Sex and the City reboot—…, now streaming on HBO Max—addresses absence neatly and swiftly within the first 15 minutes. There was no betrayal, no backstabbing, no bad blood so vile it would warrant ending a 20-year friendship.
Rather, Carrie, upon surveying the status of the publishing industry—she's a podcaster and Instagrammer now!—decides it doesn't make sense to keep Samantha as her publicist.
That's a logical assessment, and in any other world, Samantha—a PR wiz whose company has presumably evolved with the times—would agree.
But here, Samantha is livid at Carrie's decision, so livid that she dumps her (and Charlotte and Miranda) as friends and moves to London.
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