My palms are getting sweaty, my knees are weak, and my arms are heavy (we’re not quite in vomit-on-my-sweater-already nor Mom’s-spaghetti territory). Carrie — sweet, naïve, selfish Carrie — is sliding back into her old ways: falling for a man who is both not her current boyfriend and a little mean to her and then lashing out at her best friends when they bring it up. We’re seven episodes into season three of And Just Like That … and I’m getting nervous about it. I had to stop watching Sex and the City my first go-round when Aidan and Carrie’s relationship blew up on account of Big’s meaty hands. I couldn’t handle the emotional fallout of watching a grown woman derail her own life.
But now, in this reboot and at Carrie’s big age, at her friends’ big age, why are they even arguing about her flirting with a hot curmudgeonly writer? I think they should all be having as many extramarital affairs as possible (excluding Charlotte, whose husband is sick — I draw the line at cruelty). Most of their partners are man-babies anyway and only have so many good years left with working appendages. Let your hair down, ladies! Embrace promiscuity! Are we just going to let Herbert grumble something filled with contempt at Lisa Todd Wexley when she’s got a face card like that? NO. We’re going to fight back, either by using a hot, younger man as a pawn or by wearing a tight Emilio Pucci dress so lethal your first husband with a borderline criminal track record has a heart attack fully clothed in the shower. (Who said that?) I’m a serial monogamist but would love to see some drama with these mamas on my television screen!
Anyway, like I said, Emilio Pucci dress!
Carrie
I adore Carrie’s party look. There’s something futuristic and retro about it, like she was transported into The Jetsons’s multiverse and decided to throw an awkward karaoke party there. The slick, straight hair in the curious bouffant-y look paired with the silver, slinky dress complement her — and, for the first time since this cursed series’ inception, have made me feel inspired. Congratulations, finally, to the costume department.
Side note: I’m on bloomer watch as a fashion trend and Carrie obviously REFUSES to be left out of the equation. Good for her.
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Seema
I’m processing the beauty-salon scene and the caricature of it all still … That said, Seema’s Louis Vuitton eyepatch is the only chic way to recover from an eye infection, and I support her journey.
Gia
AJLT is following in SATC’s footsteps with the “Oh my God, what are they doing here?” guest star (looking at you, Bradley Cooper, Justin Theroux, Andy Cohen, et al.). Giusseppe’s Italian American mom, played by Italian American icon Patti LuPone, looks ravishing. The color-block Ferragamo bag coordinating with her color-blocked highlights is really working for me.
Lisa Todd Wexley
The Pucci dress is one of the greatest things I’ve seen grace the screen this season.
Charlotte (and family)
Is it even an episode of AJLT if Charlotte isn’t wearing a massive belt?
Also, why is Harry’s personal shopper wearing Schiaparelli out in the open at Bergdorf Goodman like that? Please, these are sullied halls filled with discounts. Save those family jewels for a more auspicious occasion than doing another wealthy family’s bidding.
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Miranda
Disco Miranda in her gilded onesie spent most of her time in this outfit beefing with a 14-year-old theater kid who happens to love the stage. Get Patti LuPone in here to defend his honor!
Men
Adam Gardens’s shirt says “in it to win it,” but his hair says otherwise. The plus side is that his rendition of “Bette Davis Eyes” (or eye, in Seema’s case) was better than Jojo Siwa’s.
As for Duncan, has a man ever looked this handsome in a captivity of his own making? It almost distracted me from how nonsensical it is that his first chapter on Margaret Thatcher could be “thrilling” (?) unless we’re dissecting how she single-handedly widened the wealth gap in the U.K. alongside her BFF, Ronald Reagan. I do, however, know this man is very down bad for Carrie, and I’m certain of this because he said the first chapter of her novel, the one where she writes lines like “The woman wondered what she’d gotten herself into” or whatever, was brilliant. I rest my case.
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