large, in-your-face effort to make its cast more diverse, and a humorless rift that led to excluding the only genuinely fun character: Kim Cattrall’s Samantha.It’s disappointing, but not entirely surprising.
After all, the last few years have been devoted to think pieces pointing out that the show is, ahem, “problematic.” Even co-star Cynthia “cinnamon raisin and lox” Nixon did her mea culpas on the “Today” show in 2020: “That was something that I was aware of at the time, and said at the time and I think a number of us said it,” she professed of the almost all-white cast.All of the inclusivity bluster made this new iteration seem more like reparations than must-see entertainment.
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