And Just Like That Recap: Different Drama, Same Carrie

Enjoy a teaser of our And Just Like That... Season 3, Ep 1 Recap

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All right, now we're going to get into the recap for And Just
like That season 3, episode 1. Here's what I'm going to say.

(00:58):
OK. I enjoyed this episode and I
think, and I was glad to see a couple of reviews that that sort
of confirmed what I was thinking, you know?
What? I didn't hate it either.
I really did not want to watch it.
I was not looking forward to it at all and it was fine.
It felt more like the old Sex inthe City to me.

(01:20):
And I think a lot of that had todo with the fact that they cut
down on the characters because they were thinning out the
stories, right? And they had characters that we
just didn't care. We didn't care about Che and
Nya. Well, I so wish they had
developed that character more. Yeah.
I thought she was so interesting.
She was. And unfortunately, but also too,
we had two, really we had two black women who were like

(01:44):
powerful and very smart and successful.
They should have done the spin off honestly.
Right. And I feel like they kind of
cancel each other out and then. In the writers room, that
appears to be what happened. Yes.
And so when they when when Naya when they cut the character of
Naya, we have more focus on Lisa.
I'm just going to say this, Lisato me, Lisa's my favorite
character, OK, I. Have a question?

(02:05):
Yes. Who?
Wasn't somebody pregnant at the end of last season or was there
a miscarriage? It was Lisa and she had a
miscarriage. She had a miscarriage, yes.
I was very confused when the show opened because I was like,
I could have sworn Lisa was pregnant.
I didn't remember the miscarriage but.
Yeah, she miscarried. I mean, that makes sense.
How are you going to have a pregnancy storyline?

(02:26):
In a show about women who were like menopausal.
So I loved her storyline. But let's start with Carrie and
this palatial glacial apartment that she lives in.
It's how many 4 bedrooms? All these different.
Oh my God. Opening with the alarm system,
I'm calling it now. It's foreshadowing she's going
to get robbed and I am here for it.

(02:46):
OK, something's going to happen.I cannot wait for the burglary
episode. But but I felt that the alarm
was a metaphor, right? Calls coming from inside the
house. I felt that the alarm, the
sensors were a metaphor of what's going on internally.
That's. Like the way the alarm keeps

(03:06):
going off and she's like, no, it's not.
Right. But more like, and I think it
was most obvious with Miranda, you know, Miranda's whole.
And we'll get to that, that story because I actually really
liked that. Love that.
Story. I loved it.
I loved it and but we'll get to it.
There's something about the alarm that I feel as though they
were, they were, you know how I love that Thruway I'm trying to

(03:29):
find and I could not find the theme for this episode.
And I felt like the alarm represented Carrie's attitude
towards this relationship with Aiden, where the alarm's going
off and going on and she's saying, no, it's not.
The door isn't open, but it's wrong.
Nothing's wrong, but there is something wrong with the alarm
is sounding and she's ignoring it, right?

(03:50):
The alarm is sounding in the form of Anthony and she's
getting mad at it. Right, Anthony.
See, this is what I mean. I feel like they've really,
really developed these characters.
They have a. They have a better handle on
them because they're not writingfor as many.
Right. She's just Cloud Chase.
Oh, I didn't. Christ, she's she.
They're not talking. They're writing postcards.

(04:11):
Her and Aiden are writing postcards to each other, not.
Even. No.
Not even with words on. Them, I mean, it's the stupidest
thing. And so she goes out.
When they're at the bar and Carrie's like, Aiden said he
needed no communication. What?
Right. What what?
Listen and I said this in my recap video on TikTok.
I truly believe that Carrie is accepting this arrangement

(04:35):
because Carrie is still punishing herself for cheating
on Aiden still and I think he's still punishing her for choosing
Big over him. They're really.
Definitely. He made her buy that whole
apartment, right? Could you?
Imagine an infant. Because he wouldn't go into her
apartment, he still refused to do it, but that really should
have told her he's not over it. He's literally an infant.

(04:58):
He's not over it, Carrie. He won't even go into your
apartment. I.
Don't know. I mean obviously Kerry is not a
real person, but like, what is? What is Kerry thinking trying to
date somebody with kids, period?That's the other thing too.
That's the other. Thing too.
You know you can't do that, right?
You are not OK with being the second.
You're not OK with it, Carrie. You're just not.

(05:20):
You couldn't even stand. Even when you were first in
Big's life, you were still neurotic, right?
Right. I mean, she was obsessed with
his ex-wife. She was obsessed with Natasha,
right? Yeah.
No, she's not the Carrie Brash. I was not going to tolerate
children of any age. Correct, although.
She is good with Lily and she's.Very good with Lily, I love
their relationship. What's Charlotte's on our kids
name? I can't remember Rock.
Thank you. Yeah.

(05:40):
Rock. And so she goes out and she's
telling Charlotte and Miranda. And Charlotte's like, oh, a
postcard. That's so great.
And Maria, just thinking you're being that excited over a
postcard. But at one point Miranda says to
Carrie, listen, if you're if you're happy with it, where's
what? Who?
That was huge for Miranda. Who?
Was that was huge for Miranda. But we don't want to see that.

(06:02):
I don't want to see that. Well, someones got to be the
voice of reason, right? Right.
It's not going to be Sema exceptfor herself, right?
Which is refreshing. Right.
And I love the way they juxtapose those two characters.
Yeah, right. Yeah.
So they go to a lesbian bar withMiranda, and Miranda is still
very awkward. Like she's still that awkward
person, right? And she so she's still very

(06:25):
awkward, right? And she's at this bar and
they're trying to encourage her and they're being sort of her
wing women. And then someone waves at her
and it turns out to be Brady's old girlfriend and she just
starts trauma dumping Brady. 'S old babysitter.
Thank you, Brady. Brady's old babysitter.
And she just starts trauma dumping, right.
And it's sort of exposition. She has to let everybody know.
Yeah, we sold the Brown house. Yeah.

(06:45):
We're divorced. So this is what's going on since
two years ago. And it's just so, it's so cringy
because not only does she talk about we sold it and the
divorce, but also I'm in the program.
She's just going and going and going and going.
Yeah. And you're cringing for her.
And I. We're just seeing she's always,
but she's always been like that,right?
Like she's always needed somebody to tell her she was

(07:07):
attractive. She's always needed somebody to
want her. Yeah, that whole scene struck me
as very much in character for her.
Yes, I would agree. So then it's the end of the
night and she's just hanging outat this bar.
And again I'm thinking, girl, just go home.
Yeah. And she sees this woman and this
woman is in jeans, in a in a button down shirt that's

(07:28):
untucked. It's Rosie O'Donnell.
It's Rosie O'Donnell and you cantell right away this woman
doesn't live here. At least I could tell that as
someone who lives there, lives here.
And she and Miranda talk for maybe 2 minutes and she says I
have a hotel room and Miranda's like cool.
And they leave. And that to me was shocking.
But I'm a straight woman. I don't know that that's like,

(07:51):
is it different? I I would assume that it's
different because you don't havethat fear of danger.
It was different for them. It was different for them.
So they go back to the hotel room.
They have sex. They wake up the next morning
and this woman, Rosie O'Donnell,her character named Mary.
Mary says, you know, that was her first time, and Miranda's
ever. Maria's like, you were a virgin.

(08:12):
And she's like, yes. And on top of that, she's a nun.