The arrival of the Sex and The City revival And just like that has generated a huge buzz worldwide.
The series sees best friends Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda return to the small screens as women in their 50s. The reboot has received some criticism, with some reviews branding the show “awkward”, “grim” and a “painful downer”.
While the women have spoken of the new show proudly – Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda, recently pointed out that there are two major failings with Sex and the City.
“I’ve always been very proud of our show but I always thought it had two major failings: one was the incredible lack of diversity and the other was viewing New York and people who live in New York as if there are only wealthy people living here,” lifelong New Yorker, Nixon told Newscorp.
“It’s one of the reasons the three of us signed on, we wanted a chance to go back and actually change this enormous problem with the original show and it was really important to us and we spent a lot of time even before we signed on talking to [creator] Michael Patrick [King] about the ideas he had and how could we do it.”
“I think it’s an overdue show and I think it’s exciting that the Sex and the City characters are the people marching onto this somewhat uncharted terrain.”
Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon have responded to reviews stating that the women should have hung up the Manalos when Sex and the City originally ended.
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“I don’t know why women who are over 50 should be made to feel in any way like we’re not interesting or valid or relevant,” Davis said. “The world would fall apart if women over 50 just put a bag on their head and stayed at home, which seems to be what people are implying we should do, which of course is insane. Cynthia is 55 and Sarah Jessica and I are 56 and we’re proud of it so people can do with that what they will, right?”
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