So when it came down to it, even Samantha Jones couldn’t save And Just Like That.... Appearing for a brief cameo at the beginning of today’s season two finale, Kim Cattrall came accessorised with camp, colour and a fake British accent. Calling from a London taxi to say she couldn’t make Carrie’s bon voyage party for her apartment, Samantha brought much-needed fizz to a show dryer than sandpaper. Gosh, she was missed.
Since publicly burning bridges with Sarah Jessica Parker and declining to reprise her Samantha role full-time, Cattrall has turned up in wall-to-wall misery elsewhere – the ghastly Netflix comedy Glamorous, plus shambling revivals of How I Met Your Mother and Queer as Folk – as if to say that she’s not opposed to starring in absolute crud; she just despises the Sex and the City team that badly. But, in a turn of events few could have seen coming, Cattrall ended up dodging a bullet – over the course of its frustrating, punishing and routinely inexplicable second season, And Just Like That... has become the worst show on television.
