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There are major revelations ahead for And Just Like That.
Most fans were expecting a sequel to Sex and the City. The main trio of Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte don't have sex in the first four episodes made available to journalists.
When Carrie and Big canoodle before the screen cuts to black, it is the closest any of the main characters get. Sex and the City used to be against cutting to black. In this new show, Carrie gets in trouble with her boss because she refuses to joke about masturbation. Is this not the same sex columnist who once wrote about a politician peeing on her to get aroused?
The first two episodes of the extension of the franchise will be released on December 9. Just Like That is not a romp. It is not a happily ever after. It is a show about learning to evolve. It may be a surprise. It is not uninteresting.
The Big twist was necessary.
Big dies at the end of the first episode.
Big had a heart attack after a tough workout on the Peloton. Carrie found him collapsed in the shower.
I am not sure how we as an audience will feel about Big's death, though I am sure the folks at Peloton will be displeased. Before Big died, the relationship between Carrie and Big seemed good. The couple has had many ups and downs over the course of six seasons and two movies.
A brief recap of their toxic relationship: Big dated Carrie, hid Carrie from his mom, moved to Paris without including her in his plans, cheated on that woman with Carrie, abandoned Carrie at the altar, re-proposed to Carrie, suggested that the two spend time apart.
One of the attendees at Big's funeral wondered if he was the only one who remembered what a jerk he was to her.
I always thought Carrie and Big were bad people. Emily Nussbaum, a New Yorker critic, believes that Carrie is not a hero but a difficult woman like Walter White or Don Draper.
I cried, reader. I cried for TV's worst boyfriend. The show seems to care more about losing the aesthetic of Carrie and Big than it does about losing the human person. When Big is dying, Carrie runs to him in the shower, and the camera zooms in on her blue Manolo Blahniks getting soaked and ruined. In another scene, Carrie freaks out when a friend breaks a framed photo of her and Big together. They are metaphors for the end of a marriage. I cried.
Carrie in mourning may be an unattractive pitch for those who remember Sex and the City as a comedy. The original show dealt with infertility and cancer. The most memorable and meme-able moments were the outrageous one-liners or the orgasm atop a Mercedes. The spirit of the original series can't be captured without Samantha.
Sex and the City is not without its star.
Sex and the City is not without Samantha.
The woman who made us laugh, made us laugh, and gave us wisdom like "Marriage doesn't guarantee a happy ending" made us laugh. There is an ending that is missing. There is a lot in the script for And Just Like That to keep fans interested in the real-life drama between Cattrall and Parker. Carrie let her agent go after the book market fell. All three of her friends were iced out after she moved to London. At one point, Carrie thought she was more than an ATM. In the second episode of the show, there is a grace note forSamantha.
The pivot in tone feels necessary if there is no Samantha. The show tries to fill a hole with new cast members. Bradshaw and the rest of the cast and crew have acknowledged that the original series was unrealistically white, and several women of color have been cast in the sequel.
Sara Ramirez is a welcome addition as Che, who challenges the characters about their notions of gender and sexuality. In some ways, Dr. Nya Wallace is like Charlotte in the original series, but with a complicated twist: Unlike Charlotte, who always knew she wanted to be a mother, she doubts.
The dating app experience for women in their 50s has been brought to light by Sarita. One might begin to long for a show set in their perfectly appointed penthouse rather than Charlotte's because of Nicole Ari and Chris Jackson, friends of Charlotte's.
In the early episodes, none of these women break into the coveted group. The new cast members spend a lot of time educating the core trio on why a comment about a Black woman's hair might be offensive or how to ask people about their preferred pronouns.
When Carrie is at her worst, the show is at its best.
The main concern of And Just Like That is identity politics, as Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte struggle to learn how to get things right in their 50s. Miranda quoting How to be an Antiracist to a Black woman or Charlotte forcing her child to wear a dress when it makes them uncomfortable are just some of the cringe-worthy moments.
To their credit, Nixon, Davis andParker are willing to expose their audience in order to have important conversations about gender, sexuality and identity. Charlotte is struggling with how to support her child. Miranda may learn that she is more sexually fluid than she thought. One of the few emotionally challenging moments in a person's sexual life that the original show didn't cover will be when Carrie has sex again after mourning Big's death.
The choice to kill Big seems to be a wise one. Carrie is going back to her old life of being single, living in an apartment and obsessed with her husband's many secrets. She is looking for answers and she is looking for Big's ex- wife,Natasha. Carrie stalkingNatasha is questionable.
In Sex and the City 2, Carrie played out the fantasy of a happily ever after with her lover, but she doesn't need to do that anymore. Carrie can be problematic, reckless, vapid.
At one point, when Carrie brings Charlotte and Miranda along on a trip to spy on her old nemesis, Charlotte says, "She's wearing flats!" It is an insult that Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda are impractical even for the most well-appointed Manhattanites, and that it was Carrie who caused Big to start his affair.
We want these women to learn and grow and stop offending people, but we also want them to be the worst. We want them to be a little bit vain. The original characters are those. They are at their most fun at that time.
Eliana Dockterman can be reached at eliana.dockterman@time.com.
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