Sex and the City Almost Ruined Its Most Relatable Character With 1 Horror Reference

Summary Miranda's chocolate cake scene almost had a Psycho-style horror twist that was changed at the last minute.

Miranda's relatability in Sex and the City stemmed from realistic situations and personal development.

Miranda, despite her character changes in "And Just Like That...", remains the most relatable character from the main series.

The main characters in Sex and the City were relatable in different ways, but one stood out for connecting strongly with the audience, and she was almost ruined by one horror reference. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw the arrival of many TV shows that went on to become classics, among them Sex and the City. Created by Darren Star, Sex and the City ran from 1998 to 2004 for six seasons, and its success was such that it expanded with two movies, a prequel TV series, and now a sequel series titled And Just Like That….

Sex and the City took viewers to New York City to meet Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), a writer for the New York Star who had a weekly column in which she shared her and her friends’ ups and downs in their love lives. Starring alongside Carrie were her friends Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Samantha (Kim Cattrall), with the series following them closely in their personal lives. All of them went through different situations that made them relatable, but one memorable moment in the series almost ruined one of them with an unnecessary horror reference.

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Sex and the City’s Miranda Chocolate Cake Scene Almost Had A Psycho-Like Style

Miranda Almost Had A Horror-Like Moment With A Chocolate Cake

The chocolate cake scene became one of Miranda’s funniest and most relatable moments in Sex and the City, but it was almost completely different.

In Sex and the City season 4, episode 4, “What’s Sex Got To Do With It?”, tired of how disappointing her love life had been lately, Miranda decided to go on a sex strike until conditions improved. Miranda chose to stay home rather than go on dates with the type of men she tended to attract, but she soon developed an unhealthy habit of too much TV and chocolate cake. At one point, Miranda took out a chocolate cake from the fridge and cut one piece before throwing the rest of the cake in the garbage. However, Miranda quickly returned to take one more piece from the garbage.

While eating that piece, Miranda called Carrie and left a message telling her what she had just done and that she would probably need to check her "into the Betty Crocker clinic." After hanging up, Miranda threw dish soap all over the cake in the garbage so she wouldn’t take another piece. The chocolate cake scene became one of Miranda’s funniest and most relatable moments in Sex and the City, but it was almost completely different as it was shot in a Psycho-style that would have completely changed it.

Nixon recalled the scene having “a lot of quick cuts” and Miranda “like rabid” eating the cake.

Speaking on the Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson podcast (via CBR), Cynthia Nixon revealed that the chocolate cake scene was originally a horror-like one in the style of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Nixon recalled the scene having “a lot of quick cuts” and Miranda “like rabid” eating the cake, then sliding down the refrigerator leaving streaks of chocolate. When executive producer Michael Patrick saw the scene, he was horrified as it was far from the show’s tone and would have made it hard for Miranda to recover from such a horror-like moment, so they reshot it “in a more mundane way”.

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Miranda had very satisfying personal development throughout Sex and the City, and by the end of the show, she was a better person, friend, and partner than in season 1.

Reshooting Miranda’s chocolate cake scene in a “mundane way” allowed her to continue being Sex and the City’s most relatable character, something that wouldn’t have been achieved had the scene been Psycho-like (which could have also sparked debate about a potentially harmful depiction of disordered eating). Miranda was Sex and the City’s most relatable character in many ways, mainly as she was the only one depicted in more mundane, real situations and problems that any person has gone through at some point – from a bad hair day to her self-care days of comfy clothes, comfort food, and binge-watching TV shows.

Miranda also had very satisfying personal development throughout Sex and the City, and by the end of the show, she was a better person, friend, and partner than in season 1, which is why it was so frustrating for the audience to see the character completely messy and changed for the worse in And Just Like That…. Still, Miranda remains the most relatable character from the main series, and luckily, one of her most memorable moments changed direction at the last minute.

Source: Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson (via CBR).