Season five of The Bold Type is finally available to stream on the BBC iPlayer, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

It has that familiar ’Sex And The City in its heyday’ quality, when the foursome sipped cosmopolitans, discussed anal sex in taxis and regularly put the world to right over lunch.

The trio – in this case Jane, Sutton and Kat – embody the best of the enviable single New York City lifestyle. Each episode is centred around whatever the issue is in Jane’s (Katie Stevens) latest article, while Sutton (Meghan Fahy) is on hand to cover the fashion shoots and Kat (Aisha Dee) rounds it off with stellar discussions on social media.

As is the case with Sex And The City (SATC), there’s a sense that Jane, Kat and Sutton aren’t just each other’s friends, but our own. We see ourselves in their career struggles, uncertain love lives and fluid sexuality, as they attempt to understand their ever-evolving identities.

For many, that familiar ease with the main characters is a thing of the past in the SATC universe. The second season of And Just Like That (AJLT) has somewhat derailed the perception we had of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Co. While the show has attempted to address some of the most significant errors from the original series – specifically LGBTQ+ representation and diversity – AJLT has been criticised by some of the original SATC fans for losing the essence of the characters.

Missing the old Sex And The City? Give The Bold Type a try