‘Sex and the City’ fans: A reboot without Samantha?
Is it still “Sex and the City” without Samantha Jones?
Looks like it will have to be.
“And Just Like That ...,” a new limited-series revival of the
1998 “SATC” by HBO Max, stars only three of the original series’s lead actresses: Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.
The new series, which will have 10 half-hour episodes, is scheduled to start production in New York in spring. It will follow Carrie Bradshaw, Miranda Hobbes and Charlotte York as they navigate what HBO Max called “the more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.”
Parker posted a teaser trailer for the new show Sunday on Instagram, captioning it: “I couldn’t help but wonder ... where are they now?”
Nixon also posted the trailer, with the comment, “You, me, New York ... anything is possible.” Davis did the same, writing: “Anything is possible . ... Meet you there!”
When New York Times Magazine writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner tweeted Sunday that she wanted “your suggested plotline that explains Samantha’s absence,” Parker replied that she had “pen and paper at ready.”
Later, Parker added: “I am summoning discipline though desperate to suggest ‘hot/cold.’ ”
Parker, Nixon and Davis are all executive producers on the new show, along with Michael Patrick King, a main writer on “SATC” and director of the two movies spun from the series. The original “Sex and the City” ran on HBO for six seasons.
Rumors about a feud between Cattrall and Parker began when the series was on the air and only intensified over the years as the disagreements became more open. Cattrall eventually said she was not interested in doing a third “SATC” movie.
“This isn’t about more money, more scenes, it’s not about any of those things,” Cattrall told Piers Morgan in 2017. “This is about a clear decision in my life to end one chapter and start another.”
She added that she had “never” been friends with her “SATC” co-stars.
Samantha fans online were not pleased.
Said Twitter user ephhemere on Monday: “samantha jones is the heart of sex and the city.”
“A Sex and The City reboot without Samantha is like a Spice Girls reunion without Posh.” tweeted hollyshortall.
“And just like that ... it was as if Samantha never existed,” tweeted james-griffin97, “If we could make it through 2020, why couldn’t we get through this feud?”