"Just Like That": The sequel to "Sex and the City" is as fun as the Total Loss accident

After watching the opening episodes of "Just Like That", the sequel to "Sex and the City", I could not help but wonder (see what I did here?) What contribution can the series make to our lives today?

It has nothing to do with age, but only with the willingness to say something interesting about something, anything.

And that "just like that" does not

Strider Schleider Putschnik

10/12/2021

Friday, December 10, 2021, 00:00

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Trailer "Just Like That: Sex and the City, New Episode Begins" (HOT)

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Literally not even a living soul:

HBO MAX: Omgad his thing you all waited for happens!

"Sex and the City" is back!

I had an accident with the car this week.

Seriously, the car went Total Loss.

It was scary and traumatic, and even though luckily everything was fine and there were no casualties, it was a horrible and difficult experience.

It was supposed to be the low of my week.

But as of this writing the accident is in close competition with watching the first two episodes of "Sex and the City" in its remake - "Just Like That" (in Israel hot in parallel to the US every Thursday).

Really nothing would have happened if we had not re-discovered what happened to Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha, after we left them somewhere behind at the beginning of the millennium.

We all have such people in our lives, whose period was a significant part of our maturation, our development and our crystallization as human beings, and in their relevant present they seemed like an integral part of our lives that will always be there.

This is one of the most important lessons in growing up by the way, discovering that very significant people can accompany you for a period and then just evaporate from your life.

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Do not waste time, effort or sophisticated thought in trying to sew the spirit of the time.

"Just like that" (Photo: HBO Max)

The years we spent with the quartet of young women who lived unreasonable lives (zero economic feasibility!) But inspired in Manhattan, and remarked to the victim handsome and classy men, and neatly made cocktails and pointed heels - were important. I'm not canceling it. I was a high school student and a soldier at the height of the series' popularity, and I also watched it eagerly and enjoyed it, and also learned quite a bit. In her good days sex taught us to want out loud non-serious things with abysmal seriousness. But her good days passed, and even after that the series continued to run for a while until it got off the air. And even then she kept on following us with pathetic greetings from our youth in the form of movies about adventures clad in Hermes scarves in dunes in Dubai and what not. And sometime she became the boomerang aunt who just does not know when to let go.

The first episode of "Just Like That" does not waste time, effort or sophisticated thought in trying to sew the zeitgeist of today we.

Instead the characters vomit on us asking for mechanized and forced replicas that sum up the (almost) last 20 years, with an emphasis on two years of Corona.

50 silly seconds of: "Hey! How are you? What a movie with this corona, fun the closures are over - also, Samantha doesn't live here anymore and we're all old now!"

Even in the Pornhab you get more Four Play than that.

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There are things that need to stay in the past.

"Just like that" (Photo: HBO Max)

On the one hand, the script seems to try to emphasize the tension between the age of the main characters and the current era - issues such as dealing with age signs, life crises, technological and digital concepts and means and trying to remain relevant, desirable, necessary within all this. And on the other hand, the series does not say anything interesting about any of these topics. Aging women? There is one that does not dye the hair, one that does, the third that does shades. Technology challenges? One clings to paper books like a lifebuoy and still holds a stationary line in her home, one maintains an active Instagram and records a podcast. It's like asking a waiter 'how are your desserts?' And he will answer: 'We have a chocolate mousse and an apple pie.' It's nice to hear, but it does not mean anything.

Even when towards the end of the first episode a dramatic and shaky plot event takes place, I could not help but wonder (see what I did here?), Why should it actually interest me?

What contribution can "Sex and the City" make to my life - to our lives, in the present era?

What does she bring?

It has nothing to do with the age of the characters or the actresses who play them, it has only to do with a willingness to say something interesting about something, everything.

And that "just like that" just does not.

And it's not that she lacks opportunities.

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Aging women?

Beauty.

"Just like that" (Photo: HBO Max)

It doesn’t even have to be about the clichéd issues of aging and Botox and older women on Instagram. Also the scene where a graphic conversation about masturbation in a podcast in which Carrie participates makes her mute and blush in shame, and the confrontation with her boss afterwards in which she is asked to step up her pussy (sorry, but the way it is translated into Hebrew in subtitles is something I refuse to cooperate with for conscience reasons) And brain), could have yielded some interesting insight. For example about the boundaries of our discourse and personal boundaries, and should Carrie Bradshaw - who wrote a column on sexuality in the nineties - continue to collaborate at all costs to stay relevant? But for some reason the script flows from there only to another horribly kinky scene that will make you remember that time you walked into your parents' bedroom without knocking, and saw a flash of something you are trying to suppress to this day.

The only (only!) Thing that might (maybe) be interesting about the heated noodle plot presented to us here, is what Samantha's story and the round she snatched up on Carrie and the girls.

If they are left for "Sex and the City" if they are the last drops of juice, then they are soaked in this canvas of the story alone.

Let us get into the depths of this quarrel, to hear who said what to whom and in what tone she said it, and why it is so insulting that it actually comes from her.

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The electrical circuit stopped.

"Just like that" (Photo: HBO Max)

In the end, even in its heyday, when "Sex and the City" was good, it was thanks to the chemical reactions created by the friction - positive and negative - between her four female ribs.

All men and sex and even the city, are only secondary to it.

Samantha's absence (as well as the reality of actress Kim Cattell's refusal to take part in the series 're-production) interrupted this electrical cycle, and as of today there is nothing else there that leads the plot or the viewers' interest.

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