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At least the performance of Parker, Nixon and Davis remained intact. Their characters have grown, observing a changing world like ours, experiencing setbacks and making strides forward. However, most of them are still the same, as people usually even after 23 years know them. It’s nice to be back in their company, even when they’re at their worst, squirming around trying to adjust to their awkward social anxiety and sense of self.

Sex and the city has long been criticized for its blinding whiteness. In an attempt to solve that problem, And just like that brings tension to both Miranda and Charlotte, in which they stumble as they try to prove their good intentions towards Black women, surrounding themselves as anxious scraps, wondering if they did or said something terribly offensive.

Miranda has a funnier, more believable, more self-aware version of this story. It is explained that she has given up her decade-long career in corporate law and is now pursuing work as a legal advocate for those in need. She enrolled at Columbia to earn a master’s degree in something related to social justice in order to better fulfill her mission. Miranda passionately expresses her shame about her complicity in a corrupt system, and her passion for her new calling as an advocate for the marginalized. society. But her black professor, Nya (Karen Pittman, who is between this and Morning deserves serious risk pay), more exasperated than grateful to hear it. Here, the show somewhat acknowledges its flashy past while also mocking clumsy ironing efforts aimed at its white ally. (Perhaps that shade is the result of And just like that has writers of color on its staff, which is an improvement over the original.)

That new realization is a harder pill to swallow when it comes to fussy, conservative Charlotte, who’s obsessed with one of the moms at the school she’s on committee: a queen bee named Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker), Charlotte’s gay friend Anthony (Mario Cantone), called “Black Charlotte.”

Both Pittman and Ari Parker handle these awkward scenes well, and I hope they’ll be rewarded for their patience with well-developed stories. It’s a shame that the show has to frame all this discourse as a mere modern annoyance for Charlotte (and the others, to some extent) to adjust, as if becoming conscious of the existence of others. The present (and struggles) of people of color is similar to learning how to use a confusing new smartphone. Even if, yes, the portrayal of white people’s guilt and frustration can be surprisingly accurate.

For Carrie’s journey to becoming contemporary, she becomes the third-longest leg of a dating and sex podcast hosted by Che (Sara Ramirez), a weird, non-binary Latinx comedian, tasked with explaining a bunch of terms that people of Carrie’s (and King’s) generation have just learned over the past few years. Che has been positioned as the approachable, stylish directional leader for Carrie and friends.