Celebrating change, characters & more… why And Just Like That is worth watching

One of the unmissable changes about the reboot? The main characters are now in their 50s. While netizens joked about how much the actresses have aged and how they remind them of The Golden Girls, we think a strong cast of 50-something women playing lead roles in such a big production is major and empowering. And we hope to see more women of different ages being represented and celebrated on screen.

Importantly, the show showed us how its characters embrace ageing by being comfortable with their own choices. Miranda, for example has no qualms about her greying roots even after Charlotte urged her to go for a hair dye.

Fans of Sex And The City will know that the series is not just about fashion. And Just Like That continues to warm our hearts with its storyline that underscores the importance of family and friends.

This time, as new cast members join the show, we can look forward to new characters. Nicole Ari Parker, for example plays Lisa Todd Wexley who’s becoming a close friend of Charlotte.

One of the main criticisms arising from the Sex And The City series is the lack of representation. For one, it’s a show that largely revolved around the lives of four rather well-to-do white women living in America.

And Just Like That, however, features a more diversified cast featuring Sara Ramirez (Che Diaz, above), Sarita Choudhury (Seema Patel), Karen Pittman (Dr. Nya Wallace) to name a few.

On top of that, executive producer Michael Patrick King also brought in new staff to the writers’ room. In an interview, Michael revealed: “Everything we ever did on Sex and the City in the writing room was sort of based on our own personal experiences and knowledge and life.”

He added: “When we knew we were bringing in people of colour, the first thing we were going to do [was] bringing in writers of colour… and not just any writers of colour, but specific people that have specific points of view.”

With a cast and plot as big as this, you can be sure that paparazzi and fans were swarming to wherever the crew filmed. Their enthusiasm was well represented online in the form of behind-the-scenes photos showing the cast members filming in New York City.

To maintain the show’s secrecy and avoid any leaks that could potentially ruin the fun for everybody, it was reported that some of the scenes shot on site were fake. Meaning, not all photos of And Just Like That that you see online are real.

Kristin Davis confirmed this during her appearance with co-star Cynthia Nixon on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “We want the fans to enjoy the show — I think that’s the important part.” she said. “We don’t want them to read the cliff notes beforehand,” Cynthia added.

To find out the real story in the reboot, you’ll have to catch the show yourself.

And Just Like That is available on HBOGoAsia.sg.

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