The restart version of “Sex and the City” “And Just Like That” starts this week. This should be the heaviest one in the relaunch of American dramas in recent years.
When I watched “Sex and the City” before, I felt that New York was so far away, and that the life of the protagonist group was also so far away and yearning.
Back then, I had no clue about love, and I watched the show faintly, wondering if I would encounter a similar situation in the show in the future.
Looking back almost 20 years later, New York has been to New York several times. Although the lives of the protagonists are still far away, they don’t feel too far away.
As for love, who can say that he really understands love?
This kind of watching “old” people act “new” stories while trying to recall how I felt when I was young is probably the biggest charm of restarting the show.
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There will be spoilers below. Those who have not watched the first two episodes should pay attention.
For old viewers, the first episode of this premiere first answered the question of Samantha’s absence.
In the play, the role was not written to death as previously rumored, but the story outside the play was moved into the play.
“And Just Like That” treated the plot as a fallout between Samantha and Carrie, walked far to London, completely cut off the contact with these three friends, and disappeared.
In addition, this is the familiar Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte.
Charlotte has a happy family, a loving husband, and two smart daughters.
Miranda is still with Steve, and his son is already taller than both of them.
She gave up her career as a lawyer and returned to school to study human rights. Among a group of young people, she seemed so out of place.
Carrie and Big live a life happily ever after. In order to adapt to the new era, Carrie played instagram and participated in podcast recording.
The play is still light-comedy as always, but the plot takes a turn for the worse at the end of the first episode.
While Carrie was immersed in the happy life with Big, he did not expect that the turning point in his life would come so suddenly.
After attending Charlotte’s daughter’s piano performance, Carrie returned home and found that Big had a heart attack and fell to the ground. After giving Carrie one last smile, he left.
And just like that… Carrie became a widow.
The entire second episode is the plot of Carrie taking care of Big’s funeral.
Friends came from all directions, and Samantha, who had not heard from him for a long time, also sent flowers. Reluctantly, Carrie is about to start a new journey in life.
(Speaking of which, Willie Garson, the actor who played Carrie’s good friend Stanford in the play, died of cancer not long ago. So watching him appear at Big’s funeral in the play, it’s really amazing to think about it.)
The show is visually as exquisite as ever, offering a super stylish funeral for the audience.
In addition to the dramatic turn of the death of an important character in the plot, although the style of the play has not changed, there are still quite a few differences between the content and the original.
Back then, “Sex and the City” was white and straight. It has been criticized as a concrete manifestation of “white privilege”.
Today’s “And Just Like That” keeps up with the times, not so white or so straight.
At the breakfast table, one of them was missing a seat.
What’s interesting is that in the new version, Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte each have a candidate who may become the “fourth person”, and these three people are a minority in some way.
Miranda goes to class in the university, surrounded by a group of super woke young people.
In the face of a black female professor, she not only had a white guilt, but also couldn’t keep up with the “secret language” of the young woke. She always felt that she was an antique who could not keep up with the trend.
Che, the boss of the Carrie podcast, is a non-binary lesbian.
The once-popular columnist Carrie also found himself a little bit unable to keep up with this show discussing sex and love in the new era.
Charlotte met Lisa, a parent at school, and the two hit it off.
In the play, Lisa even referred to a certain character as “Black Charlotte”.
Judging from the first two episodes alone, “And Just Like That” obviously made a lot of effort in order to “keep up with the trend.”
After all, it is almost 20 years since the original version ended. When these heroines are already “middle-aged” in their 50s, the story is naturally different from when they were in their early 30s.
Of course, adults of any age can discuss sex and love.
But people at different stages of life have different requirements for love and sex.
So with the new version, the audience may be able to see what troubles Miranda and Charlotte, who have a happy family, will have, and they will also see how Carrie, who lost his love, will go to the next stage of his life.
They no longer search for beautiful love, happy sex, and “that person”.
What they want now is to be accepted in this new era, to be accepted by themselves.
Even if I never chased “Sex and the City”, “And Just Like That” is also worth watching.
If you chased it back then, the restart version is of course not to be missed.
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