[Major spoilers ahead for this week’s episode of And Just Like That.]
Okay, the And Just Like That… writers room must be reading the commentary online, because after bringing Aidan back last season only to put he and Carrie in a long distance relationship this season, they have decided to break them up after all. In this week’s episode, Aidan becomes wary of Carrie’s relationship with Duncan, and that starts a whole discussion about how he still doesn’t trust her after all these years. It’s a devastating argument to watch, and at the end of it, they decide to break up because Carrie admits that she’s no longer “100 percent” in the relationship.
Executive producer Elisa Zuritsky told TVLine that the decision to break them up was actually made pretty early in the crafting of the season. “It wasn’t a fiery debate in the room. I think it really came down to the way the previous season ended, with Aidan’s family proving to be such an obstacle,” she said.
She also said the team “really did want to play it out in the real world and think of [Carrie and Aidan] as real people, and take them out of the fantasy Disney prince and princess happy ending that we were kind of playing with in season 2. It did feel like too much to ask of those two people, especially with their baggage.”
Fellow executive producer Julie Rottenberg agreed, saying that it was not realistic for their relationship to move forward considering everything that’s happened. “I think we all knew their problems were systemic enough that they would not survive,” Rottenberg says.
As devastating as this is, does this finally mean we’ll get to see single Carrie dating around? A girl can dream!!
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