Kim Cattrall's absence from And Just Like That..., the Sex and the City revival series currently airing on HBO Max, sparked ongoing debate this year.
Speculative reasoning as to why she didn't reprise her role as beloved character Samantha Jones alongside the rest of the original cast ranged from personal to professional. Was the decision rooted in Kim's feud with Sarah Jessica Parker or some kind of scheduling conflict? Is Kim switching careers?
A new theory was tossed into the mix recently, thanks to social media users who've kept up with both the SATC franchise and Netflix's Emily in Paris.
Emily in Paris, which faced widespread backlash after its first season aired, released a second season in December that ended with Lily Collins' titular character debating another move abroad.
Without spoiling too much, the Season 2 finale of Emily in Paris offered a couple of potential avenues for the character's location in Season 3. Twitter users reasoned that one could be London, where Kim's Samantha lives in the SATC universe, and the crossover hypotheses took off from there.
"Pitch: Emily is over Paris and moves to London to work for Samantha Jones PR," one person suggested yesterday, while others proposed ideas for a Kim-centric series called Samantha in London.
pitch: Emily is over Paris and moves to London to work for Samantha Jones PR
Watching Emily In Paris just makes me want Samantha In London. @KimCattrall
"It would be wild if Emily went to see Alfie [the character's love interest] in London and ran into Samantha Jones," someone else said.
It would be wild if Emily went to see Alfie in London and ran into Samantha Jones #EmilyInParis