Critics love to hate on Carrie and company. and their Sex and the City reboot, And Just Like That... I get it: the show is over the top. The fashion is fabulous, but it looks more like costumes than clothing. And the economics of their lives are wildly unrealistic. But that was always true.

When Sex and the City first aired, I was starting to practice as a therapist. Like many, I was captivated by the adventures of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda. The series became, in a way, my “co-therapist.” Many of my clients at the time were young professionals—single, childless in their 30s, not marrying right out of college, navigating romantic lives different from that of their parents. Sex and the City made that experience visible, cool, and even aspirational. At the time, the idea that being a single woman in her 30s was appealing seemed downright revolutionary. It dove into the very dating questions my clients were asking, and rather than provide answers, the........

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