The overture to the Sex & the City revival continues, as star/producer Sarah Jessica Parker just revealed a big plot point about the new season: the show will address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, Parker said the show will address the pandemic in the context of how it affects the sex and social lives of the three series leads: Carrie (Parker), Charlotte (Kristen Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon).
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“[COVID will] obviously be part of the storyline, because that’s the city [these characters] live in,” Parker said. “And how has that changed relationships once friends disappear? I have great faith that the writers are going to examine it all.”
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Given how COVID-19 has stymied many people’s sex and social lives, watching the Sex & the City gals go through the same thing might offer audiences a bit of comfort. Parker also said the new season will address the role of social media in dating, and how it has affected the lives of the main characters.
The ten-episode season of Sex & the City will go into production later this spring. A release date has yet to be announced. As previously reported, the show will not feature Kim Cattrall’s character Samantha, as the actress declined to return. Instead, the show will focus on several new characters that come into the lives of the three leads.
AxelDC
Who is clamouring for more S&C after those dreadful films? Kim knows what’s up and has smartly bowed out.
butchqueen
Kim is the only reason to watch S&C. These three are like a stale piece of toast.
Cam
The second film turned them all into caricatures.
Charlotte kept opening her eyes too wide to play flustered. They made Samantha over the top, somebody who built her own P.R business is going to be aware of laws in Dubai and wouldn’t risk a huge deal by breaking laws so brazenly, Miranda they made typically neurotic, and of course Carrie was her typical basket case blowing everything out of proportion, and kissing a guy who she broke up with years ago because he was too “Boring” but now just couldn’t keep her hands off him because her husband was so mean and terrible by wanting to order food in and not go out once in a while.
The whole thing was just a trainwreck. Hopefully this will be better, but if it has the same people pitching the ideas I’m not sure.
Jack Meoff
I wonder how long before they make an animated TV series based on the show? It’s about the only thing they haven’t tried yet.
dhmonarch89
Frankly- I’d prefer a show based solely on Miranda. Over time, came to hate Samantha- all she did was scream bloody murder during sex. Carrie annoyed the living hell out of me- ‘OK, Shut up everyone, I chipped a nail, we must discuss- me, me, me….’ And Charlotte never was more than vanilla reactions to all the others. Miranda actually grew and retained her intelligence.
Cam
Great point. I thought Charlotte was going to be more interesting since she married the short lawyer but she ended up turning him into cream cheese.
I liked how Miranda was all about playing the victim after Steve cheated on her, but realized that the relationship was two way and she’d messed up too, so there was actually growth there. Carrie seems just as un self aware as she was in the first season.
Openminded
“[COVID will] obviously be part of the storyline, because that’s the city [these characters] live in,” Parker said.
Apparently SJP thinks only New York has suffered thru Covid.
Cam
Wow, the new screename for Roy Ajax is so desperate to attack a woman, that it has to twist a statement into something it wasn’t.
Covid happened all over, are you saying it DIDN’T happen in NYC?
I mean give it a rest.
Openminded
@Cam, you are such an idiot. Your statement supports my question. SHE made the statement that implied Covid only happened in “the city”. I questioned her statement, NOT because she is a woman but because she appears to think Covid only hit NYC by her statement. I know it torments you that you do not have a vagina, but please refrain from attacking everyone who has views that differ from you. You are one pathetic angry queen and as you can tell by growing number of posts that push back against your screaming theatrics, lots of people around here are tired of it. It’s fine to disagree, but you don’t have to be so hateful.
justgeo
God knows she be better looking with a mask on! Maybe even bearable.
cuteguy
This will be like making a modern day Golden Girls without Blanche. Didn’t the GG have a spin-off when their show ended with only 3 of the 4 main characters? It didn’t work then and most likely won’t work now
BoomerMyles
The GG spinoff lacked Dorothy, not Blanche. They recast the leads as owners/managers of a hotel and completely took them out of their element. So basically they returned without the “Carrie” character and failed miserably.
Cam
Anyone want to bet they’re going to become friends with a new person who works somewhere like the fashion industry and has lots of sex?
Her name will be Lamantha, or Ramantah.
iminheatlikeacat
I actually think they’ll bring in a character very similar to Samantha and make it obviously based on her but instead of being friends with them, she’ll be enemies with them, and especially a bitch to Carrie to make viewers feel sorry for her (Carrie).
ronniebs
The title is not Sex and The City. It’ll be called And Just Like That and it sounds like they’re going to examine ageing for these characters so I find that fascinating. It would have been nice for Samantha to come back but Catrall made it known she didn’t want to. Hopefully, they’ll find another scene stealer.
BoomerMyles
With or without Kim Catrall this series return will be fabulous. Can’t wait!