{"id":128166,"date":"2025-08-08T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128166\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:41:10","slug":"and-just-like-that-season-3-episode-11-ending-explained-is-carrie-bradshaw-going-to-end-up-sad-and-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128166\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018And Just Like That\u2019 Season 3 Episode 11 Ending Explained: Is Carrie Bradshaw Going To End Up Sad and Alone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-time Sex and the City<\/a> fans were stunned last week when they discovered that HBO MAX<\/a>\u2018s And Just Like That\u2026<\/a> would be ending after Season 3. That meant that there would be only two episodes left in Carrie Bradshaw\u2019s (Sarah Jessica Parker<\/a>) story and she is currently very, very single. So much so, she ends her historical fiction novel with \u201cThe Woman\u201d alone in her garden. It\u2019s a conclusion that doesn\u2019t sit well with Carrie\u2019s editor, Amanda (Ashlee Atkinson<\/a>). According to Amanda, Carrie has written a \u201cromantic tragedy.\u201d Is And Just Like That\u2026 doing the same to Carrie herself?<\/p>\n

**Spoilers for And Just Like That\u2026 Season 3 Episode 11 \u201cForget About the Boy,\u201d now streaming on HBO MAX**<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ever since we first met Carrie Bradshaw all the way back in 1998, she has been looking for love. In And Just Like That\u2026 Season 3, Carrie thought she had finally found her happily ever after with former flame Aidan Shaw (John Corbett), only for trust issues to once again unravel what they shared. <\/p>\n

In last week\u2019s episode of And Just Like That\u2026, Carrie finally admits to herself that she is attracted to downstairs neighbor and writing buddy Duncan Reeves (Jonathan Cake). She explains to Seema (Sarita Choudhury) that Duncan is the only man she\u2019s ever met who sees her as a person and not just as a potential love interest. (He\u2019s also maybe the first man Carrie\u2019s met who thinks her insane wardrobe is pretty freaking great.) Duncan and Carrie hook up at the end of the episode and Duncan reveals that he\u2019s going to be returning to London to finish his long-awaited biography of Margaret Thatcher. Carrie is too much of a \u201cdistraction\u201d for him, so their one night tryst will have to be it. <\/p>\n

This week, Carrie is grappling with what her future looks like. Initially, she doesn\u2019t see the ending of her book as a tragedy, but as she keeps taking stock of her life, it becomes clear she doesn\u2019t want to be alone in her big Gramercy Park duplex. However, she can\u2019t move backwards, either. A visit back to her old apartment reveals that Lissette (Katerina Tanenbaum) has essentially transformed it forever. <\/p>\n

Carrie finishes this week\u2019s episode by penning an \u201cepilogue\u201d to her novel wherein The Woman accepts an invitation to a party where she\u2019ll get to meet a dashing widower visiting from London. So what does this mean for the end of And Just Like That\u2026? Is Carrie going to end the story sad and alone? Or will Duncan come back into her life?<\/p>\n

\"Duncan Photo: HBO MAX<\/p>\n

And Just Like That\u2026 Season 3 Episode 11 \u201cForget About the Boy<\/strong>\u201d Ending Explained: Will Duncan Come Back to Carrie? Will Carrie End AJLT Single?<\/p>\n

So how will And Just Like That\u2026 end? Will it be a bittersweet ending that celebrates Carrie\u2019s independence? Will the woman be alone in the garden? Will, gosh, Aidan come back?? Is Carrie\u2019s wishful epilogue a clue that Duncan will return?<\/p>\n

Right now, it seems like And Just Like That\u2026 is teasing that Carrie will end the series happily single. After all, she and Aidan are done and Duncan was pretty clear that he didn\u2019t see their connection lasting. And Just Like That\u2026 actor Jonathan Reeves even teased on social media<\/a> that the show\u2019s end meant he wouldn\u2019t get to return. He joked, \u201cDuncan finally has one night of passion with Carrie Bradshaw and the shows over\u2026FOREVER???\u201d<\/p>\n

However, I think this is a feint. I think that Carrie\u2019s epilogue essentially promises that Duncan will return. <\/p>\n

One of the best moments in the original Sex and the City run was when Big (Chris Noth) surprised Carrie at her book reading, charmingly asking a question about this \u201cMr. Big\u201d character in her memoir. Could we see a similar situation in the And Just Like That\u2026 finale? It\u2019s easy to imagine Carrie Bradshaw super fan Duncan zeroing in on this mysterious British gentleman in her book\u2019s epilogue and wanting to ask the author in person about it. <\/p>\n

Likewise, Carrie doesn\u2019t necessarily have to stick around the Gramercy house. Kim Cattrall\u2019s Samantha Jones canonically is living in London, offering Carrie an excuse to take a flight across the pond to woo Duncan herself. <\/p>\n

Also, Duncan\u2019s issue with Carrie distracting him is that he hasn\u2019t been able to stick to a deadline for once in his life. He can sequester himself and finish that book and get back to our girl! (In fact, he might realize that he can\u2019t finish the book without Carrie\u2019s influence.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s totally possible that Carrie will end up poignantly alone, but we\u2019re not buying it. Duncan is too good of a match for Carrie to not return. (He sees her. And her shoes!)<\/p>\n

If I had to predict the last scene of And Just Like That\u2026, I would guess it will be Carrie in the Gramercy garden alone, at first. Then Duncan will emerge from the downstairs apartment \u2014 which Carrie will buy, per Seema\u2019s suggestion \u2014 and the two will live happily ever after together.<\/p>\n

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