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Buzz Feed
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
"And Just Like That..." Is Now Over, And Here's How Every Character Ended Up
And Just Like That..., the Sex and the City reboot fans love to hate-watch, has come to an end after last night's series finale dropped on Max. I recognize that many SATC fans either stopped watching the reboot at some point or never watched it at all. I, however, couldn't look away and watched all three seasons, so if you're curious to know what happened to each character, here it is: Carrie Bradshaw ends up single and living alone in a huge Gramercy Park apartment that she originally bought for her and Aidan before they broke up. She's just finished writing her first fiction novel, and has found a way to be comfortable with being on her own for an indefinite amount of time. Miranda Hobbes ends up with a girlfriend, Joy, and is on good terms with Steve after the dissolution of their marriage following Miranda's infidelity and unhappiness. She and Steve are also about to be grandparents since 20-year-old Brady accidentally got a young woman pregnant after they hooked up a couple of times. Charlotte York-Goldenblatt returned to being an art dealer in Season 2 after previously being a stay-at-home mom. At the end of the show, she's basically living her same ol' picture-perfect life after Harry recovered from prostate cancer. Samantha Jones is not mentioned in the finale. The last time the show mentions her is in Season 3 episode 5, when Carrie texts her to ask about an author who's her new neighbor. Samantha's last (and only) on-screen appearance on AJLT was in the Season 2 finale when she called Carrie to tell her she was going to surprise her at her party, but her flight was delayed. She still lives and works in London. John James Preston, famously known as Mr. Big, died in the very first episode of the series. He had a heart attack while working out on a Peleton. Aidan Shaw ends up still living in Virginia, where his three sons and ex-wife are. His last appearance is in Season 3 Episode 9, where he and Carrie break up after an overly complicated relationship. The final nail in the coffin was the revelation that two decades after Carrie cheated on him, he still didn't trust her around other men. Stanford Blatch was written out of AJLT in Season 1 after his actor, Willie Garson, died. They wrote Stanford off by saying he left for Japan to follow his client — a teenage TikToker — and then decided to divorce Anthony and become a Shinto monk. Anthony Marantino gets divorced from Stanford Blatch in Season 1 and ends the show engaged to a 29-year-old Italian poet named Giuseppe. Anthony also owns a bakery called Hot Fellas that is staffed by hot guys, and where Giuseppe also works. Seema Patel, one of AJLT's new additions to the SATC universe, started her own brokerage after she lost the opportunity to be the sole owner of the real estate company she worked at. She's also in a loving relationship with Carrie's gardener, Adam, a free-spirited younger man who doesn't believe in marriage or wearing deodorant. Lisa Todd Wexley, better known as LTW, was another one of the new characters AJLT introduced to this franchise. At the end of the series, she's more or less where she was at the beginning of it: an extremely successful documentarian who's happily married with kids. Nya Wallace, a professor at Columbia Law School (and Miranda's teacher-turned friend), did not return for Season 3. Her storyline in Season 2 ended with her being elected to the American Law Institute and navigating life after splitting up with her husband, Andre. Finally, Che Diaz, the non-binary queer stand-up comic who was Miranda's first queer relationship, did not return to Season 3 following their breakup in Season 2. And just like that, another chapter of the Sex and the City franchise is over! I can't believe this chapter even existed in the first place, and part of me thinks we'll be getting another chapter in 10 years, but so long for now!
Elle
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Patti LuPone Arrives to 'And Just Like That' Speaking Fluent Italian
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Spoilers below. In last week's episode of And Just Like That..., Lisa learned that her father died. Although the episode featured a whole funeral and a narrative on her grief, it turns out she mentioned all the way back in season 1 that her dad had already passed. And then in season 2, he appeared on screen in the flesh portrayed by Billy Dee Williams. A source connected to the show then clarified that Lisa was actually referring to her stepfather in the first season. The fan reactions to the whole commotion are, like the show, all over the place. Some criticized the series for the mistake, but others say: What the heck, go all-in on the nonsensical camp. There are already so many silly little quirks in this show—why try to fix them? As Rebecca Alter wrote in Vulture this week, 'You can view AJLT as an often accidental work of art that challenges the accepted timelines and borders of life and death. And isn't that more fun?' I agree. In fact, that is the beautifully strange allure to the show. It's not just hate-watching; it's abandoning all time, reason, and sense. It can be freeing, actually. So when Patti LuPone shows up as someone's Italian-speaking mother from Buffalo, New York; or a virgin lesbian nun loses her virginity to Miranda; or yes, a character is revived only to be killed off again, that's just because AJLT exists in an entirely different reality. We just get to visit once a week. On our latest trip, the aforementioned LuPone makes her entrance speaking fluent Italian the moment she steps through the door. She's playing Gia, the glamorous but judgy mother of Anthony's boyfriend, Giuseppe. She's here to visit Hot Fellas bakery, and her first impression of Anthony is less than ideal. He insults her while not realizing she's right beside him, and she notices makeup on his neck covering a huge hickey. Miranda also notices something: Charlotte is acting strange. On the walk home, Carrie mentions that they'll have to go all-out for Charlotte's upcoming birthday party, which further heightens Miranda's suspicions. What's going on? To keep Harry's cancer diagnosis a secret, Carrie covers it up with something else: She says Richard Burton, Charlotte's dog, is terminally ill with cancer. Miranda is horrified and agrees to go above and beyond with the birthday festivities. Before they party, Carrie meets with Gia. (They surprisingly hit it off!) Over lunch, they discuss Carrie's writing and their respective dating lives. Gia reveals that Giuseppe's father, Alessandro, was the last man she fell in love with—albeit she was 21 and he was 50 when they started out. She recalls chafing with his teenage kids at the time, which resonates with Carrie. (She's still figuring out how to warm up to Aidan's son Wyatt.) When she asks for advice, Gia tells her, 'Don't waste years trying to be who you think they'll accept.' Carrie also puts a good word in for Anthony during their heart-to-heart. Meanwhile, Charlotte runs into Harry and another woman in Bergdorf's. However, she's not a mistress; she's his personal shopper. But it turns out that she also knows about Harry's prostate cancer diagnosis. Charlotte freaks out—weren't they not supposed to tell anyone?! Harry apologizes, but it was agonizing to keep such big news a secret. Charlotte, of course, knows this feeling; she already confided in Carrie in last week's episode, but her husband doesn't know that yet. Right now though, Carrie is amused by the unexpected sight in her kitchen: her gardener, Adam, plucking an eyelash from Seema's cheek and blowing on it in an ever-so-flirtatious manner. Now that Seema is on a budget, she got her lashes done in a no-fuss salon with a lash tech whose nails were like talons. As a result, she was left with a deflated set of lashes and a scar. Adam considers this an excuse to swoop in. Carrie gets flattered too. Her neighbor and writer friend Duncan stops by to say he's read the pages of her novel that she shared with him for feedback. He says it's 'brilliant' and 'propulsive.' He's floored by the opening sentence: 'The woman wondered what she had gotten herself into.' (Doesn't seem groundbreaking to me, but okay???) Soon, Carrie's apartment turns into a party venue for Charlotte's birthday. Miranda arrives equipped with a metallic jumpsuit, confetti-filled balloons, and a karaoke machine. Lisa's son Henry (Alexander Bello—Theater Camp fans are familiar with this young king!) is delighted by the props. He calls out the 'Geardon Pro With Touch Screen Karaoke' with glee, in a line of very thinly veiled product placement. (In case you were curious, the machine retails for $600 on Amazon, but it's marked down to $479 thanks to Prime Day.) Henry hogs the mic with renditions of 'I Dreamed a Dream,' 'Hopelessly Devoted to You,' and 'Copacabana.' Honestly he should've kept going, but Miranda would rather open gifts. Gia tries to make conversation with Anthony, but it's more of an accusation. She believes that he's 'selling sex' at his bakery, because the staff wear tiny jumpsuit uniforms that show off their bulges. (She's not entirely wrong.) But Anthony thinks it's just fun. Later, Gia gets to the core of her concern with Anthony. It's 'tragic when someone older lusts over someone younger,' she says, not noting her hypocrisy as someone who married a much older man. While Carrie and Duncan are talking on the terrace—and Kimberly Akimbo star and Tony winner Bonnie Milligan is belting her heart out at karaoke—Miranda tries to comfort Harry. She tells him that when the time comes, Charlotte will be 'devastated by the loss, but we'll be there for her.' She's, of course, referring to Richard Burton, but Harry thinks she's referring to himself. Did Charlotte let the cat out of the bag? He talks to his wife, who talks to Carrie, who comes clean about the dog cover-up. 'That's almost worse!' Charlotte gasps. Harry decides to clear the air and tell Charlotte's friends about his diagnosis, but he assures them not to worry as he is getting treatment at an early stage. It's a twisted birthday gift for Charlotte: Now she won't have to keep a secret from her best friends. Seema, by the way, is elsewhere wearing a freaking Louis Vuitton leather eyepatch, which she crafted from an old fanny pack. But that does not deter Adam, whose flirtations have not ceased. In fact, he mentions that he is no longer with his yoga teacher girlfriend. 'I ended things with her when I smelled your perfume for the first time,' he adds. (BOLD!) Seema is breathless. But he doesn't stop there; he begins to serenade her with 'Bette Davis Eye' (notably not eyes because, again, Seema is wearing an eyepatch) at karaoke. Though Adam makes inexplicable noises into the mic (I think he believes this is 'singing'), Seema is a fan. They leave together and make out on the taxi ride home. When the party's over, Miranda and Carrie debrief in the kitchen. They both fawn over Miranda's girlfriend, Joy; Carrie is so happy to see Miranda in a healthy and effortless relationship. Miranda playfully points out that Carrie had fun with Duncan too, but Carrie takes offense to that. 'I'm in a relationship,' she snaps. Miranda is apologetic, but she notes that Carrie is in a weird place with Aidan; she puts so much work into their relationship, but she rarely gets to have fun. Carrie gets defensive here. She and Aidan have been together for 20-some years, while Miranda and Joy are only a month in—what does she know? Miranda confesses she got the idea from glancing at Carrie's book draft, the part about the woman who didn't know 'what she got herself into.' Carrie insists it's a fictional story set in 1846; it's not about her. Miranda believes her and backs off. Though they end things amicably, it's clear that Miranda's comments struck a chord with Carrie. We viewers know from her narrations that her writing is somewhat autobiographical. So when she tells Miranda that she's not romantically confused, she's not only lying to her friend, but also to herself. Or maybe in the And Just Like That... universe, the concept of truth is a little skewed too.
News.com.au
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
‘Sexy' reason behind wild lines in Sydney
The ovens are hot, the buns are out, and Hot Fellas Bakery is officially open. If you're not a fan of And Just Like That…, you'll have no idea what that means. But if you love glutinous breads and hot men, you'll want to keep reading. Long story short, in the Sex and the City sequel series, character Anthony Marentino launches 'Hot Fellas' as a bread delivery service staffed by good-looking men that eventually expands into a brick-and-mortar shop. Now, HBO Max has brought the carby haunt to life Down Under, with an activation in Darlinghurst this weekend from 8am-12pm Saturday and Sunday, until sold out. And fans certainly showed up, snaking through Taylor Square and down Flinders Street to get some of the delicious free treats on offer, including a delicious Vegemite Babka. Buttermilk croissants are also available, said to be golden on the outside, soft in the middle, and perfect with a cup of Joe, which can also be found in the cafe. Golden Gaytime Cream Puffs have been popular and are the most eye-catching of the pastries. It's a hybrid between the classic ice cream and a cream puff pastry, with a tasty toffee and vanilla cream filling inside. It's proving to be the ultimate brekkie, and Sydneysiders have been lapping it up, with fans queuing early Friday morning to grab limited-edition merch and meet some Hot Fellas, dressed in open-chested denim jumpsuits and looking buff. On TikTok, visitors have been living their best Carrie Bradshaw lives and giving the pop-up rave reviews. One blogger called it 'every bit as steamy (and delicious) as it sounds,' while another foodie said the pop-up was 'so well done'. 'The coffee was delicious too,' they added. 'Run don't walk,' another urged. The activation follows a similarly successful one in the Big Apple two weeks ago.
New York Times
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The ‘Hot Fellas' Bakery Was Real, at Least for One Weekend
'Who wants a hot croissant?' asked the actor Mario Cantone, reprising his character Anthony Marentino from the HBO show 'Sex and the City.' Mr. Cantone, brandishing an apron and a cake server, added an emphasis on the word 'hot' and wagged his eyebrows, turning the otherwise ordinary tray of freshly baked pastries into an innuendo. A group of fans in front of him — most of whom were women with their phones at the ready — giggled and took photos. When 'Sex and the City' was brought back to life in 2021 as 'And Just Like That …,' Mr. Cantone's character pivoted from a career in wedding planning to starting up a bread delivery business, called Hot Fellas. As the name suggests, his business is staffed by sexy men in short denim rompers so tight that every arm flex or squat teases a wardrobe malfunction. The fictional business became 'a fan favorite story line from the moment it first appeared,' Dana Flax, a marketing vice president at HBO Max said in an emailed statement, citing the engagement and enthusiasm for the Hot Fellas on social media. In the most recent episode of Season 3, which was released last week, Anthony opened a Hot Fellas brick-and-mortar cafe (using a pun for male genitalia to alter that phrase) and his current lover, Giuseppe, an aspiring poet played by Sebastiano Pigazzi, temporarily became a Hot Fella to help with its launch — thanks largely to his ability to fill out the skin-tight uniform. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Winnipeg Free Press
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Body positivity losing its lustre on social media
Opinion In a scene from this week's episode of And Just Like That…, HBO's Sex and the City sequel series, Anthony (Mario Cantone) is lamenting the fact that no one is coming to the grand opening of the brick-and-mortar location of his bakery, Hot Fellas. 'Where is everybody? Are people scared of carbs again? Is body negativity back?' he asks. As he might say: it certainly frickin' seems like it, Anthony! Last week, TikTok made the move to ban the hashtag #SkinnyTok from its platform after European regulators sounded the alarm over the kinds of content being posted there, most of it promoting extreme thinness and the equally extreme measures it takes to get there. That Anthony should note the 'again' and 'back' of it all speaks to just how cyclical — and how positively Y2K — this stuff is. After all, he was there in the late '90s/early 2000s on Sex and the City when Carrie famously wore a belt over her bare, toned, tanned midriff. After a brief moment in the 2010s when the body positivity movement made it feel like maybe, just maybe, we'd turned a corner, it feels, culturally, like we're sliding back to the era of low-rise jeans, impossibly thin physiques and diet culture that doesn't even attempt to pretend it's about health. Look at any comments on social media and you'll see body shaming is alive and well; actively trying to become the smallest version of yourself is encouraged and lauded. My point being, TikTok banning the hashtag is great and all, but these cultural ideas didn't need TikTok to take root before. As Kate Lindsay writes in the Internet-focused newsletter Embedded: 'Until we fix society's sinister, pervasive and constantly fluctuating standards for what bodies are acceptable bodies, everything is SkinnyTok.' She's right. From the 'what I eat in a day' videos to the relentless fitness obsession with both packing away obscene amounts of protein and getting 10,000 steps (although, according to the cursed algorithm that has found me, that target has moved to 20K) to even the blatant use of the word 'skinny,' it's all SkinnyTok even if it's not explicitly labelled as such. The goal is the same: get smaller. Besides, young, internet-native users are crafty. They know how to get around censors — pro-tip: seggs = sex, unalived = killing/suicide — to keep making the kind of content that is clearly popular among social media users. As to why these retrograde, 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' social mores are trending again is more difficult to parse. It could have to do with the mainstreaming of GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, which have made previously unattainable body types much more attainable, so long as you can afford it. It could have to do with the fact that we live in deeply uncertain times, and restriction reliably offers an illusion of control. It could also have to do with the fact that we're just more aware of how we're perceived, owing to social media. But it could also be pop culture's tendency to treat body types — you know, something we famously have control over — like cuts of jeans: in one season, out the next. Wednesdays Columnist Jen Zoratti looks at what's next in arts, life and pop culture. The body-positivity movement, like all social movements, wasn't perfect. It didn't leave a lot of room for ideas around body neutrality, for example, or even weight fluctuation, leading to a lot of body policing and complicated feelings when artists/creators/influencers who built their businesses on body positivity started losing weight. But it did see people pushing back against social pressures around thinness. It gave us the language to be able to recognize that well-meaning sentiments such as 'strong is the new skinny,' were just valourizing a different (but still thin) feminine ideal. It allowed us to see a diversity of bodies in advertising and online. Crucially, it called out fatphobia, discrimination and inequitable access to health care. Thin is in again. But maybe it was folly to think it was ever out. Jen ZorattiColumnist Jen Zoratti is a columnist and feature writer working in the Arts & Life department, as well as the author of the weekly newsletter NEXT. A National Newspaper Award finalist for arts and entertainment writing, Jen is a graduate of the Creative Communications program at RRC Polytech and was a music writer before joining the Free Press in 2013. Read more about Jen. Every piece of reporting Jen produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print – part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
