The third season of And Just Like That premiered on HBO Max on May 29 which always brings up questions about Carrie Bradshaw’s love life. It’s a saga that’s gone on for decades with Big (Chris Noth), versus Aidan (John Corbett) fighting for her attention. Now, Sarah Jessica Parker has some specific thoughts about a storyline that had a chokehold on fans in the early aughts.
While Carrie doesn’t have Big in her life after his death from a heart attack in the premiere episode of Season 1 of And Just Like That, Parker understands viewers’ opinions on their rocky romance.
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“All of it was a mess, and all of it was wonderful,” she said on The E! News Sitdown With Bruce Bozzi on May 27. “It was romantic, and it was a disaster. It was destructive, and it was healthy.”
Parker has some sentimentality surrounding the Carrie-Big romance, especially after her character becomes a widow. “It just felt really untethered,” she continued. “It was really sad to say goodbye to that.”
While Gen X and Millennials were raised on Sex and the City, Gen Z isn’t buying what the show was selling to everyone over two decades ago. They didn’t love Carrie cheating on Aidan and Big cheating on his wife, Natasha (Bridget Moynahan).
“She cheats on Aidan, begs for him to take her back, and cries that he ‘has to forgive’ her! She essentially stalks Natasha for most of the seasons while bashing her every step of the way,” said Emma Christopher, 19, told the New York Post in January. They view Carrie as “cringe” and the on-again, off-again relationship as “toxic.”
“TV shows can portray a reality wherein a man is ambivalent about a woman, and the woman, through her perseverance, pushes a man through that ambivalence into commitment,” licensed mental health counselor and psychotherapist Jack Worthy told Bustle in December 2021. “Seeing an idealized, fictionalized woman encountering the same issue and deploying a strategy of, ‘try harder’ — TV shows and movies didn’t create the phenomenon, rather, they took a phenomenon and made it worse.”
The perspective of time lets viewers see the Sex and The City storyline through a new lens — Carrie and Big should have never ended up together. Still, Parker loved the drama that Carrie and Big delivered.
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