The big finale of Sex and the City is now twenty years in the past. And of course we all still remember the ending. But according to the show’s creator, Darren Star, Carrie and Big should never have ended up together!
Just a refresher
The very last episode of Sex and the City aired in 2004. In the finale, Big and Carrie are reunited in Paris. Big came after Carrie, which came at just the right time, as her relationship with Alexander Petrovsky was falling apart. We all know the iconic line: “It took me a really long time to get here. But I’m here. Carrie, you’re the one.” Many fans were very happy with this ending, but the creator of the show, Darren Star, was not satisfied. After season three, Star became a consultant for the show instead of the showrunner. In an interview with Vulture, he complimented the showrunner who ended the show, Michael Patrick King. However, Star himself would have done things differently when it comes to the main couple of the series.
A different ending for Sex and the City
In the interview, Star explained that the show had grown, just as Carrie had grown as a person. In his eyes, Sex and the City was never about how a woman finds the love of her life. That’s what he would call a romantic comedy, and that’s not what he believes this show was. “It was about how women can define themselves 100%, that they didn’t have to be defined by marriage.” So Star would have preferred an ending where Carrie chose herself. But Star is also aware that this alternative ending might not have been appreciated by fans of the show. “The show had a real audience-pleasing ending.”
Sarah Jessica Parker Gives Her Opinion
Darren Star has previously voiced his opinion on the ending of Sex and the City . In a 2016 interview, the same sentiment was expressed. At the time, actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who played Carrie Bradshaw on the show, addressed the sentiment. “I don’t think of it as someone diminishing herself by letting a man marry her, it always felt that she had arrived at that on her own,” she explained. “But the beauty is we can all have lots and lots of opinions about lots of choices Carrie made that we object to or that we stand by. If that’s Darren’s feeling, I think it’s interesting!”
