The latest episode of And Just Like That, Sex and the City’s divisive reboot, starts with a big question. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie is walking down a Manhattan street with Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), having gushed ad nauseam about her revived romp with the man she almost married, Aidan (John Corbett), but instead dumped twice for Chris Noth’s man-about-town Mr Big. And now that Big is dead, felled by a Peloton-induced heart attack in And Just Like That’s first episode, Aidan is back on the scene. He and Carrie have since stumbled into a real-life romcom montage, practically living together, cooking meals together; they’re even buying pepper grinders together.
But as Miranda asks whether they’re moving too fast, Carrie shakes her head defiantly, gushes a little bit more, and proceeds to question 25 years of film and television history: “Was Big a big mistake?”
