4 h. ago And Just Like That showrunner couldn't 'keep going' with new episodes after controversial finale

On Thursday night, the infamous Sex and the City spinoff ended its run, and now showrunner Michael Patrick King has revealed why they couldn't 'keep going.'

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5 h. ago And Just Like That branded 'worst series finale ever' as spin

And Just Like That fans were left majorly disappointed by the ending of the Sex and The City inspired show which landed tonight, with many calling it the 'worst finale ever'

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8 h. ago ‘Carrie had nothing to do but wander around in couture’: how Sex and the City’s characters deserved better

Revisiting Samantha, Charlotte and Carrie was a magical prospect. But And Just Like That insulted their intelligence, obscured them with poorly written newbies, left them with far too little to do – and now they’re goneAfter 27 years, some of TV’s most beloved characters have left our screens for ever. Throughout Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw chronicled her loves, infatuations, affairs, heartbreaks, friendships, high fashion, homes, work and more, all over a cosmopolitan or five. Throughout what would turn out to be the final season of its spin-off, And Just Like That, she finally ended her extremely on/off 20-year-relationship with country boy Aidan, a man revived for the series with a cruel streak and all the subtlety of Elmer Fudd, and slowly bought furniture for her enormous mansion.In many ways, the entire series was an inglorious swansong. And Just Like That first appeared in 2021, and devotees of the original might have held a tentative flicker of hope that in returning t...

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10 h. ago And Just Like That comes to an end – this is where to watch Carrie Bradshaw’s farewell

HBO announced the end of the divisive Sex and the City spin-off

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10 h. ago From cosmopolitans to vibrators, the cultural heft of Sex and the City

Just some of the ways that SATC helped to revolutionise the way we dress, eat, date, exercise and workBefore Sex and the City, the cosmopolitan was just vodka, cranberry juice, Cointreau and lime juice. Afterwards it was a symbol of girlfriends, sex, flirting and freedom. But it wasn’t only the image of the pink cocktail that the show revolutionised.From the time it first aired in 1998, the show – and to a lesser extent its descendant, And Just Like That – has shaped the way we dress, eat, drink, date, exercise and work. What it did for the cosmo it also did for everything from nameplate necklaces to vibrators, catapulting them to pop-culture phenomenon status. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Sarah Jessica Parker says she ‘doesn’t care’ that people described AJLT as a ‘hate watch’

‘Sex and the City’ spin-off’s third and final season came to a close on Thursday

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12 h. ago And Just Like That was a total disaster – and I’m heartbroken

The much-maligned ‘Sex and the City’ sequel series has finally come to an end, with a typically inept episode of unfunny jokes, hateful characters, and baffling plot turns. It was a mortifying last stand for a franchise that many of us once adored, writes Adam White

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13 h. ago And Just Like That's Sarah Jessica Parker bags major role away from Sex and the City spin

Sarah Jessica Parker is renowned for portraying Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City as well as its reboot show And Just Like That.

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14 h. ago How And Just Like That’s final scene calls back to Sex and the City

Spin-off series faced an abrupt ending after three seasons

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15 h. ago And Just Like That finale SLAMMED as 'most disgusting episode ever' with foul scene involving Miranda's toilet proving too much for fans

Sex And The City fans blasted And Just Like That for 'ruining' the show's legacy with 'woke' storylines, after the last episode of season three aired on Thursday. 

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41 h. ago Wildly incoherent, utterly flummoxing, blissful: how And Just Like That rewrote the rules of TV

The Sex and the City spinoff – which ends this week – is so bizarre it has barely made sense as a television show. Unless you think of it as an attempt to redefine the whole genre Sex and the City’s divisive spin-off And Just Like That is set to end after three bizarre seasons and a deluge of critical contempt, with bemused fans losing it on Reddit, and articles about how the programme became a hate watch. There has been little heartache in the discourse after the announcement of the show’s demise, the general consensus being: good. But to these people, I say – you’re wrong! But also, I understand. There is always an element of fear in contemplating change, in engaging with the rapid advancement of modernity, and I would like to make the case for And Just Like That being a product of exactly that.It feels analogous to a comment a friend of mine once made during a conversation about the best oven pizzas, when someone posited Dr Oetker pizzas as a contender: “It’s delicious, it’s some...

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52 h. ago Weinstein could be sentenced next month, but only if there’s no retrial on an unresolved rape charge

Harvey Weinstein faces sentencing and another possible retrial in his New York City sex crimes case

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6 d. ago And Just Like That return hopes dashed by key plot as disappointed fans fume

Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That is ending after three seasons with fans left disappointed at the direction the show was taken in after return to screens

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1 week ago The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – sex and the city

Newly decoded extracts from his diaries expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious sexual predatorSamuel Pepys’s diary, which covers 1660 to 1669, is regarded as one of the great classic texts in the English language. Words spill out of Pepys – 1.25m of them – as he bustles around London, building a successful career as a naval administrator while navigating the double trauma of the plague and the Great Fire of London. Historians have long gone to the diary for details of middle-class life during the mid‑17th century: the seamy streets, the watermen, the taverns and, as Pepys moves up the greasy pole, the court and the king. Best of all is his eye for the picturesque detail: the way, for instance, on the morning of 4 September 1666, as fire licks around his house, Pepys buries a choice parmesan cheese in the garden with the intention of keeping it safe.Not all of the diary is in English, though. Quite a lot of it is in French (or rather Frangla...

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1 week ago The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator

Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuserSamuel Pepys’s diary, which covers 1660 to 1669, is regarded as one of the great classic texts in the English language. Words spill out of Pepys – 1.25m of them – as he bustles around London, building a successful career as a naval administrator while navigating the double trauma of the plague and the Great Fire of London. Historians have long gone to the diary for details of middle-class life during the mid‑17th century: the seamy streets, the watermen, the taverns and, as Pepys moves up the greasy pole, the court and the king. Best of all is his eye for the picturesque detail: the way, for instance, on the morning of 4 September 1666, as fire licks around his house, Pepys buries a choice parmesan cheese in the garden with the intention of keeping it safe.Not all of the diary is in English, though. Quite a lot of it is in French (or rather Franglais), Latin, Spanish and a ...

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1 week ago 'Truth about what we saw on set with Mr Big': Chris Noth was cancelled at height of #MeToo

As Mr Big in Sex And The City, he was the handsome businessman whose gentlemanly charm made Carrie Bradshaw - and millions of fans - fall in love with him.

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1 week ago Goodbye, And Just Like That: why it’s the right time to end the cursed spin

Sex and the City fans have bravely endured the far lesser follow-up for three seasons, but after an official announcement it’s time for a sigh of reliefAnd just like that, it was over. Friday’s announcement by the showrunner Michael Patrick King that the third series of And Just Like That would be its last was met with little surprise and I suspect some relief. Following a forthcoming two-part finale, Carrie Bradshaw will hang up her Manolos for good – and not a moment too soon.If a theme could be pulled from the scrambled threads of the third season of the Sex and the City reboot, it is, I think, the question of appearance versus reality. Early on in the series, rattled by the discovery of a rat infestation in her meadowy garden, Carrie seeks comfort from Aidan, the man she’s technically in a relationship with but due to a muddled and implausible arrangement, can’t actually be with for five years. Carrie thought her garden was perfect, she says, “but I just wasn’t looking underneat...

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