The third season of And Just Like That premieres on May 29. It also has a trailer (below), but what’s missing? A story.

After being phenomenal like Sex and The City as a pioneering series to address the modern woman, becoming a franchise and three films (two more), the series returned in 2021 with a new name, many changes, and little acceptance. That’s right.

The captive audience felt worn out by the same crises they have been following for 25 years – romantic misunderstandings, disappointments, breakups, new beginnings – and suffered even more with the absence of Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), the death of Big (Chris Noth) and Miranda’s (Cynthia Nixon) discovery that she is indeed homosexual (a fact that was raised in Sex and The City and discarded when she fell in love with Steve) are among the main problems.

There is greater diversity in the cast, but it took a while for them to become successful. Today, the poster for the third season officially promotes two characters as main characters: Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) and Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury), completely discarding Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez), who was left from the series, and Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman), who asked to leave because she was in conflict with the other series where Pittman has a better role.

After spending 16 years chasing Big, being happily married to him, and being a grieving widow in the first season, it felt very strange in the second when they returned with Aidan (John Corbett) and Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) questioning whether she “really loved Big” and saying, after eight seasons and three movies, that sex with Aidan was superior to that of her late husband. Unnecessary and simply: wrong.

The toxic emotional pathology of Carrie chasing a horrible man like Big and selling it as romantic is part of the cultural period we were living in. The solution was below the intelligence of the franchise, that’s what I regret.

But then, we arrived at the third season of And Just Like That and we finally have a new beginning. Our beloved sixty-somethings are now millionaires and educated, but still looking for romance and new inspirations. But do they really have the energy?

In the trailer, we see that Carrie is going to throw herself into the world of fiction and is still in a long-distance relationship with Aidan. Of course, there’s an interesting neighbor to mess with the bandstand.

Charlotte is dealing with her teenage daughters: Lilly falls in love with a dancer, and Rose stars in a musical. Her friendship with Lisa remains strong, with the latter finding a date just for fun (danger! danger!). Seema continues to have a dilemma about whether to actually consider starting a new life with her boyfriend, and Miranda continues to discover new loves in Manhattan. Nothing new, right?

But I confess: I can’t wait to see them again!