A leaked script from the Sex And The City reboot hints at a Carrie and Mr. Big divorce
It looks like Carrie and Big aren't living happily ever after
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HBO Max’s upcoming Sex And The City reboot series And Just Like That… is currently filming, and someone took a picture of one of the scripts and leaked it online. Though the picture only shows a single page, the dialogue gives us an idea of what’s to come, and it looks like Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big are finally breaking up for good.
In the picture of the alleged script shared by Page Six, Carrie remarks, “I was doing well, wasn’t I doing well? Before this? I mean, I was doing the podcast, I was washing my hair. Yes, I wasn’t eating or sleeping, but at least I felt good about my marriage. Now I’m just one of the wives he was taking care of?”
Her comment about being one of the wives Big’s taking care of is most likely a reference to his previous two wives, Barbara and Natasha. And while some fans might be shocked that Big and Carrie aren’t “endgame,” it was bound to happen. Big sucks! This is the guy who left Carrie at the altar after they spent likely millions on the wedding. Even before the movie, Big had a complicated on-and-off relationship with Carrie. After all, what good is a Sex And The City reboot without Samantha if everyone is happily married?
If the speculation about that dialogue turns out to be true, it would explain why John Corbett, who played Carrie’s ex Aidan Shaw, will be returning to the show. He’s set to appear in “quite a few” episodes. Bridget Moynahan, who played Big’s previous wife Natasha was also spotted on set, so it looks like Carrie and Big could end up going back to their respective exes.
Besides the hint about what’s going on in Carrie’s marriage, we also see that Stanford has replaced Samantha as the fourth friend. No offense to Stanford, but though he’s pleasant, he’s pretty boring compared to Samantha. But perhaps—in addition to Miranda—he can be the levelheaded friend that will talk some sense into Carrie and guide her through her (possible) return to the single life.
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I thought we were all sick and tired of shallow white women’s bullshit?
good
I am mostly excited for the outfits! I don’t care about how impractical some of the looks are, they are still amazing.
What’s even more sad about Samantha not returning is that she wore a lot of the best outfits!
Big sucks! This is the guy who left Carrie at the altar after they spent likely millions on the wedding…. If the speculation about that dialogue turns out to be true, it would explain why John Corbett, who played Carrie’s ex Aidan Shaw, will be returning to the show.An ex of mine watched every single episode of the original run of the series, which at the time meant that I watched every single episode of the original run of the series. I can say that Big was at least interesting (unlike Carrie), and his egotism and duplicity seemed like a much better fit for Carrie and her own selfish bullshit than poor Aidan, who was a straight shooter who called her out on said bullshit. Big and Carrie deserved each other.I’m not going to watch the reboot, but if I were to do so, I would really, really root for the return of Aidan to be in service of upending a trope (“the one that got away” or whatever b.s.) rather than conforming to one.
Carrie is an asshole but no more so than most of us.
I would at least hope that I’m less annoying that Carrie is.
I can’t argue with that.
I cannot see a world in which Aidan and Carrie start something up again. They were fundamentally incompatible, and I think at least Aidan realized that eventually. The send-off the show gave him, with a baby and a wife, was totally fitting. If the show upends that just to send us all back into “Big vs. Aidan” territory, that would be a huge mistake. At the very least, the show should help Carrie realize that Aidan wasn’t her “one that got away” because they were not good for each other. (And Carrie was remarkably shitty to Aidan). Carrie and Aidan worked even less than Carrie and Big. Carrie and Big at least have some things in common (egotism among them). Aidan wanted a completely different life, one that Carrie was zero percent interested in. And we all know Carrie is too much of a selfish child to put forth any effort to even try what Aidan liked.
I am proud to say I have no idea what “You’re such a Samantha” means, and I don’t see that changing any time soon.
a very Samantha thing to say!
I’m still of the mind that no one asked for this, but I have a feeling Willie Garson will be the most entertaining part.
There’s no way I won’t watch this secretly praying Garson will launch into playing Mozzie from White Collar instead.
Willie Garson is uniformly delightful in every project that he graces with his presence. He should be in more things. In all the things.
Sex and the City had a good, mostly satisfying ending. It is not a show I ever wanted to see more of.
This show doesn’t need to come back. Fuck it forever for its erasure of bisexuals (especially men) and the amount of damage that did.
Mr. Big was too good for Carrie, THERE, I SAID IT!He’s not perfect, he has some pretty human foibles and mistakes, but he was typically pretty immediate and introspective about recognizing and thinking about them, which is a damn sight better than Carrie and her horrible friends.It’s really stark in the movies, where he’s pretty consistently the only reasonable person on-screen, even when he’s not on-screen.
did the 2 god awful films not already drain all the good will from any reboot of this?
Carrie was just a miserable person. She seems not want happiness. She Mr. Big over Aiden? Bahhh, and that’s no dig on Mr. Big.I did an informal with myself and the results were: I’d sleep with Aiden or Mr. Big before Carrie.
UGH. This is what I was afraid of, and if any of this speculation is true, all I have to say is: AIDEN! RUUUUUUUUNN!!!!