We Have Our First Look At The Samantha-Free ‘Sex And The City’, And No One Is Happy
And just like that, we felt nervous.
HBO has confirmed a ten-episode continuation of Sex & The City, albeit sans one of the show’s core characters, Samantha Jones, with actress Kim Cattrall having previously expressed no interest in revisiting the show.
While the limited series was reported as practically confirmed just a few weeks ago, the official announcement — and reveal of a teaser-trailer — has sent fans of the original show into a headspin, all over again.
As per Deadline, the show will return for ten half an hour episodes, under the new title of And Just Like That…, and will feature actresses Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis returning to their roles. Michael Patrick King is returning as executive producer and has written several of the episodes, which will appear in the US on streaming service HBO Max. It joins the service’s recently announced True Blood and Gossip Girl reboots.
The three actresses posted a teaser trailer across their social media channels, which features atmospheric shots of S&TC‘s main character, New York, as well as the words “the story continues…”.
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Given how central Samantha was to bringing the Sex to S&TC, fans are hesitant about the reboot, and wondering how the show will write her out.
While Cattrall stepped back from the proposed third S&TC film in 2017, citing dissatisfaction with her plot, it killed the film. And with Cattrall’s issues with the cast — having called out SJP and co.’s ‘bullying’ — it was pretty much assumed the show couldn’t go ahead without her. Now, that’s obviously not the case.
Skeptics are unsure what the show could be without Jones, by far the most sexually adventurous and liberated of the core four. Despite being a sex columnist, Carrie Bradshaw was remarkably prudish at times — with Jones out of the picture, she’ll need a new friend to mine content from.
Without any information on where Jones is, fans are speculating that the show will kill both her and potentially Carrie’s love interest Mr. Big (Chris Noth), as the latter was dead in the now-discarded S&TC 3 script.
Samantha, who was arrested storming the capitol
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) January 10, 2021
CARRIE: In honor of us all being vaccinated, let’s take some shots!
MIRANDA: I have work early tomorrow. Maybe just a beer
WAITER: We have Stella, Corona…
CHARLOTTE: You have corona? He sounds just like Samantha!
ALL: poor Samantha…— Daniel D'Addario (@DPD_) January 10, 2021
i couldn’t help but wonder…is Samantha dead https://t.co/IdLTR7b3AT
— rachel handler (@rachel_handler) January 10, 2021
Big is dead. Samantha is dead. Anthony Marentino has been redpilled. Stanford is Team Pete. Miranda is dating Clea DuVall. Charlotte has gone anti-vax. Carrie thinks it’s 2005.
— nolan (@anxiousdeluxe) January 10, 2021
When New York Times writer and novelist Taffy Brodesser-Akner asked her followers to suggest a plotline to explain Samantha’s absence, Parker herself responded with two tweets: “pen and paper ready, x”, and the slightly more confusing “Exceeding all expectations. I am summoning discipline though desperate to suggest ‘hot/cold'”.
While our top minds attempt to decode SJP’s tweet and unlock the secrets of the reboot, we have memes and jokes to sate us. Find some of our favourites below.
Carrie reading all of your Samantha tweets pic.twitter.com/Tsot3IYeuo
— JOHNNY SIBILLY (@JohnnySibilly) January 11, 2021
Me watching the Sex and the City reboot without Samantha pic.twitter.com/ZUaHfKCJvf
— Mike Tague (@rhymeswithbeg) January 11, 2021
No Samantha for the 'Sex and the City' revivial, which means there will not be a scene where she says she got TikTok'd last night
— Cameron Williams (@MrCamW) January 10, 2021
The Sex and the City revival announcement is like this. pic.twitter.com/kBlcD7WE5D
— Josh Spiegel (@mousterpiece) January 10, 2021
wish Cynthia Nixon would just stick to politics
— ❄️kyle winturner❄️ (@TyleKurner) January 10, 2021
Carrie: “Since when do gays care about you being on time?! Isn’t being late their thing?”
Miranda: “Cancel rent.”
Charlotte: “I think my house is haunted.”
Samantha: *is a literal lamp*— Carey O'Donnell (@ecareyo) January 11, 2021