The last time we saw Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte, they were married, some had children, all of them had interesting jobs and money like hay.

In the terrible second "Sex and the city" movie from 2010 they giggled and screeched their way through Abu Dhabi and behaved like caricatures of newly wealthy American tourists, so that with the best will in the world, one could no longer remember what the emancipatory potential of the TV series could have been.

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Because that had undoubtedly happened once. Four friends who stuck together without being biting, talked openly about men and sex and everything else that was important; who made no effort to ingratiate themselves with the opposite sex, nor were they particularly suitable as role models for the viewers - that was really new and revolutionary in 1998. The series filleted the popular genre of romantic comedy with a happy ending bit by bit until nothing was left. And bit by bit, she robbed her protagonists, who had once come to New York young and idealistic, the illusions. Above all, these consisted of having a loving relationship that was wealthy and professionally fulfilled, which still leaves enough space to regularly sit with your best friends in expensive restaurants or attend fashion shows.In other words: not having to compromise anywhere without pretending too much.

She is now on Insta too

Now we meet three of these friends again in the follow-up series “And just like that” - Kim Cattrall is missing, who plays the older, always ready-to-mate Samantha, and who more or less publicly fell out behind the scenes with the leading actress Sarah Jessica Parker. The fictional Samantha now lives in London for work, it is said, is offended by something and only appears in text messages. Parker's character Carrie Bradshaw continues to play the leading role and, like in "Sex and the City", again contributes the framing narrative voice. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) continue their roles seamlessly. The women are now in their mid-fifties, their children have grown into lanky teenagers, the men Harry (Evan Handler), Steve (David Eigenberg) and Mr.Big (Chris Noth) stand by their partners as loyal husbands and fathers.

What has changed since the turn of the millennium is the world around the characters.

The pandemic, as we learn right at the beginning, is over, the lockdown is over and the rules of distance are forgotten - when you greet you, the kissing givers come uncomfortably close to your skin again.

The media have changed too.

Carrie is no longer just a writer and columnist, but also an Instagram and podcast guest.

They wanted to go to the Hamptons

In Carrie Bradshaw's New York, it has apparently been noted over the past decade, surprisingly, black people also live, and they even have an education and money. And the younger generation sometimes has an understanding of gender identity and fashion that goes beyond drunk same-sex kissing and Oscar-de-la-Renta floral dresses, which the older generation sometimes has to learn the hard way. Charlotte, in her unbreakable charity, has little problem with taking everyone in her arms, but the feminist Miranda in particular has such embarrassing scenes written into the script that one wonders where such uncertainty is in this character, who is otherwise always cool in the best sense of the word suddenly come here. You never had to be ashamed of Miranda in the past!Now, however, she is taking a course at the university with a black law professor and stutters unsupervised out of sheer politically correct tension.