As we prepare to bid farewell to And Just Like That (say it ain’t so!), there has never been a better time to go down the rabbit hole of the delightfully bonkers Sex and the City reboot by revisiting its most mind-bending plot lines to date. Ranked from silly to truly astonishing—including several you may have purposefully erased from your brain—browse 22 of the best, below.
22. Miranda hosts a karaoke party
A) Miranda would never do this and B) why am I watching Bitsy von Muffling sing “Shallow”?
21. Seema “kills” Adam’s mom
…in the form of a plant he’s had for many years, which he sees as an extension of his mom, which Seema accidentally knocks out of the window while smoking. Why does any of this happen?
20. Seema’s mattress catches fire but is never mentioned again
Our girl just can’t catch a break on this show, including when her in-bed smoking leads to a full-on emergency situation. But after the fire department visits and a new mattress is installed, this plot line vanishes into a puff of smoke.
19. Charlotte is hospitalized after eating a pot brownie
After biting into one of her daughter’s friend’s homemade “special brownies,” the Park Avenue princess becomes convinced she’s having a stroke and is carted off to the emergency room. Her life flashes before her eyes and she decides to return to the workforce. It’s that simple!
18. The jewelry heist at Lisette’s party
Carrie’s jewelry-designer neighbor’s launch is interrupted by—what else?—a black-suited waiter who steals all the pieces on display. Carrie’s only response is to scream, “I have COVID!”, so it’s a good thing Seema has a fake gun/lighter. Later, Carrie comforts a distressed Lisette, who’s lost everything—but, like, shouldn’t they call the police?
17. Charlotte has debilitating vertigo
We’re told that Charlotte’s vertigo “is back,” but since when has she had this condition? And why is she falling face-first into a fake Tracey Emin bed?
16. Seema stops using deodorant
Because of a man! Have you even met Seema? It goes against literally everything she believes in!
15. The school MILF list
Charlotte and Lisa hear that a boy at their children’s school is in trouble for making a “MILF list”— and obviously become obsessed with acquiring it.
14. The return of Aidan—only to write him off yet again
It is the kind of thing the show would do, but to dispose of the highly annoying furniture designer so quickly after bringing him back with so much fanfare? Hilarious.
13. Samantha’s appearance—after everyone insisting she never would
We were told time and again: Kim Cattrall will not be on And Just Like That. But then she was, albeit briefly, and all seemed right in the world.
12. Charlotte bleeds on her boilersuit—and then helps Lily take out her tampon
Was this period-themed episode—about a perimenopausal Charlotte getting a flash period, while also trying to help her daughter locate the string of her tampon—strictly necessary?
11. Carrie braves the snow for WidowCon
What to wear when walking through a New York blizzard to attend a convention for widows, where you’ll be reading from your latest heartbreaking memoir, Loved and Lost? A Moncler coat by Pierpaolo Piccioli, of course.
10. Patti LuPone plays Giuseppe’s faux-Italian mother
In a plot line that seems to exist for no discernible reason at all, the thickly Italian-accented Buffalo native Dottoressa Gianna Amato visits her son for far too long. Has she finally gone home? I’m not even sure.
9. Carrie learns about Diwali
We’re meant to believe that Carrie, dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker, had somehow never heard about Diwali before Seema describes it to her? The good time gal then dons a lehenga (it’s not a sari, Carrie!) to attend a festive party with her friend—complete with an elaborate floral mohawk.
8. Aidan refuses to enter Carrie’s old apartment
Yes, Aidan has bad memories of Carrie’s old apartment, but his refusal to cross the threshold again means they have to stay in hotels, and then borrow Che’s apartment, after which Carrie has to sell her home. She then buys a giant Gramercy Park mansion which has enough space for Aidan and his kids—but they’re never there. What a jerk.
7. Carrie pretends Charlotte’s dog has cancer
Poor Richard Burton is the subject of Carrie’s elaborate lie (it’s Harry who actually has cancer) in a well-intentioned but terribly executed bid to protect her friend.
6. Giuseppe’s puppeteer flatmate masturbates to a Giuseppe-shaped puppet
Turns out, Giuseppe’s eccentric roommate is not, in fact, asexual—the impetus he needs to finally move in with Anthony.
5. Miranda’s naked neighbor threatens her with a meat cleaver
The only nightmarish living situation to top Giuseppe’s? Eh, maybe the one involving the troubled man who lives opposite Miranda’s illegal Airbnb, which leads her to temporarily move in with Carrie.
4. Aidan requests a five-year pause
Of all of Aidan’s And Just Like That crimes—the cheating, the jealousy, the broken vintage window—this head-scratching request tops the list. To expect the woman who loves you to put her life on hold and remain fully loyal to you, sitting alone in that big empty house, while you sort your own life out (and also sleep with your ex-wife)? Outrageous.
3. Miranda takes a nun’s virginity
One masterfully played by Rosie O’Donnell, who croons Wicked’s “For Good” to Miranda as an expression of her affection. A Season 3 highlight which is very original-Sex and the City-coded.
2. Big’s death by Peloton
Killing off the Sex and the City universe’s central love interest in the opening episode of And Just Like That, with a Peloton-induced heart attack no less, and then reframing him as Carrie’s “big mistake”? It might be the best and wildest thing this reboot has ever done.
1. Two funerals and a resurrection
…well, with the exception of what And Just Like That did with Lisa’s dad. In Season 1, Lisa speaks to Charlotte about having lost her father last year. Then, in Season 2, said father attends Lisa and Herbert’s anniversary party, very much alive. (This episode is also, bizarrely, titled “Alive!”) And now, in Season 3, he’s died again. After a sizeable backlash, the show’s writers clarified that the first dead dad was actually Lisa’s stepfather. Well, that settles that.
