<em>And Just Like That</em> Is a Far Cry From <em>Sex and the City</em>

Early in the coronavirus pandemic last year, I couldn’t help but wonder (sorry) how the characters of might be faring in quarantine. And because those characters were never really human beings so much as personality archetypes entertainingly bundled into couture and thrust into chaotic situations, the imaginary story lines wrote themselves. Carrie, obviously, was calling Miranda to complain about her shoes being neglected while Miranda was working 60-hour weeks homeschooling Brady trying to keep Steve’s bar from going under. Charlotte was sewing masks out of Liberty-print scraps and hoarding Clorox. Samantha was flagrantly breaking lockdown for both hookups and illicit dermatologist appointments, while making gags about how if this “COVID” was 19, honey, it was at least