Carrie Bradshaw is swanning about in tulle in her massive Gramercy Park townhouse. Her boyfriend is in Virginia, her jewelry designer millennial neighbor is now living in her old uptown apartment, and her friends are busy fucking nuns and stalking elite college counselors.

Naturally, that means it’s time for her to sit down and write a novel. About women. Women who “toss and turn” due to their “insecurities,” and obsess over the past. But it’s not the past, it’s the present: May, 1846. Or is it 2012? When you’re talking about “And Just Like That…”, one can never be sure.

The show may be set in the year of our lord 2025, but the cultural discussions are straight out of the early 20-teens. Reality dating shows — did you know smart women can enjoy them? Hate-watching, baby! Everything happens on our phones now — even dating! Have you heard???

Not only does the cultural zeitgeist of “And Just Like That…” season 3 feel woefully dated, but our heroines are now ensconsed in such absurd levels of wealth that it feels as if there are no real stakes to… well… anything. As David Mack put it in a fantastic piece for Slate: “If SATC was once a revolutionary show about sex and dating, AJLT is now too often a series about money and the carefree lifestyle that wealth provides the leisure class. … In its third season, AJLT is more content than ever plodding along (albeit in Manolos) as little more than a pedestrian fantasy that’s lost most of the spunk and spark of the original series. Like its characters’ lives, AJLT is just… comfortable.”

And yet, there’s still so much to laugh about when discussing this show. And we don’t just mean Carrie’s historical romance novel! We had so much fun (and secondhand embarrassment) talking about that Aidan masturbation scene, Seema’s showdown with matchmaker Cheri Oteri, the character development we are actually *enjoying* from Miranda, and what we hope to get from Carrie and Charlotte as the season progresses. Hope you enjoy! Xo

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