Why “Sex and the City” Revival Doesn’t Deserve Samantha’s Return
Let’s take a break from our brutal reality and dive into the make-believe world of Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and the epic loss of Samantha Jones, a role that actress Kim Cattrall luxuriously embodied for six magnificent seasons, including the two feature films that would follow.
During it’s heralded run as one of HBO’s most prolific offering, Sex and the City, centered around the enduring friendship of four youngish women, stylishly juggling careers and complexities of romantic entanglements, against the stunning backdrop of the City. Viewers were captivated by the intoxicating mix of breakups, one-nightstands, bar crawls, and the eternal pursuit of love everlasting.
Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda were the more grounded trio, who made it easy for the rambunctiousness of Samantha to stand out with appealing audacity of her sexual prowess, seamlessly tied into her successful career in PR, which empowered the industry maven to be the social butterfly of the group in the City that never sleeps.
The notoriously eye-popping exploits of the older and wiser Samantha Jones, when it came to giving her rotation of gents a run for their money, and then some, was the flaming rulebook of dating 101, that could only be mastered by a memorable character, who was unapologetically ruthless about…
