“Sex and the City” Endet: Farewell to Carrie Bradshaw

The farewell to Carrie Bradshaw feels a bit like the last meeting with an old school friend. You don’t really have much to say, life have developed too differently, and it is clear to everyone involved that without that “Do you still know, then”-Nostalgie would not have come about anyway.

So this time you say goodbye to each other after a white wine spritzer, even though you used to drink, smoke and talk together at four in the morning. Yeah, stressful week, we hear from each other! On the way home, you are sad that this friendship, which was not believed, had an expiry date – but secretly also relieved that a social obligation is less demanding the schedule.

For a long time, Carrie Bradshaw was such a friend who was loyal to the loyalty for a long time. One that only existed on the TV screen, but still-Carrie simply belonged to the life of many women of very different generations, and over six seasons “Sex and the City” (1998-2004), two cinema sequels (2006, 2008) and at least 32 episodes of series continuation (started 2021).

Now the camera finally zooms out of the life of the most famous, fictional New Yorker: The broadcaster HBO has the end of “And just like That” announced, quite suddenly. Carrie Bradshaw has hers for 27 years “professional heartbeat” Certainly, said main actress and co-producer Sarah Jessica Parker in an emotional video review-now she has to, now the fans have to put up with the fact that Carrie’s story is told.

And that brings a bitter farewell to it. Fans and critics agree that “And just like That” never that “Gift” It was that one had hoped for the cult series revival-even if showrunner, screenwriter and director Michael Patrick King claims to have designed the series exactly as. On the contrary: what “Sex and the City” once turned into a pop cultural sensation, namely the mix of flippability, style and a lot of heart, the continuation was lost over the claim to want to please everyone.

The hardcore fans, who actually only wanted to meet their heroines of once satisfied and happily, without big breaks in life (why did Mr. Big have to die?!). The critical voices, which the series of origin is too white, was too politically incorrect, too little representative of real New York (the worst solution for this legitimate criticism: over-designed woken story). And you probably wanted to like the studio bosses who wanted to press an economic hit out of the carrie machinery.

In the end, the Ultra-Glatt and Ultra-Seland series came at the same time. The good stories were missing, and the ironic observation with which Carrie Bradshaw once led through her living environment. In 1998 the protagonist met as a cheeky sex columnist who struggled through the New York dating life and could only afford her manolo blahs collection thanks to an ancient rental price loyalty. Yes, that “Sex and the City”-Bleben played in one “Vogue”-S version of the Manhattan at the turn of the millennium. There was already lunch Cosmopolitans, And the glamorous as Loyal Freundinnen-Clique endlessly had time to discuss all life problems with extensive shopping tours.

But it was precisely these conversations that were so funny and credible and played that women could find themselves all over the world in it, for half a serial service that they felt that they were part of the clique themselves.

In 2025, on the other hand, Carrie Bradshaw said goodbye to the TV screens as a rich widow, who lives with a cat alone in a house that is much too large, with her sub-tenant about high-heel-Clack Strict and still has to learn at the end of 50 not to hang their self -esteem to the attention of any men. Her friends, who used to be honest with her, when Carrie appeared too pretentious, have been degraded into stencil -like minor characters that are overwhelmed with the most minimal life tasks.

Is that the life that the TV audience once wanted for Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda? Certainly not. “Sex and the City” At the time of first broadcast, was considered provocative, sexy, culturally trend -setting. At the end of “And just like That” It remains the dismaying feeling that the series makers apparently found the 50+ generation to not interesting enough to make an exciting show. Instead of listening exactly and reproducing how 55-year-old women feel and talk about in a very privileged but also very exciting scene, about what they are joking and what moves them, you serve a thin plot that literally betrayed his heroines.

And so even the most transfigured fan can only admit that it is really time to lovingly say Carrie Bradshaw. According to rumors, Sarah Jessica Parker is supposed to try to continue the series with new producers. But honestly: that only sounds after another attempt to connect the series franchise to the artificial ventilator. For hours Hate-Watch sessions is really too good for your own lifetime. In this sense it remains to be said: Dear Carrie Bradshaw, it was great with you – but please don’t call us anymore.