And Just Like That… season 2 branded ’empty’ and ‘unfunny’ in first reviews

The Sex And The City ladies (Sarah-Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristen Davis) were back together again as the second season of spin-off And Just Like That… premiered on Thursday.

But unfortunately for fans it’s been branded ’empty’ and ‘unfunny’ in it’s first reviews. 

Critics slammed the ‘one dimensional’ supporting characters including Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez) Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) as Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury) as they begged instead for Kim Cattrall‘s much publicised cameo as Samantha Jones.

Anita Singh in The Telegraph gave the show two stars and said while there was risqué for Miranda (Nixon) and her partner Che ‘we just want Kim Cattrall’.

She wrote: ‘Episode one sees the characters going to the Met Gala, but nothing funny happens (thank goodness for gay friend Anthony, who has remembered that this is supposed to be a comedy),’.  

‘It’s dull. But SATC devotees should keep the faith: Carrie’s old flame Aidan shows up soon. And there’s the promise of that Kim Cattrall comeback’. 

Writing in The Times told fans ‘not to hold their breath’ in her two star review where she described the show as bubblegum – moreish but empty. 

‘Despite weeks of foreplay in which the audience has been teased with the promise of Cattrall appearing in the sequel despite her public feud with Parker, know that your gratification will be delayed’

‘The new season is just as smug, irritating and brimming with the first-world problems of spoilt, rich, whiney clothes horses as we’ve come to expect. To be honest, I’d be disappointed if it weren’t. It is also made with astonishingly high production values which, I hate to admit, makes it pretty watchable. But hell, it’s annoying.

Adding: ‘This is empty, bubblegum stuff but, like bubblegum, it is undeniably moreish’. 

Meanwhile in another two star review The Independent said that the show lacked any big events and the ladies chatter seemed ‘tame’ in comparisson to show like Broad-City and Girl.

‘But the show still seems uncertain about its place in the world. Is it a throwback? A reimagining? An update? Or an entirely new thing? 

‘Caught between all these potential aspirations, has ended up a toothless imitation of its ancestor. Where gave a voice in prestige TV to a generation of women is giving little more than pay cheques to its well-coiffed stars’ 

In their two star Evening Standard Review EL hunt also slammed the show’s newest characters. 

‘Though I forced myself to invest emotionally in their tribulations as best I could, they simply don’t get enough airtime for me to care’. 

‘While the first season was moving towards a clearer destination – Carrie’s journey through grief as she reckons with the death of Mr Big and her pain as she faces the prospect of starting over at fifty having previously found everything she was looking for – this  feels rudderless and disjointed’.

But looking on the positive side they said: ‘The glimmers of silly and hilarious smut is the Sex and the City that I’ve been yearning for, for oh so long. And I couldn’t help but wonder about the fact that there’s a Samantha Jones cameo to come.

Meanwhile BBC Culture‘s Caryn James  said the show returns with it’s ‘superpowered ability to get on viewers’ nerves’. 

Praising Sarah-Jessica Parker she wrote the actress ‘beautifully navigates the turns in Carrie’s life, including the up and down pattern of grief and looking ahead, laced with her sardonic wit’. 

Discussing Che’s controversial character she said: Oh my, that is still a mess, a collision of abysmally-written people, who both now seem cobbled together in the writers’ room’.

‘Still, fans are hungry for more, even if it’s the same old more’. 

Just Like That Season Two is on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV with new episodes streaming Thursdays