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"And Just Like That..." is HBO Max's continuation of Sex and the City, the era-defining 1998-2004 series that followed four New York women through their thirties. The revival premiered in December 2021, picking up nearly two decades later with Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte now navigating their fifties — careers, marriages, grief, and identity, all against the same Manhattan backdrop that made the original iconic.

The show made headlines before it even aired for a jarring creative choice: killing off Carrie's husband, John "Mr. Big" Preston, in the very first episode. After a spin on his Peloton, Big suffers a fatal heart attack and dies in Carrie's arms, instantly reframing the entire revival around Carrie processing sudden widowhood rather than the marriage the original series spent its final act building toward. Sarah Jessica Parker has since said filming the scene was genuinely difficult, calling Big's death one of the storyline's hardest strands to let go of.

Notably absent from the revival is Kim Cattrall's Samantha Jones, who did not return as a series regular amid a long-publicized falling-out with Parker, appearing only in a brief, contractually separate cameo during the third season. To fill the gap — and to address fair criticism that the original series lacked diversity — the show introduced a new circle of friends: real estate broker Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury), documentarian and socialite Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker), and law professor Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman).

Across three seasons, the show tackled subjects the original rarely touched with this much weight: menopause, grief, gender identity within Charlotte's family, and what it actually looks like to start over romantically after 50. Miranda's storyline in particular — leaving her marriage to Steve and exploring her sexuality with comedian Che Diaz — became one of the most talked-about (and divisive) threads of the entire revival.

HBO Max announced in August 2025 that the show would end with its third season, closing the story with a two-part finale. Reactions were mixed, as they had been throughout the revival's run, but the show's cultural footprint was undeniable — for better or worse, it kept the Sex and the City conversation alive for a new generation of viewers two decades after the original finale.

Whatever your read on Carrie's new hairstyles or Miranda's midlife reinvention, "And Just Like That" proved there was still an audience hungry to watch these women grow older on screen — messily, publicly, and very much still in Manolos.

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