Lindsey Lowson / 08 July 2025 / Categories: Movie and TV Shows, TV Show

And Just Like That staring Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristen Davies and Cynthia Nixon

Still a big fan of SJP image snapped from Me and Co a collection of selfies by Simca CEO Jean Pigozzi

And just like that is in the middle of its third season in the US.

I recently caught up with seasons 1 and 2 which I binge watched in just over a week and I loved it but more for nostalgic reasons and curiosity to see what Patricia Fields costume assistants from Sex and the city, Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago had created for the remaining trio. Kim Cattrall, Samantha was definitely missed only appearing via text messages and a note in the first season and then briefly 2 minutes in a car at the end of the second season, a scene the actress was reportedly paid a million for.

Whilst I thought some of Sarah Jessica Parker’s outfits were incredible, and I loved the references back to her wardrobe like the famous blue Manolo Blahniks and the Versace gown she reminds us she had only worn twice, once in Paris for the memorable episode when Mr. Big comes to the city to reunite with Carrie after things end with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Aleksandr Petrovsky Carrie’s lover in the final season of Sex and the City.

Another favourite fashion revival was the Vivienne Westward wedding gown gifted from the “40 year old bride shoot” in Vogue commissioned by editor Enid Frick, a personal favourite character for me played by Candice Bergen who also hilariously reappears in season two of and just like that. Spoiler alert, Carrie pulls out the frock for the Met Ball when the up and coming designer she commissions in the new show to make her a dress (girlfriend of her co worker in her new job on a podcast about sex) and can’t pull it together in time, saying you must have something else you can wear.

It’s a lovely moment to see the fated gown from the wedding to Mr. big that never was at the New York Library repurposed.

In the sex and the city movie it has to be one of Charlotte York's (played by Kristen Davies) finest moments when she slaps Mr. bigs face with a bouquet of red roses. “I curse the day you were born” she says, She also adds, "I was always on your side, and you go and you do that to Carrie”

It was good to see the fab dress brought back under happier circumstances. Some spectacular other costumes for this particular Met ball episode.

The hats are out in force, I love hats so it was good to see the homage to the chapeau.

I know I am talking all about the fashion and not much about the show content itself. Actually the show hasn’t really changed. Which considering it’s twenty years later you’d imagine the characters and script writers would have matured. I guess that’s not what the audience wants. It would have been better for me had Mr. Big’s hero status been tackled with a little reality his shiny Mr. perfect armour chinked, I guess the fairytale has to be maintained for audiences to tune in.

There are some fabulous references to aging for women, fans who have followed and delighted at the revival. I laughed when Samantha replacement Seema, high flying property real estate agent gets her Birkin nicked right outside her apartment. And when she has to grovel to her hairdresser when she storms out at a suggestion the reasons she’s still single come down to her own behaviour. So there are snippets of hard hitting reality for the women, just not for the men.

I found it tough to believe and highly unrealistic the amount of sex on offer to women in their mid fifties which I am assured is absolute tosh even though I am not quite there yet myself and the idea a group of strapping rugby players would choose a group of mid fifties women to play with for an evening out in a bar instead of the thirty somethings at the next table an absolute stretch, in real life just wouldn’t happen.

So to sum up. It’s a fabulous escape, a nostalgic trip down memory lane for women who watched Sex and The City the first time around and went on the journey with the four women, getting to know them, relating to their experiences with the opposite sex. It’s a remake for all the women who are still stuck in the same place waiting for the Prince to come.

It’s probably why Samantha is absent. As the one who created balance and diluted the hopeless optimism with reality, cynicism and humour, the comedy and hard truth all Rolled into one. Samantha would have been telling them all they are grown ass women now and then HBO wouldn’t have had a show. The other thing missing was Sarah Jessica Parker’s mole, who knew she’d had it removed by her plastic surgeon brother in law in 2008. It took me two episodes to realise something was very different: her signature mole on her chin had disappeared. And when I did my research I couldn’t believe it was missing in the second Sex and the City movie and I never noticed. It’s a nod to not obsessing too much about Botox, fillers, lip injections. We notice things, imperfections or not about ourselves way more than other people clearly.

Will I watch season three when it comes out in cable? Of course.

I want to see what they are all wearing.