I wrote about how #AndJustLikeThat had the courage to do what Sex & the City couldn't - let Carrie be single missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
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"'How is a woman alone a tragedy?' asks Carrie Bradshaw in the penultimate episode of #AndJustLikeThat. She’s talking about the unnamed protagonist in her first foray into fiction, a historical novel set in 1846, but the parallels to her own life are clear." missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
aug 15, 2025, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
"Big's death in #AndJustLikeThat 's pilot freed Carrie up to be single in the city again. We got a glimpse of that, however she quickly coupled up with Aidan, a spectre over the better part of the show before their union mercifully imploded a few episodes ago" missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
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"'In 1846? A woman alone at the end would be a tragedy.' What about 2004? When the original series ended in the mid-aughts, fans would have rioted if Carrie and Big weren’t endgame" #AndJustLikeThat missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
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"Though 200 years removed from Jane Austen’s marriage plot, pop cultural representations of women almost always presented a romantic partnership with a man as the ultimate goal as to how a woman should 'end up.'" #AndJustLikeThat missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
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"If Carrie had dumped Aidan sooner, #AndJustLikeThat could have had a whole season to unpack the question Carrie poses at the top of this piece. Instead, it’s hastily split over the two-part finale." missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
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"Someone needs to tell the #AndJustLikeThat writers that Carrie and Seema on the beach in Greece is what two rich single ladies should be doing with their post-menopausal years instead of wallowing over marriage or bust." missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
aug 16, 2025, 12:13 am • 1 0 • view
"In the end, Carrie decides to publish her novel sans an epilogue that 'makes the reader feel good at the end'. Instead she writes, 'the woman realised she was not alone—she was on her own.'" #AndJustLikeThat missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
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"As a fierce proponent of women choosing themselves instead of unsatisfying relationships, I am pleased that #AndJustLikeThat had the courage to let Carrie be single." missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
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