‘And Just Like That…’ - Thread 4

Unfortunately, I don't think we've seen the last of Aidan.

MAKE IT STOP!!!!!

I want Aidan to show up periodically, only to throw rocks through her precious, one-of-a-kind, never to be duplicated windows.

^"Want" or "Wanted"??

Bring back David Duchovny/crazy high school boyfriend!

In the last thread, someone mentioned Aiden was rumored to beat Carrie in the season finale. Abd while we may not believe the writers plan, if you listen to theur podcast, whether we like what they've done or not, they do claim they intentionally put things in that end up coming back several episodes later. Well, in the first episode this season, remember that Carrie's kitchen door alarm kept going off and she didn't even check it--she woukd just call the alarm company abd tell them it was another false alarm. Nothing came of that. Yet..If true that Aiden doesn't take the breakup well. . .I wonder if that damn alarm is going to start going off again. "The woman regretted her choice to ignore the alarm ringing in her ears."

[quote]In the last thread, someone mentioned Aiden was rumored to beat Carrie in the season finale.

At last: a reason to go on living!

Geez that would be like beating a dead...... You know

This and her hair is really sad at this point.

Where’s Kim?!

Are they dressed for a funeral in OP and if so, why are they laughing?

Her hair is so thin. This is why they tell women over a certain age not to keep their long.

*theirs

I bet her house will be decorated to open the next episode.

Or - and I wouldn't put this above the writers - she somehow makes it back to her beloved apartment - if not this season, then next if there's another. I don't need that call back.

HBO should announce the final, abbreviated season.

Aiden can break into Carries place when Miranda is back for an overnight wandering nude through the hallways. FTC gets involved and the series is done for good.

Hello, Aidan. I'm just here to get nekkid and eat all Carrie's yogurt.

What are you here for?

R14: They know they can't do anymore movies. This is all SJP has left. She can't let this franchise go. People will hate watch in droves so this thing will go on forever until she says otherwise.

20 years from now, this old horse, the ginger dyke and the other one will still be playing these characters in an assisted living facility, with Carrie wearing orthopedic Manolo Blahnik slippers.

R15. Aiden has already seen Mawanda naked. Once was enough.

Carrie could be 90 and still written as if she's the most desirable woman in all of New York

What was the purpose of the Andy Cohen cameo? Is he dying? Was this his Gay Make a Wish?

R22, I have no memory of this, but he played the same shoe salesbottom in Season 6 of SATC.

Aidan should be killed off in a murder suicide involving Wyatt

I’m hate watching. But now I’m boring hate watching. At least with Che, it was fun hate watching. Bring it back!

When I scrolled down I thought the guy's head behind Carrie was a crazy looking hat.

They should bring back Skippers as a drunk on the fringes when Miranda relapses and goes to an AA meeting

I hate cameos that have to be explained by the internet. No one would have remembered Andy playing this non-speaking role twenty plus years ago. It’s a stupid indulgence built for 2025. Like the show itself.

Her house has no furniture, except she conveniently has a bed in her spare bedroom.

Carrie and Mariska (Oleevia) occupy a special place in DL’s heart.

SJP has been looking better these last few episodes. She finally had something done.

The lot of you seem like you’d be the life of a party.

SJP looks good. She never been. Classic beauty but for hos she looks she’s aged well. I think she’s cute and has a nice body

SJP had a smokin body and perky tits in season one of SATC. By the middle of season 2 she started looking too thin but very toned. Now she looks well preserved.

SJP’s looks always felt very New York to me. There are many women here who are not classic beauties but who shape and style themselves in ways that work for them. Through clothes and makeup and the way they carry themselves, they create an image that is in some ways more intimidating than traditional good looks.

I have it on very good authority this is indeed the last season. It’s too expensive. So relish these last few episodes because you won’t have SJ to kick around much longer! Clearly Duncan is going to be end game for Carrie which I’m ok with given how excruciatingly awful Aidan was in this reboot.

Some of you seem like you're complaining about shit just for the sake of posting. I agree it's no SATC but to say no one would remember cross-eyed Cohen playing the same role? Maybe you wouldn't but many fans got it the minute he showed up and were relieved that his one or two lines was the extent of it. And upthread or toward the end of the last thread, someone who definitely needs a new hobby ranted for multiple paragraphs about how LTWs family would never have Little Debbie products. Really? The show has its flaws but to try to make that an example of its bad writing is sort of ludicrous. Have you ever been in a rich person's pantry? It's not all caviar and cookies flown over from France.

R36, that would surprise me because they usually announce the end of a long-running show in advance of their final season.

R36 = bitter, unemployed Kim Cattrall.

She had a bed in the spare bedroom so that a guest who is eating “house yogurt” has a place to sleep!

I know she gets a lot of shit here, but I thought SJP looked amazing in that last shot of Carrie walking to the restaurant.

The last two episodes were likely written and produced as a single episode, but were split up after production. They both have the same two writers and same director. That would explain the short running times and why inane plots (Seema's deodorant, Charlotte's vertigo) were carried over for another episode.

I'm glad Carrie and Aiden are finally over, but this season has been marred by this odious relationship. With only three episodes left, they waited waaay too long to get rid of Aiden.

I can see how it would be very expensive to film. It’s filmed in NY and I’m sure the three main actresses are very well compensated. Nevertheless, it’s one of the top viewed shows on HBO Max, and I hate to tell DLers, it’s not being hate-watched like we do.

R41, you realize the show employs a team of VFX experts would digitally enhance the show’s stars, right?

Where’s the link to the previous thread?

Andy Cohen also played a shirtless patron at a gay bar. Hopefully he will NOT be recreating that.

R42 Kristin and Cynthia each got 10 million a piece for the first two seasons. I’m sure it’s risen to this third season

Her new garden is so shitty, it didn't even register to me that it was finished. I'm convinced the gardner is just some hobo who murdered the real landscaper and assumed his identity

R47 If that's true then let's hope he murders Seema next.

recast FAYE as Samantha Jones!! The campaign starts here, BITCHES!

R49. Love the idea of FAYE as Samantha. She can walk into Carrie's new home and scream NOW TEAR THAT BITCH OF A BEARING WALL DOWN AND PUT A WINDOW WHERE A WINDOW OUGHT TO BE!

[quote] SJP looks good. She never been. Classic beauty but for hos she looks she’s aged well.

Mafuckin'!

The thought of FAYE squaring up to Kristin Davis, worlds worst actress, is sending me over the edge.

r46

Do you mean 10 million per season or 5 for each which equals 10

Even the Aussie media is trashing the show.

They've done so much shit to Cantone's Anthony in this iteration I'm sure the only thing he'll miss is the money.

Knives out! Patti haz the worst Buffalo-Milanese accent on record.

R3, comments like your's are why I can't quit Datalounge.

They should brig in Al Bundy as a shoe salesman to jump the ultimate shark.

R26, there is always hope for "And Just Like That - The MOVIE".

Kill us now^

I know it's lame but this ChatGPT treatment is pretty good. At least at the level of the current writers.

“And Just Like That – The Movie”

Tagline: The past isn’t dead. It’s just waiting for a second act.

ACT I: A CITY CHANGED • Opening Montage: A glossy, piano-led sweep over New York in flux — climate protests, tech billionaires, tent cities in SoHo. Voiceover from Carrie: “The city that never sleeps? Lately, it feels like it never stops screaming.” • Carrie Bradshaw is now hosting a podcast-turned-streaming show about love after 60, but her relevance is waning. • Charlotte is deep into DEI-driven chaos at her elite prep school — she discovers her daughter Lily has launched an OnlyFans account “for piano technique.” • Miranda is back in Brooklyn, trying to write a memoir about quitting drinking — but she’s blocked and awkwardly cohabitating with Che, whose standup special has been canceled for being “insufficiently queer.” • Enter SKIPPER: Once Miranda’s puppy-eyed boyfriend, now an articulate, shaggy-bearded homeless philosopher ranting in Union Square about “algorithmic affection.” Carrie runs into him — he recognizes her instantly. He’s brilliant, embittered, and somehow still tender.

⸻

ACT II: SHADOWS OF THE NEXT GENERATION • Brady returns from Amsterdam with Wyatt, a jittery, brooding young man with a MAGA hat, an AR-15 obsession, and a barely concealed rage at “being erased.” Miranda is horrified, Charlotte suggests therapy, Carrie writes a column titled “Red Flags & Red Hats.” • Wyatt’s arc builds ominously: he’s obsessed with incel forums and becomes increasingly threatening toward Lily, whom he accuses of “selling herself to the woke elite.” He begins stockpiling weapons in Brady’s old room. • Skipper’s monologues become a hit on TikTok. The girls are torn between helping him and wondering if he’s dangerous. Samantha (via Zoom) wires money and says, “Just buy him a brownstone and get it over with.”

ACT III: COLLISION COURSE • Charlotte organizes a benefit gala for “Art & Empathy” at her school — the perfect storm for drama. All characters converge. • Wyatt shows up with a weapon, triggered by Lily’s speech on gender and art. Tense standoff. Skipper intervenes, quoting Proust, disarming Wyatt emotionally and physically. • Carrie’s final narration: “Love isn’t always the answer — but sometimes, it’s the distraction that buys time until someone smarter shows up.”

EPILOGUE: CLOSURE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT • Wyatt is in psychiatric care. Brady begins therapy and deletes Reddit. • Skipper is offered a book deal and moves in with Carrie “temporarily.” • Miranda publishes her memoir: “Still Learning.” • Charlotte embraces Lily’s viral fame and markets piano-themed lingerie. • Samantha returns in person. Says nothing. Lights a cigarette. Fade to black.

I’m puzzled - no, I’m stupefied - by those of you saying SJP looks good.

Have you seen OP’s pic? It looks like maggots are burrowing into the skin around her eyes. That plus the Trumpy orange skin on her face and chest, well, I find her look frightening.

She’s only 60. Not 80.

Well, she chose between her ass and her face. Whether she chose wisely is up for interpretation.

Matthew B is s chub with addiction issue, and prowls the WV. She’s born & bred in Appalachian Ohio.

Is r36 the same person who said Aiden would beat Carrie?

R49 Sextette and the City?

SJP has been looking decent lately. She still has a great body, too.

The article at R54 is an awesome takedown of it all.

Or you can stop policing people’s silly thoughts on a silly show. This so DL. It’s what makes it great.

And yes, I have been in many Park Avenue parents’ pantries. Rich parents in 2025 do not allow Little Debbie in the house.

Who knows what lurks on the shelves of their bulemic daughters’ closets?

I thought the guest room was where Shoe sleeps. It is according to the video in the last thread which toured Carrie's house.

Who greenlit Andy Cohen? Honestly, a young gay actor trying to earn a SAG card would have been perfect for the role—but no, Andy Cohen had to take the job. It’s pretty disappointing when you think about it. Not exactly your most ‘woke’ move, SJP.

AJLT provides employment to many NYC actors, crew, etc. I loathe Andy Cohen but he's not taking a job away from anyone. He's friends with SJP and they thought it would be a cute nod to the original.

Aidan was always the better choice.

But our Carrie wasn't into KFC and having a boyfriend who loved her instead of one that just ran off to Paris and got engaged to a 25-year-old.

Was Big always going to be written out or did off screen stuff hasten his demise?

r74

I think all the Chris Noth stuff came out after... I think Big was always dying. I don't think CN wanted to continue with the character

There was nowhere to go with Big.

There never was

Noth agreed to come back for two episodes. He was cut out of the second one which took place in Paris

How many episodes in this season? Thr last episode⁷ i watched was the one where Miranda three the bottle of liquor down the chute

12.

R79 rR80

There was just SO much story to tell!

R64-What is a WV?????

West Virginia?

R41 i actually read a lot of scenes were cut in the last two episodes. A lot of scenes with the other characters, including Duncan. Allegedly they trimmed it down to shorter times so less silly subplot and more focus on Carrie

Chris Noth originally declined coming back. He only agreed to come back for 2 episodes in agreement they kill him off so they can never invite him back again.

Big's death was going to be the plot of SATC 3, along with a 14 year old Brady sending dick pics to Samantha.

West Village, Rose—you’re that dense?

r84, did the cut scenes include the one where Aidan slaps the everloving fuck out of Carrie's face? I was promised that scene in the last thread.

In another throwback, Reddit is saying that Little Cathy will make an appearance in the finale.

A magic Pall Mall sends her to see Wyatt in Virginia.

Has Patti LuPone gotten on a plane and returned to Buffalo or Rome yet? I actually feel sorry for her for taking that role. I’m sure there were tears among her team once she finished and realized what a truly unflattering character she had played.

Chris Noth must not need the money. I betcha they were paying him a lot to play Big

R90 doubtful. She’s an actress.

John Corbett is still handsome. Carrie/SJP looks like an old witch in comparison.

Yes, R93. She is so ugly. She looks like vomit

You rang r93

Patti actually gave an interview (I believe it might have been the torched earth one that ruined her career) where she THANKED Michael Patrick King for such a glorious role.

Maybe it read better than what came of it, but she really should sue.

[Quote] Chris Noth must not need the money.

Does he have any career options? I thought he was cancelled.

R91. Maybe he didn't need the money then but I'm sure he took a hit financially after the scandal broke and he was fired from The Equalizer.

Looks like he still co-owns a bar in NYC.

The Rapeatorium?

You folks overestimate his salary potential, even in the good years.

His”wealth” came from steady L&O work.

I know AJLT exists in world of pure fantasy, but if they wanted to inject a little realism then Duncan would continue to enjoy Carrie’s attention but then take up with a younger woman.

I saw Noth in the West Village on the street some 7 years ago. He looked like shit.

I always found him ugly with his tired eyes.

Was that WV?

Interestingly, HBO has just renewed the Gilded Age during its current season but nothing about this dumpster fire.

I expect it to get renewed because of the volume of hate watching, but it’s interesting.

Not really.

Waiting on quarterly numbers

Yes R104.

After hate-watching nine episodes of this current season of the execrable AJLT, I’m more convinced than ever that there needs to be a permanent ban on depictions in all visual media of sexual activity involving people over the age of 50. Seriously. It’s just disturbing.

excrement*

FIFY

R108: “ I’m more convinced than ever that there needs to be a permanent ban on depictions in all visual media of sexual activity involving people over the age of 50”

Did you mean “over the age of 5”?

Hate-watching isn’t actually a thing. Can the person born in 2005 please get a job?

The Gilded Age on HBO announced renewal for season four after episode six of the eight episode season three… yet crickets so far for And Just Like That.

R112-Because in 2 years, those women are going to look like Coach leather handbags.

I believe the last renewal of AJLT came after the season ended. So, who knows.

They need to renew for a fourth and FINAL season of 6 episodes to tie everything up.

That old horse will never stop beating this old horse.

If Max will have her, she will have Carrie swanning around Manhattan as a 90year old in a ridiculous outfit.

It's successful in terms of viewers, whether people are hate watching or not. So, I'd be surprised if it didn't get a fourth season, unless not everyone is on board - like Nixon or someone has had enough. I wonder if they're STILL trying to woo Catrall.

Again, I wrote this upthread but it is definitively not coming back. It’s over. It’s too expensive. Don’t make me reveal my sources but they’re very good.

Why would that gorgeous 29 year old Italian guy want to be with the 66 year old Mario Cantone? Come on, the show isn’t supposed to be science fiction. Or is it?

This is a parallel universe, not based in reality, r119. That is why Seabiscuit Bradshaw was the most desirable woman in all of New York City during SATC’s run.

R113 Michael Kors, is what I think you meant.

I think R115 nailed it. And honestly, all the bad press this season about how everyone is hate watching it and how it’s just become inexplicable be bad cannot possibly be sitting well with SJP, who is all about her brand.

Tie up what? Duncan’s ballsac?

Bea Arthur finished Golden Girls when she was 70.

So I’ve got 10 more years bitches!

Bea Arthur wasn’t pretending to still be in her 30’s..or even 50’s

I look back at the show where BIg and Natasha were at a party at the Hamptons and Carrie's there dressed like a skinny gay cowboy and she throws up in the ocean

but she went back to him again and again and again and again

She may have never grown up but her audience did

We vomit every week now, Again, again and again.

I don't know why they rejected its original name: "Metamucil and the City."

R126 She kept going back to him because she’s a size queen.

She named him, “Big”; We’ve read her writing, she’s not about subtlety or metaphors.

How else can you explain her going to Anthony’s bakery, to consume carbs?

That wasn’t why his nickname was Big.

R119, I'd totally buy it if Mario was masculine and toppy. The under 30 crowd are riddled with daddy issues!

But a mincing, nelly queen? Sorry. It ain't happening.

R131 IKR! It’s the best thing since PrEP.

I read an article a few months back with Chris Noth and he said he needs work as he has bills to pay.

I believe the original SATC is a reason why so many adults today act like middle-schoolers well into their forties and fifties. It was sort of a cultural turning point. Before it, there weren’t that many shows or movies that depicted characters living for conspicuous consumption and self-centered pleasure. Yes, it was always built around the notion of love, but that was almost more of a plot device to get the women together and out in the city. The underlying idea, still playing out in their sixties, is this idea that putting on an outfit and having a social life is above all else. Sometimes that works out, but it usually ages better in media than in real life.

Nutter^

[quote] Before it, there weren’t that many shows or movies that depicted characters living for conspicuous consumption and self-centered pleasure

Excuse you.

“Bea Arthur wasn’t pretending to still be in her 30’s..or even 50’s”

Wasn’t her character supposed to be 60 in the last season? Which would make her pretending to be in her 50s before that?

So-ooooo sick of watching wistful horseface Carrie trapeze around in her stupid-looking clothes and clickety-clack heels. Annoying.

R137 idk. Im not a diehard fan.

Ratings are ratings and they don’t care if the viewers are genuinely enjoying it or not. It will be renewed.

The viewers are flooding HBO MAX with demands that Miranda have more nudity next season and possibly with Rosie the Nun or Che to make people feel more included.

They need to give Che an alter ego, Mae, a predatory lesbian with a thing for uptight WASPs. She can go after Charlotte and fingerblast her to climax-either at the gallery, or in the Goldenblatt kitchen while Harry rests from surgery in the other room. Then Charlotte can lose her shit like Miranda and dump her husband and kids.

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How is she even qualified to be a Booker Prize judge?

She’s not. It was a publicity move. And not a good one.

Steve will be back tomorrow.

Duncan looking sexy.

Are Carrie and Duncan gonna fuck now?

Helen Keller can see that coming r150

Yes, r150, and then he's gonna admit he hates her stupid novel.

Carrie never-nude Bradshaw will fuck sexy Duncan because of course, out of all the women in NYC, it's the old crone in clacky heels who he lusts after.

No, he won’t, SJP will make the script writers spin it so that she rejects him.

Wouldn’t it be just a shock if they simply remain friends? In real life, this is the likely outcome. They don’t strike me as having any romantic chemistry, so this is the direction the show should go in, but of course they won’t.

He is going to marry her and then blow pipe smoke into her face like Barry Lyndon.

R155 don’t you know men can’t be around Carrie without falling for her?

Lots of men with a witch fetish.

I'd hope Duncan would have better taste than to try to fuck this hag.

But he's probably gay anyway.

When he finds out she fucks it’s her bra on, he will dump her.

R160 it wouldn’t make that big a difference unless he’s a breast man. SJP doesn’t have large breasts so it’s whatever.

Someone like Sydney Sweeney refusing to take her bra off would piss off a guy though.

Plot twist: Steve comes back and he’s engaged to Skipper. Miranda’s exes in love, bitching about how they knew she was a lesbian because of her lack of skill and enthusiasm for giving blowjobs.

Maybe the season will end with the three leads being gunned down.

The camera would pull back and the sun would be shining and the birds chirping and pedestrians skipping along with glee.

[quote]Maybe the season will end with the three leads being gunned down. The camera would pull back and the sun would be shining and the birds chirping and pedestrians skipping along with glee.

Let me guess, in your twisted tale, Samantha is the sniper…

Damn those Moldavians! (and who knows, maybe they did have a revolution in those years?)

She'd look so much better with a short hairstyle. That hair is even longer now than it was 25 years ago.

I’m sure this has been discussed one of the AJLT threads, but how much do you think each of the girls are worth on the show?

And just like that I will watch tonight.

For Steve, I will.