‘Sex and the City’ is back — and Gen Z isn’t going to be able to handle it
NY Post
As I re-watched “Sex and the City” this week, I couldn’t help but wonder … will Gen Z have a total meltdown and cancel Carrie Bradshaw?
The classic New York sitcom just started streaming on Netflix, exposing the racy, sexed-up exploits of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda to a new generation — many of whom weren’t even born when the series premiered in 1998 or when it ended in 2004.
And I’m not sure all of my fellow Zoomers are ready to time-travel back to an age when seemingly no one batted an eye at cultural appropriation or gay jokes. Let alone a character casually admiring Donald Trump.
But the future president is name-dropped right in the series premiere, as Samantha describes Carrie’s main love interest, Mr. Big, as the “next Donald Trump.”
Reader, it is meant as a sincere compliment.
If young viewers keep watching to Season 2, they’ll see Trump himself — thinner, younger, still a fan of spray-tanning — lock eyes with Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) at a cocktail bar.