And Just Like That: Steve Deserves Better

Things are finally hotting up in the Sex And The City reboot, And Just Like That{ =nofollow}. For once, a character who isn't Miranda's son, Brady, is having sex. In yesterday's episode, in excruciating scenes, Carrie's boss Che finally addresses the sexual tension between themselves and Miranda. But what either party don't realise while Miranda is making noises like a distressed animal, is that Carrie is awake, hears the whole thing, and as she can't get Miranda's attention, then wets the bed (she's just had a hip replacement, and can't move, if you need context).

While I watched the scenes play out, I wanted to scream. Not because Carrie sees her best friend having sex with her boss and then wet herself, or the fact they were making a big deal of Che smoking weed again (as if nobody's ever smoked it before), but because I was thinking of Miranda's husband Steve - and how he deserves better.

Come on, who is the best partner on the show? Sorry, but this is a trick question. While he might be lovely, it's not Charlotte's Harry. And it certainly was never the unreliable and game-playing Big. It's always been Steve. Lovely, reliable Steve. Kind Steve, the man like a golden retriever in human form, with a Brooklyn accent.

He is hot in the original series as well, and I'm not just saying that because he wears the same silly little glasses as every man I have ever dated. But regardless of looks, in the year of our Lord 2022, I would do anything for a man to make as much effort and be as keen as Steve. Men like Steve must be protected at all costs. He is an angel, and it hurts for me to see him be so carelessly cheated on by Miranda.

Yes, OK, so I might be missing a major point. Steve did cheat on Miranda, if we're counting the first film as SATC gospel. (I don't. And you need to take a long, hard look at yourself if you do.) But, anyway, Steve apologised to hell and back, and it took months, and everyone else telling Miranda she was being a total idiot, for them to get back together. She made him pay.

And because the couple got through that, they should have - surely - been able to live happily ever after (even if it was a sexless relationship as Miranda told Charlotte in a previous AJLT episode). Or, perhaps Miranda could have come to the conclusion she was unhappy with her life and gone on a journey of self-discovery - without lovely Steve being cheated on. Two wrongs don't make a right, alright!

As a friend (a man I am speaking to, thank you) said while we were watching the show at the same time last night, Steve should now get his own show, with Aiden, where - instead of a bar named after Steve's dog - they open up their own dog adoption centre. Now that I would pay good money to watch.

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