{"id":46074,"date":"2022-01-04T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=46074"},"modified":"2022-01-07T18:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:32:38","slug":"and-just-like-that-wildest-moments","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/and-just-like-that-wildest-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018And Just Like That\u2019: The \u2018Sex and the City\u2019 Reboot\u2019s Wildest Moments So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah Jessica Parker in And Just Like That…<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019re at the halfway point in our And Just Like That\u2026<\/em><\/a> journey, and it must be said, HBO Max\u2019s Sex and the City <\/em>follow-up has already had more than its fair share of wild and occasionally super awkward moments. Like, Miranda beating up a mugger dressed as Chucky, and the very worrisome subtextual implications<\/a> of that, for instance. Or Carrie once again fully stalking her husband\u2019s ex-wife<\/a>. Or, ugh<\/em>, Charlotte\u2019s adopted daughter Lily affectionately, unironically kinda comparing herself to their rescue dog! <\/em>Or Rock\u2019s TikTok rap. Or Carrie\u2019s Heart of the Ocean necklace. Or Che<\/a>\u2019s podcast sound effects! (Also, why does everyone keep calling Che\u2019s stand-up show a \u201ccomedy concert\u201d? Who says that?)<\/p>\n

Heading into this amusingly bonkers show\u2019s second half, let\u2019s take a look back at some of the first five episodes\u2019 weirdest, most unforgettable moments.<\/p>\n

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Chris Noth and Sarah Jessica Parker in And Just Like That…<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Carrie asking Big to you-know-what\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Masturbate. Carrie asks Mr. Big to masturbate in front of her. (I\u2019m wasn\u2019t being coy, I\u2019m just not sure you can write the word \u201cmasturbate\u201d in boldface on GRAZIA<\/em>. I\u2019m still not entirely sure that someone\u2019s not going to burst into my apartment and put a Fendi bag over my head and take me out to Jersey and have me shot.) Anyway, she asks him to masturbate in front of her in the premiere and for a split second it actually seems like he might do it! I mean, even before all the very disturbing accusations<\/a> against Noth surfaced, this scene was hard to watch. Like catching your parents having sex! Ugh!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Niall Cunningham and Cree Cicchino in And Just Like That…<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Brady having sex<\/strong><\/h5>\n

As another HBO heroine once memorably said, I don\u2019t need to see that!<\/em><\/a> Which, you know, is not to say that Niall Cunningham\u2014the 27-year-old actor who plays Miranda and Steve\u2019s feckless teenage son\u2014isn\u2019t goofily handsome. It\u2019s just that, well, fans of Sex and the City<\/em> remember Brady as an adorable, googley eyed ginger toddler! It seems unnatural and wrong to see him and his girlfriend Luisa (Cree Cicchino) going at it like\u2026well, like Samantha<\/a> used to. Also, bizarrely, this is the scene that opens Episode 2, and is thus the first thing we see after Big\u2019s operatic death! Like\u2026what are you doing<\/em>, show?<\/p>\n

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Sarah Jessica Parker in And Just Like That…<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Big\u2019s funeral<\/strong><\/h5>\n

You know that episode of Absolutely Fabulous<\/em> where Edina\u2019s father dies and she complains that the coffin isn\u2019t styled properly, that it \u201cshould be against white, it should be backlit\u201d? The insane, arcticly minimalist funeral home where Big\u2019s service takes place is kinda what I imagine Edina Monsoon might have had in mind. Chic, but absurd; basically devoid of human warmth. I mean, I get that style, aesthetics, etc. are important to these people, but good god!<\/p>\n

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Sarah Jessica Parker in And Just Like That…<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The Barneys tribute<\/strong><\/h5>\n

I don\u2019t know why, but this is the one that find myself chuckling about most often. There\u2019s this shot in Episode 4, when Carrie is leaving the apartment she shared with Big for the last time. She puts the box containing his ashes in a shopping bag from Barneys New York, which the camera lingers upon meaningfully. I literally laughed out loud when I saw this. Except I\u2019m pretty certain it\u2019s not meant to be a funny moment. It is, obviously, the show\u2019s not especially subtle way of paying tribute to the iconic department store, which closed its doors for good in 2019. And, as with Big\u2019s white box funeral, it\u2019s another moment that kinda makes me question the priorities of the people making this show. Sure, Barneys was important to Carrie\u2014I seem to recall her saying at some point in the original show that part of the reason she loved her apartment was that it was within walking distance of the store\u2014and I\u2019m sure its closure was devastating for the character\u2014to say nothing of the actual real people who worked there. But by connecting the loss of Barneys with the loss of the love of her life in this way, it\u2019s almost like the show is equating the loss of a human life with the closing of a department store. Which\u2026LOL<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Cynthia Nixon in And Just Like That…<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Miranda and Che having sex in Carrie\u2019s kitchen<\/strong><\/h5>\n

I have re-watched this scene a few times to figure out what it is about it that makes me so uncomfortable, and to make sure that I\u2019m not being agist or misogynist or some shade of transphobic. I don\u2019t think I am. I think what makes this scene feel so uncomfortable is that everything that happens seems like a really bad choice\u2014and of course, that\u2019s intentional. Carrie, who is recovering from hip surgery, has already made her boundaries clear to Miranda earlier in the episode: she doesn\u2019t want to see her boss while she\u2019s so out of it and\/or in pain. And yet, Miranda invites Che into Carrie\u2019s apartment while she\u2019s sleeping. She does shots with them when she\u2019s supposed to be looking after her vulnerable friend. Meanwhile, the sex they ultimately have isn\u2019t hot enough to justify Miranda\u2019s betrayal of Carrie\u2019s (let alone her husband\u2019s) trust. It lacks that frisson of sexy naughtiness, which has nothing to do with the appearance or gender of the people involved. Rather, I think it\u2019s because the show has failed to sell us on why Che is so great. They actually seem like kinda the worst in a lot of ways. Their comedy isn\u2019t particularly funny, they seem weirdly cool about people masturbating in public, they\u2019re constantly smoking pot at inappropriate times and are apparently perfectly willing to get 17-year-old boys stoned as well. They seem like kind of a bad influence on everyone<\/em>! And then you\u2019ve got poor invalid Carrie waking up in pain to find that her best friend has more or less abandoned her to pee in a Snapple bottle!<\/p>\n

Much has been said about how little sex there is in this Sex and the City<\/em> revival, but watching this scene isn\u2019t so much like watching a sex scene as like watching a horror film! Like, a less sexy and way less funny Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":46080,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16,3925],"yoast_head":"\n\u2018And Just Like That\u2019: The \u2018Sex and the City\u2019 Reboot\u2019s Wildest Moments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We\u2019re at the halfway point in our And Just Like That\u2026 journey, and it must be said, HBO Max\u2019s Sex and the City follow-up has already had more than its fair share of wild and occasionally super awkward moments.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/and-just-like-that-wildest-moments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018And Just Like That\u2019: 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