25-07-2025
And Just Like That EPs Tell All About That Taylor Swift Needle Drop, Why It Was Perfect for Carrie's Big Moment
Turns out Carrie Bradshaw is like every other woman alive: She leans on Taylor Swift to help her get through a breakup.
This week on And Just Like That…, Carrie said goodbye to her longtime love Aidan after she realized he'd never get over her affair with Big all those years ago. And after they decided to split up, we heard Taylor Swift's beautifully melancholic song 'How Did It End?' on the soundtrack as Carrie took all the Virginia postcards off of her fridge, got dressed up and met her girlfriends for drinks. (The lyrics even center on a recently ended relationship, with the opening line: 'We hereby conduct this post mortem…')
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Swift herself signed off on the inclusion of the song, executive producer Elisa Zuritsky tells TVLine, crediting showrunner Michael Patrick King with sealing the deal: 'That was a Michael Patrick King production, right out of his brain. It was shortly after her newest album [The Tortured Poets Department] was released, and he knew of the song before I did… He was right there on it with that song.'
The song really fit the resilient mood of that final scene with Carrie, too, fellow EP Julie Rottenberg points out, and the writers used it as inspiration: 'It was helpful, once [Michael] shared that idea with us, to think about that song in writing it, and to make sure that that last scene felt not just tragic, but empowering and maybe freeing. That she always has her friends, and this isn't the end. It might be an end, but life goes on.'
What did you think of the Taylor Swift song — and Carrie's big breakup? Tell us in the comments!
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