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As the series ends with its third season, it misses any chance to truly explore how sex changes as we age._ by [Scarlett Harris](https://time.com/author/scarlett-harris/) ## Scarlett Harris Aug 13, 2025 8:40 PM UTC  Jonathan Cake and Sarah Jessica Parker, not in bed Jonathan Cake and Sarah Jessica Parker, not in bedCourtesy of Max by [Scarlett Harris](https://time.com/author/scarlett-harris/) ## Scarlett Harris Aug 13, 2025 8:40 PM UTC “Will not having sex mean that we aren’t Harry and Charlotte?” Charlotte York-Goldenblatt, played by Kristen Davis, asks her husband Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler) in an early episode of what we now know is the final season of the [much-maligned](https://time.com/6144511/and-just-like-that-finale-review/) and utterly addictive _Sex and the City_ reboot, _And Just Like That._ During Season 3, Harry had been experiencing penile symptoms such as erectile dysfunction and incontinence, which prompted him to go to the doctor, who diagnosed him with prostate cancer. The side effects of his treatment could include both long-term bowel dysfunction and erectile dysfunction. The latter would have been an ideal opportunity for the show to explore what a diminished sex life might mean for the couple. After all, regular penetrative sex was so important to Charlotte that she left her first husband, Trey (Kyle MacLachlan), over his inability to get it up and his disinterest in addressing it. Has Charlotte’s opinion on the issue changed in the ensuing 25 years, during which time she has built a life and a family with Harry? It seemed like this was the narrative arc Charlotte would face this season, but that would have required _And Just Like That_ to be concerned with character development, storyline continuity, and any interest in the real lives of menopausal women. “My husband had cancer and I wasn’t allowed to say anything about it,” she lamented to an energy healer in a recent episode, which the show took as a topic sentence and ran with. Instead of this very real dilemma, we got Charlotte experiencing—checks notes—inexplicable vertigo and a “loud and totally unnecessary renovation.”  Kristin Davis and Evan Handler in And Just Like That Courtesy of Max This cowardly avoidance has been one of many problems with _And Just Like That_ since it premiered on (the newly _re-_minted) HBO Max in late 2021\. The original show from which it spun off broke ground in the late 1990s for speaking frankly about the sex lives of thirty-something women—everything from threesomes to anal to abortion. The outsized success of the franchise meant that, by the end of the TV series and its two spin-off movies, its focus had shifted more in the direction of status signalling in Versace ballgowns, Park Avenue penthouses, and first-class flights. Fans of the show who had aged alongside its heroes Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte were excited to see how the trio would tackle sex in later life. (Kim Cattrall, who played the most sexually adventurous character, Samantha Jones, didn’t return for _And Just Like That_, though she did appear in a [brief cameo](https://time.com/6307927/kim-cattrall-and-just-like-that-finale-2023/) in last season’s finale.) The first two seasons did offer up some interesting developments in the lives of these women, like Charlotte’s breakthrough bleeding disrupting her belief that she was finally in menopause or new character Lisa Todd-Wexley’s (Nicole Ari Parker) [accidental pregnancy in her 40s](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/11/perimenopause-vs-menopause-age-pregnancy/675998/). And Miranda coming out as queer opened up a whole new world of sexual exploration for the character. But _And Just Like That_ was mostly a missed opportunity to delve into any of these topics for more than a passing mention, with much of the connective tissue seeming to take place in between episodes, as with Harry casually dropping in the penultimate episode that he still hasn’t been able to get an erection months after his surgery, which Charlotte breezily shrugs off. So much of what transpires happens _to_ these women instead of enabling them to be the drivers of their own stories. We’re more privy to Harry’s bodily functions than anything having to do with Charlotte, who hasn’t done anything of consequence since her [decision to go back to work](https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/2817516/and-just-like-that-season-2-episode-7-charlotte-reconsiders-choice/) last season, a callback to the original show. Lisa has a [convenient-for-plot’s-sake miscarriage](https://www.scarymommy.com/entertainment/and-just-like-that-abortion-lisa-todd-wexley-miscarriage) instead of meaningfully discussing the realities of abortion for an older Black woman. Grief over losing her father for the [second time](https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/and-just-like-that-lisa-todd-wexley-dad-death-explained-rcna217480) and her husband Herbert (Christopher Jackson) pushing her away after his city council election loss could have driven Lisa into the arms of her hot co-worker, but that storyline seems to have been forgotten. Miranda’s adult son Brady (Niall Cunningham) got someone pregnant, so now Miranda’s going to be a grandma when she barely wanted to be a mother. And for some reason, most of this season was about Carrie’s (thankfully!) ex Aidan’s (John Corbett) teenage son Wyatt.  Nicole Ari Parker and Christopher Jackson Courtesy of Max Don’t even get me started on the criminally underused Sarita Choudhury as Seema, Carrie’s intriguing new friend who chided Carrie for pitying her life-long single status and making her the [third wheel](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seema-on-and-just-like-that-third-wheel%5Fl%5F64d5223ae4b0fc6a5cd45c26), and who had never laughed during sex until the age of 55\. For some reason, she was reduced to a two-episode arc about deodorant, and not even one related to [changes in body odor due to menopause](https://thebettermenopause.com/blogs/the-better-gut-community/menopause-body-odour)! Sure, absent Samantha, _And Just Like That_ probably wasn’t going to be as much about sex as the original series with that word in its title. One can’t help but smell a whiff of internalized ageism from the same production team, especially when other shows and movies such as _Golden Girls_, _Grace and Frankie_, _Gloria Bell_, _Babygirl_ and [Miranda July’s _All Fours_](https://time.com/7172893/all-fours/)have absolutely gone there. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, then, that we’ve never so much as glimpsed an estrogen patch or seen a bottle of lubricant on a bedside table in one of Harry and Charlotte’s plentiful bedroom scenes, or during Carrie and Duncan’s (Jonathan Cake) much anticipated tryst. After all, former sex columnist Carrie was squeamish about discussing masturbation on her sex and gender podcast and with her husband, the [late John “Big” Preston](https://time.com/6126784/and-just-like-that-mr-big/) ([Chris Noth](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/chris-noth-accused-of-sexual-assault-1235063596/)) in the pilot of _And Just Like That._ But when the best ignored _Sex and the City 2_ movie is more radically open about [menopause](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cattrall-on-menopause-sex-and-the-city-style/) than a TV series made over a decade later, then you know you’ve got a serious problem. Unfortunately now, with the news that its third season will be its last, _And Just Like That_ will never get the chance to explore territory that might actually have been groundbreaking for TV. _Scarlett Harris is a culture critic and author of_ A Diva Was a Female Version of a Wrestler: An Abbreviated Herstory of World Wrestling Entertainment_. You can follow her on_ [_Bluesky_](https://bsky.app/profile/scarletteharris.bsky.social) _and read her previously published work at her_ [_website_](https://scarlettwoman.com.au/about/) _and_ [_Substack_](https://scarlettwoman.substack.com/)_,_ The Scarlett Woman_._ And Just Like That's Missed Opportunity With Sex ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7308453/and-just-like-that-sex-missed-opportunity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7308453/and-just-like-that-sex-missed-opportunity/"},"headline":"And Just Like That Missed a Major Opportunity to Explore Sex in Later Life","datePublished":"2025-08-13T20:40:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:43:05.208Z","description":"As the series ends with its third season, it misses any chance to truly explore how sex changes as we age.","url":"https://time.com/7308453/and-just-like-that-sex-missed-opportunity/","keywords":["Television","freelance","Second click","culturepod"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf267427792f843c8/6998c8fd66d4e385c9cbcbaa/jonathan-cake-sarah-jessica-parker_3_c74ffd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Scarlett Harris","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/scarlett-harris/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf267427792f843c8/6998c8fd66d4e385c9cbcbaa/jonathan-cake-sarah-jessica-parker_3_c74ffd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jonathan-cake-sarah-jessica-parker_3_c74ffd","caption":"Jonathan Cake and Sarah Jessica Parker, not in bed","creditText":"Courtesy of Max","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7308453/and-just-like-that-sex-missed-opportunity/","name":"And Just Like That Missed a Major Opportunity to Explore Sex in Later Life"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"And Just Like That... 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