In this sequel series to 'Sex and the City,' Sarah Jessica Parker and company find themselves confronting life in their mid-50s.
reboot. It’s also neither a revival nor a reimagining. Sure, the new show shares DNA with the polemic and revolutionary HBO comedy that aired from 1998 to 2004 and spurred an entire generation’s obsession with Cosmos, designer shoes and Manhattan brunches, butdoesn’t even attempt to resurrect Millennium nostalgia.
Its developers, including original showrunner Michael Patrick King and its three main stars, know the world is not the same. They don’tit to be the same. The two shows are built around of the same characters, but the flounce and fizziness of the original series are largely absent from this moodier and more self-serious one.