[Spoilers ahead for the first episode of And Just Like That… season 3.]
And Just Like That… is finally back! It’s been, in my opinion, too many months since Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte have been on our screens. And thankfully, the premiere episode gives us a dose of the old “date of the week” formula. Miranda meets a woman named Mary, played by none other than Rosie O’Donnell. They meet in a bar and go home together, only for Miranda to find out Mary is a literal nun who has never hooked up with a woman (or anyone) before. She proceeds to cling to Miranda, and Miranda has to dodge her earnest attempts to hang out. It’s the classic dating cringe the show is known for.
In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Cynthia Nixon said that she thought the nun plotline was great. “I thought it was a throwback to the old show when people would go on these dates that they were hopeful about and they would turn out pretty disastrously. Michael Patrick King, the show’s creator, has been trying to find a role for Rosie, and he keeps writing roles that don’t work out, but this was a great one to come to the fore. And I think she does it so beautifully. She is, of course, hilarious in it, but she’s also so touching.”
For a character that has gone on her own sexual journey, it’s nice for Miranda to be able to help someone else along their own. Mary is clearly coming to New York to experience something she couldn’t get back home in Winnipeg.
Explaining And Just Like That‘s answer to the hot priest phenomenon, King said, “Whenever you’re gonna date Miranda, you have to think of something comic because we put her through so much hell in the last two years that we wanted to put her through, instead, a comedy hell. So we started to think, like, what would be amazing? And it just popped into my mind, Miranda dates a nun who’s a virgin.”
“And then who’s gonna play that? Oh, Rosie O’Donnell. And she doesn’t play a like, savvy, politically current nun. She plays a sweet, heartbroken heart-on-her-sleeve tourist. It’s really just a pie we throw right at Miranda.”
Here’s hoping we get at least one of these ridiculous plotlines per week.
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