'And Just Like That' getting renewed is the worst thing to ever happen to me
I obviously need more adversary in my life.
Welcome back to our second Sunday Hangover together. This week, my victim is Che Diaz.
During the long, dark hours that a Connecticut winter entails, I found myself anticipating the release of And Just Like That…, the Sex and the City reboot that we all thought Kim Cattrall ruined any chance of happening.
If you haven’t seen it but plan on watching, this is your spoiler warning. You also would’ve had to actively avoided the internet for the past 3 months, but I digress.
As a Sex and the City fanatic, I truly was excited for this reboot. You couldn’t pay me to watch the iCarly one or any sort of Disney Channel reunion, but the true joy that was sparked once I saw Sarah Jessica Parker in a taffeta dress in the Instagram trailer during the year 2022, was unmatched.
All of that was ripped away as soon as Big died on that Peloton.
While I tuned in weekly to the latest and greatest of Charlotte, Miranda and Carrie, including gender-fluid children, forays into adultery, and too much internal dialogue (as per usual), I couldn’t stop the feeling of immense disappointment throughout every episode.
Here are the top 5 reasons as to why this show failed, hence forth the existential dread I feel for the next season I’ll force myself to watch.
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5. Che Diaz
If you can imagine, this is the first on the countdown. Meaning that there are bigger fish to fry in the pond of what went wrong.
Che Diaz, while trying to be a progressive, groundbreaking character, turned just about everyone off besides Miranda. From the arrogance to the cringey-ness, to the vape, to the fact that they went to LA for a Netflix show, need I say more.
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4. Brady and his girlfriend
Putting these two at number four is a real act of philanthropy on my part. Because there perhaps were not two more irritable characters in the show, and I’ve already mentioned Che Diaz twice.
The fact that this is what the writers think a Gen-Z couple act like is insulting. I would rather run a 5k on the morning of a holiday than ever show one ounce of PDA near a blood relative, let alone make out at a piano recital. It’s called class, Brady.
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3. The crucifixion of Steve
Basically, everything wrong with this season was in Miranda’s family. Just kidding! But seriously, justice for Steve.
If you’re familiar with this franchise, then you know that the entire premise of the first movie was Steve cheating on Miranda. And now, we’re supposed to just let Miranda run off to LA and say that she’s having a journey?
Also, why did they have to make out Steve as such a bumbling idiot? Deaf and clueless? Old and passive? Justice. For. Steve.
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2. The crucifixion of Harry Goldenblatt
Hopping over to Charlotte’s house, I’d like to acquaint the same amount of justice for Steve, with Harry.
Once again, making Harry out to be another bumbling idiot dad in the background was a miscarriage of an iconic character. He merely sat on the sidelines of every tribulation their family faced, only to star in a completely inappropriate, full-frontal embarrassment of a scene.
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1. The Samantha texts
Bringing us to a close is the fact that Kim Cattrall wasn’t casted as Samantha, but an Android. Not even an iPhone.
Stanford Blatch got a swift exit to manage a TikToker in Japan, Big fell to a Peloton, we even got closure from Natasha. But Samantha is half-assed through the phone? We all know Kim isn’t coming back after stating many times she refuses to do so, and with this burden of a renewal, we’re going to need some answers about that European drink. Do they think we’re as stupid as they want us to believe Steve is?
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Happy Sunday Hangover! Take an Extra Strength Tylenol for me, cue up The Real Housewives, and tell someone you love to subscribe to this!
JUSTICE. FOR. STEVE.