And Just Like That...(Season Three-2025) * *

Starring:  Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Evan Handler, Nicole Ari Parker, John Corbett, Mario Cantone, Sarita Choudhury

Carrie Bradshaw and her supporting cast have run out of gas, and this series which continues the story of the four Manhattan ladies from Sex and the City has lost all sense of excitement and danger.  It has become a show about women wearing obnoxiously gaudy clothes everywhere they go, including their own kitchens.  And Just Like That has become the Sex and the City 2 of the series.  The first two seasons played well off the nostalgia and the women trying to navigate the new sexual landscape, but now it's dead on the vine.  

A big problem is Carrie herself (Parker), who is a couple years removed from her husband Mr. Big passing away from a heart attack and finds herself in a "relationship" of sorts with Aidan (Corbett), who at the end of season two said he wanted to have a five-year break from Carrie but still be in a relationship.  Talk about mixed signals.  No matter.  They wind up seeing more of each other and their scenes together feel like an argument or breakup waiting to happen.  No matter.  Carrie owns a plush Manhattan apartment and constantly bugs her downstairs neighbor by wearing heels everywhere.  Because of how the show operates, the neighbor immediately falls for Carrie, which is what practically every man who comes within her field of vision tends to do.  

Miranda (Nixon) is taking on a new relationship as well with a reticent lesbian while her son gets another young woman pregnant.  Charlotte (Davis) is the happiest of the bunch although her longtime husband Harry (Handler) is soon battling prostate cancer and impotence as a result.  The impotence is considered worse than the cancer.  Samantha does not make any appearances in this season, proving Kim Cattrall's appearance last season was a one-off, and I say good for her.  Samantha has been replaced by not one, but two other female buddies in Lisa Wexley (Parker), a documentary filmmaker whose husband is running for NYC mayor and finds herself attracted to her male editor, and Seema (Choudhury), a chain-smoking realtor who finds love with a hippie gardener.   All of this doesn't generate much heat or interest.   The show itself met an abrupt cancellation so season three became the final one.  A season four likely would've just dragged things out even further and maybe more old boyfriends of Carrie who would inevitably fall back in love with her would've been dug up.