’t think it’s a coincidence this show came out at the same time as the sopranos, it really laid some groundwork for anti-heroes. Carrie is greedy in her needs, but I also saw myself in her a lot when she made really bad decisions. Decisions that seemed good for her and her boundaries, but ultimately ended up hurting her because she does need her friends at the end of the day.
I can’t wait to not watch this!
Cynthia Nixon with a look that says “I was running for Governor three years ago.”
When are they gonna get that what we REALLY want is a Sex And The City prequel?
They already tried that.
the new version of the show “follows Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis)