Viewers have been wondering who dies on And Just Like That… ever since photos emerged of the cast wearing funeral attire while they were filming on location in New York City. In fact, our own pop culture writer, Elizabeth Logan, surmised that the funeral is for Samantha Jones, since Kim Cattrall has said she won’t return for season three after making a much-talked about cameo in season two.
But would the show really kill off Samantha? After all, Carrie has already been through the loss of Big, while her BFF, Stanford, permanently moved to Kyoto, Japan (his portrayer, Willie Garson, passed away in real life in 2021). Plus, even though Samantha isn’t really part of the AJLT… universe (aside from random text messages between her and Carrie), it seems awfully cruel to even think that the beloved character would no longer be around.
If it’s not Samantha though, who are the characters paying tribute to? There’s also theories the funeral could be for Steve Brady, Miranda’s ex-husband, who is the father of their son, Brady Hobbes. David Eigenberg has reoccured on And Just Like That… since its launch, and while Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) confirms to Glamour that Steve will be back this season, he’s not seen in the funeral pictures.
So who is attending the funeral, thereby assuring that they’re alive and well? Carrie and Aidan, obviously. And Seema, Miranda, Giuseppe, Anthony, Harry, and Charlotte. Even though Lisa Todd Wexler (played by Nicole Ari Parker) and her husband, Herbert (played by Christopher Jackson), aren’t in the below photo, they were also seen attending the funeral in other photos.
“This is the challenge of doing a show now,” Kristin Davis tells Glamour. “There are so many people on the street who are filming us filming, including paparazzi. On the one hand that’s really flattering that anyone cares, but we are sometimes really concerned that people will not have the true watching experience. We want people to truly watch the show and not know what’s going to happen.”
Davis acknowledges that while you think you want to know what’s going to happen (and yes, that is true), the reality is that you actually don’t (also true). “As flattering as it is that everyone’s trying to guess…we work so hard to keep secrets so fans have a true experience watching it. If you want to look at the photos because it’s fun to look at, do it, but just know that we would never want anyone to know what is actually happening.”
Davis also stresses that when it comes to a funeral scene, “we don’t take it lightly, anyone not surviving on our show. I feel like we’ve done it and we’re done. That’s what I want to say. But this is just me. I’m not in charge. I just feel like we did it. It’s enough.”
So is there a world in which a funeral was staged in order to throw off fans? The answer is no, but perhaps the funeral ceremony is not for someone that AJLT… sleuths are convinced they know.
“I don’t think they will have thought of it, I’ll put it that way,” Cynthia Nixon says of who dies on And Just Like That… this season. “[Our show] used to be like four women and a gay best friend, and then, over the years and over the shows and the movies, we have gained this tribe of people. We have our separate spouses and children and friends; we’re more and more siloed.”
In other words, take Davis’s advice: don’t overthink what you’ve heard—or seen—and just watch each week’s episode with a blank slate. It’s better that way.
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