'And Just Like That' Season 3 Episode 1 Review: Friendship, Romance, and Real Life

And Just Like That, season 3 finally arrives filled with daily antics and over-zealous humor in your 50’s.  The show has  maneuvered through various styles and tones to create a familiar yet different world for the audience to embark on. Dating struggles, random hijinks, questioning your confidence and adapting to current situations opens up the season to a wide range of storylines.

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The episode opens with Carrie in her new home, but not completely settled in. With unpacked boxes still around her, we see Carrie  send a postcard to Aiden with a heart on it. Their long overdue happily ever after is once again delayed, this time by Aiden’s duty to his family. Can their love endure?

For Miranda, our new lesbian in training is floating in the dating pool, searching for a connection. In a twist-of-events, she meets Mary, played by Rosie O’Donnell, and they have a rendezvous in her hotel room. In a halo of morning after glow, Mary reveals that  she was a virgin - and a nun! As Carrie said after learning the news, ‘you deflowered the Virgin Mary.” 

Seema is adjusting to long distance with Ravi as he works on his new movie in Egypt. But the frustration is unbearable. So much so, that she smokes in her bed and sets a fire. With her confidence in limbo, she requests that Ravi comes back to see her. And he obliges but not alone. Ravi also brings his scouting team with him. After an exhaustive day where lunch and dinner plans evaporate, so does the relationship between them. I actually enjoyed this pairing, but I guess we will see Seema kiss a few more frogs before true, unconditional love wraps around her. 

We also get a peek into Lisa’s career and family life as she too questions if she can accomplish an unthinkable task - add Michelle Obama to her film project of unsung heroes. Also, like many loving wives, she hosts a dinner at Red Rooster to assist with her husband’s campaign. It was refreshing to see a popular restaurant that I was familiar with and eager to visit included in the show. All the gals gathered as Herbert relived his time at Morehouse with his college acapella group.

The episode is rounded out with Charlotte and her family day-to-day of parenting, being a wife and fur mom. Anthony and his new beau are also doing well and their relationship seems to be steady in the first episode.  

With Carrie falling in her home, the random kitchen door alarm and the poor attempts at phone sex with Aiden while her new kitten watches, the show is still on a quirky balancing act. How do you find love and happiness in your next act of life? There is a tonal shift from season two and it feels more like segment storytelling versus a continuous flow with everyone’s lives intertwined. Maybe it’s on purpose? As we get older, we become more siloed? Hopefully this season will find a good balance with all the various story arcs.

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