<em>And Just Like That </em>Addresses Its Che Diaz Problem
This story contains spoilers through the fifth episode of And Just Like That Season 2.
No one wearing a Harvard hoodie has ever looked as uncomfortable as Miranda Hobbes, the no-nonsense lawyer played by Cynthia Nixon, does in an episode from the first season of Sex and the City. In “Bay of Married Pigs,” Miranda agrees to be set up on a blind date at her firm’s annual softball game. But when a colleague introduces Miranda to her would-be match, she realizes her peers have misjudged the reason for her lack of a boyfriend. Flushed with embarrassment after meeting a perfectly nice woman named Syd (Joanna Adler), Miranda admonishes her colleague for his assumption about her sexuality. “Yeah, I’m not gay,” she says. “Christ, when did being single translate into being gay?”
“Bay of Married Pigs,” which aired in 1998, focused on the “cold war” between married people and singles—a simmering conflict in which couples cast single women as
