And Just Like That…’s episodes have been getting progressively shorter over the past few weeks, which feels somewhat disconcerting to me? But, then again, given what a snooze this particular season is swiftly becoming, I’m…maybe okay with it?
All the same, tonight’s episode involves some Aidan-specific wish fulfillment for me, along with Ozempic discourse, natural-deodorant drama, sober lesbian blues, and much more. Let’s dive in, shall we?
- I like Carrie’s extremely full skirt and corset!
- LOL, Carrie calling for Aidan is making me think of how Max from Happy Endings and his boyfriend would go to Gymboree and yell, “Aidan, honey, where are you? Daddies are really nervous!”
- I’m so obsessed with Seema’s affair with the hot gardener. So D.H. Lawrence!
- Equally obsessed with him trying to give her crystals, or natural deodorant, or whatever the hell was on that little rope.
- Oh, okay, it’s natural deodorant. But maybe it’s also a crystal?
- Aw, Aidan really doesn’t fit in with Carrie’s angry neighbor, who is weirdly her friend.
- I mean, would you really want to fit in with a guy who smokes a pipe, though?
- Aidan giving voice to my thoughts: “What’s the deal with the pipe?”
- Oh, okay, it’s a writing ritual. Personally, I like to watch a bunch of Real Housewives, but to each their own!
- Does angry neighbor look a little bit like an AI-edited McDreamy?
- Can’t say I care for the amount of ankle his pants are showing, but maybe I’m being a boring men’s-ankles traditionalist.
- Aw, Charlotte! You’re too young and hot for all this talk of catheters and vertigo!
- Okay, maybe not too young, but certainly too hot.
- How can Seema’s assistant afford a Birkin?
- Should I become an assistant to a semi-employed yet fabulous realtor?
- She’s having what appears to be expensive sushi for lunch, which is another point in the “yes” column (although I’m not sure the assistant gets any).
- I love Seema being looped into the Big-Carrie-Aidan lore years after the fact!
- Carrie’s response to Seema’s reasonable suggestion that she simply talk to Aidan being “No, no, no”…healthy relationship vibes!
- “Just go on Ozempic like everybody else.” LOL, Lisa, LOL.
- Oh, no, Seema with B.O. at a work function? Girl, just date (or sleep with) the crunchy guy! You don’t have to adopt his grooming routine, too!
- I am so stressed out by Miranda and Joy’s relationship, and I don’t know why.
- Maybe it’s because Miranda simply will not confront an issue head-on?
- At least she’s confessing to Joy that she got rid of her fancy English gin, I guess.
- Personally, if I were dating a sober person, I’m not sure I would keep gin at their place, but go off, Joy?
- “I don’t like to feel bad about myself, which is possibly why I need to have a drink or two.” Extremely British!
- Aw, these elder (or elder-ish?) lesbians and their U-Hauling and processing. I love it.
- If my man called me at work to tell me he gained a pound, I would end his life.
- I’m upset about how much airtime Margaret Thatcher is getting this season, but Carrie’s edits to Duncan’s book about her do sound right on the money.
- When, exactly, did Duncan become such a non-negotiable part of Carrie’s life? When he made her weird stew, or when he bought her ugly slippers?
- Once again, Carrie and Aidan’s fundamental incompatibility rears its ugly head.
- I’ll say it once more: LEAVE THIS MAN. Permanently. Even if you run into him in Abu Dhabi again!
- Poor Anthony; an Italian mom seasoning food you’ve made her really is the kiss of death, even when it’s not Patti literal LuPone doing it.
- At least she likes his slutty gay salt and pepper shakers, though!
- Oh, shit, she’s paying Anthony to leave her son? Okay, lazy rom-com plotline!
- Not Patti sweeping food off the table! And soft-threatening Anthony with a knife!
- God, I love Italy and all the wonderful, diasporic drama it’s given us.
- Wait, she was financially supporting her son?
- Okay, get a job, king!
- Carrie’s hair really is looking good, I must say.
- Aw, Aidan’s sad, uncooked steak 🙁
- I get the symbolism, but is he just…going to leave that out overnight? Okay, botulism!
- Carrie really is being insanely weird about Duncan, although I guess she just has a crush on him? And Aidan can tell?
- I feel like she could do better, crush-wise.
- At least Big had style, of a sort.
- Of course Carrie’s cool-down walk is to a shoe store.
- And the award for most unnecessary cameo goes to…Andy Cohen, as “Daniel the shoe store guy”!
- Ah, so Aidan has writer insecurity? Many such cases.
- Oh, Carrie is pissed.
- End it, babe! End it now!
- SHE’S DOING IT! YES! THIS IS MY SUPER BOWL!
- Sorry, Aidan, but…he had to kind of see the writing on the wall, right?
- I need her to not end up with Duncan, though.
- Aw, at least Carrie has Shoe.
- And Shoe has quite a gorgeous cat castle to play with! I’d expect nothing less for America’s best-groomed cat.
- Okay, this echo of Carrie meeting up with the girls at a restaurant in the original series is sweet.