Overview

• Carrie and Aidan officially part ways in Season 3 Episode 9 after Aidan admits to lingering jealousy over Carrie’s friendship with her writing partner, Duncan Reeves.
• Executive producers Elisa Zuritsky and Julie Rottenberg confirm the breakup was mapped out from the start to avoid a fantasy ending and underscore the couple’s systemic baggage.
• The emotional farewell unfolds to Taylor Swift’s “How Did It End?” from The Tortured Poets Department, marking the show’s modern pop-culture needle drop.
• Andy Cohen appears as Daniel the shoe salesman in a meta-textual callback to his original Sex and the City cameo.
• Viewers took to social media to celebrate Carrie’s decision, praising her for standing up to a relationship many deemed unbalanced.