Why Sarah Jessica Parker's Reaction to 'And Just Like That' Backlash Reveals a Larger Disconnect
Is there a redemption arc for And Just Like That after fans continue to rebel against the absurd storylines? Well, Sarah Jessica Parker prefers not to listen to the noise — but that might be a major mistake.
Hear what she had to say on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ July 16 episode of Las Culturistas podcast first, though. The 60-year-old actress is well aware of the hot takes on Carrie’s behavior with Aidan (John Corbett), but she lets one of her castmate filter out the comments for her.
“I’m not privy to all of the chatter so I’m just — Kristin Davis always keeps me posted in ways that sometimes I’m like, ‘You don’t have to tell me that! I don’t want to hear what anyone has to say,’” Parker explained. “Plus, it doesn’t help me. But I’m thrilled that people have feelings! Like, how great.”
She seems to dismiss the online discourse, almost failing to see how much time fans have invested into the lives of the Sex and the City women for decades — it was a cultural touchstone at one point. Now, it feels like it is failing to live up to its former potential.
“I mean, she’s a fictional character. I think people make mistakes, and smart people do stupid things, and they use poor judgment, and they fall really short often. The best of us falls short,” Parker added.
Viewers enjoyed hate-watching the series for the first two seasons — the collective despair at Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez) and her comedy concerts brought us joy. But now, fans are uniting over their disappointment.
Creator and showrunner Michael Patrick King acknowledged the “love-hate relationship” that viewers have with the show, but he doesn’t seem to feel like the untenable direction the series is going in is all that bad.
“You know how Steve talks about the roller coaster? They come and they go, and they love, and they doubt, and they hate, and they love — and then they begrudgingly say, ‘Is this good?’ I mean, it’s the most hilariously aggressive love-hate relationship, as a cosmos. Even on the scary parts of the roller coaster, they’re like, ‘Oh, now we like it! Now we hate it again,” he told Variety in August 2023. “Now we like it!’ It means it’s alive and kicking. It’s not dead, and it’s certainly not a reboot: It’s a new chapter with new energy, things that you love or don’t love. And it really is interesting to do something that people own. They own it.”
Looks like And Just Like That isn’t interested in changing, no matter what the fans say.
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