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For the past two seasons of And Just Like That …, I have written these fashion recaps with a tinge of guilt. As someone from the Midwest, where honking at a person is considered so rude it’s practically a capital offense, outright blasting the creative decisions in the show (the fashion, the lighting, the mutual masturbation) felt too negative, and I don’t want to put bad energy out there. But now that season three is in full swing, that guilt has mostly evaporated. I’m beginning to question what I’m seeing every week! The scenes are lit like these characters have found themselves in a cursed-but-not-quite-hellish version of the afterlife. Some of the outfits have begun to induce nausea, and the conversations sound like someone rearranged refrigerator magnets until they almost made sense. Or as fellow staffer and AJLT viewer Bindu Bansinath put it, “It’s like old-school fan fiction where a 14-year-old writer is putting their favorite characters through random new scenarios that lead nowhere.” If you’re the fanfic aficionado who’s responsible for the rampant amount of Hotfellas denim dickprints unleashed this episode, I’m asking you to divert your attention toward Wattpad. Please. Your services are sorely needed there!
But let’s get into the rest of the standout outfits in episode three of the third season …
Carrie
I like this sheer Chanel billowy shirt. I saw it and thought “ah, that blouse is so old Carrie.” Lo and behold, it is actually old Carrie, from a season-three episode of Sex and the City called “Hot Child in the City,” in which our wannabe novelist attempts to date a guy who owns a comic-book store and loves pot (many such cases). Everything else she wears in this episode is forgettable and inconsequential, sorry!
Lisa Todd Wexley
When are they going to free my girl from the statement necklaces? Her editor just ditched her, isn’t she going through enough?
Charlotte (and family)
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Hello, belt! It’s kind of hilarious that Charlotte’s plotline is that she has to go home and be a mom instead of staying out when she can certainly afford a private chef to make Lily’s green beans (side note: what teenager is desperate to be eating green beans every night???). Also Rock’s little sailor shirt … rocks. They’re becoming the preeminent fashion icon of this season.
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As for Harry, who stretched his jeans so tight that he pissed his pants at the club? At least it gave us party Char for one night again (I welcomed having some flashbacks to her dancing at the Long Island firemen’s charity event in SATC). I’m also incredibly grateful the show’s costume designers took mercy on us (for once) and did not, in line with this episode’s theme, have Mr. Goldenblatt’s genitals on display through his fancy denim.
Seema
Seema is back in the power suits! I’m often grateful she wasn’t involved in the first iteration of Sex and the City because I have no past of hers to mourn: no flouncy skirts, cinched blazers, or Birkins that have come before. Just fabulous vintage Dior pulls and snake-shaped brooches to goo-goo gaga at in admiration.
Jump scare of the week
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Putting Seema and Carrie, women who live in mansions and have chauffeurs, in economy airplane seating instilled genuine fear within me. But the most terrifying part of this show is the men meant to be love interests to these legendary women. Seema’s Ken doll–look-alike co-worker showing up to the office in a tiny party hat gave me such a big ick I’m about to check myself into the hospital for gagging too hard. And here comes Adam Gardens again in his “Home of the Whopper” novelty tank and who, by the way, I’m convinced will be involved in Shoe’s death at some point. Why else would they have Carrie carelessly fill her backyard garden with enough rat poison to invoke a worldwide rodent apocalypse and subsequent day of judgment if it wasn’t to teach her a lesson about her cat? I will riot if this happens as I am deeply attached to Shoe.
Win of the week
This icon in this floral lapel pin and sweet honey southern accent. Keep him around!!!
