Michael Patrick King wasn’t surprised that “And Just Like That…” received a ton of criticism.
King, 71, who wrote on both “Sex and the City” and its reboot “And Just Like That…” says that Carrie Bradshaw and her pals have never not been controversial.
“When we did ‘Sex and the City’ and the women were 35, there was a lot of criticism about why aren’t these women married and why haven’t these women settled down and how annoying are these women?” he said at the GLAAD 40th Annual Gala, where he was honored.
King noted that twenty years later, the characters were still being criticized.
“Why aren’t these women further along? Why are they still talking? Why do they still exist on camera?” he said, listing some of the complaints he heard.
The “2 Broke Girls” creator explained that “And Just Like That…” was “daring to show very vibrant women at a certain age, and that rubbed society the wrong way.”
“Sex and the City” debuted in 1998 on HBO and starred Parker (as Carrie Bradshaw), Kim Cattrall (Samantha Jones), Kristin Davis (Charlotte York), and Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes) as best friends navigating relationships in New York City. It garnered press, both positive and negative, for its frank discussions of sex.
King viewed “SATC” as a comedy about sex — but realized that it became something more.
“It became straight and gay, and everything in between. It became for women, it became for men,” he shared. “We were just trying to create a show as well as we could make it. It’s always up to the world to decide whether something is a gat thing, a straight thing, or a classic.”
The HBO show’s reboot, “And Just Like That…,” premiered in 2023 and featured all of the original cast except Cattrall.
It ran for three seasons and was often brutally criticized before King and Parker announced that the show was ending.
Audiences often slammed the show for its extreme woke-ism with the portrayal of Miranda (Nixon) as a late-in-life “lesbian,” Charlotte’s (Davis) daughter coming out as non-binary, and the introduction of new characters such as Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez), who was branded as one of the worst characters on TV.
King — who did not address the woke complaints — has insisted that the series was not cancelled, but instead felt it was a good spot to say farewell.
“I think people, especially women who were in that wheelhouse, were really moved and felt very seen,” King said about the reboot. “So, you know, it’s always when you’re pushing an edge when you’re trying to do something that really isn’t on TV, there’s always going to be pushback. But the creative work stands for itself.”
Parker, 60, also defended the show.
“I don’t think I have the constitution to have spent a lot of time thinking about that,” she told the New York Times in an August interview.
She added: “We always worked incredibly hard to tell stories that were interesting or real. I guess I don’t really care.”
King is currently working on a reboot of the Lisa Kudrow show, “The Comeback.”
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