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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall's character Samantha Jones returns to spin-off show for brief exchange
Fan-favourite Kim Cattrall may have left the Sex and the City franchise years ago, but to the surprise of fans, her character Samantha Jones made an off-screen cameo for the third season of spin-off show, And Just Like That. Cattrall officially parted ways with the franchise in 2010, after filming wrapped on the second movie based on the popular Noughties series, which follows a group of single New York women as they undergo the trials and tribulations of dating. The departure came amid rumours of a feud with lead star Sarah Jessica Parker, however fans have missed her character's unapologetic sexuality and honesty. Viewers were treated to a little dose of Samantha on Thursday night's episode (26 June) of And Just Like That, as Carrie (Parker) reached out to Jones for some help. Asking for some information on her neighbour Duncan Reeves (Jonathan Cake), Carrie contacted Samantha via text. 'What do you know about Duncan Reeves?' she asked, as Samantha responded: 'They say he's a lot of fun. Why?' Carrie told her friend, 'He's living under me.' To which Samantha quipped: 'I wish he was under me.' Viewers had mixed reactions to the scene, as one person wrote: 'Damn I wish could at least get a lil Samantha Jones voice note or something instead of this weak ass text.' Another added: 'Not another Samantha texting scene UGH #AndJustLikeThat.' Some were left frustrated by the teasing, writing: 'Booooo! We don't want to see no damn text messages with Samantha!! It's either she comes on or leave her character be! This is lame!' 'CANNOT DEAL WITH THIS SHOW WE NEED A SAMANTHA JONES SPIN OFF SHOW' added another impatient fan. However, others were grateful for any reference at all, saying: 'Even just literal texts from Samantha make this show better.' One viewer posted that the character's role has taken something substantial from the show, saying: 'I miss Samantha. Even though I watch every new episode it's just not giving the same energy as the original show. I love the original even with how outdated, appalling, and annoying it can get. I just wish it had more to it.' In a three-star review of the third season for The Independent, chief TV critic Nick Hilton called the writing 'clunky' but said the show was beginning to 'find its groove' and would 'please hardcore fans'.
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Fans left stunned by Miranda's full frontal nudity while Samantha makes surprise return to And Just Like That
Fans of Max's And Just Like That... saw a whole lot more of Cynthia Nixon 's Miranda Hobbes than they likely expected in Thursday's new Season 3 episode. Thursday's fifth episode of Season 3 - entitled Under the Table - found Miranda temporarily moving in with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), after being confronted by a nude male neighbor wielding a cleaver. Things get awkward when Carrie kicks her cat Shoe out of the bedroom, only to find Miranda going back to her guest room, fully nude! Aside from the double-dose of full frontal nudity, fans were also quite stunned to get a surprise (digital) cameo from Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall). Unfortunately, fans didn't get to see Samantha in the flesh, but she did share a racy opinion with Carrie when asked. Fans didn't hesitate to take to social media to express their shock at tonight's episode on Max. The Miranda nude scene was a shock to Carrie, not because she saw her old friend in the buff, but because she thought she wasn't there in the first place. Miranda had planned to spend the night at her new potential love interest Joy (Dolly Wells), though Joy's Italian greyhound dogs won't stop whining, ending the tryst early. After gently placing Shoe in the hall, Carrie is stunned to find a nude Miranda in the hall, walking back to her guest room. 'I thought you were at Joy's?' Carrie asked, as Miranda responded, 'Her dogs wouldn't stop whining, so...' The episode also reveals that Carrie has a new downstairs neighbor, a British writer named Duncan Reeves (Jonathan Cake), who her friends are big fans of. Their stint as neighbors gets off to a rocky start as they first meet when Duncan complains about Carrie walking around in heels all day, keeping him awake since he works nights, writing his new book. After learning that her friends all know who he is - and that Miranda is a huge fan - Carrie decides to text her old friend Samantha Jones, though we never see Samantha in the flesh. Carrie asks, 'What do you know about Duncan Reeves?' Samantha responds, 'They say he's a lot of fun. Why?' Carrie responds, 'He's living under me,' and Samantha fires back, 'I wish he was under me,' which makes Carrie chuckle. Carrie tells Miranda that, 'Samantha says that Duncan Reeves is known to be fun,' as Miranda adds, 'Well, he's like 6'5", so that's her kind of fun.' Many fans were stunned to see Miranda in the buff, like @xomakiyah, who said in all caps, 'MA'AM ????? WHERE ARE YOUR CLOTHES.' Others like @sagevalentine used a GIF of Dan Levy from Schitt's Creek saying, 'OH MY GOD,' adding 'Miranda! #andjustlikethat #AJLT.' The nude encounter was just the first awkward one between Carrie and Miranda, with Carrie waking up the next morning, finding a fully-clothed Miranda eating her last yogurt and last banana, which some, like @jspagano, found to be quite rude. 'Miranda is such a thoughtless gross woman. Walking nude around the house? Eating Carrie's food and being so dismissive. Ugh. She's the worst character on this show from the get go,' the X user said. Others like @mzcaramelbunni were shocked at the male full frontal nudity, tweeting, 'Really?!! Wtf a naked man wielding a s**t is comical but so not funny.' Many were also shocked at Samantha's digital cameo, especially after the Max X account teased it by showing Samantha's contact in Carrie's phone on Thursday. 'Miranda is such a thoughtless gross woman. Walking nude around the house? Eating Carrie's food and being so dismissive. Ugh. She's the worst character on this show from the get go,' the X user said. X user @J_adoreDiDi quote-retweeted and said, 'My heart skipped a beat. #AndJustLikeThat.' Another fan - @pinsleric - admitted, 'Even just literal texts from Samantha make this show better #andjustlikethat.' Ladybug Lizzie (@sagevalentine) tweeted an OMG GIF, adding, 'Carrie is texting with Samantha. #andjustlikethat #AJLT.' Elsewhere in the episode, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) started freaking out after her husband Harry (Evan Handler) revealed he has prostate cancer, which explained why he had trouble in bed and why he peed himself at the club earlier this season. Harry insisted he would survive - since prostate cancer has a 98% survival rate - but made Charlotte promise not to tell anybody, for fear of becoming, 'the cancer guy.' Charlotte managed to keep her promise, though it was tested during a 'glamping' trip with Lisa Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) and her husband (Chris Jackson) and their kids. Seema (Sarita Choudhury) - after learning she was essentially forced out of her real estate company - took the first step to branching out on her own. She approached a bank for a loan to pay for a space for her new business, and despite her best pitch to the lady loan clerk, she was rejected. After a tense start to their neighborship, Carrie rushed into action after a smoke alarm went off in his unit, which he did not hear through headphones, immersed in his work. Since his dinner was ruined, they went out to eat and got to know each other and what types of books they write. While Carrie took Duncan's simple suggestion of not wearing heels in her apartment as a major affront to her fashionable sensibilities, the dinner seemed to change her tune. The episode ends with Carrie getting home from the dinner, and, seemingly for the first time in ages, she takes her heels off, for him. And Just Like That returns with the sixth episode of the third season on Thursday, July 3 at 9 PM ET/6 PM ET on Max.
New York Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘And Just Like That …' Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Heels
Season 3, Episode 5: 'Under the Table' I'm sorry, there's a crappy apartment below Carrie's lavish Gramercy Park palace? With a tenant — her tenant — she has never met or heard of? This is an unexpected (and, like many things on this show) somewhat unbelievable twist. Sure, garden apartments are common, but Carrie is a rich person who bought this house from another rich person. Would either owner really leave the bottom floor in such shambles? Maybe so if it doesn't bother the sexy biographer Duncan Reeves (Jonathan Cake) who lives there only six months of the year solely to write — and smoke a pipe, apparently, which is a detail that took the brooding London author thing a step too far. The only thing that does bother Duncan is the clickity clack of little Carrie heels, which keeps him up all day long as he is trying to sleep. (Brooding London authors can write only at night, see.) It's this complaint that kicks Carrie into her petty era. Duncan requests that Carrie please remove her shoes when she is home, which offends her to her core. He even gifts her a pair of slippers, which she impolitely declines. 'It's New York. There's noise,' she tells him, and continues to click-clack away, albeit with a bit more tiptoe. From there, Carrie's pettiness only grows. When Miranda's Airbnb neighbor comes at her half-naked with a meat cleaver, Carrie insists that her friend come stay in the safe harbor that is Gramercy. Miranda obliges, and then Carrie immediately begins to pick at her for consuming the last yogurt, the last banana and the last Mexican Coke. Again, Carrie is a rich person. And they are best friends. Why is Carrie acting as if Miranda should put down a credit card for incidentals? However, Miranda is rich, too, and she has been divorced from Steve for what, three years now? (Season 1 was a long time ago!) Why she still hasn't found a permanent place to live is perplexing to say the least. Remember the first time Miranda left Steve in the first 'Sex and the City' movie? All she had to do was walk through a gentrifying neighborhood and say the incredibly regrettable line 'White guy with a baby. Wherever he's going, that's where we need to be, and boom, she had a new apartment. (Where was Woke Charlotte when we needed her?) Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Vogue
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Then, as Now, Aidan Shaw Is the Absolute Worst
Being cheated on is horrible, sure. It's okay not to want to forgive it. But if you can't, then it's quite simple: don't get back together with the person who did it to you. You can't just subject them to constant shaming and guilt-tripping until they break—it's gaslighting, pure and simple. And this is all before he begins his campaign of performative flirting with a bartender at Scout in order to piss Carrie off. Gross. There's also Aidan's toxic attempts to coerce Carrie into marrying him. When she initially wavers after his proposal, telling him clearly that she needs more time before getting married, Aidan reacts generously. However, by the end of the SAME EPISODE, he's trying to persuade her to fly to Vegas for a quickie wedding. His sweet nothings include 'come on, you're just scared,' 'well, maybe you need to be pushed,' and 'I wanna lock this thing down.' And then there's that old classic: 'What's the big deal? It's a stupid piece of paper!' Romantic! Why does that stupid piece of paper matter? Because Aidan isn't proposing out of love for Carrie, he's proposing to gain a more concrete hold over her. He even admits it with his wheedling: 'I want the whole wide world to know that you're mine.' Before you say it, I know that Carrie is far from perfect. In fact, she's frequently awful. 'Time and Punishment' is also the 'bullshit bagels' episode, in which she launches into a narcissistic rant about Aidan as a defeated Miranda stares back at her from over the rim of her neck brace. She can be selfish, and her rational thinking totally dissolves when Big is around. But she's open about her flaws, she admits her failures, and so we forgive and even love her for them. Even when she makes the truly terrible decision to invite Big up to Aidan's country house in 'Belles of the Balls,' the men one-up her with a fight so tragic it ends with Carrie screaming, 'Stop it! You're middle-aged!' Carrie isn't great, but Aidan is so much worse. I, for one, was delighted to see the back of him after SATC Season 4—aside from a brief jump scare in Season 6 and the disastrous second movie. Alas, AJLT writer and director Michael Patrick King was not quite done with Aidan yet. But whilst many of the original characters have changed beyond recognition in this chaotic spin-off show that fans have come to love/hate, Aidan, sadly, has not. His insistence that he wouldn't set foot in Carrie's old apartment because it's the scene of so much unhappiness from decades ago? Weird. Melodramatic. Juvenile. And totally in character. (It's not the apartment that's the problem, Aidan, it's you.)
Indian Express
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
What it means today to date as a bisexual or pansexual person, who is attracted to more than one gender
'I'm not even sure bisexuality exists. It's just a layover on the way to Gaytown.' These infamous words from Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw still echo eerily in 2025. A quarter-century since that episode aired, bisexuality remains one of the most misunderstood, erased and dismissed identities, often seen as temporary. You're either on your way to being 'fully gay,' or merely 'experimenting' before settling into heterosexuality. It is as if queer desire must pledge loyalty to a single gender to be real. And yet, bisexual and pansexual people comprise the largest subgroup within the LGBTQIA+ community today. A 2022 Gallup poll found that nearly 60 per cent of LGBTQIA+ adults in the United States of America identify as bisexual. Among Gen Z, two-thirds of queer adults identify as bi. Statistically, they're the majority. Socially, they remain one of the most invalidated groups. This phenomenon, often referred to as bi-erasure or pan-erasure, plays out in media, queer spaces and straight relationships alike. It made headlines recently when musician Billie Eilish was mocked after confirming a relationship with a man. Online discourse rushed to revoke her queerness, treating it as something that could be undone. people are being so weird about billie eilish. bisexual women date men. that's literally what being bi means. it's not her fault she's not publicly been with/fallen in love with a woman or nb person. do you have the same problem if bi women only date women?? or is that okay? — queereotype ☻ (@thatqueerkiwi) June 9, 2025 Bisexuality refers to attraction to more than one gender; this may include men, women and non-binary people. It does not mean you're 'half straight, half gay' or that you must be attracted to cis people alone – just that your capacity for attraction isn't limited to a single gender. These common misconceptions have heavily contributed to its erasure, both within and outside the community. Pansexuality emerged as a parallel, a term that is more explicitly inclusive – one that signals attraction regardless of gender. For many, it offered a clearer way to communicate their experience of desire beyond the binary. But what does it actually mean to date while being attracted to more than one gender? For Fiza, 27, a queer polyamorous woman (who uses both bi and pan for herself), dating as a bisexual or pansexual person isn't just about orientation, it's about negotiating multiple identities in spaces that are often reductive. 'Queer spaces sort of erase your identity as bi,' she says. 'It's just not queer enough, especially if you're in a straight-passing relationship.' It's a familiar double bind: the presumption that queerness must look a certain way. A woman dating a man is assumed to be straight. If she's also polyamorous, she's often perceived as (sexually) 'available' – a perception that's both hypersexualising and dismissive of emotional depth. 'Mostly, the only bisexual relationship people seem to accept is femme with femme,' Fiza explains. 'They don't give space to the platonic relationships I have as a poly person. Being bi legitimises my queerness, but only if I'm visibly queer to them.' Fiza's experience is layered with the complexities of being polyamorous. This adds another dimension of misunderstanding. She finds that cishet men interpret her openness as an invitation rather than an identity. 'They imagine being poly means you're in an open relationship where they can slot themselves in. That's not what this is. And I shouldn't have to explain that just to justify existing,' she says. Sanjana, 25, has a different vantage point – one shaped by the scarcity of queer spaces and a reliance on dating apps that often feel performative. 'I don't know where else to look for women to date apart from dating apps,' she says. 'The environment isn't exactly queer-friendly here in Bangalore. Very few are open, and even fewer are looking to date.' Even within those spaces, the presence of 'bicurious' profiles feels inauthentic and emotionally risky for her. 'We're all figuring things out, but I don't want to date someone just fortb them to later say they're not actually queer. That's hard,' she says. Sanjana's words speak to the emotional exhaustion of constantly explaining your identity, or having it doubted altogether. 'It feels like I have imposter syndrome because I have zero queer experience despite knowing I'm attracted to women. I can't just walk up to someone I find hot in the metro and ask them out. Dating apps don't help. And let's not even talk about catfish accounts,' she tells For bi women like Sanjana, queer visibility isn't just about pride parades or Instagram bios. It's about the ability to date and connect without fear, scepticism or ridicule – something that remains elusive in many parts of India and elsewhere. What ties Fiza's and Sanjana's experiences together is a shared struggle: proving the validity of their queerness – to others, and, sometimes, to themselves. For bi and pan individuals, the visibility paradox is real. If they're single, they're assumed straight. If they're in a relationship with someone of the same gender, they're assumed gay. And if they're with a different-gender partner, their identity vanishes altogether. 'When you're poly, your bi identity sometimes feels more 'accepted' because you're dating multiple people of different genders,' says Fiza. 'But why should I need to prove anything at all?' It's not just about romantic partners either. The very spaces designed for queer community can gatekeep visibility. 'I've had people assume I'm not queer enough because I'm not actively dating someone of the same gender, or a non-binary person,' she says. 'As if queerness is only real when you're performing it.' And yet, dating as bi or pan isn't about spectacle or proving a point. It's about connection. 'I always begin with friendship,' Fiza says of her approach. 'Then I gauge compatibility, attraction, and our shared values. Disclosing my identity is crucial – I need them to understand that being poly doesn't mean I'm emotionally unavailable.' Sanjana adds, with a tinge of irony, 'I wish we had a Grindr for women – at least that would feel a bit safer and more direct.' Despite increasing representation, bisexual and pansexual individuals still confront disbelief, fetishisation, and dismissal. Their queerness is often seen as conditional – visible only when it conforms to the dominant visual codes of gayness. But the truth is this: bisexuality and pansexuality are not stopovers or indecisions. They are complete, valid identities, regardless of who someone is dating. To date while bi or pan is to date in a world that refuses to see you in full. It's to be continually read as half, or as pretending, or as conveniently queer. And still, love happens. Friendship blossoms. Communities form. People like Fiza and Sanjana continue to seek meaningful relationships in spaces both welcoming and indifferent. In Fiza's words: 'It's not easy. But you find your way. You find your people. You keep showing up – as you are.'
