{"id":1326714,"date":"2022-02-22T06:44:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1326714"},"modified":"2022-02-22T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:52:54","slug":"and-just-like-that-cast-responds-to-meghan-mccain-calling-sex-and-the-city-reboot-too-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/and-just-like-that-cast-responds-to-meghan-mccain-calling-sex-and-the-city-reboot-too-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018And Just Like That\u2019 Cast Responds To Meghan McCain Calling \u2018Sex And The City\u2019 Reboot Too Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fand-just-like-that-cast-responds-to-meghan-mccain-calling-sex-and-the-city-reboot-too-woke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1326714&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/Meghan-McCain-and-AJLT-cast.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Fans tuned in to the \u201cSex and the City\u201d reboot, \u201cAnd Just Like That,\u201d either expecting it to be a comforting dose of nostalgia or a colossal failure like the second \u201cSATC\u201d movie. But even the most optimistic fan had to assume that creators would weave in modern elements that can only be described as woke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They were right about that prediction. \u201cAnd Just Like That\u201d intentionally focused on diversifying the cast by adding multiple ethnicities to join the three white main characters after receiving criticism for the original version. Showrunners also wrote in a nonbinary character, Che Diaz (Sarah Ramirez), who becomes the love interest of Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) despite the fact that she\u2019s married with a child.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In November, former \u201cView\u201d co-host Meghan McCain penned a scathing review of the series that echoed what so many other former fans of \u201cSex and the City\u201d were thinking of the reboot. McCain said in the Daily Mail op-ed that \u201cwokeness kills everything\u201d in response to the new show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Two members of the \u201cAnd Just Like That\u201d cast responded to McCain\u2019s column during an episode of Andy Cohen\u2019s Sirius XM show Saturday, Fox News <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/and-just-like-that-cast-responds-to-meghan-mccains-criticism-sex-and-the-city-reboot-was-too-woke\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>. Cynthia Nixon and Nicole Ari Parker said \u201cAJLT\u201d fully honored the original \u201cSex and the City.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI disagree,\u201d Nixon told Cohen when he asked her opinion on McCain\u2019s op-ed. \u201cThe show became so beloved \u2014 reruns for all those years. \u2026 I feel like people have watched it, and they know it so well, inside and out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBecause people know it so well, they have enshrined it in nostalgia. But this is a show that has always pushed every kind of boundary. I think that that\u2019s what\u2019s so magnificent about the new show \u2014 about how many different directions we\u2019re going with that, and pushing boundaries and shaking people up,\u201d Nixon continued. \u201cAnd most importantly, shaking the characters up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to see these characters \u2026 comfortable. We want to see them out of their comfort zones.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nixon\u2019s character Miranda received some of the harshest criticism on the series. Fans felt like she was behaving erratically, which didn\u2019t match up with the pragmatic, hard-working lawyer from the original series who always had to talk sense into her impulsive best friend Carrie. The old Miranda would never abandon her responsibilities for a fling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, Parker was a new addition to the cast, playing Charlotte\u2019s friend Lisa Todd Wexley. She agreed with Nixon\u2019s assessment of McCain\u2019s column.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cComments like that say more about the person saying them,\u201d she told Cohen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McCain slammed the series in her original Daily Mail <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1469419788938231809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1469419788938231809%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Ftv%2Fand-just-like-that-cast-responds-to-meghan-mccains-criticism-shows-wokeness%2F\"><span>article<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCarrie now plays the part of the \u2018cisgender woman\u2019 on a podcast with younger co-hosts. One of them is \u2014 of course \u2014 queer and nonbinary. Because it\u2019s so boring and un-evolved to be a straight white woman,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t know who to blame: the writers of the show or this particularly stupid and repressive time we are living in. Now entire plotlines are dedicated to microaggressions,\u201d McCain added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McCain summed up her feelings on \u201cSex and the City\u201d going full woke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWokeness kills everything and I am disappointed to tell you that \u2018And Just Like That\u2019 is another victim of Hollywood trying to placate a specific audience and not the original one, which made it a hit in the first place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>Daily Wire member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans tuned in to the \u201cSex and the City\u201d reboot, \u201cAnd Just Like That,\u201d either expecting it to be a comforting dose of nostalgia or a colossal failure like the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}