No, you are not dreaming and have not jumped back 20 years! And yet it is Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) who will be on your screens this Wednesday, January 4. Indeed, in the second part of the evening, TF1 broadcasts And Just Like That…the sequel to the cult series from the early 2000s, Sex and the City. If Kim Cattrall, the essential Samantha, is not in the game, Kristin Davis (Charlotte) and Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) are back alongside the New York journalist. Now over 50, the three friends face new problems. On the menu, menopause, divorces and unmanageable teenagers… A series very different from their setbacks in their thirties, interesting although lacking in flavor.
And Just Like That : a coherent sequel but which struggles to find the flame of the original series
Most of the heroes are back: Carrie is still with Mr. Big (Chris Noth dismissed from the series finale), Charlotte is married with her two children, while Miranda, alongside Steve, tries to resume her studies. Only Samantha, gone to pursue her career in London and angry with Carrie, is missing. We obviously did not expect the same series and not only because the title changed. The three friends have matured, twenty years have passed, so exit the one-night stands and the endless debates about their conquests of the moment. The traditional brunch is maintained, but it is the difficulties of raising teenagers in search of identity or accepting aging that have taken precedence. If, on the bottom, it seems interesting even essential to approach these various subjects, the form, it, pains to take off. The small group has become largely gentrified and enjoys being among themselves, far from reflecting the obstacles that the real American quincea must face, unless it has millions in its bank account.
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The absence of Samantha is also heavily felt, she who embodied the grain of madness of the band took it with her. We can salute the intention of certain attempts to see the series evolve with the times, such as the touching trajectory of Charlotte’s youngest who discovers herself as gender fluid, but it is too often clumsiness that takes over the treatment of these subjects, such as the character of Che, played by Sara Ramirez of Grey’s Anatomy, which has the merit of being queer but turns out to be far too caricatural. Without mentioning the repeated blunders of Miranda with her law professor, during a scene difficult to watch as it is embarrassing where Miranda connects racist clichés.
And Just Like That:the feeling of reuniting with old friends
Despite these slippages and misses, we still appreciate finding these three familiar faces, like finding longtime girlfriends that we haven’t seen for a long time. The cast also has some good surprises in store for us, in particular with the character of Seema, real estate agent and new friend of Carry, played by the very charismatic Sarita Choudhury, who brings spontaneity and freshness and allows us to glimpse another way of life less traditional than that of the woman who succeeds above all through the success of her marriage.
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