‘And Just Like That…’ Season 3 series overview: As the ‘Sex and the City’ reboot draws to a cringey finale, what will we hate-watch subsequent?

With each episode of the third and closing season of And Just Like That…, one hoped the sequel/spin off of Sex and the City would change into at the very least barely higher. Every episode, nevertheless, was a disappointment, setting the bar progressively decrease, until even the faintest glimmer of enjoyable or flamboyance was greeted with disproportionate pleasure.

While the ‘90s show (and two movies) SATC, followed four New York women in their 30s, And Just Like That… followed the adventures of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) in their 50s. The fourth woman, PR professional, Samantha (Kim Cattrall), very publicly declared she was done with the character.

Looking at the mess that is And Just Like That…, Cattrall was wise to move away from the reboot. And Just Like That… had so much potential which it squandered in messy writing, limp character development and sundry horrors.

Twenty years after SATC would have been a chance to comment on so many things, including dating, labels, love and life in the digital age. Every episode of And Just Like That…, is crushing for its refusal to engage with our rapidly changing landscape.

Instead all that made SATC so relatable and aspirational — fashion, sex and timely comments on the zeitgeist, is completely missing from And Just Like That…. Carrie lives in an unbelievable mansion, clacking around in heels (did she not have hip surgery last season?), Miranda has lost her smart sarcastic lawyer self to an incompetent alien while Charlotte is unbelievable shrieky.

The loves are uninteresting, from Miranda’s dog-obsessed Joy (Dolly Wells) to Carrie’s nth break-up with Aiden (John Corbett) and her relationship along with her writer neighbour Duncan Reeves (Jonathan Cake). The indisputable fact that Joy and Duncan are single-note characters, with tweeds and an accent to signify their Britishness is unforgivably lazy.

Seema (Sarita Choudhury), the savvy actual property agent who was supposed to be the Samantha in the quartet, like the remainder of the characters, has an unbelievable arc, together with how regardless of being the prime actual property agent, she has no financial savings. Her relationship with the hippie gardener, Adam (Logan Marshall-Green), regardless of displaying a number of pores and skin, has zero chemistry. Ditto for Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker) and her editor Marion (Mehcad Brooks), or Anthony (Mario Cantone) and his stunning Giuseppe (Sebastiano Pigazzi).

All the younger persons are proven to be entitled blobs and the aspect characters, who have been an integral a part of SATC, deliver alongside dun-coloured aspect characters, all of whom are eternally boring. Honestly, nobody cares about whether or not Lisa’s husband, Herbert, (Chris Jackson), wins the election or Miranda’s son, Brady (Niall Cunningham), goes to culinary faculty. The fashions are uniformly eye-stabbing from Carrie’s ridiculous hat to Lisa’s macramé Christmas ornament-style necklace.

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While creator, Michael Patrick King has mentioned, the choice to finish the present was a inventive one, it might need been cancelled due to falling viewership numbers. Whatever the motive, the present didn’t deserve that horribly meta finale with the Thanksgiving dinner, and that lingering shot of the contents of a stopped-up bathroom bowl.

Even if the ebook Carrie is writing sounded all-round horrible, the finale might have been a glittering celebration celebrating the success of the novel and the rebirth of Carrie as a novelist. Coulda, woulda, shoulda certainly.

And Just Like That… at the moment streams on JioCinema

Published – August 16, 2025 05:18 pm IST