Gentlemen, your attention please. You may not have been watching the Sex and the City sequel And Just Like That… recently – which is a schoolboy error, but we’ll let that pass – in which case you will have missed the Team Steve/Team Miranda contretemps. 

Boiling it down it’s basically the old story – boy meets girl in hot one night stand. Boy and girl are on and off in passionate doubt filled romance. Boy and girl get married, settle down, buy sofa, eat ice cream. Girl starts having wild sex with non-binary stand-up comedian. Boy is divorced before he knows anything is wrong. 

Goofy, lovable Steve Brady – played with a kind of puppy dog charm by David Eigenberg – basically won Sex and the City with the best body, the most ruffled hair, and a hot, romantic reunion scene on Brooklyn Bridge after he cheated on Miranda and they reconciled with all the steam. 

In And Just Like That…, he’s still kinda silver foxy with The Daily Beast describing him as “sweet, kind, hunky Steve, with an ass as perfectly perkily domed as two scoops of sorbet”. He was contented with his marriage. They’d meet at home after a hard day’s work, relax on their little sectional sofa, watch TV and eat ice cream from their little dessert bowls they bought together. What’s not to like?

So, when Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda dumped him in episode eight and dumped him hard, it was so brutal that half the crew were wearing Team Steve t-shirts during filming (Eigenberg was Team Miranda). The tragedy was how little he saw it coming, and there are three points of view on display here – a lot of people have taken against that storyline because they’re outraged at Miranda’s cold, cold heart. Another group are terrified that they’re fast turning into Steve (men) and yet another group are terrified they’re married to him (women).