And Just Like That Was Right To Kill Off Its Big SATC Character

And Just Like That Was Right To Kill Off Its Big SATC Character

And Just Like That ends episode 1 with the death of a major Sex and the City character, which is the best choice for the show’s direction.

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And Just Like That Was Right To Kill Off Its Big SATC Character

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for And Just Like That episodes 1 & 2.

And Just Like That episode 1 ends with the surprising death of Mr. Big, which is the right choice for the direction of Sex and the City’s revival series. After revealing that Carrie and Big have been happily married for the past decade, and Big a great husband, the show still includes one of Big’s memorable faults: he doesn’t really enjoy going to dinners and events with Carrie’s friends. And Just Like That episode 1 finds his decision ending in tragedy, however. Big stays home and exercises on his Peloton, only to be struck with a heart attack and die in Carrie’s arms after she returns home.

This is a completely new plotline for Sex and the City’s returning cast of characters, as none have experienced such substantial grief that hits so close to home. The characters experienced heartbreak after heartbreak, marriages, divorces, and kids, with And Just Like That introducing a new fact of life for Carrie and the girls in relation to romance: grief and mourning. That grief came in an unexpected way, however. The revival didn’t kill off Kim Cattrall’s Samantha as some viewers expected, instead leading off with the tragic death of Chris Noth’s Mr. Big, who has been part of the series since the original show’s premiere episode.

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While it’s saddening that Mr. Big was killed off right after becoming the best and happiest version of himself, it’s also the right move for And Just Like That. With Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones absent from the reboot series, there was no longer a main character who was single, thus deviating from the core attraction of the main series. Sex and the City was inherently about the single life, romance, brief flings, and friendship, and the series would have lost the dating aspect that made the original so enjoyable. With Miranda and Charlotte in long-lasting, stable marriages with kids, it seemed apt that Carrie, who had a torrid history with Big, would end up single in And Just Like That one way or another. The series needs to focus on the nuances of women dating in their 50s in the modern world of dating apps, ex-husbands, and kids as opposed to their 30s in the late ’90s, and it wouldn’t have had the same effect without a main character exploring such avenues. Carrie was the best character to make single in Sex and the City’s revival, so it makes sense why Big’s death came in And Just Like That’s first episode.

The show was promoted as a “new chapter” for Sex and the City’s characters, so it would be tiring for And Just Like That to rehash the old Carrie and Big marriage and commitment troubles that were ever-present in the original series and movies. Instead of making Carrie single by another big blow-out between the now-married couple, And Just Like That actually spent the first episode making Mr. Big into the husband and partner Carrie had always dreamed he could be, thus making his exit unexpected and more heartbreaking. Had Carrie and Big just broken up, Noth would have inevitably had to return in the series as an ex, but it feels much more respectful with earned closure for the couple to have Carrie being single as a widow. Sex and the City proves that Carrie Bradshaw did make the right decision in marrying Big, and now it’s made her single again in a less predictably tired fashion.

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Big’s death in And Just Like That also wasn’t all too surprising. The plot point of killing him off was actually recycled from Sex and the City 3’s canceled movie. Carrie becoming single again was obviously necessary for the story progressing with the characters and dating life in New York City, thus bringing her back to writing about her dating mishaps and escapades like the original series. Mr. Big dying from a heart attack also jarringly exhibits to viewers that HBO Max’s And Just Like That will be very different from Sex and the City, as the characters are not all the young, carefree, risk-taking individuals they remember.

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