Please don't bring back Sex and the City: There is nothing more to say and the show doesn't work without Samantha

The Muse

News that HBO Max may, as Sarah Jessica Parker puts it, "revisit" her iconic HBO comedy as a limited series doesn't make sense without Kim Cattrall's Samantha Jones, says Megan Reynolds. "Even though Samantha Jones was an irritating caricature of a woman’s libido, she is an intrinsic part of the iconic quartet and her absence will be felt in whatever reboot Darren Star manages to throw together. Furthermore, I have no idea what else there is to say or do with these women in the first place? How will they explain Samantha’s absence? Should the reboot open with the women in mourning dress genuflecting in front of a statue of Samantha’s naked body as she appeared in her nude photos from the 2001 episode 'The Real Me' that also found Carrie tripping on her own feet on the runway only to be declared 'fashion roadkill,' then sure, that’s fine. But that’s morbid and dark in a way that a Star production is not, so my guess is that Samantha’s absence will be a footnote, or, even worse, not mentioned at all."