{"id":152201,"date":"2021-01-12T01:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T22:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/please-stop-the-sex-and-the-city-reboot\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T01:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T22:36:20","slug":"please-stop-the-sex-and-the-city-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/please-stop-the-sex-and-the-city-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"#Please stop the ‘Sex and the City’ reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Please stop the ‘Sex and the City’ reboot<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo what are we going to do?\u201d Carrie Bradshaw once asked in an episode of \u201cSex and the City.\u201d \u201cSit around bars, sipping Cosmos and sleeping with strangers when we\u2019re 80?\u201d<\/p>\n

We are perilously close to knowing the answer to that question. <\/p>\n

As part of HBO Max\u2019s egomaniacal campaign for streaming dominance, the service just announced that the comedy series<\/a>, which ran from 1998 to 2004, will return for 10 new episodes this year. <\/p>\n

Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha and provided most of the show\u2019s jokes and sex, won\u2019t be back<\/a>. And so we\u2019re left with three embittered, high-strung wives, two of whom have kids: Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker, 55), Miranda (wannabe-governor Cynthia Nixon, 54) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis, 55). <\/p>\n

Why must \u201cSex and the City,\u201d one of the most famous depictions of New York life ever filmed, continue to debase itself by refusing to acknowledge that this relationship is over?<\/p>\n

It was bad enough that much of Season 6 was shot in Paris. Then, executive producer Michael Patrick King had to go and release two heinous movies, in 2008 and 2010, that turned a quartet of intelligent free-thinkers into nymphomaniac cartoons.<\/p>\n

In the first big-screen debacle, Mr. Big gets cold feet on his and Carrie\u2019s wedding day and leaves her embarrassed and screaming outside the New York Public Library. She cries for most of the film, flies to Mexico and then hires Jennifer Hudson as an assistant. It was \u201cSex and the Whiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kim Cattrall (right), who played Samantha, won\u2019t be back. The show will feature Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis).<\/figcaption>
\u00a9New Line Cinema\/Courtesy Everett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yet that was \u201cThe Godfather\u201d next to \u201cSex and the City 2.\u201d An assault on good taste, the movie begins with a spastic Liza Minnelli performing \u201cSingle Ladies\u201d at a gay wedding. The four friends, spurned by no-good men, jet to Abu Dhabi and later get arrested for lewd behavior. They sneak out of the Muslim country wearing niqabs, burka-like garments that only reveal a woman\u2019s eyes. The film was denounced as racist, stupid and, worst of all, 2 1\/2 hours long. <\/p>\n

King and Parker must\u2019ve mistaken the shouts of \u201csnore!\u201d for \u201cmore!\u201d<\/p>\n

Because that\u2019s what we\u2019re getting \u2014 more ludicrous episodes of a once-great show that\u2019s completely detached from the New York of today, or of 2015 for that matter.<\/p>\n

Theirs is an NYC where SushiSamba is still open and putting gold leaf on sashimi. Where the Upper East Side is considered the dream neighborhood for a single 35-year-old fashionista and her collection of designer high heels. Where the streets are paved in cupcakes, Instagram influencers don\u2019t exist and a picture of a tutu-clad sex columnist (for, gasp, a news<\/a>paper!) is slapp<\/a>ed on a bus.<\/p>\n

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The revival will return for 10 new episodes this year. <\/figcaption>
\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And what about the pandemic? Will Carrie order Pastis to-go while Miranda has Zoom meetings? Spare us the thought.<\/p>\n

Shows such as \u201cSearch Party\u201d and \u201cThe Bold Type\u201d capture the city and its annoying young strivers better than \u201cSex and the City\u201d does now. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not a dig. Reviving other New York-set TV series like \u201cSeinfeld\u201d and \u201cThe Odd Couple\u201d would be a bad idea, too. Those are still enjoyed today because they embodied a specific time and place that we like to remember. \u201cSex and the City\u201d was a groundbreaking show with layered characters and lively humor \u2014 and a vital post-9\/11 billboard for New York. <\/p>\n

We had a good run, Carrie, but I\u2019m just not that into you anymore.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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