![]() But once it settles into its new groove, season two feels far more natural than season one, and a lot more like the original show: a forum for a few well-drawn characters to talk their shit while wearing Loewe and drinking lambrusco. Given the lack of a gamechanging plot event – in season one, it was the untimely death of Mr Big (Chris Noth) – it takes a couple of episodes for the show to find its rhythm, to move things along. That’s fine by me – this isn’t high-stakes TV, so why not just use it as an excuse to create as many fun, purely entertaining moments as possible? The show’s best subplots seem to have been developed exclusively to write in scene-stealing cameos from brilliant character actors – such as Saturday Night Live veteran Rachel Dratch playing a frazzled former writing partner of Carrie’s, or Younger star Miriam Shor as a suave lesbian voiceover actor. ![]() Larger plotlines, such as Charlotte considering a return to the workforce or Miranda’s protracted breakup with Steve, coexist nicely with episodic concerns, such as Charlotte’s daughter’s desire to lose her virginity – leading to Charlotte having to buy condoms in a snowstorm – or Seema’s dalliance with the guy who uses a penis pump. Che is no longer a walking, talking infographic, and Miranda no longer sounds as if she is reciting sections of the book White Fragility from memory.Īs for the plotting, King now seems content to deal with smaller issues, in the style of the original Sex and the City. I don’t necessarily agree with the last gripe – the well-meaning but out-of-touch way Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) discussed, say, transgender issues or Black Lives Matter, reminded me of the way my extended family would discuss these subjects – but both criticisms have largely been dealt with this time. Much of the criticism of And Just Like That’s first season centred on the ungainliness of it all: early episodes groaned under the weight of 10 years’ worth of exposition, plot points were introduced and abandoned with impunity, and the show’s discussion of gender and racism was deemed clunky and out of character. ![]() It would seem that the showrunner, Michael Patrick King, having seen all the memes about its (often unintentionally) hilarious first season, has decided to plunge head-first into unfettered bonkersness. And that barely scratches the surface of all the ludicrous high jinks Carrie and co get up to this season. Here is just a small sample of some of the more daft things that happen in its first seven episodes: Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker) lust after a student at their children’s school Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) spends a scene mulling over the word “jizz” Seema (Sarita Choudhury) dates a guy who uses a penis pump Who’s The Boss? star Tony Danza has an extended cameo as himself, in which he worries he will get cancelled for appearing in Che Diaz’s (Sara Ramirez) sitcom pilot. The second season of And Just Like That, HBO’s controversial, heavily criticised Sex and the City revival, manages to do the unthinkable: it is even more lavish and unreservedly ridiculous than its first go-around.
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