And Just Like That… Season 3, Episode 9: The Shocking twist that’s got EVERYONE talking – Did we just witness a deja vu disaster?
When Carrie eventually comes home, the smell of Duncan’s pipe smoke lingers in her hair, repelling Aidan. He lashes out at her, and she retaliates by spending the rest of the night in the guest bedroom. By the time the morning rolls around, both parties are still aggravated. Carrie takes some time apart by going on a walk—in the shoe section of a luxury department store, of course—and they eventually meet back up at their favorite restaurant. Aidan enters the conversation peacefully and, for a moment, it looks like hope for a reconciliation is not yet lost. “You’re right,” he says. “I do have trust issues with you around other men.” It’s vulnerable enough of a statement that, if it was another couple, might have led to an open and genuine conversation about rebuilding a relationship after a betrayal. But, since we’re talking about Carrie and Aidan, Carrie takes his statement as fighting words. Had or have, she wants to know. Does Aidan have trust issues, or did he mean to say that he had trust issues? Carrie erupts on the spot, verbally flagellating him for being suspicious and jealous despite everything she’s done for him since they got back together. “I was 100 percent in,” she says. Now, it’s Aidan’s turn to nitpick at her choice of words. Is she 100 percent committed to him, or was she once? Carrie confirms the worst: she was.
As if right on cue, Taylor Swift’s breakup ballad “How Did It End?” begins playing. A better choice might have been Swift’s Folklore track, “Exile,” which contains the lines: “I think I’ve seen this film before / and I didn’t like the ending.” In other words, did Carrie and Aidan really just break up in the exact same way that they broke up in Sex and the City? I mean, we all knew Aidan wouldn’t last, but I had hoped that their ending this time around wouldn’t just recycle the same plot points we already saw in the original series. These two deserve that much, at least.
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