And just like that, still controversy over the sequel to Sex and the City

As long as we talk about the sequel to Sex and the City everything seems legitimate. Almost. In fact, it continues the never-ending story of the controversy about And just like that, in Italy available on NOW. In short, Carrie & co. Remain at the center of a heated debate. The Aidan-gate seemed to have just been archived, with the production requesting an apology to John Corbett, guilty of having hinted that the protagonist’s ex would be back (but not).

Not at all: everything is silent only on the front of a possible season two and perhaps for this reason the discussions around the project are fueled. If anything, there was a need to convince someone to invest (again) in the quartet – which is now a trio, without Samantha, exiled to London – this tactic would be a real winner. Although Casey Bloyd, HBO’s Chief Content Officer, revealed a Deadline that the fate of the series is in the hands of only two people, Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie) and executive producer Michael Patrick King.

As soon as a criticism arrives, the cast wastes no time and responds immediately. When the reporter Meghan McCain wrote on the Daily Mail online last December which, in his opinion, the series is too politically correct and woke (a term recently used in a negative sense to speak of awareness of social issues) has raised yet another shield.

This time to speak first – during a guest on Group Zoom at Sirius XM Show last Sunday – it is Cynthia Nixon, interpreter of Miranda, who we will see on Sky in the costume story The Gilded Age: «I don’t agree», he reiterated, because it was a question of «removing the characters from their comfort zone». And he added: «The public knows the series very well and revels in nostalgia. But this time the series has been able to go further. And I think this is incredible to have done so, to have taken so many different directions and broken barriers and shaken souls. And above all, shake the protagonists. We don’t want to see you relaxed (sitting on our laurels, ed.) ».

Echoes Sarah Jessica Parker, who confessed to only seeing two of the new episodes. “Maybe it’s too much for you. For the protagonists who live in New York it is not ». She is probably referring to the sentence in which the critics talked about Carrie’s new job: “she Now she plays the part of the cisgender woman in a podcast with younger hosts. One of them is queer and non-binary. Because he would be too boring and retrograde for her to be a straight white woman. ” AND Adds Kristin Davis (Charlotte): “I don’t know of any other situation where anything like this has been done in a series.”

In the meantime, however, Candace Bushnell herself, author of the novels from which the series is based, has released some statements to Newyorker in which it doesn’t seem to spurt too much joy for the sequel. “I am, to say the least, startled by the many decisions taken (…). I don’t see myself there at all. Carrie Bradshaw has become a bizarre woman married to a rich man. And it’s neither my story nor that of any of my friends. Even if the TV has a logic all of her own ».

Source: Vanity Fair

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