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Critic Reviews
Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It captures a lot of the heart and charm that the original did, alongside some hard emotional truths. And despite a lot of doubt on the part of viewers when this project was announced (especially sans Samantha), as of the first two episodes the show has genuinely made a case for its return.
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Jun 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Overall, the toughest thing that And Just Like That has had to do is figure out how to be Sex and the City in the 21st century. (Yes, Sex and the City ran until 2004, but spiritually it never really left 1999.) Season 2 does so by fully embracing a truth most of us figure out after the age of 30: Your best friends are your best friends, that will never change, but as lives change so do friendships.
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The Daily BeastMay 30, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Much of these first few episodes have the patter of a classic SATC episode, more so than previous seasons of AJLT. .... When the show works, it’s because it nails the exploration about what happens to our relationships with our friends, our lovers, and ourselves as we get older.
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The GuardianJun 22, 2023
Season 2 Review:
In its second season, it feels more content to be its own thing – a fun, frothy farce about women in their 50s navigating their lives with even more clumsiness than they did when they were in their 30s. It’s still intensely quotable, deeply meme-worthy and brilliantly watchable.
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Jun 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Season 2 is a delightful improvement over the first season. If you loved to hate And Just Like That... Season 1, there are still enough bonkers moments to fuel your hate-tweets. And if you’re a SATC diehard, you’ll find yourself swooning (and screaming) over where the decades-long saga takes Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda next.
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The Daily BeastDec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
That, to me, is the most striking thing about And Just Like That. By getting away from the sex and the city of it all, in 2021, it actually feels a bit more real. ... And Just Like That marries the optimism and breathless wonder of a 1998 Carrie Bradshaw with the weariness that accompanies, as Samantha once said, decades of “lies and mutually accepted delusions.” And just like that…evolution.
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Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Despite its faults, there's nothing quite like seeing our old friends back in the concrete jungle. ... Miranda, Charlotte and Carrie are just as sharp, vibrant and chaotic as they ever were, and it's impossible not to get invested in their sky-high emotional stakes this go-around.
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The IndependentDec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
And Just Like That… gets Sex and the City back to basics. There are still guffaws and glamour – Parker, in particular, looks unsurprisingly spectacular – but it also has emotional heft. Elements here are certainly missed, from Carrie’s near-absent voiceover to the retired theme music, but these first two episodes are otherwise a return to form.
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Dec 10, 2021
Season 1 Review:
There’s a lot to admire here, actually, such as a real push towards inclusion which isn’t just limited to the wonderful Sara Ramirez, getting a true breakout role as comedian and podcast host Che Diaz. There’s a greater feel of community to this show, as the ensemble feels richer and more developed.
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Sep 4, 2025
Season 3 Review:
While there are lulls in subsequent episodes, plots actually begin to feel propulsive at times, especially as Carrie and Miranda develop new possible love interests played by very appealing, but not focus-pulling, and for some reason both British, actors Jonathan Cake and Dolly Wells. The episodes grow more serious as they progress, tackling issues like old age, sickness and death, as well they should to act their age.
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Jun 22, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The second episode, I’m sorry to say, feels a lot more disjointed. While nearly everyone was pulled together by the power of the Met in the premiere, everyone is off on their own side stories in episode two. [The score is the average of grades for the first two episodes.]
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The PlaylistJun 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
At least this season doesn’t have as many groan-worthy moments in how it handles race, but it’s a shame that it still doesn’t do these characters justice. Yet, what has improved most this season is the writing; the comic and emotional beats start to hit their stride in the third episode and beyond.
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IndieWireDec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
For all its heavy-handed flaws and self-indulgent tendencies, the new series shows an earnest devotion to grow along with its audience, whether that’s by inviting fresh faces to their dinner tables or acknowledging that no one (not even Carrie) stays the same forever.
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The IndependentMay 28, 2025
Season 3 Review:
The show hasn’t qualitatively improved; it’s just removed some of the less coherent elements and winnowed its audience down to the hardcore fans, for whom the show probably worked anyway. What’s left is formulaic and arranged in digestible layers for minimum offence – like a glass of parfait – but if you want consistency, then And Just Like That delivers.
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Jun 21, 2023
Jun 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The writing, still, feels most alive when engaging with Carrie. Her constancy as a figure whose fundamental and defining trait is “she’s the protagonist” jangles somewhat awkwardly against the expansion of the show, but it also means that we have a steady center amid much wobbliness.
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Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
I’ve seen four episodes of the series so far. The latter two give me some hope that the series will, as it goes, strike a stiletto balance and conjure up some of the original show’s airy moxie. But the first two installments are doozies, bumming us out as if to prove that not even the bright and lucky lives of these fictional people could escape the gloom and loss of the past two years.
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Radio TimesDec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
A more diverse cast, not just of stars but also, hopefully, of storylines, is a long overdue change, but the main three’s newfound social and cultural awareness is shoe-horned in to such a degree the whole endeavour feels often cloying, at times inauthentic and occasionally downright uncomfortable. And this is really something it needed to get right. ... What’s promising about the Sex and the City revival is where it has the potential to go.
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The GuardianDec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The onslaught of “woke” teachings lends the show a smugly self-congratulatory rather than ironically self-aware air. This does nothing to make it sing like the original. ... All that said – there are reasons to hope that these are teething troubles only. There is a handful of good lines, there are flashes of the old spirit and there is one sex scene – centred round Big (“I’m getting some lube. I’m not 30”) – that recalls the genuinely pioneering original, and what fun it used to be.
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iDec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Just because And Just Like That isn’t what we wanted or expected doesn’t mean it’s not good television. As shown by episode two, as Carrie and co deal with the aftermath of the life-changing event, the smart quips and on-the-nose jokes we love still work alongside darkness.
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IndieWireMay 28, 2025
Season 3 Review:
So far, Season 3 doesn’t stir the same intense emotions as previous half-seasons of “And Just Like That.” (Six of the 12 episodes were made available for review.) Part of that stems from fewer bizarre storytelling choices (good!), and part of it is a byproduct of an overly cautious attitude toward character development (bad).
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Dec 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
And Just Like That… addresses these issues [death, alcoholism, racism, sexual identity] with a lot more respect bringing a deserved weightiness to the matters, which are explored over the course of the 10 episodes and not resolved in under half an hour—love. The overarching cringing “wokeness” of it all—hate.
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Oct 17, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Although the third season sheds a lot of faulty parts and second-rate baggage, Carrie’s still devoted (or, some would say, chained) to her long-distance relationship with Aidan Shaw (John Corbett). .... The Manhattan single lives of Miranda and Carrie, separately and together more often this season than previously, are marginally more compelling but also vanilla and, in Carrie’s case, kind of gross. .... Anthony and Giuseppe, in contrast, are faring just fine. We don’t see enough of them.
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Jun 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Mostly, though, it’s now passable, rising up to the level of nostalgic mediocrity to which most of the recent boom of TV revivals seem to aspire. If you enjoyed Season One specifically for how strangely terrible it could be, this may be a disappointment. If you’re just looking to reconnect with your old friends in something that feels vaguely like the good old days, it’s much closer to the mark.
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Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Its first four episodes (of 10) feel like two shows. One, which tries to grow with the women as they navigate their 50s and mortality, is a downer, but it takes risks and in moments is very good. The other, which tries to update its sassy turn-of-the-century sensibility for an era of diversity, is painful.
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Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
In different manners, Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda seem not just to be stripped of their defenses but of their senses of self; the laughs, when they come, aren’t just rueful and hard-won but strained. We recognize these characters, but it’s not just someone at the table who’s missing — it’s an energy.
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Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The two episodes premiering Thursday do not just diminish a fan favorite in absentia, but saddle Miranda and Charlotte with plenty of out-of-character moments. Despite these issues, the reboot improves greatly on our gals’ last outing, the 2010 big-screen abomination “Sex and the City 2.”
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Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This revival may not be great – especially with our outspoken minx missing – but it’s watchable, even when it feels like a trainwreck. I can’t wholeheartedly recommend And Just Like That… to the casual viewer based on this strange mess of a pilot, but for those who still harbor a soft spot for Carrie Bradshaw and her crew, there’s something worth indulging in here.
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Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The series has to update to 2021, or try to anyway. To that end, there are prominent Black characters here for pretty much the first time in series history — better late than never but about as awkward an attempt to redress its unbearable whiteness of being as you might imagine.
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Jun 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The new season does have a few things going for it. Carrie is thankfully less catatonic, and while some of her plots feel less than essential, she is thinking a lot about Aidan (John Corbett), her ex. .... It's not necessarily a problem that Che's arc ends up being more dramatic and interesting than Lisa's or Nya's or Seema's. It's definitely a problem, however, that I'm still not sure, seven episodes in, what any of these interesting new additions need, or want.
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The TimesDec 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie), Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) and Kristin Davis (Charlotte) gamely tried to fill the Samantha-shaped hole with lame stuff about masturbation, gender-neutral toilets and teenagers leaving used condoms on bedroom floors, but it felt as though they were going through the motions, as if their hearts weren’t really in.
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Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
There are occasional flashes of the insight and humor that helped make Sex and the City such a phenomenon in its day. ... But And Just Like That … comes across as desperate to seem cool and relevant in a very different TV landscape. Watching it made me feel old, and not because I, like these ladies, have aged since the original series. Nothing about the show feels organic; so much about it is painfully forced.
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ColliderJun 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
And Just Like That Season 2 reduces some of the greatest characters in television to a punchline only worthy of a Christmas cracker. It strips Carrie of her charm, Charlotte of her earnestness, and Miranda of her sarcastic wit, and puts them through gag after gag without offering any real growth.
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Dec 10, 2021
Season 1 Review:
"And Just Like That" affirms that Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda failed to mature into women any sane person would want to spend time with, let alone to grow up to be. ... It follows the wreck that was 2010's "Sex and the City 2," and comes before us with a major part of its formula missing. And while I can appreciate the need to maintain the core of what the audience knows and loves about these women, the world has changed enough since we first met them as to make their lack of evolution stunning.
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Dec 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This year has been a bummer, and so is the sequel series. The zippy, intimate, charmingly featherlight landmark HBO series of yore has been replaced by yet another bloated streaming-service grief-com, the latest piece of intellectual property back in zombie form to generate headlines, pique nostalgia and ultimately disappoint us. ... Less like urgent storytelling than panicked legacy-salvaging. In apologizing for its past wrongs, the show forgets to do what it did best.
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