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New York is so back, baby. <\/em>And Just Like That\u2019s third season<\/em><\/a> is in full swing<\/em>, and <\/em>Harper\u2019s Bazaar will be recapping new episodes every Thursday. Read ahead to find out what happened this week, or click here<\/a> to read last week\u2019s recap.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Well, folks, this is it. After spending nearly the entirety of three seasons yelling at our screens, it\u2019s now time to face the music and say goodbye to Carrie Bradshaw. Again.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be the first one to admit that I will miss Carrie and company\u2014no matter how many times they made me want to throw my remote at my TV or hide my face behind a pillow. In fact, that experience is kind of the whole point of watching the Sex and the City<\/em> revival series. Showrunner Michael Patrick King confirmed the sad news<\/a> last week in a statement shared to social media. \u201cWe decided to end the popular series this year with a two-part finale and extended the original series order from 10 episodes to 12,\u201d he said. \u201cSJP and I held off announcing the news until now because we didn\u2019t want the word \u2018final\u2019 to overshadow the fun of watching the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

And just like that, Episode 11, \u201cForgot About the Boy,\u201d is the beginning of And Just Like That<\/em>\u2019s end. The penultimate episode brings us out of the muggy heat of August and straight into crisp cool fall\u2014specifically, the week preceding Thanksgiving. It\u2019s a season about change, something that Carrie is finally acclimating herself to after severing her connection to Aidan and, consequently, her past. Still, she can\u2019t resist walking down memory lane\u2014and I mean that literally. Carrie ventures uptown to order Thanksgiving pies at a beloved Upper East Side bakery, just a few blocks away from her former residence. There, she bumps into Lisette, whose friendship with Carrie never fails to baffle me. Lisette is on her way to some function that apparently requires people to dress in a hot-pink leather jumpsuit and a metallic gold fur jacket (Is this supposed to remind us of Carrie\u2019s eclectic Sex and the City<\/em> style? Because I\u2019m not buying it.), so the two don\u2019t have much time to catch up. Luckily, Lisette\u2019s planning on throwing a casual \u201cget-together\u201d the Monday before Thanksgiving and Carrie is now invited.<\/p>\n

Carrie\u2019s return to the Upper East Side is about much more than just series finale sentimentality. To her, the iconic studio apartment continues to represent the possibilities and freedoms of her former life, a safe cocoon from the unknown terrain of her future. It\u2019s also a great distraction from the notes she received from her publisher, who calls Carrie\u2019s historical fiction attempt \u201cfluid\u201d and \u201cmoving\u201d yet in need of an ending that doesn\u2019t come across as a \u201cromantic tragedy.\u201d As Carrie narrated in the last episode, the novel ends with The Woman sitting alone in her garden after the death of her former lover. \u201cHow is a woman alone in a garden a tragedy?\u201d Carrie asks, more for herself than for The Woman. If the thought of a fictional woman being single offends her editor, then how does the rest of the world feel about her own blatant single-ness? Carrie does not want to feel like some pathetic victim to misogynistic standards, but, more than anything, she doesn\u2019t want to feel like her only value is intrinsically attached to a man. Knowing that this is the final season of And Just Like That<\/em>, I couldn\u2019t help but wonder if the meta commentary also served as a preemptive defense against fans who had maybe hoped to see Carrie with her definitive endgame (Mr. Big notwithstanding) at last.<\/p>\n

The publisher\u2019s editorial notes also come at a particularly sensitive time for Carrie, who finds living in the gigantic house she was supposed to cohabitate with Aidan and above the now empty basement unit that Duncan officially vacated especially lonely. Maybe that\u2019s why she decides to attend Lisette\u2019s pre-Thanksgiving shindig, in spite of some trepidations that the visit might make her feel remorseful for giving up her old place at all. That fear dissolves as soon as Carrie opens the front door. Rather than stepping into the apartment\u2019s wide entryway, she comes face-to-face with a half-painted wall. Apparently, Lisette had installed a flex wall in order to divide the studio into two much smaller studios so that she could share the space with a roommate. \u201cI hate living alone,\u201d Lisette explains, a confession that reflects some of Carrie\u2019s own internal conflict about the Gramercy house. Still, the changes to the Upper East Side studio are enough to jolt Carrie out of the dream. She can never go home again, she realizes, so she might as well make the most out of her present. Accepting that also helps Carrie accept that maybe her novel could take a few revisions after all. She returns home, opens her laptop, and begins writing an epilogue.<\/p>\n

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