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Warning: spoilers ahead for season 1 of And Just Like That
And just like that… Sex and the City became the archetypal bad boyfriend you can’t bear to cut loose. There were good times, sure, way back before the show became a franchise. (Remember how Susan Seidelman directed three episodes of season 1? Or that time New York magazine roasted Carrie in its “Single & Fabulous” issue?) But for many fans, myself included, the spark went out when the series finale promoted Mr. Big from “toxic bachelor” to Carrie’s Prince Charming. Others would get turned off by the inane SATC movie or its offensive sequel.
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Yet, for some reason—Y2K nostalgia? Omicron boredom? Morbid curiosity?—we watched And Just Like That. Despite lukewarm reviews and the absence of Kim Cattrall’s iconically libidinous Samantha Jones, the sequel had what HBO Max would pronounce the “best debut day of any series” in its short history. The premiere caught viewers off guard with Big’s unintentionally hilarious death by Peloton; Chris Noth, the actor who played him, was soon resurrected in an opportunistic but inevitable Peloton commercial. In a depressingly contemporary third act, after multiple women accused Noth of sexual assault, his scenes were cut from subsequent episodes and the ad was pulled. As Ferris Bueller, an obscure alter ego of Sarah Jessica Parker’s husband Matthew Broderick, once said: Life comes at you fast.
The allegations that the man whose character embodied SATC’s romantic ideal had preyed upon women only underlined what should’ve been obvious from the moment the show was announced—and what the season’s scripts would go out of their way to confirm: AJLT was over before it even started. Executive producer Michael Patrick King, who has long been the keeper of the franchise created by Darren Starr, and whose other TV projects include 2 Broke Girls and The Comeback, excels most at putting bon mots in the mouths of over-the-top female characters. Carrie’s…
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