- Network: HBO Max
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 9, 2021
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And Just Like That… skips down the list of everything that was off, underwritten, or just plain inconceivably bad about the first season, correcting them one by one.
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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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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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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 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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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.