[This story contains spoilers from the 10th episode of And Just Like That season three, “Better Than Sex.”]
It’s true: Carrie and Aidan are finished.
The episode last week of And just like that delivered the Sex and city The biggest break in the series of a suite to date when Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Aidan (John Corbett) have mutually decided to end their romance at a long distance, because it was revealed that Idan could not overcome Carrie to deceive him with the late Big (Chris Noth) more than 20 years ago.
Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky, the writers of the episode who are veteran scribes for the franchise, said The Hollywood Reporter Last week, the emotional hour closes the chapter on the love story of Carrie with Aidan, and they promised a significant change of passage for the series when he entered his last three episodes of this buzzing third season.
“Frankly, I do not think that none of us had been ready for Carrie to sink to sunset with anyone,” said Zuritsky about the Aidan who is never after Carrie.
So what’s now for Carrie?
In the 10th episode of this week, “Better Than Sex”, Carrie is struggling with her latent attraction for her sexy-neighbor Duncan writer (Jonathan Cake), worrying about Charlotte (Kristin Davis) if she is the only one who does not admit to their sexual tension (Aidan has surely recovered). In the end, Carrie is leap and spends the night with Duncan, but the show clearly shows that this is an adventure. Duncan finished his book and left the city, determined to say goodbye to his greatest writing distraction: Carrie.
Duncan (Jonathan Cake) Visit Carrie’s closet (Sarah Jessica Parker) in the 10th episode, “Better Than Sex”.
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Speaking to Michael Patrick King at the start of the season, the showrunner / writer said THR This Carrie’s fiction novel – which she tells in a voiceover throughout the season – was essentially a replacement for Carrie’s life.
“The reason for which Carrie writes a fiction novel that takes place in the past this season is that it is afraid of talking about its feelings in the present because they are so fragile, confusing and private,” he explained. “So that she can do this thing that writers do, which explores ideas without feeling guilty, she put the character in the past and has not even named her carrie, which she did in all her other writings. She calls her “woman”.
If we take into account King’s words, we could remove a page from the woman’s novel in order to glean where And just like that Then go for his last two episodes of the season.
Duncan asked her how Carrie will put an end to her novel, Carrie says, in her signature spirit: “Well, she will die of solitude, of course … or the smallpox.”
But at the end of the conversation – which takes place post -co -organized because the pair is wrapped in the Duncan – Carrie sheets seems inspired by a plea by Duncan that she let her protagonist live. In the final scene of the episode, Carrie reads her book in Voiceover: “The woman was sitting in her garden. Even if summer had come and now she could feel the warmth of her persistent contact on her face and body. How wonderful. How wonderful. How wonderful. “
Rottenberg and Zuritsky had said THR This carrie being alone “is always an exciting and, in some ways, an intimidating challenge”, with Zuritsky saying that the post-Aidan season “certainly felt like a quarter of work”.
What is And just like that look like After Aidan and Duncan? Rottenberg had teased in three words: “Surprise, pleasure and freedom”.
And just like this publishes new episodes Thursday at 6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. He on HBO Max.
