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Sydney Morning Herald
08-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
And Just Like That recap: A waking nightmare nears its end
Charlotte did have one moment of clarity this episode, when she told Carrie visiting her cold, empty, enormous Gramercy house was like being on a historical walking tour. She's ready for The Woman to return to a cosier locale, and so am I. The house has given Carrie everything it had to give: a scotch-soaked romance downstairs, a CGI rat infestation, a trillion new chairs and one final finale with Aidan. She invokes him while talking to Anthony about accepting a marriage proposal neither of them really meant, deep down. 'Aidan and me, a street, a dog, a ring. A yes.' When the writing and performances are this good, it makes the rest of the show's visual and emotional clutter feel even more clunky. Anthony loves Giuseppe, but does he want to spend his twilight years mothering 'a 29-year-old extremely well-hung baby'? As a single woman on dating apps in 2025, let me tell you: it could be much worse. Over drinks with Seema, Carrie learns she has the option to buy the basement apartment. Duncan's not renewing the lease, and the entire property will be a more attractive listing if (when) she's ready to sell. Is that the last we'll see of Duncan? I can't tell if I'll be sad for that hunky Brit to be gone for good. On one hand, I'd appreciate this show having the confidence to do what its predecessor never did and leave Carrie single and happy – the kind of ending she's trying to write for her novel. On the other, watching Duncan and Carrie connect as writers breathed new life into the story of someone we'd seen do it all before. Carrie's as clouded by the news that Duncan won't be back under her floorboards as she is by the realisation that everyone – her friends, herself, The Woman, me – is judging her for having bought the enormous home in the first place. She's nostalgic for her old place on Perry Street, and pops back there to visit Lisette – who is now my mortal enemy for what she's done to the apartment!!!!! A subdivided studio apartment?! Because you're scared of living alone?! Did the writers forget this party girl was rolling in at all hours to crash in her old place downstairs? Carrie says she's more 'scared of what's already happening to her' than of living alone. Honestly, Lisette should be the scared one knowing her roommate has guns stashed 'somewhere' nearby. Blink twice if you need help, girl. We end the episode in classic Carrie fashion: she's writing the epilogue to The Woman's story at the upstairs window. (All she's missing is a cigarette.) Would it be such a tragedy for a woman to end up alone? Do we need Carrie to get Little Women 'ed into pulling a romantic resolution out of thin air? I guess it's one of the many things we'll find out next week, over Thanksgiving dinner.
The Age
08-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
And Just Like That recap: A waking nightmare nears its end
Charlotte did have one moment of clarity this episode, when she told Carrie visiting her cold, empty, enormous Gramercy house was like being on a historical walking tour. She's ready for The Woman to return to a cosier locale, and so am I. The house has given Carrie everything it had to give: a scotch-soaked romance downstairs, a CGI rat infestation, a trillion new chairs and one final finale with Aidan. She invokes him while talking to Anthony about accepting a marriage proposal neither of them really meant, deep down. 'Aidan and me, a street, a dog, a ring. A yes.' When the writing and performances are this good, it makes the rest of the show's visual and emotional clutter feel even more clunky. Anthony loves Giuseppe, but does he want to spend his twilight years mothering 'a 29-year-old extremely well-hung baby'? As a single woman on dating apps in 2025, let me tell you: it could be much worse. Over drinks with Seema, Carrie learns she has the option to buy the basement apartment. Duncan's not renewing the lease, and the entire property will be a more attractive listing if (when) she's ready to sell. Is that the last we'll see of Duncan? I can't tell if I'll be sad for that hunky Brit to be gone for good. On one hand, I'd appreciate this show having the confidence to do what its predecessor never did and leave Carrie single and happy – the kind of ending she's trying to write for her novel. On the other, watching Duncan and Carrie connect as writers breathed new life into the story of someone we'd seen do it all before. Carrie's as clouded by the news that Duncan won't be back under her floorboards as she is by the realisation that everyone – her friends, herself, The Woman, me – is judging her for having bought the enormous home in the first place. She's nostalgic for her old place on Perry Street, and pops back there to visit Lisette – who is now my mortal enemy for what she's done to the apartment!!!!! A subdivided studio apartment?! Because you're scared of living alone?! Did the writers forget this party girl was rolling in at all hours to crash in her old place downstairs? Carrie says she's more 'scared of what's already happening to her' than of living alone. Honestly, Lisette should be the scared one knowing her roommate has guns stashed 'somewhere' nearby. Blink twice if you need help, girl. We end the episode in classic Carrie fashion: she's writing the epilogue to The Woman's story at the upstairs window. (All she's missing is a cigarette.) Would it be such a tragedy for a woman to end up alone? Do we need Carrie to get Little Women 'ed into pulling a romantic resolution out of thin air? I guess it's one of the many things we'll find out next week, over Thanksgiving dinner.
The Age
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
And Just Like That recap: This is the moment we've been waiting for
Elsewhere, I guess Adam's done in Carrie's garden, since the episode opens on Aidan and Duncan sitting silently out there together and Mr Karma has way more time to bury his face in Seema's pits. I'm unsure if 'woman applying deodorant in public' needed a two-episode arc. Seema also got an office, so we could get a whole scene ramping up to the line, 'From WeWork to SheWork!' It's in this scene, when Carrie visits her to have lunch, that our girl finally, finally vents about Aidan's weirdness. She also mentions Big for the first time in years! The awkward courtyard chat with Duncan brings up so much old Aidan residual shame and guilt: her cheating on him with Big and sneaking cigarettes, him wanting her to change her life to mould itself around him, both of them seeing one another as a fresh start despite all the unresolved stuff still lingering. It couldn't go ignored forever. Carrie's late-night writing session with Duncan sends all that steam shooting out. Aidan needs her upstairs eating steaks with him. She doesn't bend to his will the way she has up to this point, and he sulks. When she climbs into bed to wrap herself around him like a koala, he's stewing. As cold as the raw steaks left symbolically on the counter. He sends her away, telling her to shower. 'You smell like smoke,' he basically spits. God, can she start smoking again? After she blows off her own steam in the shoe department, where SJP's IRL BFF Andy Cohen reprises his season six role as 'shoe salesman', she meets Aidan at 'the place we love'. Before her iced tea has even arrived, Carrie needs Aidan to finally stop blaming her for all that old stuff. They have it out. At last! She can't believe she doesn't have Aidan's trust after all the enormous changes she's made for him and with Big's gazillions of dollars. He has trust issues – not had. She was 100 per cent in – not is. Carrie has very real needs, and he's responsible for meeting some of them, which he's proven himself incapable of doing. The way she has been ground down as a result, shrinking herself into this easy, tiny, flexible thing, waiting for him to want her, has been gruelling to watch. This scene almost makes it worth it. I wish it didn't take Carrie this long to come back to herself, but God, I'm glad she's here. Loading At the manse, as a song from Taylor Swift's most verbose era plays (I bet The Woman loves Tortured Poets Department), Carrie removes all the Aidan ephemera from her apartment: two blank postcards and a pillow. Carrie trots off to meet the girls at dinner to discuss their armpits and dizziness, probably. The Woman is looking ahead to the future. Maybe one in which she gets a name. I know, I know – I've had one wish come true this episode, I won't push another one.
Sydney Morning Herald
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
And Just Like That recap: This is the moment we've been waiting for
Elsewhere, I guess Adam's done in Carrie's garden, since the episode opens on Aidan and Duncan sitting silently out there together and Mr Karma has way more time to bury his face in Seema's pits. I'm unsure if 'woman applying deodorant in public' needed a two-episode arc. Seema also got an office, so we could get a whole scene ramping up to the line, 'From WeWork to SheWork!' It's in this scene, when Carrie visits her to have lunch, that our girl finally, finally vents about Aidan's weirdness. She also mentions Big for the first time in years! The awkward courtyard chat with Duncan brings up so much old Aidan residual shame and guilt: her cheating on him with Big and sneaking cigarettes, him wanting her to change her life to mould itself around him, both of them seeing one another as a fresh start despite all the unresolved stuff still lingering. It couldn't go ignored forever. Carrie's late-night writing session with Duncan sends all that steam shooting out. Aidan needs her upstairs eating steaks with him. She doesn't bend to his will the way she has up to this point, and he sulks. When she climbs into bed to wrap herself around him like a koala, he's stewing. As cold as the raw steaks left symbolically on the counter. He sends her away, telling her to shower. 'You smell like smoke,' he basically spits. God, can she start smoking again? After she blows off her own steam in the shoe department, where SJP's IRL BFF Andy Cohen reprises his season six role as 'shoe salesman', she meets Aidan at 'the place we love'. Before her iced tea has even arrived, Carrie needs Aidan to finally stop blaming her for all that old stuff. They have it out. At last! She can't believe she doesn't have Aidan's trust after all the enormous changes she's made for him and with Big's gazillions of dollars. He has trust issues – not had. She was 100 per cent in – not is. Carrie has very real needs, and he's responsible for meeting some of them, which he's proven himself incapable of doing. The way she has been ground down as a result, shrinking herself into this easy, tiny, flexible thing, waiting for him to want her, has been gruelling to watch. This scene almost makes it worth it. I wish it didn't take Carrie this long to come back to herself, but God, I'm glad she's here. Loading At the manse, as a song from Taylor Swift's most verbose era plays (I bet The Woman loves Tortured Poets Department), Carrie removes all the Aidan ephemera from her apartment: two blank postcards and a pillow. Carrie trots off to meet the girls at dinner to discuss their armpits and dizziness, probably. The Woman is looking ahead to the future. Maybe one in which she gets a name. I know, I know – I've had one wish come true this episode, I won't push another one.
Sydney Morning Herald
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
And Just Like That recap: Genuine tragedy and full-frontal nudity
On a nighttime dog walk past the Guggenheim, Harry shares the news and tries to soothe a terrified Char with the facts: De Niro survived this! He is not going to die for a long time! But he doesn't want anyone knowing and is keen for life to proceed as normal, so Char just has to swallow it. Over in the Gramercy, Carrie's back narrating life in her empty, echoing apartment from the perspective of 'The Woman' in her vague historical fiction novel. Her newly arrived downstairs neighbour isn't the only one in hell. This storyline was triggering to me, someone with a heavy-footed upstairs neighbour and fear of confrontation. The only possible cure for my ills might've been seeing the montage of Carrie stomping about in fabulous outfits as her tenant (?) tosses and turns in a dark, water-damaged apartment downstairs, but sadly it was shot only from the calves down, before Duncan Reeves, revered writer of doorstop-sized historical biographies, bangs on the door to declare, 'You are always walking in heels! Have you no rugs?!' At brunch, Carrie does the unthinkable when describing the scenario to her friends. While announcing that she has rights, she evokes the title of a legendary Sex and the City episode: ' A Woman's Right to Shoes'. Loading Remember that one? It was in that blissful season six period after Berger but before we had to endure Petrovsky? When the show said so much about single women and their coupled-up, new-parent friends who judged them for their expensive footwear proclivities? And it did it all in a compact half hour? I dream of those days. Where was I? Turns out Duncan is like the Ron Chernow of this universe, and he's also 'a lot of fun' according to the disembodied head sending texts as Samantha Jones. He lives it up in London for half the year, then comes to New York to write about Margaret Thatcher, fuelled only by stew, for the other six months. The endless back and forth of 'please walk a bit quieter' / 'no I shan't I have to wear heels always' is just another example of the show's writers' memory loss, considering Carrie was already forced into flats in season one after her hip surgery. Miranda was an awful visitor then – remember her and Che in the kitchen, grunting into each other's mouths while Carrie tried to pee in a Snapple bottle? (My god, what is this show?) – and she remains one now. Once Carrie remembers she has 'the extra rooms' and offers her lifelong best friend a place to crash, they're both on their absolute worst behaviour. Loading Carrie expects Miranda to take HER shoes off and says, 'I know how to walk in mine.' Miranda stalks around the house fully nude like one of the bad guys in It Follows and makes no attempt to cover up. She eats Carrie's yoghurt and banana. Carrie knocks a Coke ('My last Mexican Coke!') onto the new table (I can't even get into the Aidan's-thumbs-down-table of it all any more, we need to have some standards) and mops it up with Miranda's work papers (?!) and then Miranda mops it up with Carrie's silk scarf. These women both need brain scans.
