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

There was a second about 9 minutes into the eighth episode of the second season of “And Simply Like That” that made you go, “And identical to what?!”

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

Stopping midstroll, Carrie takes a beat earlier than admitting, “I’ve been asking myself, ‘Was Large a giant mistake?’”

Similar to Miranda, we have been speechless. The place did all that Large love go?

In fact, Large — that’s John James Preston, as we came upon within the first “Intercourse and the Metropolis” film — was the person who Carrie chased round Manhattan in her Manolos for six seasons within the authentic present. After falling for Large — proper together with these condoms — within the very first episode, she obtained her completely happy ending with him within the 2004 sequence finale.

However shortly after Large’s death-by-Peloton within the 2021 premiere of “And Simply Like That,” Chris Noth — the actor who turned as synonymous along with his character as Sarah Jessica Parker did with Carrie — was hit with allegations of sexual misconduct.

Parker, Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) and Kristin Davis (Charlotte) — the celebs and govt producers of “And Simply Like That” — swiftly put out a joint statement in full assist of the ladies who got here ahead with the accusations.

And identical to that … Large — even the ghost of Large — was problematic.

To many, Noth — who has denied the allegations — was Large. And for the lead character of a present about feminine bonding that empowered girls all around the world to have chased a person whose portrayer was now being called a “sexual predator” undoubtedly tainted the “SATC” legacy.

That’s the reason the current reunion of Carrie and Aidan (John Corbett) — who she controversially cheated on with Large — looks like a course correction, a rewrite of “SATC” historical past.

Sure, there was at all times Group Large and Group Aidan. However now, unexpectedly, we’re presupposed to consider that Large — the one who Carrie married and presumably shared a fantastic life with within the years between 2010’s “Intercourse and the Metropolis 2” and “And Simply Like That” — was the unsuitable man for our heroine all alongside.

In “A Hundred Years In the past” — the identical episode through which Carrie makes her Large revelation — Miranda’s ex Che (Sara Ramirez) asks the baguette-carrying author and Aidan the very apparent query: “Why did this not work out the primary time?”

“ ‘Trigger I made a mistake,” Carrie responds in one other WTF second.

All these years, all these feels, all these sneakers — it was all a Large mistake.

It jogged my memory of the 1986 “Dallas” do-over, when a whole season through which Patrick Duffy’s Bobby was presupposed to be useless was written off as a dream.

Within the newest episode of “And Simply Like That,” there are indicators that the present could also be giving Carrie a distinct completely happy ending — with Aidan this time — in what feels prefer it could possibly be one other sequence finale subsequent Thursday.

However I couldn’t assist however surprise in the event that they threw Large underneath the bus.