And Just Like That / First trailer for Sex and the City sequel series

Best friends: Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis in And Just Like That. 
Photograph: HBO Max

And Just Like That: first trailer for Sex and the City sequel series

The return of the beloved HBO comedy drama will see the friends navigate a brave new world – but Kim Cattrall will not be there

Benjamin Lee
Friday 12 November 2021

The first look at the much-anticipated Sex and the City follow-up has arrived, a 10-part series called And Just Like That.

The latest installment of the hit franchise follows six seasons and two movies, telling the story of women dealing with sex, work and romance in New York, breaking new ground when it started back in 1998. And Just Like That reunites Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, but their fellow co-star Kim Cattrall decided not to return.

“We have some new people, and we have some people who aren’t back any more,” Parker said in a recent Vogue interview.

The new series will see the characters deal with the “complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s” with help from returning faces, such as Chris Noth and Mario Cantone, and new cast members such as Sara Ramirez and Sarita Choudhury, shifting the makeup of a show that was a famously straight and white look at life in a diversity. “The incredible lack of diversity was the achilles’ heel of the show, the first time around,” Nixon said recently.

Cattrall told Piers Morgan in 2017 that she wouldn’t return to the role of Samantha Jones but denied it was down to reports of a “diva” demands for more money. She did say, however, that Parker could have been “nicer” to her. “The thing that still bothers me is this feeling of being in some way made to be the baddie,” she said. “I never asked for any money, I never asked for any projects, [so] to be thought of as some kind of diva is absolutely ridiculous.”

Reports suggest the slot in the friendship group will be filled by Nicole Ari Parker, most recently seen on Chicago PD.

“The writers are skillful about having the characters, whether they’re of colour or not, acknowledge the newness they’re experiencing,” Parker said to Vogue. “But it all fits in with the same beloved tone of the show. The clothes alone are to die for. And let me tell you, there’s still a lot of sex in this version of Sex and the City.”

The series will also see the final screen appearance of Willie Garson, who plays the character of Stanford, after he died in September at the age of 57.

And Just Like That continues to film in New York City and will premiere on HBO Max on 9 December and on Sky Comedy on the same date.

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