We're just a few weeks away from the season finale of And Just Like That, and we couldn't help but wonder how the ever-polarizing series will end. Will Carrie finally come to her senses and dump Aidan? (I'm sorry. I can't. Don't hate me.) Is it love for Seema and Adam, Carrie's landscape designer? (Now, that's a relationship we're rooting for.) And what about Carrie's house? Well, Andy Cohen has a wild theory about the fictional fashionista's real estate portfolio.
You see, Sarah Jessica Parker recently made an appearance on Watch What Happens Live, and Cohen grilled her about the controversial season. "Why is it taking Carrie so long to finish that house in Gramercy?" he asked the Sex and the City alum. Leave it to Parker, who is reportedly good friends with Cohen, to respond with the perfect clapback. "How long did it take for you to finish your house in New York City?" she quipped. "You weren't expecting that, were you?"
Shade aside, Cohen revealed a wild theory about Carrie's real estate fate. "I think she likes her old place better," he said, referring to the character's iconic bachelorette pad. "Oh, is she moving back to the old place?!" "I don't know, maybe," Parker coyly responded—but we think Cohen is really onto something.
Between tiny beds, seriously chaotic sheets, and the very dramatic "shoegate," most of this season has revolved around Carrie's new digs. In fact, the franchise has almost entirely replaced the city's hippest haunts with the cast's personal spaces. While the show is positioning the home as the coolest and most exclusive place in New York City, it's also using Carrie's new townhouse as a metaphor for her relationship with Aidan.
Carrie has owned her Upper East Side apartment—which, in reality, is located in the West Village—since the show's debut in 1998. Although she kept her bachelorette pad for decades (yes, even during her marriage to Mr. Big), she was finally willing to offload it because Aidan refused to step inside. The space, which they briefly shared, conjured too many "hard" memories for her on-again, off-again beau. Carrie was willing to sell her beloved apartment—and, in doing so, lose a bit of herself—to build a home with Aidan and his sons.
But it didn't turn out that way: Aidan pressed pause on their relationship so he could focus on being a parent, and the sons never visited. Instead of filling this big home with great décor, family, and cherished memories, she's alone.
"I think she's trying to be thoughtful about what will matter," Parker told Cohen. "She bought it with an idea of it being really populated with a lot more people. I think that's not the way she's actually in real-time living it. It's made her think differently about the way she wants to design it."
Her attempts to turn this house into a home are thwarted by Aidan's indifference to the (basic) coffee table that represents their love. I mean, he broke one of the historic windows and admitted to cheating on her in the same episode. If that's not a sign, what is?
Don't get me wrong, Carrie's Gramercy townhouse is stunning, but it's not her home. And, with any luck, perhaps she'll realize this real-estate misstep and return to her roots.
