‘And Just Like That …’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Faux-vid 19
Season 2, Episode 3
In this weird post-, but not exactly post-, but kind of post-Covid world, faking a positive test is a tempting go-to when you want to bail on something. It will get you out of anything, almost no questions asked.
In this week’s episode, Carrie can’t get through recording Chapter 3 of the audio version of her memoir “Loved and Lost,” which describes the moment Mr. Big hops onto that great Peloton in the sky; it makes sense that she would tell her publisher she caught the virus in order to ditch the gig.
What doesn’t make sense, though, is that Carrie lets this lie spill over into the rest of her life. Why fib to Miranda, who’s all the way in Los Angeles running sitcom lines with Che, that she has Covid? Why not tell Charlotte to cancel those grossly overpriced comfort caramels she’s sending over?
As Carrie tells it to Seema when Seema comes by to lament the almost equally tragic theft of her Birkin, she feels that it would place too much of a burden on her oldest friends to admit that she is crying over Big again. Apparently she needs new, drier shoulders, which is why she is able to drop the charade, and the mask, in front of her new friend. Also, Carrie needs a plus-one to the jewelry party of her young downstairs neighbor, Lisette (Katerina Tannenbaum), which ends up being her confidant, Seema.
Source: The New York Times
