Lanette Sweeney
6 min readMar 3, 2022
Carrie, in And Just Like That, sits up to see the light she has just turned off turn itself back on.

In the season finale of HBO’s Sex and the City reboot, And Just Like That, recently widowed Carrie is startled to see her turned-off bedside light turn itself back on. She’s just received her first romantic kiss since losing her husband, and she suspects the flashing light is Big sending her a disapproving message. (Carrie’s longtime love interest-turned-husband, Big, is shown dropping dead of a heart attack while riding his Peloton in the season opener.)

Lanette Sweeney

My debut collection, What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir about Losing a Child to Addiction, was published in August 2021 by Finishing Line Press.