Twenty years after its end, “sex and city” offers a sweet bitter “reboot”

“and just like that” returns with the serial format to tell the fifties of the former single tongue of Manhattan.

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A snow screen, melted with black, and three capital letters. For most French viewers, the Generic from the beginning of Sex and the City, series broadcast on M6 – in second part of the evening – was their first contact with HBO, the American cable chain became at the turn of the 2000s the standard meter of the standard Good serial taste. This is the place in the heart of the public, this story of milf seeking love in a New York pre-11-September – at least in its first seasons, the series had stretched from 1998 to 2004. Inspired by the Chronicles of the Journalist Candace Bushnell, “SatC” offered a glittery version centered around the character of Carrie Bradshaw, Bushnell Fictional Avatar performed by Sarah Jessica Parker.

Welcoming enthusiastically, the series created by Darren Star brand, about the same time as Bridget Jones in the UK, a change of tone of the so-called “female” narratives – more raw, less polished, more Funny too. Alcohol is joyful, endless evenings, extravagant dresses (fashion is a full subject, tie with Gaudiole) and sexy cigarette.

Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha then embody four facets, four versions of the hetero white bourgeois. And yet, at the time, their tribulations gently shook morality. Blowjob, anlingus, fidelity and plans to three … the most peppery projections – and the most comic – often went out of the mouth of Samantha (Kim Cattrall), “crunchy” of men between two ages, obsessed with his appearance but even more By independence, going so far as to dismiss his lovers of a “I love you a lot, but I love myself more”.

To say that the absence of Samantha in and Just Like That, reboot of the series produced by HBO Max, almost twenty years after his official end, did not necessarily guess the best.

Samantha, exiled in London

The question is evacuated in the first minutes of episode 1; The blonde exiled in London and no longer responds to her friends, scalded after Carrie put an end to her public relations contract with her. When we know the exechable relations between the two actresses in life, the scriptwriting pirouette does not lack spice. The subject will come back on the table a little later with a certain class, but it will take, before passing through a traumatic event, of the one who suggests, very early, that we do not necessarily still laugh.

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