And Just Like That

~ MaryG

Predictably, I was a fan of Sex and the City and have eagerly watched all three seasons of the reboot—And Just Like That. (I saw both of the Sex and the City movies too.) We now know that this will be the final season of And Just Like That, so fans are getting ready to bid goodbye to Carrie Bradshaw forever.

My obvious connection to the show has been that I am the same generation as the main characters. Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis are my age exactly—sixty. They are among the group of actresses born in 1965 that I tend to keep tabs on.

I know there are plenty of haters out there, based on very legitimate criticisms of the show, but for me Sex and the City was like an alternate reality. By the time the show first aired in 1998, I was married with a three-year old, living in a somewhat dilapidated antique house in suburbia. What if I hadn’t gone that route? What if I had had the gumption to leave Boston for the real city in my twenties, like several of my friends? Would I be dashing around Manhattan in a tulle skirt, going to art openings and brunch?

The 60-year old versions of the characters in the reboot, still living in Manhattan in fabulous clothes, have been dealing with some relatable GenX problems from bouts of vertigo to ageism at work. Still, they’ve kept it mostly light and escapist. Even when Carrie’s husband (Mr. Big) drops dead in the shower, I wasn’t exactly heartbroken. The female friendships are still central. New York City is still central.

We’ll see what the final two episodes bring. How will my life in an alternate universe turn out?

SJP as Carrie Bradshaw in Season One of Sex and the City (1998)
Me hosting a rather cramped birthday party in our living room in 1998

22 thoughts on “And Just Like That”

  1. I have been very curious about this reboot! I only watched the show recently, so I don’t have the same adjacent connections you have to it, but the thought of those ladies still living their fictional lives in the city at my age is fascinating. I will check it out – thanks!

    In 1998 I have gave birth to my kid and was living vicariously on online lord of the rings message boards. Life is strange when kids are little, isn’t it.

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    1. Yes! The late 90s – early 2000s are a bit of a blur. I do remember that my female friends with kids helped me get through a lot. Hope you like the show. Thanks for commenting!

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      3. Well, my blog is about to change topics drastically … I used to live an extraordinary life. I’ll have to work extra hard to keep it interesting for new readers.

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  3. I watched a few seasons, but for some reason didn’t get hooked. I remember being happy when the character Aidan was introduced, because I’d given my son that name and no one in school could pronounce it somehow, always calling him Adrian or Adean. lol

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      2. To this day no one can spell it correctly (they always use an E), but at least the pronunciations got better with time. 🙂 It’s a popular name now, but I think he was just in a weird window of time, and maybe place too.

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  4. I’ve seen an episode or two of Sex in the City. I see why the show was popular. I had friends and coworkers who loved the show. I was curious about the new series. Glad the original fans enjoyed it, too.

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  6. I watched “Sex and the City” during COVID. I fell in love with the outspoken Samantha. I watched the two movies afterward but couldn’t make it all the way through, and drum roll, I started to watch “And just like that” and found it very funny and very badly written. The shower scene when her husband had a heart attack and dies in her arm, and she doesn’t even try CPR. It’s comically wrong.

    SJP portrays a 50+ year old that clings onto her past. The cloths are too loud, too young, so are the shoes. She portrays a woman that hasn’t worked a day in her life. Then all of a sudden one friend had become a lesbian, there were colored women added to fulfill the need for diversity, some children were timely questioning their gender, and that all without Samantha? I found myself laughing and fast forwarding, then I turned it off.

    That’s of course entirely on me. I am the one who could not identify with any of them. I am sure the show will continue and I am sure it will have many fans.

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