And just like that... Carrie got political
New on-set shots of And Just Like That show Sarah Jessica Parker's character holding a tote bag touting support for Democratic candidates. I couldn't help but wonder... could we please keep politics out of this show?
New on-set shots of And Just Like That show Sarah Jessica Parker's character holding a tote bag touting support for Democratic candidates. I couldn't help but wonder... could we please keep politics out of this show?
This is an opinion article
It’s official: Carrie Bradshaw is a Democrat.
The Prada-loving, cosmo-sipping, mostly-progressive Upper East sider sure fits the mould of a Dem. Her party preference is solidified in new filming shots from the upcoming Season 2 of And Just Like That.
Carrie, dressed from top-to-toe in purple tartan, sports a tote bag with hot pink stripes of tape covered in the names of Democratic politicians who are running for Senate and Gubernatorial seats in the midterms, including Texas’s Beto O’Rourke, Ohio’s Tim Ryan, and Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto.
Keep in mind, this is the Carrie Bradshaw. A woman who, in Season 3 of Sex and the City, dated a Republican politician and famously told him she couldn't care less about politics. She only dumped him when he asked if he could pee on her.
We don’t know much about the new season of And Just Like That, but we do know our much-loved, sometimes-self-centred 90s Carrie is dead in the water, and has been replaced by a politically-inclined, socially-conscious doppelganger.
I don’t care about the specific politics she’s pushing. Carrie is free, as is every American, to support whichever party she chooses. Although it's worth noting actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays Carrie, threw outspoken support behind Biden in the 2020 election.
My issue (as was my problem with the first season of And Just Like That when they discussed Covid-19) is bringing the unsettling themes of 2022 reality into the show at all.
The original series of Sex and the City was packed with sugary goodness that I, as a 15 year old watching, aspired to one day participate in. I marvelled at the 30-something women dashing from cocktail bar to cocktail bar, adorned in only the most exclusive outfits.
The four women, whilst clever and kind, failed the Bechdel test in every single episode, with every 28-minute viewing bringing a new, complex storyline about a new man that they analyse in loving support of one another.
What they didn’t discuss was politics. And thank goodness for that.
You see, Sex and the City (And, I’d argue, And Just Like That) shouldn’t be there to provide comment on society as a whole. It is there as an escape. A place to forget about politics, and focus on the frivolous, fictional lives of New York’s elite.
And so, in the wise words of Samantha Jones: "I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties."
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