How ‘And Just Like That’ turned Chris Noth’s scandal into Carrie’s ‘Big mistake’

There was a moment about nine minutes into the eighth episode of the second season of “And Just Like That” that made you go, “And just like what?!”

That was when a sweater-clad Carrie — after confessing to a bemused Miranda that she’s been having the best orgasms of her life with renewed love Aidan — drops an even bigger bomb.

Stopping midstroll, Carrie takes a beat before admitting, “I’ve been asking myself, ‘Was Big a big mistake?’”

Just like Miranda, we were speechless. Where did all that Big love go?

Of course, Big — that’s John James Preston, as we found out in the first “Sex and the City” movie — was the man who Carrie chased around Manhattan in her Manolos for six seasons in the original show. After falling for Big — right along with those condoms — in the very first episode, she got her happy ending with him in the 2004 series finale.

But shortly after Big’s death-by-Peloton in the 2021 premiere of “And Just Like That,” Chris Noth — the actor who became as synonymous with his character as Sarah Jessica Parker did with Carrie — was hit with allegations of sexual misconduct.

Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Big (Chris Noth) were the picture of wedded bliss in the “And Just Like That” premiere.
Photograph by Craig Blankenhorn

Parker, Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) and Kristin Davis (Charlotte) — the stars and executive producers of “And Just Like That” — swiftly put out a joint statement in complete support of the women who came forward with the accusations.

And just like that … Big — even the ghost of Big — was problematic.

To many, Noth — who has denied the allegations — was Big. And for the lead character of a show about female bonding that empowered women all over the world to have chased a man whose portrayer was now being called a “sexual predator” undoubtedly tainted the “SATC” legacy.


Chris Noth and Sarah Jessica Parker in "And Just Like That."
Carrie (Sarah Jessica) and Big (Chris Noth) were marriage goals at the beginning of “And Just Like That.”
Photograph by Craig Blankenhorn

That is why the recent reunion of Carrie and Aidan (John Corbett) — who she controversially cheated on with Big — feels like a course correction, a rewrite of “SATC” history.

Yes, there was always Team Big and Team Aidan. But now, all of a sudden, we’re supposed to believe that Big — the one who Carrie married and presumably shared a beautiful life with in the years between 2010’s “Sex and the City 2” and “And Just Like That” — was the wrong man for our heroine all along.

In “A Hundred Years Ago” — the same episode in which Carrie makes her Big revelation — Miranda’s ex Che (Sara Ramirez) asks the baguette-carrying writer and Aidan the very obvious question: “Why did this not work out the first time?”


Chris Noth, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis.
After the sexual misconduct allegations against Chris Noth, “And Just Like That” stars Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis came out in support of his accusers.
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“ ‘Cause I made a mistake,” Carrie responds in another WTF moment.

All those years, all those feels, all those shoes — it was all a Big mistake.

It reminded me of the 1986 “Dallas” do-over, when an entire season in which Patrick Duffy’s Bobby was supposed to be dead was written off as a dream.


Chris Noth and Sarah Jessica Parker in "Sex and the City."
Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) chased Big (Chris Noth) for six seasons on “Sex and the City.”
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In the latest episode of “And Just Like That,” there are signs that the show may be giving Carrie a different happy ending — with Aidan this time — in what feels like it could be another series finale next Thursday.

But I couldn’t help but wonder if they threw Big under the bus.

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