The author of this article is written by @Luo Baiko
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HBO's 1998 drama series Sex and the City set off a wave of women sweeping the world.
The show was filmed for 6 seasons (plus 2 movies), and the choice of love, love, and desire by four 30+ mature women has influenced the attitude of an entire generation of people.
Last week, the original cast of "Sex and the City" launched the reboot-only season "Just Like That...".
Time has passed, will the stories of 55+ heroines still look good?
To be precise, this reboot drama failed to summon all the main actors, the soul character Samantha failed to return, and the original four-person small group became a trio.
Unfortunately, Miss Samantha is one of the soul figures
At the beginning of the series, Kelly explains the reason for Samantha's absence: she moved to London to start a new life, no longer playing with her old sisters.
The lives of Kelly, Miranda, and Charlotte have also changed dramatically, and they have long passed the age of wanton love.
With the decline of print media, Kelly stopped being a writer for love columns, and followed the trend and turned to the fashionable podcast industry. Although there were many twists and turns a few years ago, her marriage relationship with Mr. Big is currently relatively stable.
Miranda, who had worked in the legal profession for many years, also returned to campus to start taking a new course. She maintained a good married life, but had many grievances about her nearly adult son.
Charlotte, who once worked in a gallery and has a high-end art spot, returns to the life of a housewife: circling around her husband, daughter, and dog, but from time to time she cries because of the small accidents of life.
The first episode of "Just Like That..." talks about the new lives of the three sisters slowly, some noisy and some scattered.
The second episode released a big move: Mr. Big died suddenly, shattering the originally peaceful and trivial life. Kelly lost the focus of her life, and Miranda and Charlotte accompanied her to help organize Mr. Big's funeral.
Death is the end point of the dead and the beginning of the living. Since the writers asked Mr. Big to leave, it is likely to mean that Kelly will usher in a new love story in the next 8 episodes.
After airing last week, "Just Like That..." didn't do well.
Out of nostalgia for the enlightenment of American dramas, Douban netizens scored a moderate 7.4 score, while IMDB's 6.5 score and 63% Rotten Tomatoes freshness showed the disappointment of foreign audiences.
Many years ago, what attracted us to "Sex and the City" was the free attitude that transcended the times: sisters and girlfriends talked about love and love casually; women should not lose themselves in love, more importantly, they loved life and themselves; there was no need to hide it, love and sexual desire can be expressed frankly.
Sex and the City basically revolves around Kelly's column story, with each episode focusing on gender topics:
Can women talk about sex without feelings and only about sex like men?
Can unmarried and married people play together?
Should 30+ women choose a mature man of the same age, or a 20+ puppy?
Even if you look back at it now, you will feel that it is always new.
"Sex and the City" also created a utopia for many women to imagine, and the urban life and fairy friendship of the protagonists in the play are enough to make us envious (who have not seen the world at that time).
Kelly's fashionable ICON-like exquisite outfit conveys the modernity of the city; the noble taste of Manhattan's native Charlotte is fascinating; public relations manager Samantha shuttles through the bright and green place, exerting her youth; Miranda's independence highlights the charm of professional women.
If Gossip Girl satisfies the life fantasies of 20+ women, then Sex and the City satisfies the life vision of 30+ women in a more down-to-earth way.
For many women who have just established themselves in the city and have beautiful dreams, the "Sex and the City" series of that year fits their romantic fantasies and provides a model for petty bourgeois life.
Author Jennifer Kathy Armstrong, as a nurturing audience, also wrote "We and Sex and the City: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love," documenting the impact of the series that became a pop symbol on ordinary women.
Compared with the discussion of love and sex in "Sex and the City" and the leading of fashion trends, the focus of "Just Like This..." has quietly shifted, and it has turned to the dilemma of middle-aged and elderly women.
Brushing brushes and wearing reading glasses when ordering is really heart-wrenching
Kelly believes that her friendship with Samantha is coming to an end because the decline of traditional media has blocked the job of public relations, and she considers herself the most fashionable person in the sisterhood, struggling to learn how to record podcasts and play Instagram.
Miranda is critical of her son's and her son's girlfriend's sex life, and although she wants to try to be cool, she still inevitably becomes a mother. She is also resistant to new things like e-books and podcasts, with "old-school" hostility.
Charlotte's deep love for her daughter could not withstand the rebellious emotions of her adolescent daughter. Everything she had carefully chosen for her could hardly please them.
Audiences who want to watch the sister group slaughter and gallop across New York may be deeply disappointed, "Just Like This..." is just their first old daily life, and the urban beauties who were once proud of the spring breeze and bright and bright will inevitably become ordinary old women.
The lives of middle-aged and elderly people can also be filmed very well, such as "Kominsky Theory" and "Same-Wife Club" next door.
But the creative team of "Just Like This..." obviously does not have excellent execution, they just let the three protagonists repeatedly tell gossip and outdated jokes, consuming this crumbling IP.
In addition to the plot's lack of appeal, another of the criticized shortcomings of "Just Like This..." is that it is too politically correct and the new characters tucked in are too blunt.
In recent years, Sex and the City has been defined by North American theater critics as a "white privilege drama", arguing that the series focuses on the life of the white middle class, and the attitude towards the LGBT population is not enlightened enough to focus on the love and hate of minority groups.
I don't know if it is for this reason that "Just Like This..." has enabled a number of actors representing minorities in one go, and carefully designed and stacked human labels for them:
Kelly's new boss is a non-binary gender member of the Mexican-Irish Mixed-Race Queer Club; Charlotte's new friend is an African-American documentary filmmaker Humanitarian; and Miranda's teacher is an African-American Brooklynn human rights fighter.
"That's It..." also deliberately added many lines that echoed the LGBT crowd.
For example, Miranda pays attention to the unfair treatment of black people all the time and fights for them in time, but repeatedly says the wrong thing in front of the teacher to touch the racial minefield; and then there are large sections of Kelly's podcast program to cue gender and sexuality issues.
However, from the current point of view, these new characters who lack charm are not pleasing, and some of the bridges are slightly deliberate.
Overall, the reboot season of Sex and the City may appeal to the audience of the past who are trapped by feelings, but it lacks the motivation to continue to follow the drama.
As its title suggests, "Just Like That..." is so mediocre.
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