A few short minutes into the second episode of And Just Like That ’s third season, we viewers see Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw typing away in her lovely Gramercy Park garden. The light is warm. A cute squirrel chews in a tree. The flowers bloom. The heels are high. And then—rats.

In video footage of tsunamis, what might be even more eerie than the devastation wrought by the wave are the moments of calm that come before, when the tide gets sucked away from the sand. This is how I felt watching Carrie, writing an ill-advised historical fiction novel in that Instagram story typewriter font, as rats swarmed her garden, a mere whisker away from her satin Maison Margiela Tabi Monster bow pumps (which originally retailed for a casual $1,920). The rats all scurry out of an ominous r

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