Why was "And Just Like That" right to kill Mr. Big?

• The 3rd episode of

  And Just Like That

  , the sequel to

  Sex and the City

  , was posted online this Friday on Salto. 

• Mr. Big's death at the end of Episode 1 and his funeral in Episode 2 sparked a stir among fans, was covered in newspapers around the world and caused collateral damage on the stock market. 

• Why is killing the character of Mr. Big still a good thing for the sequel to

  Sex and the City

  ? 

We expected death in

but not this one! Many

fans

had speculated on the death of Samantha Jones, since her performer, Kim Cattrall, had refused to return in the sequel to the cult HBO series Max. At the end of the first episode of

, available in France on Salto in US + 24 since Friday, John Preston (played by actor Chris Noth), better known under the name of Mr. Big, is the victim of a heart attack after strenuous exercise on his stationary bike. An unexpected twist that stirred social networks and even the stock market. Why was the series

 right to kill Mr. Big?

"We waited all this time for Carrie and Big to be together, all to kill him," laments a user.

"After all these years, the only thing the writers thought about was killing Mr. Big in the first episode after a Peloton shoot?"

!

Another annoys.

"Life is too short", the shock spreads to Wall Street

It's a bad buzz for the clearly identifiable exercise bike brand, Peloton.

On Wall Street, the Peloton share loosens by more than 10% in electronic exchanges prior to the opening of the market.

Dr Suzanne Steinbaum, cardiologist and member of the scientific council of Peloton, defended the brand on Friday by attacking the "lifestyle" of Mr Big "with cocktails, cigars and large steaks, and was at serious risk because he had been the victim of a first heart attack in season 6. "" Pedaling on her Peloton bike may have even helped delay this heart attack, "she says.

The firm puts online an advertising spot on Sunday featuring Chris Noth, the interpreter of Mr. Big in the company of Jess King, one of the stars of the brand who plays the instructor of the fatal session to John Preston.

In this spot, Mr Big offers a bicycle “tour”, punctuated by a: “Life is too short”.

At the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, the Peloton title was up.

The firm is in a better situation today than before Mr. Big's death!

"The 'Bonnie and Clyde' moment"

Mr Big suffered his heart attack while his wife Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) attended a recital.

On his return, Mr. Big dies in his arms.

"Why didn't Carrie dial 911 (emergency number in the United States), instead of standing there watching the love of her life die before her eyes?"

", Asked many Internet users.

The American site

even contacted Dr. Daniel Luger, cardiologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago for his opinion.

“It's Carrie's fault.

Without trying to point the finger at it, it's absolutely his fault, ”said the expert.

And to explain: “The brain can survive about 3 minutes without oxygen. When Big passed out and no longer had a pulse, Carrie should have immediately started giving him heart massage. Let her try to find a pulse, call for help, and start applying first aid and cardiac massage. "

Chris North, the interpreter of the great love of Carrie Bradshaw, came to the aid of the widow of her character by explaining in the columns of

 : “There was one thing on which Michael Patrick King [the creator of the series] and I agreed: we called it the “Bonnie and Clyde” moment, that moment when they are about to be killed by bullets.

They have this look for each other.

They both know it's the end.

We knew we had to have this moment, that I shouldn't die alone in the bathroom.

There had to be that last moment, with no words, no cheesy dialogue, just a glance.

"

"And Just Like That", everything changes in life

“ 

[And just like that… Big is dead]”, launches the voice-over of Carrie Bradshaw. The end of an era for the heroine of

and the beginning of another, that of the

titled

.

“This title comes from Sex and the City.

When Miranda gives birth to Brady, Carrie voiceover says, "And just like that, Miranda became a mother."

What Michael Patrick King wanted to do with this title is to say that life changes, that we can see things completely differently, that an event can change everything… Just like that ”, says Kristin Davis, the interpreter. from Charlotte,

.

"The title of the series

is open to interpretation, but I think it means that we can move forward in life, and that something can happen and that your life is turned upside down", abounds Cynthia Nixon.

"I wanted the series to reflect a new reality"

"I wanted the series to reflect a new reality," explained Michael Patrick King, the creator of the series, to the American magazine

. The screenwriter needed to relaunch the plot. Of course, we want the best for our favorite series characters, but as Leon Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenine: “Happy people don't have a story. Would a series with the three heroines (Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda) married and happy be boring? Remember the

movies

where Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda were all a couple.

In all of their years together on screen, Carrie and Mr. Big have had to deal with every romantic twist imaginable. Keeping them married would have been boring, getting them divorced would belittle their great love affair. Not having Carrie and Mr. Big together gives the show its reason for existing.

“Also, it's interesting to ask the question: is it better to have loved and to have lost this love, rather than never to have loved at all?

I think about it all the time.

And I find it interesting that Carrie now has to ask the question, ”analyzes Michael Patrick King.

The death of Mr. Big allows

to gain in depth by addressing deep questions, and also to change register.

was a comedy with episodes of twenty-five to thirty minutes, the

, a drama with episodes of fifty minutes.

"Am I the only one who remembers the asshole he was?"

"

In its first episode finally,

was desperate to highlight the fact that Carrie Bradshaw and her colleagues are adapting to a modern world, bludgeoning its new woke dimension. Big's death, surprising and shocking as it is, is symbolic of the end of an era. The cigar-smoking, jazz-loving businessman was a hallmark of old New York City, the city of glamor and excess we experienced in the original TV series.

With his death, it is toxic masculinity that 

kills.

As one of the guests at Mr. Big's funeral reminds us in episode 2 about Carry: “ 

[Am I the only one who remembers the asshole he was with her?

"

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