SATC's new series must look beyond the original show's narrow view of sex

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Featuring formidable female characters – Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte - the show explored life and love in New York City, bringing female sexuality to the small screen like never before. It broke ground through its unapologetic representations of female sexuality, handling masturbation, dirty talk, and cunnilingus, as well as single, couple and throuple sex – remember Samantha’s famous line: “I’m try-sexual. These, it seems, did not satisfy fans, and it has recently been announced that the show will be revived for ten half-hour episodes under the name And Just Like That… Recommended The Sex and the City reboot feels embarrassingly comforting However, the landscape of sex and sexuality has shifted significantly over the last two decades, and to remain relevant, the reboot will have to shift with it. I’m not arguing that in the reboot the central characters should be plunged into poverty or pretend to be anything other than white Sex and stratification While contemporary depictions of sex often leave nothing to the imagination, female sexuality has always had an unknowable quality about it – after all, most female pleasure isn’t as visible as an erection.