Sex and the City is coming to Netflix. The beloved HBO series has, up until now, only been available to stream on HBO’s service, Max. But now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, audiences are going to be able to see the adventures of Carrie, Charlotte, Sam, and Miranda through New York City on Netflix starting next month.
While fans will still be able to stream the show on Max, The Hollywood Reporter states that all six seasons of SATC will be arriving on Netflix on April 1. The announcement was also posted by the official Netflix Twitter account. The post is a photo of the iconic quad with the caption, “Hello, lover! Sex and the City — The Complete Series — is coming to Netflix on April 1”.
Sex and the City is a series about the ups and downs of life, friendship and love while navigating the beast that is Manhattan. It stars Sarah Jessica Parker (Hocus Pocus, Footloose) as Carrie, the series’ main protagonist who is a journalist who uses her life experience as fuel to her writing, Kristin Davis (Deadly Illusions, Couples Retreat) her friend Charlotte, Kim Cattrall (Mannequin, Porkies) as her friend Sam, and Cynthia Nixon (Ratched, The Gilded Age) as her friend Miranda. The series debuted in 1998 and has been a smash hit bringing in two movie adaptations with the same title and even the most recent reunion series titled And Just Like That… that has been since 2021.
When it was announced that HBO was going to begin to release its content to Netflix, the chief of HBO spoke about how important it is to maintain a certain “balance” when transferring and sharing media.
“We have to be protective of the shows that we have and are successful. But, you know, I’ve worked in television long enough that syndication used to be, that was the pot of gold. That was the brass ring that meant that your show was gonna go on and have a life after its initial run and live for decades. So the idea of selling a show outside of your ecosystem wasn’t an unusual idea, obviously at HBO we did it a lot with Band of Brothers, which was on, I think, History Network, and Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sex and the City. We basically sold everything, so it’s not a new concept.”
He then continued to assure viewers that he was still confident in the decision to share content, “Obviously, streaming and companies kind of reorienting themselves has impacted that. But I think the way that we’re doing it somewhat cautiously, doing it co-exclusively, we’re never giving anybody an exclusive right to a show. What we’ve seen so far … with Ballers and any show that we’re putting on, we’re seeing an uptick on that. So it has been helpful. That said, I don’t think you’re going to see more recent shows, you’re not going to see the shows I presented here on anywhere else until years later, which is the syndication model, so I am comfortable with it.”
You can watch Sex and the City on Netflix starting April 1 and you can currently watch it on Max!