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Returning cast members from the original series include Creator/ChrisNoth as John James "Mr. Big" Preston, Mario Cantone as Anthony Marentino, Creator/WillieGarson ([[PosthumousCredit in his final performance]]) as Stanford Blatch, Creator/DavidEigenberg as Steve Brady, and Creator/EvanHandler as Harry Goldenblatt, while new additions include Creator/NicoleAriParker as Lisa Todd Wexley, Creator/SaritaChoudhury as Seema Patel, Karen Pittman as Dr. Nya Wallace, Creator/SaraRamirez as Che Diaz, Creator/IsaacColePowell as George, and Creator/BrendaVaccaro as Gloria Marquette. Most notably ''not'' returning for the series, however, is Creator/KimCattrall as Samantha Jones.

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Returning cast members from the original series include Creator/ChrisNoth as John James "Mr. Big" Preston, Mario Cantone as Anthony Marentino, Creator/WillieGarson ([[PosthumousCredit in his final performance]]) as Stanford Blatch, Creator/DavidEigenberg as Steve Brady, and Creator/EvanHandler as Harry Goldenblatt, while new additions include Creator/NicoleAriParker as Lisa Todd Wexley, Creator/SaritaChoudhury as Seema Patel, Karen Pittman Creator/KarenPittman as Dr. Nya Wallace, Creator/SaraRamirez as Che Diaz, Creator/IsaacColePowell as George, and Creator/BrendaVaccaro as Gloria Marquette. Most notably ''not'' returning for the series, however, is Creator/KimCattrall as Samantha Jones.
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''And Just Like That...'' premiered on Creator/{{Max}} (then HBO Max) on December 9th, 2021. You can view the trailer [[https://youtu.be/KNLwEjJPbcs here]]. Originally envisioned as a limited series, the show was renewed for a second season a month following its first season finale. The second season premiered on June 22nd, 2023. On August 22nd, 2023, ahead of the second season finale, it was announced that the show had been renewed for a third season.

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''And Just Like That...'' premiered on Creator/{{Max}} (then HBO Max) on December 9th, 2021. You can view the trailer [[https://youtu.be/KNLwEjJPbcs here]]. Originally envisioned as a limited series, the show was renewed for a second season a month following its first season finale. The second season premiered on June 22nd, 2023. On August 22nd, 2023, ahead of the second season finale, it was announced that the show had been renewed for a third season.season, which is due to premiere in 2025.

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* InformedAbility: Che's comedy chops. We're constantly told what a great comedian Che is, but we never see more than one or two mediocre jokes from them at a time.



** Stanford is put on a bus in episode 4 due to actor Willie Garson's death while filming. He unexpectedly divorces his husband Anthony and moves to Japan to manage a new [=TikTok=] starlet.

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** Stanford is put on a bus in episode 4 due to actor Willie Garson's death while filming. He unexpectedly divorces his husband Anthony and moves to Japan to manage a new [=TikTok=] starlet. (Garson, who filmed his final scenes while dying of cancer, had specifically asked the producers not to kill off Stanford so Carrie wouldn't get a double whammy of her husband dying at the same time as one of her best friends.)

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* LawOfInverseFertility: Nya shares her struggle to become pregnant via IVF while Miranda reflects on the pros and cons of motherhood speaking from her own experience with an unplanned pregnancy.

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Nya shares her struggle to become pregnant via IVF while Miranda reflects on the pros and cons of motherhood speaking from her own experience with an unplanned pregnancy.pregnancy.
** Lisa finds herself pregnant again while she's making strides in her career. She's also upset with her husband Herbert for lying about getting a vasectomy years ago. Despite the incredibly poor timing and her adamance about not wanting another child, she decides to keep the pregnancy anyway, [[spoiler:only to suffer a miscarriage almost immediately afterwards]].

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* NoBisexuals: Played with. The old ''Sex and the City'' is infamous for its unfavorable depiction of bisexuality, with all four leads except Samantha saying it's not real, among other things. The Season 3 episode "Boy Girl Boy Girl" ends with Carrie dismissing bisexuality as a "game" she's too old to play. Here, Che is explicitly bisexual, and becomes the ClosetKey for [[spoiler:Miranda]]. However, [[spoiler:Carrie's and ''especially'' Charlotte's]] views on bisexuality have hardly changed. [[spoiler:Charlotte]], clearly still espousing her "Bisexuals should pick a side" beliefs from earlier seasons, asks [[spoiler:Miranda]] point-blank if she's gay or straight now. [[spoiler:Miranda]] says that her sexuality is possibly somewhere else in the spectrum, especially given that Che is non-binary. In episode 10 of Season 2, Che refers to their ex Miranda as "very confused" and "a straight, white, married woman" when publicly trash talking them during a live comedy show.

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Played with.with at first. The old ''Sex and the City'' is infamous for its unfavorable depiction of bisexuality, with all four leads except Samantha saying it's not real, among other things. The Season 3 episode "Boy Girl Boy Girl" ends with Carrie dismissing bisexuality as a "game" she's too old to play. Here, Che is explicitly bisexual, and becomes the ClosetKey for [[spoiler:Miranda]]. However, [[spoiler:Carrie's and ''especially'' Charlotte's]] views on bisexuality have hardly changed. [[spoiler:Charlotte]], clearly still espousing her "Bisexuals should pick a side" beliefs from earlier seasons, asks [[spoiler:Miranda]] point-blank if she's gay or straight now. [[spoiler:Miranda]] says that her sexuality is possibly somewhere else in the spectrum, especially given that Che is non-binary. non-binary.
** Season 2 takes it to an unprecedented level. While the original series' take was controversial, it was a much more common point of view in the 2000s. A series that takes place in the 2020s, by which time sexuality is much more complex than just "gay or straight" (especially with at least one character being in a relationship with a non-binary person, as is the case here), has no excuse for using this trope, yet it crops up regardless.
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In episode 10 of Season 2, 7, Miranda is newly single after being married to a man for 20 years and having had a relationship with the non-binary Che. When asking about her Valentine's Day plans, Charlotte assumes that Miranda's next partner must be a woman (and ''only'' a woman), despite her never having been with a woman in her life.
*** In episode 10,
Che refers to their ex Miranda as "very confused" and "a straight, white, married woman" when publicly trash talking them during a live comedy show.show, despite being bisexual themself and a non-binary person who was responsible for Miranda realising she wasn't straight after a marriage of 20 years to a man.



* RageBreakingPoint: Steve has put up with a lot from Miranda, including her cheating on him with someone she barely knows, neglecting their son, and calling for a divorce, with him being understandably being upset, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy but still supporting her]]. It's only in Season 2 when Miranda expects him to move out and find his own place when Steve built the house they're in and after all she's done to him that he snaps, telling her in no uncertain terms that it's ''his'' house and ''she'' should be the one moving out, not him.

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* RageBreakingPoint: Steve has put up with a lot from Miranda, including her cheating on him with someone she barely knows, neglecting their son, and calling for a divorce, with him being understandably being upset, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy but still supporting her]]. It's only in Season 2 when Miranda expects him to move out and find his own place when Steve built the house they're in and after all she's done to him that he snaps, telling her in no uncertain terms that it's ''his'' house and ''she'' should be the one moving out, not him.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Steve has put up with a lot from Miranda, including her cheating on him with someone she barely knows, neglecting their son, and calling for a divorce, with him being understandably being upset, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy but still supporting her]]. It's only in Season 2 when Miranda expects him to move out and find his own place when Steve built the house they're in and after all she's done to him that he snaps, telling her in no uncertain terms that it's ''his'' house and ''she'' should be the one moving out, not him.
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* ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler:Heavily implied to be happening in the penultimate episode of Season 2 after Lisa decides to keep her pregnancy despite not wanting another child, only to start bleeding right then and there. It's outright confirmed by the next episode.]]
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** She finally appears in the season 2 finale for a brief [[TheCameo cameo]], speaking on the phone with Carrie from London.

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* ClosetKey: [[spoiler: Miranda]] believed and asserted that she was attracted exclusively to men... and then she met Che.

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* ClosetKey: [[spoiler: Miranda]] believed and asserted that she was attracted exclusively to men... and then she met Che. Che acknowledges themselves as this when they're trashing their ex Miranda during a live comedy show following their breakup.


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In episode 10 of Season 2, a horrified Miranda leaves the bar she is in after listening to her ex Che Diaz trashing her during their live comedy show.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: In episode 6 of season 2, Miranda gets mad when she learns that estranged husband Steve has been sleeping with somebody new, despite the fact that she has been sleeping with somebody else behind his back too. In episode 10 of Season 2, Che humiliates their ex Miranda during a live comedy show by with biphobic insults like "confused" and "straight, white married woman", revealing that Miranda was very sexually adventurous, and accusing Miranda of bringing her estranged husband and son as baggage to the bedroom. Despite the fact that Che themselves is also bi and they invited their ex-husband into bed with them mere episodes ago.



* NoBisexuals: Played with. The old ''Sex and the City'' is infamous for its unfavorable depiction of bisexuality, with all four leads except Samantha saying it's not real, among other things. The Season 3 episode "Boy Girl Boy Girl" ends with Carrie dismissing bisexuality as a "game" she's too old to play. Here, Che is explicitly bisexual, and becomes the ClosetKey for [[spoiler:Miranda]]. However, [[spoiler:Carrie's and ''especially'' Charlotte's]] views on bisexuality have hardly changed. [[spoiler:Charlotte]], clearly still espousing her "Bisexuals should pick a side" beliefs from earlier seasons, asks [[spoiler:Miranda]] point-blank if she's gay or straight now. [[spoiler:Miranda]] says that her sexuality is possibly somewhere else in the spectrum, especially given that Che is non-binary.

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* NoBisexuals: Played with. The old ''Sex and the City'' is infamous for its unfavorable depiction of bisexuality, with all four leads except Samantha saying it's not real, among other things. The Season 3 episode "Boy Girl Boy Girl" ends with Carrie dismissing bisexuality as a "game" she's too old to play. Here, Che is explicitly bisexual, and becomes the ClosetKey for [[spoiler:Miranda]]. However, [[spoiler:Carrie's and ''especially'' Charlotte's]] views on bisexuality have hardly changed. [[spoiler:Charlotte]], clearly still espousing her "Bisexuals should pick a side" beliefs from earlier seasons, asks [[spoiler:Miranda]] point-blank if she's gay or straight now. [[spoiler:Miranda]] says that her sexuality is possibly somewhere else in the spectrum, especially given that Che is non-binary. In episode 10 of Season 2, Che refers to their ex Miranda as "very confused" and "a straight, white, married woman" when publicly trash talking them during a live comedy show.
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* SeriesFauxnale: Season 2 ends with a two-part finale titled "The Last Supper", involves Carrie throwing one last party before moving out of her apartment, ends with her [[TropicalEpilogue sipping cosmopolitans on a beach]], wraps up a lot of character arcs while giving others hope for the future, and overall has a heavy air of finality to it (with even Samantha making one last, albeit brief, appearance). Despite all this, the series has been renewed for a third season.

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* SeriesFauxnale: Season 2 ends with a two-part finale titled "The "[[TheLastTitle The Last Supper", Supper]]", involves Carrie throwing one last party before moving out of her apartment, ends with her [[TropicalEpilogue sipping cosmopolitans on a beach]], wraps up a lot of character arcs while giving others hope for the future, and overall has [[EndOfAnEra a heavy air of finality finality]] to it (with even [[BackForTheFinale Samantha making one last, albeit brief, appearance).appearance]]). Despite all this, the series has been renewed for a third season.
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* SeriesFauxnale: Season 2 ends with a two-part finale titled "The Last Supper", involves Carrie throwing one last party before moving out of her apartment, ends with her [[TropicalEpilogue sipping cosmopolitans on a beach]], wraps up a lot of character arcs while giving others hope for the future, and overall has a heavy air of finality to it (with even Samantha making one last, albeit brief, appearance). Despite all this, the series has been renewed for a third season.
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''And Just Like That...'' premiered on Creator/{{Max}} (then HBO Max) on December 9th, 2021. You can view the trailer [[https://youtu.be/KNLwEjJPbcs here]]. Originally envisioned as a limited series, the show was renewed for a second season a month following its first season finale. The second season premiered on June 22nd, 2023.

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''And Just Like That...'' premiered on Creator/{{Max}} (then HBO Max) on December 9th, 2021. You can view the trailer [[https://youtu.be/KNLwEjJPbcs here]]. Originally envisioned as a limited series, the show was renewed for a second season a month following its first season finale. The second season premiered on June 22nd, 2023. On August 22nd, 2023, ahead of the second season finale, it was announced that the show had been renewed for a third season.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In episode 6 of the second season Steve finally snaps and gives an epic one to Miranda, calling her out on all her recent actions and reducing her to tears.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In episode 6 of the second season Steve finally snaps and gives an epic one to Miranda, calling her out on all her recent actions and reducing her to tears.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In episode 6 of the second season Steve finally snaps and gives an epic one to Miranda, calling her out on all her recent actions and reducing her to tears.
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* AgeGapRomance: Not really explored much but there seems to be about a decade between the characters [[spoiler:Miranda and Che]].
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Big]] had been a fairly prominent character throughout the original ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' series. [[spoiler:He]] dies at the end of this series first episode.
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''And Just Like That...'' premiered on Creator/{{Max}} (then HBO Max) on December 9th, 2021. You can view the trailer [[https://youtu.be/KNLwEjJPbcs here]]. Originally envisioned as a limited series, the show was renewed for a second season a month following its first season finale. The second season is scheduled to premiere on June 22nd, 2023.

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''And Just Like That...'' premiered on Creator/{{Max}} (then HBO Max) on December 9th, 2021. You can view the trailer [[https://youtu.be/KNLwEjJPbcs here]]. Originally envisioned as a limited series, the show was renewed for a second season a month following its first season finale. The second season is scheduled to premiere premiered on June 22nd, 2023.
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* HappyEndingOverride: The first ''Film/SexAndTheCity'' movie ended with Steve and Miranda reconciling following his infidelity and the second one had them still happy together. By the time this series starts, they're back to being miserable, including having a non-existent sex life, the very issue that led to Steve's cheating in the first movie.

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* HappyEndingOverride: The first ''Film/SexAndTheCity'' movie ended with Steve and Miranda reconciling following his infidelity and the second one had them still happy together. By the time this series starts, they're back to being miserable, including having a non-existent sex life, the very issue that led to Steve's cheating in the first movie. [[spoiler: And has now led to Miranda doing the exact same thing]].

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