It was a show set in New York that managed to ignore 9/11. So why are they going to mention the pandemic?
You know, after the Covid crisis, Brexit, Trump, Labour’s antisemitism meltdown and the return of skinny jeans, I thought I’d hardened my hide to bad news. But a new development might finally break me: it was recently confirmed that And Just Like That, the rebooted Sex And The City , will include references to the pandemic. According to Sarah Jessica Parker, the show’s star and executive producer, “It will obviously be part of the storyline, because that’s the city [the characters] live in.”
Now, I have two issues with this, and one of them is about Sex And The City, and the other is about the pandemic. Let’s deal with the former first. The appalling SATC films already proved that Michael Patrick King, SATC’s director, writer and producer, and Parker completely misunderstood their show, given that they jettisoned all the things that made the series so great – the smart scripts, the respect for the characters – and replaced them with jokes about how all a woman needs is a walk-in closet and how weird the Middle East is. So Parker and King didn’t really get the appeal of their own show: that doesn’t make much sense, but neither did Carrie getting back together with Mr Big. So fine: we soldier on somehow.
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