Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Evan Handler, Sara Ramirez, Nicole Ari Parker, Sarita Choudhury, John Corbett, Ivan Hernandez, Christopher Jackson, Karen Pittman, David Eigenberg, Sebastiano Pigazzi, Mario Cantone, Karen Pittman
The second season of the continuation of Sex and the City remains engaging on its own terms. Carrie (Jessica Parker), Miranda (Nixon), and Charlotte (Davis) continue their story arcs from last season with Carrie hooking up with a guy from Sex and the City past in Aidan (Corbett), who is now a divorced father of three living in Virginia. He's an affable man who towers over Carrie and has issues with being in Carrie's apartment. Aidan's a nice enough guy, but is he worth Carrie telling everyone that Mr. Big (whom she married and spent many years with) was a mistake because she married him and not Aidan?
Aidan and Carrie's relationship is just one of the many subplots in And Just Like That... Carrie is now wealthy thanks to Mr. Big's death, but her wardrobe hasn't changed significantly from the original series where she could somehow afford all of those shoes and dresses as a part-time freelance writer in New York. Miranda is in a relationship with Che (Ramirez), the non-binary comedian who is tapped to star in her own television series featuring Tony Danza as her father. Neither the series nor the relationship with Miranda ends well for Che, who spends the rest of the series on the fringes after breaking up with Miranda. Poor Steve (Eigenberg), Miranda's estranged husband who still lives with her (in separate bedrooms) and proves that he's still way too good a person to be subjected to Miranda. I understand Miranda is on a self-discovering sexual journey, but the way she cruelly dumped Steve still stings.
Charlotte and Harry (Handler) are still happily married with two children. Last season, much was made about one of their daughters converting to non-binary, but this plotline is all but forgotten this season despite Roc's fledgling modeling career. Harry's law partner Herbert (Jackson) and his wife Lisa (Ari Parker) find themselves dealing with an ill-timed pregnancy just when Herbert announces he's running for mayor and Lisa's filmmaking career is finally taking off. Carrie's realtor friend Seema (Choudhury) finds herself falling for a hot Hollywood director (Hernandez) and fighting it every step of the way. Miranda's law professor friend Dr. Nya Wallace (Pittman) is fighting through loneliness following a divorce. There is even a subplot from the funny Anthony (Cantone), who runs his own bakery and hires only male model-types to make deliveries. He is soon falling for Italian poet Giuseppe (Pigazzi) who works at his bakery and finds himself in a dilemma when Giuseppe asks him to be the bottom once in a while in the relationship, causing consternation from Anthony.
Did you get all that? Good, there will be a quiz. And Just Like That...juggles these stories and keeps them fresh even as the world wishes it had some of these characters' problems.
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