26/07/2022
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No, I will not watch the reboot of "Sex and the City"<

Samantha mood ticket, where are you?

By Alexandre MARAIN

Those who know me well (even those who know me little) know that I am a big fan of sex and the city.At the dawn of my seventeen, I went so far as to offer myself, on a dark site, the iconic necklace that Carrie carries with my own first name.Suffice to say that for fifteen euros, it did not last long ... so fan that, every summer, I watch the yet another time in the series.Some will say that she has aged badly, others that it is the most revolutionary show of the 1990s.I am in this second category.

In the sense that, at a time when sex was still a taboo subject, Carrie Bradshaw and her acolytes Miranda Hobbes, Charlotte York but also and above all the incomparable Samantha Jones, arrived like so many feminist messies offering a new look atromantic relationships and on the professional condition of women.Each episode, helped by uninhibited humor, the four characters relate (without tongue of wood) their experiences with men, whether good or bad.If there is one lesson to remember: women also have a sex life and can be known.Three plans, orgasm, vibrators ... Nothing is hidden, everything is displayed.

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It's now official: New York's most famous columnist returns to our screens!Warner Bros.commanded a sequel to the adventures of Carrie Bradshaw.An unexpected but long -awaited return entitled “And Just like that…”, to discover from December 10 on Salto.

By Alexandre MARAIN et Floriane Reynaud

Even as a man, and gay more, this series has educated me over the years, as much about sex and friendship, as on romantic relationships: thank you sex and the city, for having melearned what female ejaculation was, micropenis and that it was practically impossible to change a man (the most important thing to keep in mind).

To believe that the creator of the Darren Star series, to whom we must also Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place and Emily In Paris, knows the magic recipe to develop a successful series.After six seasons and two films in 2008 and 2010, Sex and the City had made his last breath.What was my surprise when I noticed, last January, that a reboot of the series was on the way ... On her Instagram account, Sarah Jessica Parker Herself announced the news with a video of the New York buildings accompanied by the'Fetish expression of Carrie Bradshaw: “I Couldn't Help But Wonder...Where are they now? ”.Of course, like any self -respecting fan, I jumped on the ceiling.But that was without counting on the conditions: my joy quickly gave way to a total misunderstanding.

Samantha Who?

Entitled and Just Like That…, this new series of 10 episodes makes us find the group of friends a few years after the second film (which should have put an end to their adventures in my opinion).After having followed the evolution of Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda through the thirties and the forties now, we find them at the dawn of the fifties.They are more mature, but their wanderings of modern women remain the same.

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So far, so good.The problem is that the character-we are not going to hide it the most loved, I named Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), the liberated New York who does not have her tongue in her pocket, does notwill not be there.Excuse me !?It is as if the Spice Girls were back without Geri Halliwell ... Ah whatever it has already been done, and we remember (or not precisely) of the resounding flop that this decision has trained.No Samantha, no sex?Who will detonate with uninhibited humor and scathing aftershocks now?Surely not Charlotte York ... the reason for the refusal to participate in the actress remains valid.Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker have never appreciated and therefore can no longer work together.And frankly, at 64, we can understand that Kim has something else to do than speak sex and menopause.

A fashion ... rather controversial

What makes the notoriety of the series is also unconditional love that Carrie Bradshaw maintains with fashion.For 20 years, she fascinated and inspired thousands of fans around the world with her single looks.His motto of the time?Playing the mix and match between vintage models and creative coins.The New York also revived tendencies fallen into oblivion.Some examples: at the beginning of the series, she relaunches the fashion of the Wayfarer signed Ray-Ban, the Gucci flagship banana of the 90's, or, in season 1, the fashionista has a pair of transparent pumps, that is to say the style of Stilletosfound in Kim Kardashian's dressing room.And all this, we owe it to a person: Patricia Field.

Afficher plus5 leçons de vie que l'on a apprises avec "Sex and the City"

By Alexandre MARAIN

Recognizable by her red hair, she managed to mark a whole generation: it was she who imagined the look of the opening scene of Sex and the City, during which Carrie sports a pink, unexpected, fanciful, feminine, feminine tutuand cool, which will become in a snap of the finger the most emblematic piece of the character.For the anecdote, the stylist had disgusted him in a thrift store for the modest sum of ... five dollars.Over the seasons, Patricia's choices gave life to a series of looks that have managed to stick to the personality of each character: Carrie Bradshaw, journalist who dissects men-female relationships, Charlotte York, a slightly naive gallery owner inQuest for love, Miranda Hobbes, independent and cynical lawyer, and Samantha Jones, kneading press secretary.Patricia is just an icon.

New blow for fans: just like Kim Cattrall, the famous stylist will not take care of the costumes of and just like that ..., too busy making those of Emily in Paris.It is therefore to Molly Rogers that the heavy task of cultivating the style of the heroines returns.Unfortunately, it is so far not conclusive.Just take a look at the photos that leaked on social networks to realize the radical change in Carrie style in 2021.Admittedly, certain cult pieces she was carrying in the series will make their return, like the studded belt seen in the first film, and the famous blue pumps Manolo Blahnik.On the other hand, it would seem that Carrie has not really changed since 2010 ... The mix and match is cool, but when it is done with taste.Vichy skirt under the breasts, colorful informed dress worthy of Franky in Grace and Franky, Tyrolean hat matching a sad combination ... If the vintage pieces remain, one can legitimately wonder if Carrie remembers where the beautiful shops of the Fam avenue are located?

Hypocrisy, when you hold us

In 2020, the interpreter of Miranda Hobbes, Cynthia Nixon, lesbian in real life, pointed out the lack of diversity in the series in the show TODAY: “It was something that I was aware of at the timeAnd that I said, and I think many of us have pointed out.Certainly racially, but also because the New York community that the show showed was incredibly rich ”.Neither one nor two, and just like that… reveals a casting certainly, much more inclusive, but which may however seem hypocritical.Better late than never, after all.

In January 2021, Sarah Jessica Parker confided in Vanity Fair about the reboot and raised some questions: “For Carrie, who has no family beyond her friendships, where is she professionally?How did all these political changes affect his work?Does she always write a chronicle?Has she written other books?Or does it have a podcast?What does fashion represent for her now?How did friendships change or not, and his social circle entered? ”.OK, these questions are valid, especially in 2021.But isn't it a bit calculated?Let me explain.I would be enthusiastic about the reboot if he emphasized the problems facing women in the fifties/sixty, with honesty but not devoid of humor: divorce, menopause, education of children -Brady, the son of Miranda, and Lily, Charlotte's daughter, are now adolescents ... but it is unlikely to arrive.

Since the beginning of Sex and the City, viewers, and I were first, have been used to seeing Carrie to offer shoes at 400 dollars each week, with her simple pay of columnist.No problem on my side, but would it not be too late to link economic and social problems in a series that has always excelled in falsely real?In my opinion, if.At this point, we suspect that the idea of a reboot was not decided to evolve mentalities or please fans, but only because the recipe works.And it smells of warming.

Where are we going to find Carrie in 2022?Divorced by MR.Big, if we believe speculation?Seed with a young stallion on Tinder?Seated in a nice restaurant in Manhattan, “single… and fabulous”, while sipping his tenth cosmopolitan?Well, I may never know it, but I’m doing it as well.

“And just like that…”, to see soon on HBO Max