And just like that starts uphill for the girls of Sex and the City

ATTENTION: this article contains SPOILERS

And just like that it is perhaps not the sequel that most fans expected. But it is still early to reflect on its success. What we can say in the meantime is that the elephant in the room is dealt with right away. “Here are the three musketeers, where is the fourth?” “He is no longer with us.” “Oh God…”. “No, in the sense that he is no longer here. She moved to London for work. ‘ Before the opening titles of the first episode here is explained the absence of Samantha.

Another important point: you don’t have sex (anymore). Or at least none of the three protagonists do it in the first four episodes that we were able to preview. The two who get as close to it as possible are Carrie and Mr Big before darkness falls into their lives.

Yes, here’s the big (and very sad) spoiler: at the end of the first episode Big dies. After training on the intense version of an exercise bike in the bedroom, Big, who had already undergone heart surgery during the episodes of the original series (“the first time his heart opened to me”, the words of Carrie ) has a heart attack. Carrie finds him unconscious by the shower. A hard blow for her, and for all 90s fans of the series. Because even if Carrie and Big’s relationship has never been easy, in fact it has been mostly toxic, everyone (or almost) has always been rooting for that nameless John Preston and a lot of asshole. Not that Carrie, it must be said, has ever been (alone) a victim.

Just like that it’s not a happy ending, it (also) talks about pain and how to deal with it. There are no more Samantha’s scandalous jokes about orgasms and surroundings, there is no more the tza tza tzu from the original series. Carrie must find herself, Charlotte must move beyond the image of a perfect mother, and At some point Miranda will have to ask herself why she feels the need to start all her days with a glass of chablis.

And the new characters? At least in the first few episodes none of them go to the bottom. Che Diaz (Sara Ramírez), podcaster and non-binary and queer comedian, Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury), single and real estate expert and Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) documentary filmmaker and mother of three, Nya Wallace, professor of law at Columbia, they seem at least for the moment to respond more to the need for political correctness than to add meat to the fire.

What is certain is that the empty parties, the romantic adventures and the politically incorrect jokes are over: it’s time to think about the pains of life, the daily problems, the injustices of society. But who looks Sex and the city do you want to think about all this?