{"id":48479,"date":"2022-01-27T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=48479"},"modified":"2022-01-27T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:27:47","slug":"and-just-like-that-lets-talk-about-carries-new-man","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/and-just-like-that-lets-talk-about-carries-new-man\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018And Just Like That\u2019: Let\u2019s Talk About Carrie\u2019s New Man"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jon Tenney and Sarah Jessica Parker on the set of And Just Like That<\/i> (Photo: James Devaney\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spoilers ahead for Episode 9 of <\/em>And Just Like That…<\/p>\n

Carrie Bradshaw<\/a> is dating again. Well, in theory she is, anyway. Since the death of her husband in the series premiere\u2014somewhere between three months<\/a> and a year and a half ago\u2014she\u2019s had a few less-than-ideal run-ins with Peter (Jon Tenney). No last name; just Peter. Of course, Carrie is understandably hesitant to put herself out there again. But And Just Like That<\/em><\/a> seems to be positioning the handsome, seemingly sweet natured Peter as a potentially significant love interest. (Never mind that with only one episode left<\/a> and no Season 2 pick-up announced, it\u2019s hard to see where this nascent relationship might be going.)<\/p>\n

But what do we know, really, about this \u201cPeter\u201d character? The show hasn\u2019t given us much to work with so far, but here are the basics: he\u2019s 53, he\u2019s a widower and he\u2019s a teacher\u2014possibly at Charlotte\u2019s kids\u2019<\/a> school?<\/p>\n

We gleaned most of the info above from our first glimpse of ol\u2019 Pete on Carrie\u2019s phone. In Episode 7, \u201cSex and the Widow<\/a>,\u201d Carrie\u2019s publisher has been pressuring her to go on a date so that she can write about it, adding a glimmer of hope to her new memoir about grieving Big\u2019s death. Luckily, Seema (Sarita Choudhury<\/a>) has already signed her up for a dating app, and whilst swiping, Carrie matches with Peter. Interestingly, she initially swipes right past him, but then goes back\u2014obviously<\/em> Seema sprung for the premium membership\u2014possibly because he included \u201cwidower\u201d in his profile description? Or could it be because he resembles a certain novelist from her past<\/a>? More on that later.<\/p>\n

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Jon Tenney in And Just Like That<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO Max)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, their first date starts out awkwardly. We learn that it is also Peter<\/em>\u2019s first date since losing his wife to ovarian cancer. Carrie suggests that they order drinks to ease the tension, and then we smash cut to the two of them leaving the restaurant laughing hysterically\u2014and then vomiting on the sidewalk. Ugh. Now, beyond this being an embarrassingly juvenile ploy for cheap laughs that strains credibility, I think the show made a huge mistake here not giving us more of their interaction on this date. We have no idea how or if they connected or what they both found so hilarious. We\u2019re missing all of the details whereby we, as an audience, can understand why Carrie might give this guy a second chance.<\/p>\n

Which she does, after he bids $1,050 of his teacher salary on her at an auction benefiting Charlotte and LTW<\/a>\u2019s kids\u2019 exclusive private school\u2014where he presumably works! Honestly, I\u2019m not even sure what to make of any of that. Like, maybe he likes her so much he\u2019s willing to take what amounts to a pay cut for a month or something? Because if I\u2019ve learned anything from Gossip Girl<\/em> 2.0<\/a>, it\u2019s that Manhattan private school teachers are underpaid as well as traumatized by their monstrously privileged students. Anyway, from their brief, post-auction interaction, we finally get a little hint at their chemistry. They\u2019ve got good banter! Also, for whatever it\u2019s worth, we learn that Peter teaches math. So, there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Jon Tenney in And Just Like That<\/i> (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO Max)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That\u2019s the last we see of Peter for a couple weeks, only for him to reappear in the show\u2019s most recent episode \u201cNo Strings Attached,\u201d for his belated do-over date with Carrie. Except the date never happens. Carrie shows up early to the restaurant where they\u2019re meeting just to tell Peter in person that she\u2019s not ready. See, she had a little freak-out when she tried to take off her wedding ring and ended up putting Big\u2019s on instead. To his credit, Peter is super understanding. He\u2019s still mourning too\u2014he admits that he still listens to the last voicemail he received from his wife\u2014and wonders if he and Carrie both aren\u2019t trying to gloss over their pain by forcing themselves back onto the dating market.<\/p>\n

Sidebar: I\u2019m confused about Peter arriving for their date in a cab. Not an Uber, an actual yellow taxi. This suggests several puzzling things about his income. Like, apparently he can not only afford to just take a cab for no reason, but he can also afford to live in Manhattan, as I\u2019m pretty sure yellow cabs exist basically nowhere else in New York City these days. I mean, I guess taking a cab every now and then isn\u2019t going to bankrupt a single 53-year-old professional. But I\u2019m still just very unclear about the socio-economic status of Manhattan private school teachers, and of this show\u2019s understanding of the same. Because it\u2019s not like this hasn\u2019t been an issue in Carrie\u2019s dating life before.<\/p>\n

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Ron Livingston and Sara Jessica Parker in Sex and the City<\/i> (Photo: HBO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Which brings me to my Berger theory. Peter looks suspiciously like Carrie\u2019s old flame (played by Ron Livingston), who infamously dumped her via a Post-It note because he couldn\u2019t handle the fact that she was more successful than he was. Now, if I\u2019ve learned anything from Agatha Christie mysteries, it\u2019s that people can become fully unrecognizable to people who know them simply with the aid of a wig and a wad of cotton stuffed in their mouth. Is it possible that Peter is in fact Berger<\/em> in disguise??? Like, maybe Berger\u2019s writing career never bounced back from the failure of his first novel and now he\u2019s after Carrie\u2019s millions!<\/p>\n

Seriously though, Tenney\u2019s passing resemblance to Livingston as well as his character\u2019s comparatively modest profession does invite comparisons to the Berger fiasco. But Peter doesn\u2019t seem<\/em> like the type of man who would be threatened by his girlfriend\u2019s success. And judging by the way he throws money around at auctions and on cabs, maybe his wife left him as well off as Big left Carrie! He\u2019s also not a fellow writer. He and Carrie are in different fields entirely, so it\u2019s unlikely that he would constantly compare his career status to hers.<\/p>\n

The picture of Peter that\u2019s beginning to emerge here is of a kind, patient man with a good sense of humor and plenty of inexplicable disposable income. He\u2019s good on paper, as Carrie used to say, and she does seem to be developing an affectionate fondness for him, as evidenced by the hug she gives him before heading home after their aborted date in this week\u2019s episode. By the end, she\u2019s texted him to schedule yet another do-over. But is he the guy for her? Who even knows! As noted above, next week is the finale, and we still don\u2019t know whether And Just Like That<\/em> will return for a second season, so there\u2019s only so much runway left for this blossoming relationship. But, actually, maybe that\u2019s not the point. Maybe it doesn\u2019t matter whether Carrie and Peter fall in love. What matters is that they like each other, that there\u2019s potential. If the series ends on the couple\u2019s first kiss, that would signal a new beginning for Carrie, leaving fans of the show with, as her publisher put it, a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":48480,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16,3925],"yoast_head":"\n\u2018And Just Like That\u2019: Let\u2019s Talk About Carrie\u2019s New Man<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Carrie Bradshaw is dating again. On And Just Like That, she\u2019s had a few less-than-ideal run-ins with Peter (Jon Tenney). 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