From the TV classic Gilmore Girls to the Netflix hit Ginny & Georgia, which released its long-awaited third season on June 5, these are shows where mother-daughter relationships are not only important, but they’re the heart of it.

“The one North Star for Georgia is her love for her kids, so she leads with that first and foremost,” Brianne Howey, who plays mom Georgia to teen Ginny (Antonia Gentry) in Ginny & Georgia, told StyleCaster. “Of course, that looks a little bit different in Georgia, like the way Georgia feels that she’s showing Ginny love. Ginny doesn’t feel like she wants to receive love that way, right? Ginny would like a mom who is a little bit more self-aware and who could act like the adult in the situation. So I think, unfortunately, Georgia suffers in that arena.”

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In one scene, Carrie is walking through Washington Square Park with her friend Seema (Sarita Choudhury) wearing a cream-colored dress from Ossie Clark and a billowing gingham hat designed by Maryam Keyhani. On the internet, viewers were quick to criticize it. “Who in their right mind would walk around NYC wearing this hat?? (Or any other city 😆)” wrote one X user. “On last night’s season premiere of And Just Like That, Carrie wore a ‘hat’ that made me question reality,” wrote another user.

“I saw the hat and wanted it on my head,” Parker said in defense of the hat choice to USA Today. “At this point, there’s no pretend dilly-dallying around. We pretty much just put stuff on my head and photograph it, and hope that Michael Patrick [King, executive producer of the show] is hospitable to the idea.”

Luckily, he agreed. “It’s like, ‘Hey, everybody, we’re back!” he told the outlet of the look. “I’ve learned over the years that sometimes logic is not as good as a hat. It makes people say, ‘I love it. I hate it. Oh, my God, what was she thinking?'”

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On paper, the Prime Video series is a classic murder mystery. The picture-perfect world Chloe created for herself and her family — her teen son Ethan and seemingly loving husband Adam — comes crashing down when she finds Adam’s blood-soaked body on the floor of their Hamptons home. With no alibi, Ethan is arrested for Adam’s murder.

However, while the whodunnit at the center of the plot is a through line, the heart of the series lies in the complicated familial drama that surrounds the mystery. When the police reach out to Ethan’s legal guardian, we meet Chloe’s estranged sister, Nicky, who is also Ethan’s biological mother and Adam’s first wife. That might sound like a major spoiler but this is just the set up for the show which delves deep into the tangled web of Chloe and Nicky’s lives as sisters, wives and mothers.

For Chloe, motherhood is a source of imposter syndrome. She loves Ethan but the life she stepped into to become his mother does not feel like her own. She relies on order and is unemotional in the face of turmoil.

“There is that thing of, ‘I don’t actually belong here, and if anybody finds me out, my whole world’s going to crumble, it’s going to shatter into a million pieces,'” Biel told Glamour of her character’s pysche in an April 30 interview. This makes her overbearing. She worries about what Ethan has eaten and fusses over him but doesn’t take the time to sit with him and find out how he’s really doing.

Nicky, meanwhile, has a natural rapport with Ethan, despite being estranged from him for so many years. He laughs with her and opens up about what’s going on at home. But Nicky is reactive, she has hard time keeping composure and, after so many years away from her son, is unable to separate her need to be around him from what he really needs after his arrest.

“The harm that’s being done to my son is heartbreaking to me, but it’s also very complicated, because I’m estranged from him as well,” Banks told SheKnows ahead of the show’s release. “I’ve not been able to see him, and right now I’m the only person [who] can see him. So I think [Nicky] cherishes that.”

This means that in moments of chaos, such as his arrest, Ethan is quick to turn to Chloe for her steady, solution-oriented approach.

The show challenges any notions about what it takes to be the perfect mother. Chloe has the career, the marriage, the perfect nuclear family but she’s struggling under the weight of it all and can’t so much as get a laugh out of Ethan when they’re alone together. Nicky is a recovering addict who brings a disarry with her everywhere she goes but when she’s with Ethan, he’s lighter and infinitely more at ease.

Ultimately, Ethan needs both of them and their unconditional love for him is the key to repairing their own estrangement. As Biel told SheKnows in May, Chloe and Nicky’s journey explores “how far would you go to protect your son, protect your family, to protect your sister,” and the two are willing to go to the ends of the earth for Ethan which is all he really needs.

In the end, Ethan’s two mothers become bonded by their unwavering need to protect him and the secrets they keep between them in order to do so.

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So, in the hopes of getting some clues on what’s to come, we did some digging through some of the on-set pics from the show. And, as it turns out, there are some hints for a major plot point.

On July 22, the cast of the show – including Corbett, Parker, Kristin Davis (Charlotte), Evan Handler (Harry), Cynthia Nixon (Miranda), Mario Cantone (Anthony), and Sarita Choudhury (Seema) – were all pictured in all-black outfits. Not only all-black, but the men were all in dapper suits while the women rocked elegant black dresses. The only exception here, we will admit, is Sebastiano Pigazzi’s character Giuseppe, who’s wearing an all-navy look.

What are we hinting at here? Well, it seems like they’re headed to a funeral.

So, if this is a funeral scene, who could it be?

From the looks of it, it doesn’t seem like the show, and its creator Michael Patrick King, have any intention of killing off the main cast. Sure, they could be tricking us with paparazzi pictures of them all, but wasn’t Big’s death by Peloton traumatizing enough in season 1?

According to Elle, who also got their hands on the photos, potential victims could be characters who have left the show, including Sara Ramírez’s Che, Kim Cattrall’s Samantha and Karen Pittman’s Nya.

With that said, we think those theories are all unlikely. After all, fans will absolutely revolt if Samantha dies, and Pittman only left the show this season because of scheduling conflicts and could totally make a comeback in the future. Lastly, Ramírez left the show not on great terms, so we doubt And Just Like That… would want to bring attention to their character once again by introducing a death storyline.

Now onto a theory that saddens us: could this be for Steve? Out of all the main cast and their partners, David Eigenberg’s Steve is the only one not pictured. Of course, his death would be surprising, especially given how non-sad his ex Miranda, and his business partner Aidan seem to be here in this picture, but we couldn’t help but point it out.

Another theory, this time from Us Weekly, speculates that this could be the funeral for someone in Nicole Ari Parker’s character Lisa Todd Wexley’s family. Per the outlet, one eagle-eyed fan spotted that the building in the funeral shots has a plaque bearing the name of Lisa Todd-Wexley’s father, who she previously mentioned was deceased.

Lastly, we’ll add that while these pictures surely point to a funeral scene, it could simply not be. After all, it’s a show that has a flair for drama, right? This could potentially be a funeral-inspired show, a themed party, or anything else along these lines.

With so many theories to choose from, all we can do is tune in to see what happens! New episodes of And Just Like That are available on HBO Max on Thursdays.

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Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel’s twisty whodunnit The Better Sister kept us on the edge of our seats for eight episodes while we waited to learn who killed Adam, finally. After a finale episode full of turns, the show’s leads are breaking down that ending.

By the end of the series, we learn that Nicky (Banks) killed Adam (Corey Stoll) after learning that he physically abused her estranged sister Chloe (Biel). After successfully getting the murder charge against Nicky’s son, Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan), dropped, the sisters finally discuss the truth.

“It felt wonderful to say it out loud, because, you know, I knew the whole time that I did it,” Banks tells SheKnows of that moment, revealing there was also a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it confession from Nicky earlier in the show.

“What’s interesting is when you go back and watch the show, I literally say out loud, ‘I’ll just say I did it. I will take the fall for it.’ And everyone’s like, ‘Hahaha, no, you won’t. That’s insane.'”

Ultimately, as Banks explains, Nicky doesn’t confess because she doesn’t want to miss a chance to keep her son in her life. “The harm that’s being done to my son is heartbreaking to me, but it’s also very complicated, because I’m estranged from him as well. I’ve not been able to see him, and right now I’m the only person [who] can see him. So I think [Nicky] cherishes that.”

As we see in the finale, the sisters make a last-ditch effort to bolster their lies to prevent the police from uncovering the truth. After framing Bill Braddock (Matthew Modine) by planting the murder weapon in his home, they also get Detective Nancy Guidry (Kim Dickens) taken off the case by leaking information about her past to the press.

“There’s also an agreement made by the two of us,” Banks says. “We have to protect him now. We have to continue to protect him. So we’ve just learned this lesson that lies are bad for our relationships, but we’re going to keep a really big one from Ethan.”

“We’re really evil,” Biel jokes. “The right man is dead, and we need to keep it that way.”

The show ends with one final twist that strays from Alafair Burke’s 2019 book of the same name. In the final shot of the series, Jake (Gabriel Sloyer), Chloe’s lover, is seen lying dead on a beach with no obvious conclusion about how it happened, which perhaps leaves the show open to a second season.

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There’s just something about watching older women have sex with younger men on-screen. Whether it’s the rarity factor or reversal of power dynamics, or the fact that many of these relationships happen in secret, the dynamic between older women and younger men is tantalizing to see.

One of the most well-known movies of that ilk is — of course — The Graduate. Starring Dustin Hoffman as a young man who is seduced by an older woman (Anne Bancroft), iconic spicy scenes ensue before Benjamin goes on to fall for her daughter, who is his age. Just imagine that Thanksgiving dinner!

In 2024, Nicole Kidman nailed her portrayal of female sexual desires in her erotic film Babygirl, which sees her have a BDSM-filled affair with Harris Dickinson. Also in 2024, Anne Hathaway tried her hand at a steamy age gap romance with her onscreen love interest Nicholas Galitzine in mom-com The Idea of You. 

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Warning: This article contains spoilers Prime Video’s The Better Sister

Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks’ twisty whodunnit, The Better Sister, has arrived on Prime Video and there is one main question gripping viewers from the first episode until the last: Who killed Adam?

The show, which is based on Alafair Burke’s 2019 novel of the same name, follows high-profile media executive Chloe (Biel) who married her brother-in-law Adam (Corey Stoll) and began raising her estranged older sister’s son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan). When Adam is murdered and Ethan becomes a prime suspect, Chloe’s sister Nicki (Banks) reenters her life to untangle a complicated family history and attempt to protect their son.

Adam is killed in the first episode so there are no spoilers there. Chloe finds him lying in a pool of his own blood in their Hamptons weekend home after she returns from an event. By the second episode, Ethan is arrested after his DNA is found at the crime scene. But if Ethan was the killer that would all be too simple so what’s the truth?

Who Killed Adam in ‘The Better Sister’?

In the finale episode it is revealed that Chloe’s sister Nicky killed Adam, her ex-husband.

Without Chloe or Adam knowing, Ethan had been secretly in contact with his biological mother. This explains why Nicky was so quick to delete the contents of Ethan’s flip phone after Chloe found it and asked her to charge it.

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The night before Adam’s murder, Ethan tells Nicky that he saw his father physically assaulting Chloe while watching from the balcony of their New York penthouse.

Nicky immediately decides to drive from Ohio, where she is living and caring for Adam’s mother, and drive to the Hamptons to try to save her sister from the man who also abused her. Once there, she instead runs into Adam and confronts him, threatening to call the police. When Adam tries to attack her, Nicky stabs him with a pocket knife.

We then learn that Ethan was actually the first person to find Adam’s body, not Chloe. Believing that Chloe killed Adam in an altercation, Ethan tries to protect the woman who raised him by throwing things around the home to make it seems like an intruder broke in.

Who Gets Arrested for Adam’s Murder in ‘The Better Sister’?

Chloe manages to frame Bill Braddock (Matthew Modine) by planting the murder weapon in his home.

After Chloe learns incriminating information proving Bill knew that the Gentry Group had in a human trafficking scheme to get construction contracts pulled off. She also learns that Adam was working as an informant for the FBI so when the police raid Bill’s home and find the pocket knife, it’s assume he killed Adam in an act of revenge.

Earlier in the season, while Ethan is on trial for his father’s murder, Chloe testifies that she was having an affair with Adam’s friend and colleague Jake (Gabriel Sloyer) who knew about the abuse. Her testimony makes Jake another suspect in the case which allows Ethan to be found not guilty.

However, after briefly incriminating Jake and ultimately framing Bill, Chloe still has one person on her and Nicky’s case — Detective Nancy Guidry (Kim Dickens). Guidry does figure out that Nicky is the one who killed Adam by questioning Adam’s mother who informs her that Nicky knew details of the murder before the police contacted her, something only a culprit would know.

Before Guidry can pin it on Nicky, she is pulled off the case after Nicky digs up evidence that Guidry used excessive force and badly beat up an innocent Black man on a previous case and gets it released in an exposé article.

How Does ‘The Better Sister’ End?

The show ends with Nicky and Chloe being the only ones who know the truth about who killed Adam. However, in one more finale twist, a shot shows Jake’s dead body lying on a beach. It’s unclear how he died, something that is potentially a setup for a second season of the show.

The finale ending scene sees Chloe and Nicky sitting on the beach, seeming closer than ever. They discuss writing a memoir about what they’ve been through but Chloe tells Nicky, “I don’t have any story without you, not worth telling anyway.”

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Fans of Sex and the City and And Just Like That… have seen Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Aidan (John Corbett) go through a lot over the years, and the third season of AJLT will be no different.

At the end of season 2, the on-and-off couple agreed on an unconventional deal. Despite Carrie buying a beautiful Gramercy Park apartment for them to move in together, Aidan decided to stay in Virginia because his 14-year-old son Wyatt was having a hard time at school.

As he delivered the news, he asked Carrie to wait five years. By then, Wyatt will be off to college, and he’ll finally be able to leave his life behind and move to the Big Apple to be with her. Carrie was surprised, but she didn’t exactly say no. “No matter what happens… this was not a mistake,” Carrie said the next day as they said goodbye, per TVLine.

So, as the third season of the show came around this week on May 29, fans might’ve been asking themselves what’s really going on between them. Are they breaking up? Are they going long-distance?

If episode one is any indication, Carrie and Aidan aren’t breaking things off entirely. While they were keeping it cool by only sending postcards to one another at first, Aidan then called Carrie in the middle of the night.

“I miss you so much,” he says when she picks up. Then, when she called him out for breaking his own rules by calling, Aidan, who’s in his truck in the middle of a field, says, “All of that went out the window after this third beer.”

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Quickly, their convo goes from pleasantries to full-on phone sex. “You know how much I love you, Carrie,” he says, while asking her to touch herself. Then, right when they were both getting into it, Aidan buzzes the horn of his truck. “I scared myself, I hit the horn with my knee,” he says. “I might’ve s– my pants a little.”

After that, while Aidan gets right back into it, Carrie’s understandably turned off. “C’mon, we can get back there,” he said. “Can we?” Carrie asks back, laughing.

As she struggles to get back in the mood, she exchanges eye contact with her adorable new cat, Shoe. The mood is decidedly gone for her, but Aidan keeps going and finishes. Carrie, for her part, fakes it.

Later in the episode, Carrie summarizes the experience to best friends Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon). “He said he missed me and we had phone sex,” she says. “More specifically, he had phone sex, I stopped midway. The kitty was watching, her little eyes were so curious. So when he went there, I faked it.”

While both Charlotte and Miranda agreed that faking it was no big deal, after all a study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in 2010 stated that up to 80% of women have admitted to faking it with a sexual partner, per NBC News, Carrie couldn’t get past it.

So, she comes clean to Aidan in the last scene of the episode.

“I have a confession, I wasn’t totally there with you the other night and I said I was,” she tells Aidan in a call at the end of the episode. She then tries to start up phone sex once again, this time asking him to touch himself.

“Uh, Carrie, I can’t do this right now,” Aidan then replies. “I’m in bed with Wyatt, he’s asleep, he had a bad night.” Embarrassed and speechless, Carrie apologizes and almost immediately turns off the call.

We’ll add here that this isn’t just the show and its creator, Michael Patrick King, not knowing how to portray phone sex. After all, longtime viewers of SATC might remember Miranda’s phone sex adventures back in season 3, episode 10. Things got steamy over the phone, and we all wondered if we were doing it wrong all along.

But, this time around, the show wanted to see a couple struggle through it. And while And Just Like That… has gotten hate over the years for being “unrelatable,” this storyline between Carrie and Aidan is anything but. In a 2018 study from Elite Daily, 48.6% of respondents said that they never had phone sex over the phone. So, unsurprisingly, countless long-distance couples out there can relate to struggling to get the knack of it, at least in the beginning. When is the right time to get into the mood? What if the signal glitches? What if my pet is looking at me?

These are all questions that LDR couples around the world may be asking themselves. And while some couples might eventually become pros, others, like Carrie and Aidan, might need a little work.

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Almost two years after the Season 2 finale was released, the third season of the show, which premieres on HBO Max on May 29, will finally be released.

In the new season, which will have some new faces including Patti LuPone and Rosie O’Donell, viewers will continue to follow the next chapters of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis), their families, and their best friends Seema (Sarita Choudhury) and Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker).

But before we tune in to their new adventures, we all need a little refresher. After all, it’s been too long since we’ve seen Carrie on our screens! Take a look at some of the biggest plot points of season 2 below so you don’t miss a thing!

What Happened in ‘And Just Like That’ Season 2?

Here are all the key things that happened in And Just Like That… season 2 to get you up to speed for season 3.

Carrie & Aidan Made a Pact

In season 2, Carrie reunited once again with Aidan Shaw (John Corbett), the ever so charming furnite designer who’s always had a soft spot for her. The two met on Valentine’s Day after 13 years apart and instantly rekindled their relationship.

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Despite Aidan not wanting to enter Carrie’s apartment (it had too many sour memories for him), the two continued strong throughout the season, with Carrie buying a massive apartment in Gramery Park by the end of the season where they could live together. Sadly, however, Aidan’s 14-year-old son Wyatt, who was having a hard time at school, crashed his truck when he was high on drugs, and Aidan knew he had to be there for him.

When talking to Carrie about his decision to stay in Virgnia, he asked her to wait for him for five years. By then, Wyatt will have gone to college and Aidan would finally be able to move out and move in with Carrie.

“No matter what happens… this was not a mistake,” Carrie says as they say goodbye, per TVLine.

Charlotte Returned to the Art World

Since having her two kids with Harry, Charlotte dedicated most of her time to being their mom and a housewife. In season 2 of And Just Like That…, she admits that she wants to go back to work as an art gallerist, a career she excelled in during the Sex and the City years.

She does eventually go back to work (and even sells a painting to Sam Smith while she’s at it), and it flips her dynamic with Harry. For the first time in years, Harry’s the one running errands and picking the kids up from school.

As for their kids, Lily started dating Brady, Miranda, and Steve’s son, while Rock came out in season 2 as non-binary and pursued a career in modeling.

Miranda Is Single Again

While fans of the show were perhaps rooting for Miranda and Che (Sara Ramírez) to split since their relationship ended Miranda’s marriage to Steve (David Eigenberg), they did indeed call it quits in season 2. After fighting on and off throughout the season, especially after Che’s TV pilot flops, Che ended things in episode 6.

“From where we are now, this probably isn’t going to get better,” Che told Miranda.

After their breakup, Miranda continues exploring her sexuality and goes on a date with a voiceover artist named Amelia Carsey (Miriam Shor). It doesn’t go well and Miranda scurries off before Amelia is back with the laundry.

Lisa Todd Wexley Lost Her Pregnancy

Another major plotpoint in season 2 involved Lisa Todd Wexley and her husband Herbet (Chris Jackson). In the second-to-last episode, she finds out she’s pregnant and is understandably upset. After spending years taking care of her kids, her dreams of making it as a filmmaker were finally coming true. “I just need to wrap my head around this new reality,” she says to her husband at one point. “I always do.”

Before she even gets used to the idea, however, LTW suffers a miscarriage in the finale and is riddled with guilt.

Samantha Jones Returned, But Not for Long

While we think this plotline might not come up in season 3, we couldn’t recap season 2 without Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) and her long-awaited cameo. In the scene, Samantha calls Carrie to say that she won’t be able to make it to her apartment for a goodbye dinner because of a flight delay (Samantha is now living in London). Carrie then puts Samantha on speaker before she says, “Thank you for everything, you f—- fabulous, fabulous flat.” It was iconic, to say the least.

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Sure, we’ve seen many dramatic arguments and even some Love Is Blind divorces after the show, but the 10 couples who are still together after getting married on the show are enough to prove that the show’s blind dating concept can work.

Back in season 1, couples Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton and Amber Pike and Matt Barnett were the first to prove all the skeptics wrong. Not only did these two couples have a connection since the very beginning, but meeting each other in person for the first time made for some magical moments, and walking down the aisle by the finale was, impressively, a no-brainer.

Sure, not all seasons of the show have been as successful. Season 4 has three couples still together, while season 2, sadly, made for no long-lasting duos. But, with a few successful marriages (and even some Love Is Blind babies!) over the years, we think the show has established that the experiment is indeed worth exploring.

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