HBO Max boss hints at how Sex and the City revival will explain Samantha's absence, says it isn't trying to "re-do" the original series

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“They’re not trying to say that these characters are reliving their 30s," HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys said at the TV press tour. "It is very much a story about women in their 50s, and they are dealing with things that people deal with in their 50s.” Bloys also hinted that Kim Cattrall's character will likely not be the only original Sex and the City cast member missing from the reboot, adding that "just as in real life, people come into your life, people leave...Friendships fade, and new friendships start. So I think it is all very indicative of the real stages, the actual stages of life… They’re trying to tell an honest story about being a woman in her 50s in New York. So it should all feel somewhat organic, and the friends that you have when you’re 30, you may not have when you’re 50.”