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And Just Like That Season 3 Super Cut
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Welcome to another super cut! A super cut is a combination of all our thoughts on a specific show from previous episodes, cut together into one long episode. So, if you’ve been listening week by week, you may want to skip this one. But if you’re new, or love listening to Hope and Daniel as they discuss their favorites shows, then join them as they discuss the Sex and the City spin-off, And Just Like That Season 3.
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Hey everybody and welcome to WeWatch TV. It is the podcast about the TV that we watch. I am Daniel, and you have found yourself in yet another WeWatch TV Supercut. If you're new to the program and you're unfamiliar with a Supercut, it's when we take bits and pieces from various different podcast episodes that talk about the same show and put them all together into one super episode, all about that show. And this week's Supercut is all about And Just Like That Season 3.
SPEAKER_03:And we started our conversation about And Just Like That season 3 in episode 106, Resting Night Space.
SPEAKER_00:Well, you know what's far, far miles, miles, miles, miles from the Vesting Glane.
SPEAKER_03:And just like that.
SPEAKER_01:We're back for another season. Season three.
SPEAKER_00:This is one of those shows that's like, and I love how you're into this. You're you're in this with me. We're in this together. No one's leaving this.
SPEAKER_01:So it's one of those shows, and I'm gonna watch it, I'm gonna hate it, and then I'm gonna be like, I'll see you next week.
SPEAKER_03:Bye. Season three, episode one, premiere in particular. Traumatized held me hostage. I felt like the guy from a clockwork orange with his eyeballs pinned open, having to watch, not able to look away, even though I wanted to so, so very badly.
SPEAKER_01:I feel victimized by the this opener. First off, let's just get to the it was all over the place.
SPEAKER_03:All over the place.
SPEAKER_01:All over like Carrie running around in her huge apartment.
SPEAKER_03:Um You know how sometimes we're in a show where you've got multiple storylines going on, and an episode is showing you those multiple storylines, but they they seem but they weave together in ways where there's uh mirrors and there's there's um analogies, all that stuff is going on. This was just like, here's what this person's doing, and it has nothing to do with what this person's doing. Here's Aiden in his truck out in his apartment out in Virginia cranking it out.
SPEAKER_01:Oh gosh, that was traumatizing. But you know what? At least people are finally on my level with Aiden. It's taken 20-some years. Everybody always put this man on a pedestal, and I thought, and even when I go back, I noticed Aiden is a walking red flag, and he always has been. Did he deserve that for him to be cheated on? No. But people are like, oh, he didn't become a red flag. For some of the people that come around to it, they're like, he didn't become a red flag until they got back together after Carrie cheated. Nuh-uh. Even OG Aiden was like, oh, you can't smoke anymore, and was like already trying to change everything about Carrie to fit his mold. I think he just was attracted to her and he was just trying to like make him into something she wasn't. The entire time Aiden has been a red flag. Now I will go ahead and give you you Aiden lovers this, because I think some people are like, this was not the Aiden I remember. They have taken those red flags and made him the most cringeworthy, awful character. This cannot be her endgame. First off, we ended season two with that stupid let's wait five years crap.
SPEAKER_02:Bring back burger.
SPEAKER_01:Honestly.
SPEAKER_02:Bring back burger.
SPEAKER_01:I hated Burger and the way he broke up with her, but I do felt like I did feel like he was Carrie's like opposite, like her counterpart. They were very much alike in their mannerisms, the way they behave, the way they acted. And at this point, I would rather Burger give her 5,000 post-it notes and have to watch Aiden in a vehicle doing what he did. First off.
SPEAKER_03:He licked his hand.
SPEAKER_01:It was horrible. I hated it. Make it stop. So they have they're not obviously doing this. No contact for five years should be no contact. First off, they're acting like Carrie is like in her 90s. She's what, like in her 50s? She's not even that old. She still could live a vibrant life. And I don't know. And I think she just is like scared to death to lose Aiden. I think she's honestly still drunk dealing with the trauma of Biggs passing, and that she has this familiarity and comfort with Aiden and is just trying to make that her happy ending desperately because just Carrie is coming off not great either. And so they're sending each other postcards. He's sending her ones of like places and she's sending them back with hearts. But they're not supposed to talk. I guess it's unless it's on Aiden on his terms, drunk in a field in Virginia. And then he like, what does he do?
SPEAKER_03:He like cranking it.
SPEAKER_01:He like accidentally hits the horn. He's like, Oh, I think I just pooped my pants a little bit. And then he's wanting to continue to do, you know, the phone naughtiness. Phone sex.
SPEAKER_03:You just say phone sex. We're adults. We're all adults here. It's phone sex. They're having phone sex. It's disgusting. It's gross. Usually in in any kind of media, when you're seeing people do phone sex, you're like, oh, they're starting to do the phone sex. And then they cut away to something else.
SPEAKER_00:And with all the scenes they had in this episode, why did that they could have switched to?
SPEAKER_01:Why did we have to witness that? Carrie, though, her cat interrupted her. Shoo. She still has her kitten. So Carrie had to pretend for that cat. It was awful. But then Carrie later calls him back in the episode and he's like, oh, I can't talk right now. And I was like, oh my gosh. I was like, is he in bed with a woman? And then it was made even worse because he's in bed with his one of his goblin, almost adult-aged, stupid kids. I'm like, who is sleeping with their parent like at this age?
SPEAKER_03:Who explains why you have to go out to his truck in the middle of the night to crank one out?
SPEAKER_01:Stop saying that. It was awful. It was awful. And mind you, Daniel, you're one of the people that started tuning in and got locked into this ride with me because you wanted to see the return of Aiden. You've since come around to me that Aiden is a walking red flag, correct? Yes. And always has been.
SPEAKER_03:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:I'm not saying this doesn't mean that I thought Big was perfect either.
SPEAKER_03:Did anything else happen in this episode?
SPEAKER_01:Well, Carrie wore an absolutely horrendous hat. Wait, wait, wait.
unknown:Wait.
SPEAKER_03:It's funny because it's bigger than a regular one.
SPEAKER_01:It was Sex in the City was always known for their wild fashion, and now I think they're really leaning into that, but it's coming up. They didn't have to try in the original series. It just fit. This is called We're Trying Really Hard because I thought that Lisa, Charlotte's friend, her big balls necklace. Like basically beach balls on her neck. I don't know what it was. I thought that was gonna be like the worst fashion, and then Carrie has this huge bonnet. Then we've gotten rid of the character of Che, which honestly, I think it was Miranda that made Che an awful character because Miranda was so terrible in all of Miranda's actions.
SPEAKER_03:Did they like did Che get a send-off last season?
SPEAKER_01:I don't remember, or is it just like And just like that, I don't remember either.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, fair. Okay, fine.
SPEAKER_01:But so there we've gotten rid of Che, and now Rosie O'Donnell shows up in a lesbian bar, not as Rosie O'Donnell, as Sister Mary, a nun. But Miranda doesn't know that Rosie, that Mary is a nun. My baby's a virgin. Is a virgin, like the Virgin Mary, and Miranda, first she Miranda thinks that um she's being hit on by Brady's old babysitter. I'm like, Miranda, you can't pull someone that hot, please. So Miranda's like, she's like, sure.
SPEAKER_03:Was she hot? I didn't even notice.
SPEAKER_01:And they like they wake up in bed and Sister Mary is like, oh, that that was my first time. And Miranda's like, oh, first time like with a woman? And she's like, no, first time in general, I'm a nun. What?
SPEAKER_03:And then I feel like you're breaking some nun rules.
SPEAKER_01:We have some, you know, some other shenanigans with texting. And um Rosie's character is like, Meet me at Times Square. I'm gonna do that. Yeah, she's hitting up all of like the New York City. And I I I knew what was about to come. I was like, oh my gosh. I was like, is she gonna do this? And then they have to ruin one of the most beautiful songs from Wicked. And Miranda's just like, you know, I'm not really in a relationship place. And Mary's like, no, you've helped me, you've changed me. And then she's like, because I knew you, I have been changed for good.
SPEAKER_00:And the whole wicked outfit with the fun of Times Square.
SPEAKER_01:And I I guess they even had Miranda come out and say, like, I'm a lesbian now, which is fine, but I why can't Miranda be bi? I'm not saying Miranda needs to be with a man. I just feel like bisexual representation on TV is just almost non-existent at this point. And there's an episode, I'm gonna reference two episodes from the original series, where one, Miranda did question her sexuality, and yes, people can change and went on a date with a woman, didn't work out. She said she liked men, whatever. I'm not saying she can't change, she's obviously open to change. I always thought that Miranda's connection with Che was more of a person type connection. And now Miranda's like, oh, I'm just a full lesbian now. Now the other episode that I'm gonna reference on Sex in the City, I actually re-watched this one fairly recently. It had, I don't know, the guy, Rachel's assistant tag, that actor. That's all I ever think of.
SPEAKER_02:I remember, yeah, I remember that episode.
SPEAKER_01:He was a bisexual guy that Carrie went out with, and Carrie was so weird about it. Like, first you think she's gonna be chill, and it just watching back that episode, it's really problematic. Maybe it's just problematic from the lens of you know 2025. And this would have been the perfect opportunity for sex in the city, and in just like that, a show that tries to be quote unquote, I hate using this phrase, but woke that tries to be evolved to actually be evolved and show some bi-representation, and they they just didn't. And I'm I'm really disappointed that they're not having Miranda like proclaim to be like bisexual because I feel like just I don't think there's a lot of representation for bisexuals on TV. And why why would you not take an opportunity that would fit in organically to do this? I find it, especially when you have that, which a lot of fans have pointed out, how like ick and problematic that episode was where Carrie dated the bi man and how her reactions to it just like everything else with this show, they miss opportunity left and right, and it all feels forced. When they were in the lesbian bar though, enter Chapel Roan.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, of course they're playing Chapel Roan. Why wouldn't they? It's like it everything in this show just feels so forced.
SPEAKER_01:And all the kids are awful. They're just terrible children, and they're all like, and I feel like Charlotte is a great mom. Her kids treat her like crap.
SPEAKER_03:All Charlotte does this episode is like like trying to figure out why her dog is being blacklisted in the in the elite west side, what you know, I don't even know. Like Upper East Side, elite dog sitting community. The thing about Charlotte's like, oh my god.
SPEAKER_01:Her character is the one that had like is mostly the same as she was before, but has also grown. And I feel like Charlotte is my favorite on it, just like that. And then we had.
SPEAKER_02:No.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. I don't really have anything else to say other than this show is horrible. I'm gonna keep watching it.
SPEAKER_03:If I have to watch another phone sex scene with involving Aiden.
SPEAKER_01:Aiden's in like six episodes, dude.
SPEAKER_03:I'm gonna throw up.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sure you'll see him in his Tidy Whites again.
SPEAKER_03:The tidy whites.
SPEAKER_01:I'm so a bridge too far.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know how I got ended up having to watch this episode. If I have to, you have to two seasons. I did not watch every episode of this show. And I did not know how I ended up roped into this.
SPEAKER_00:If I have to suffer, you have to suffer.
SPEAKER_03:We continued our conversation in episode 108, the rehearsal, season one and two.
SPEAKER_01:But you know what's even worse? And it's terrible, and I feel like I'm being tortured every week when I tune in, and just like that, season three, somehow each episode gets worse. I didn't think it was gonna get worse than Aiden in the truck calling Carrie and spitting on his hand, but somehow it's managed to do so. What do you think of it in just like that so far?
SPEAKER_03:Oh, it's terrible. It's absolutely awful. I this is a torture that I have to watch. We're talk we've got like what two or three episodes that we've not talked about. I can't even remember. Like you said, each one continues to get worse.
SPEAKER_01:Aiden just gets continually more awful. So we had at one point we thought that they were gonna do something nefarious with Carrie's cat. Yeah. Which thankfully that was fine. Oh! What you say? We had Trey from the OC show up as Carrie's gardener randomly, and I'm like, who is that? Like I do every time I watch a show and I recognize somebody, and it was so we had to do the I think you you actually did it before I did. You went I pause it. I pause it. The OC fans are gonna know. Or if you ever watched SNL back then, they did a skit where they spoofed that. So Aiden just continues to get more and more awful with every passing breath. Now I feel like Aiden I I'm actually on Aiden's ex-wife's side. Um, like his kid, he wanted some med their his wife wanted Carrie to like be her drug mule to get some um ADHD meds for her son. And which I thought was weird. Like, why are you calling Carrie about this? This is odd. Well then we find out, like, she gives him to Aiden, he just kind of like shrugs them off because they're not doing their no contact five years. Carrie's down there for like a book signing, hoping that Aiden will throw her an olive branch to come see him because he just holds all the cards in this horrible relationship, just uh, just gives me so much ick. So then we have another episode where they kind of address that and Aiden and Kathy's that's wife are fighting about it, and Aiden's like just whole philosophy on that. I'm like, ew, you're not being a good parent either, right now, dude. And you know who's a bad parent in another show and then showed up and caught me off guard. So Kathy's boyfriend, Bob, was that his name? That's JJ's birth dad from Outer Banks, who killed JJ. Spoiler alert if you haven't watched Outer Banks yet. And I was like, ah! Like I had to pause because I was like, oh no, because that guy scared me so much. But I actually liked Bob on the show.
SPEAKER_03:Bob seemed chill.
SPEAKER_01:And then Bob's talking to Carrie about stuff, and Carrie's realizing how little Aiden actually tells her and communicates with her. So then they have this whole blowout at the family dinner thing. I liked how Bob wasn't even playing the game. He was just sitting playing on his phone in the corner, what Carrie should have been done. But she's really trying, I feel like she is really trying to make an effort. She shopped at this horrible store. By the way, they're acting like Virginia is like the sticks. Like it's super annoying the way they're doing that.
SPEAKER_03:Granted, there probably are sticks in Virginia.
SPEAKER_01:I guess. But like she Target was like 30 miles away, which is normal. We have to drive to our Target. So she goes to some shop in town. It looks like, you know, sister wives, like Trad, like, I don't even know. Like, maybe like little house in the prairie clothing. Let's throw it what it was. Just some kind of boutique. And he's like, Well, you can take the ATV and ride into town. So she because she didn't have any of her clothes because like the car got towed. It was a whole big thing.
SPEAKER_03:Well, she didn't go down there with the intent to stay.
SPEAKER_01:No, she did, but she didn't. I know, I know, I know. Yeah, like she totally did. Carrie is being just really annoying to me in this because she's acting so weak and letting Aiden have all the cards, but it's a whole other thing. So anyway, Daniel's like, Oh, I remember when you came to my house and you went and you and him, my sister rode to the store, and I said, We didn't ride to the store on an ATV, we rode to the gas station to get some Gatorades on a lawnmower.
SPEAKER_00:And what did you say?
SPEAKER_03:Well, because we weren't country rich, we were country poor.
SPEAKER_00:So I'm like, I did ride an ATV for the first time with your family. I don't think you had a helmet on me. Thanks for that. Glad we survived the day. But I was like, no, no, it was a lawnmower that we rode from your mom's house to the BP to pick up some tasty beverages.
SPEAKER_03:Just want to defend myself for a second. I never rode the lawnmower up to the gas station. I always have to.
SPEAKER_00:Why did you say here? Take the lawnmower with Hannah.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know why.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know why all this stuff endeared me. That outdoor shower that I had to use was the time I had to number two. You guys were like, your mom said if you have to number two, you've got to go drive to McDonald's.
SPEAKER_03:Well, that was the summer we didn't have a bathroom.
SPEAKER_00:You guys are just a mess around. I see why you get so I see why you need rehearsals in your life. And all these things I just thought was funny, and I think it endeared me. Like the time you took me to the, I don't think the minimum exists anymore with all the animal heads on the wall.
SPEAKER_03:No, it's uh it's a health clinic now.
SPEAKER_00:We can never find, we would always do s'moors out there because I think you guys would try to do activities to make me feel welcome.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we didn't do those regularly.
SPEAKER_00:You try to make me feel welcome since I had to drive to McDonald's to poop and stuff. So we would do s'moors, and they never had regular graham crackers. Do you remember that?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, they had cinnamon graham crackers.
SPEAKER_01:We always had to eat them with cinnamon graham crackers, and I I I really did acquire a taste for a nice s'mour with a cinnamon graham cracker because I remember the first time, because that's the only time I'd really eat them. The first time I had a regular s'mour again, I was like, this isn't the same.
SPEAKER_03:Was that the fire pit that was just an old tire rim?
SPEAKER_01:I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:I think so. I wonder if mom still has that. I asked her to keep it.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like the last time we were was when we burnt like her old Christmas tree or something, and you guys were like, Do you want to burn this tree?
SPEAKER_03:And I was like, Do you want to burn this Christmas tree?
SPEAKER_00:It's like Phoebe's rather like to melt stuff. Anyway, I would take riding on the lawnmower than being with stupid, boring Aiden.
SPEAKER_01:So at one point, Aiden, like, they Carrie realizes after this blowout, like, oh, you know, maybe Aiden really does need to focus on his family. So they go have a talk, and I was like, oh, Aiden's finally gonna apologize. The way the hairs on my neck stood up straight when Carrie apologized to Aiden, and then I was like, okay, well maybe he'll apologize next and be like, I'm sorry I've been screening you alone, that I've been acting this way. No apologies because he's the worst. Am I missing any other Aiden-y weirdness?
SPEAKER_03:No, I think that that it was quite a bit for for the episode.
SPEAKER_01:It really annoyed me though when Carrie and Seema were this is before they met up with Aiden, and like Asima came to Virginia with her, and they were like lying in the hotel bed eating KFC, and it was like, I just feel like these are like writers with money being like, see, see how relatable we are that we're eating our KFC in bed.
SPEAKER_00:All it made me want was a bucket of chicken.
SPEAKER_03:It looked like two actors that had never actually eaten KFC in their life. It's like we're so related.
SPEAKER_01:We're so funny, we're so country, we're eating our KFC in bed. It was just very cringe. And then Miranda just does not feel like Miranda at all anymore. I don't really care about Charlotte's friend Lisa.
SPEAKER_03:Harry peed his pants.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, because his he was trying to wear these tight jeans or something. I couldn't get him off in time. I don't really know. I feel like at this point Charlotte and Harry are comedic relief.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, they are.
SPEAKER_01:And then Harry's dad shows up in an episode who uh most people know from Ozark, but I know as from Fraser because he dated Brandy with the traditional spelling.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, oh, we got we we have to talk about the banana for a second. So I want to make so for for everybody that's on this podcast, I might we may have even talked about this before, but but I just want to make sure it's very clear. You hate bananas.
SPEAKER_01:I hate bananas. Like you I can't stand them. It's a texture thing. I just they gag me. They're so gross, I just cannot stand them. It's like the one like runner thing that I just am like, ew, I can't do a banana.
SPEAKER_03:So Charlotte or Harry, one of the two picks up this banana prop on set, and they're like, This is too far gone. We gotta throw it out. It was perfectly fine. And I looked at you and I said, You, person who hates bananas. Is there anything wrong with that banana? I didn't even see a brown spot. I didn't even see a brown I didn't even see a brown spot. I don't like I will eat a banana uh that is 80% brown spot on the outside.
SPEAKER_01:That joke that was like a frozen banana.
SPEAKER_03:Uh uh would you like yeah, would you like a would you like a frozen banana? No, but I would like a regular banana later, so yes.
SPEAKER_01:Oh wow. If you know, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Anyway, I tell me what your percentage of brown banana is before you have to throw it away in the social media verse. Go.
SPEAKER_01:I don't even know where they're going with ingest like that. Like, what is going on? I just feel like if the writers were smart, they would actually write Carrie wanting to like you know, do all these things with Aiden is because she still hasn't dealt with her grief and he's somebody that's a comfort to her. Because I'm like, at this point they're at one, she's not 80. She's what, like in her late 50s, maybe even mid-50s. She's not even that old. They're acting like she's like just some like a crippled old elderly woman with like no life to live yet. And I just it's not a great message. This show really feels like it's written to sound smart, and that even with the fashion, they're trying to come off. Like the old show was known, Sex and City, for the fashion choices, but it was authentic. This just Carrie in that stupid bonnet, like that one episode. It's just it's not a good show, but I'll keep watching it for as long as I'm tortured to do so. We kept pausing the episode, the most recent one, and I was like, We have 30 more minutes of this. What is going on?
SPEAKER_03:It's been pretty miserable, to be honest.
SPEAKER_01:The one compliment I'll have is I like Carrie's refrigerator in her big apartment.
SPEAKER_03:So sets. Set design. You like set design on this show. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:I like that particular you said you like that fridge too.
SPEAKER_03:It's a nice fridge.
SPEAKER_01:I like that particular piece. But there was this whole thing on the plane where she realizes the table she wanted to buy that Aiden gave the thumbs down to when they were texting. She's like, fine, I'm gonna buy it. Like this was after she leaves Virginia, and it's sold out, and that's gotta be a metaphor, right? That Carrie waiting around from him is like her life is wasting away.
SPEAKER_03:Yep.
SPEAKER_01:But will it be? Will these writers be smart enough? I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_03:Conversation on An Just Like That season three continued in episode 112, The Summer I Turned Vulcan. Well, there you have it, folks. Um, speaking of romance, we've also been watching An Just Like That season three.
SPEAKER_01:Season three, and the final season, the National Nightmare, is over. But you know what, guys?
SPEAKER_03:I've never seen a fan base complain more about a shit. That they complain about every week.
SPEAKER_01:Listen, did we criticize every episode? Did we absolutely hate it, what they've done with the characters? Yes, but were we going to tune in and still continue to tune in? Also, yes. I'm a little irritated and irked. Now they're saying that they plan for this to be the last while other people are saying it was canceled. I think they got canceled. What do you think?
SPEAKER_03:It sure seems like they got canceled.
SPEAKER_01:Anyway, you were um pretty good about your comments in the last one. Thank you. Um let's just say that. What have we got? Two episodes left this. Two minutes to go. I don't know why we had to waste so many on Aiden. Aiden, talk about I don't everyone's like character. No, Aiden was always a walking red flag. They just really drove that home, and it's like he didn't grow up at all. Super glad that Aiden was gone. When Aiden's not in an episode, I enjoy the show so much more. Like the show where the one episode that he wasn't in was great, and then he came back. As you said on the podcast, Carrie has far more chemistry with the basement dweller, the writer Duncan.
SPEAKER_03:I feel like though, like, yes, I agree. Uh immediate.
SPEAKER_01:I don't think they're in-game.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I don't, I don't, I'm not entirely convinced we see him again. Yeah, I think. I think they wrapped that story up last this last episode.
SPEAKER_01:Carrie was finally seen by a man for her not who she like for her talents as a writer. Like he didn't really get, he did not, in my opinion, really even try to flirt with her until well, they had well established their kind of working relationship, and he knew that, you know, Aiden was out of the picture. And it was very like a like she kind of like led the she was in the driver's seat of that. Like, I don't think he would have made a move if she hadn't. Um, but yeah, they did hook up finally, and it was hot. Much better than me having to watch Aiden lick his hand in a car in a field in Virginia. Like that was an actually like hot scene. But then right after, you know, they had some fun, they were back to talking about like their books that they're writing. And I thought it was really funny that he was like, So you're like important, or like you're Carrie Bradshaw, because he didn't really get like her, you know, she's written a bunch of books. She used to have a column that she's I'm not gonna say she's famous, but she's like well known within like those ranks.
SPEAKER_03:Certainly in New York City and certainly in publishing or you know, the publishing scene in New York City. People know who she is, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And I think like Carrie said at one point, one of the reasons why she was even afraid to hook up with him because it was the first time she really felt like seen. I don't think Carrie's gonna end up with anybody. I think that her she's gonna continue to focus on her true love, her passion of writing. And I think that she finally is almost to a place where she is healed. We didn't really get to see her grieve over the loss of Big very much. Say what you want about that. That was like the love of her life. And then Aiden stepped back in. And I think if good writers would have written that as she decided to go with Aiden because it was a comfort, it was the second love. You always wonder, what if? I think they just stretched it out a little too long. I I hope we don't see Aiden again. I'm gonna be ticked if we do in these last two episodes. Uh but I don't think she's gonna end like why does she need to end up with anybody? Like, life is gonna go on, you know, maybe she'll reconnect with that Duncan in the future. I don't that's my prediction from her. I feel like costuming and hairstyling of Sarah Jessica Parker has been very intentional. Uh the moment she and Aiden broke up and they played that Taylor Swift song, uh, Chef's Kiss at the scene, suddenly my girl was dressing hot again. We have the nice, they're not like the old school Carrie curls, but we have her hair nicely done again. She's wearing really pretty outfits again, and there's even one scene where she was gonna go to that party with Duncan, and you think you see she's maybe thinking about wearing like a more traditional suit. Right. She changes her mind and puts on, you know, an outfit that's Carrie, that's her personality. And I felt like that was the clothing, that is one thing that has always been intentional with this show. Do you think she ends up with somebody?
SPEAKER_03:Uh I don't think so, and I also don't think like at this point with two episodes left, there's not a lot of time to even it'd have to be somebody new, right? Because like none of us want it to be Aiden. Absolutely not. You know, I'm holding out for burger, but I don't think it's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_01:Maybe Big will come out the door and be like, surprise! Just kidding. I don't think so.
SPEAKER_03:Um and I I really uh honestly, if they like just suddenly like bring Duncan back in out of the out of the ether, w I thought they had a really well like nice kind of comp they they came to an agreement with each other, they understood each other, and but but I think he left it and should they left it as like this is a professional thing. Open thing on the other. And like they could hook up. Maybe not for the maybe you know, in the future, perhaps, but I feel like in this show specifically, unless they're gonna do like a huge time jump right there at the end, I don't think it would be um appropriate to do that.
SPEAKER_01:I would like to see Carrie on a flight to London, but Fraser us? No, but we know Samantha lives there, getting taxi Samantha to meet up for drinks or something at the end. I think that we've we're seeing like a grown, like a finally a very mature version of Carrie. Harry and Charlotte, I think they're gonna be fine. I don't think there's much tell there. Um Seema and Trey from the OC, I don't he doesn't wear deodorant, he likes crystals. I don't really know or care about that. Um, Lisa, Charlotte's friend, I forget that they're on the show, and then when they're her scenes with her family is on the show, I feel like I'm watching a different show. Uh so that leaves us with Miranda. I think Miranda having an honest conversation with Joy. She's gonna be in, I guess, a stable relationship where they can watch NPR and have intelligent conversations. I mean, maybe Miranda's gonna be a grandma. We don't know, because I guess we did see Steve in the last episode.
SPEAKER_03:And Ratatouille Boy.
SPEAKER_01:And Ratatouille Boy, which you you are dying to get this out.
SPEAKER_03:So we called this out. Uh probably if you go back to when we talked about season two or season one.
SPEAKER_01:Can we talk about season one?
SPEAKER_03:He wasn't in season two. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:He was in season one, but like I feel I don't know if we talked about that on the pod. I can't remember.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, this kid looks exactly like the guy, the redhead from Ratatouille. Yes. And then in this episode, they dropped that he wants to go to culinary school. And we had to pause the episode.
SPEAKER_01:I laugh. I just the fans manifested this. I I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:Uh it's whatever.
SPEAKER_01:So I'm a little irritated with his baby mama drama. I was hoping, I think this would have been a good opportunity, which again, the writing on the show is bad, but that didn't mean we wanted it canceled. I feel like it would have been better if they had made his baby mama like a Miranda type character. I agree. Instead, they make it a hairstylist. Is this what they think Gen Z is? They made it a her a hairstylist that's like farting in her client's face.
SPEAKER_03:Like and then she's not even a hairstylist, she's just the shampooer.
SPEAKER_01:Like, what are we doing here? So I don't know. I'm sure they'll find a way to wrap it up in a bow. But yeah, you know what, Daniel? Just because we complain, and by we, I mean, well, you complain too, but especially me. You I complained a lot.
SPEAKER_03:I complained too, but I'm fine that it got cancelled.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I'm not fine. I wouldn't I wanted more because I just love these characters so much.
SPEAKER_03:And we wrapped up our conversation about Anjust Like That season three and the series as a whole in episode 114. And just like that, football is back.
SPEAKER_01:But you know what's not good?
SPEAKER_03:What's that?
SPEAKER_01:The legacy of Anjust Like That.
SPEAKER_03:Do we really have to talk about it? Can we not just let it go fizzle away like it already has? I don't have much to say about it. Leave it in the dusts of of dustbins of of media history.
SPEAKER_01:And just like that, season three, we're Which turned out to be the final season, you will never convince me that that was actually intended to be the series finale, but I mean You know what?
SPEAKER_03:That episode would be terrible if it wasn't as a regular season finale. Like that just was not a good way to end it. Honestly, a couple episodes ago where Carrie's relationship with the the basement guy Duncan Duncan Resolve would have been such a better way to end the sh season, let alone the series.
SPEAKER_01:I think that scene of her walking um after she broke up with Aiden and she's dressed nice and she's walking in to see the girls, and it's you the shot pulls away with them out to dinner, and she's looking nice and dressed good, like that would have been like more satisfying. Basically, what happened in this finale episode, if you will, I think is a metaphor for this entire series. It's Thanksgiving and Miranda's hosting and her toilet overflows, and there's I think like poop everywhere. They literally showed it.
SPEAKER_03:It really showed it like graphically for some reason.
SPEAKER_01:That's just that's basically the best description of what this series was like. It's I I would have kept watching more because I want I care about these characters.
SPEAKER_03:Because it's like a car accident. You can't look away.
SPEAKER_01:In my brain, this is like I'm gonna use one of your favorite references from Star Trek. This this is like a Kelvin universe, it's not actually connected to the proper timeline. Explain to them what the Kelvin universe is in a few minutes.
SPEAKER_03:I I just they just it's an alternate timeline that was created when uh Spox sent some evil Romulans back in time. So we need to what we need to figure out is who JJ Abrams has a timeline. Yeah, JJ Abrams did it. And so we have to figure out is who sent who back in time in the and just in the Sex in the City universe, and what did they change to make Angus like that split off from the regular timeline.
SPEAKER_01:And like I've always been the type of person that I didn't even love the movies. I think that series, you remember the series finale of Sex in the City. I think it ended perfectly. It ended with like I did I hated that the girls weren't even together at the end of this one. I think that it ended perfectly. So I'm gonna say the movies are one timeline. I'm gonna say the ingest like that stuff's another timeline. And I can see though why Sarah Jessica Parker is supposedly worried on the street shopping around to get somebody else to buy it. Because I would be mad too if a legacy character that I've been playing, like at this point, the woman's probably been playing Carrie Bradshaw almost as long as Kelsey Grammer played Fraser Crane. Yeah, like close to it. I mean, I think I think Fraser, I think Kelsey probably has it because Cheers was what the 80s. Yeah. So I think Kelsey has the leg up on that. But I mean, I'm just pretending that Fraser spinoff is the Kelvin Universe. That's what I'm gonna do now from now on. Kelvin Universe, if I don't like something, that terrible Independence Day sequel, Kelvin Universe, it's not real, it's not connected. And I just want to say, like, Daniel, watch this with me because you actually, and I think a lot of men have preconceived notions, you liked Sex in the City, the series.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You liked the show enough that you were like, fine, I'll watch this with you. How do you feel as a I would consider you a fan of the original series? Are you just as annoyed as I was?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I mean, most of the characters are shells of who they were. I felt like this season Carrie when Aiden, when she dumped Aiden, Carrie kind of got a little bit of her she I could see it. I could see who she was in the original show for those couple episodes at the end of this season. It felt like she might be back to that a little bit. And you could even explain it that she was in a funk from Big Passing Away. But they never took the they never took the time to try and get to that explanation. They didn't do it very well, but all the other exterior characters around it are just not the people they were in the original show. A little bit, but she just produced just a comedy and and and all that stuff and ball jokes. Like at the end of it. So it's just I it not has no respect for what came before it. Um, and I'm not sure what they were trying to do with this season. I certainly see why HBO canceled it, but and there was no way this was the planned and intended.
SPEAKER_01:No way.
SPEAKER_04:All right, everybody, that's all we got for this week. Thank you so much for tuning in, and we will see you next time.
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