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She drew Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte away from their most mundane and normative instincts.
Without her, theSex and the Cityreboot is well, a little boring.
Major spoilers ahead for theSex and the CityrebootAnd Just Like That.
OnlySamantha Jones, presumably living decadently in London, has escaped the indignity of aging ungracefully.
Its not thatSex and the Citylacks the raw material to make a promising reboot.
She will not be getting on a plane.
But dear God, how I wish she would.
Carrie was the original series openhearted protagonist, but Samantha was its propulsive rapscallion.
As a quartet, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda were glitzy and aspirational.
But theyre no longer the cultural mavens they were in their 30s.
The remaining women all fell in heterosexual love and got married.
Of course, New York City has changed, too.
In the parallel universe ofAJLT, the pandemic has come and gone.
The run-ins with acquaintances that the women havent seen since before times arent joyous reunions.
We need Samantha to suggest, however inappropriately, that funerals can be sexy, too.
Only she could get a genuine laugh out of Carrie on her darkest of days.
Its true thatAJLTdraws the remaining trio into their later adulthood faithfully.
I can see Charlotte as a key in A mom and even Miranda as a fumbling ally.
People become more themselves with age, but watching it happen is kind of boring.
I didnt know how much I would miss that sequence or how much I would miss Samantha Jones.
She wasnt the friend whod step in front of the bus to protect you thats Miranda.
And she wasnt the friend whod commiserate over your spoilt tutu thats Charlotte.
Samantha was less kind, less useful, and more indelible than the women she left stateside.
She was there to remind you that, next time, the bus should move for you.
This article was originally published onDec.
