Is Carrie Writing “The Gilded Age” on “And Just Like That”? Cast Answers

place in New York City. Carrie appears to be taking inspiration from her new duplex in Gramercy Park. There also happens to be another HBO/Max show that stars Cynthia Nixon and takes place in turn-of-the-century Manhattan. So is this mystery novel secretly the story of The Gilded Age and is this an undercover crossover? The short answer is no. Showrunner Michael Patrick King confirmed as much when Entertainment Weekly asked him about it ahead of the season 3 premiere.

“No crazy crossover between And Just Like That and The Gilded Age,” he says. “Carrie’s writing a book that takes place in the past because she doesn’t really understand what her life is like in the present. So it’s really just a writing contrivance to actually pay homage to the house she’s living in, which is very Gilded Age, very turn of the century, and also fun for writing and to hear Carrie’s voiceover again, but in a new way. We always try to do something a little bit new every time.”

When asked if there was ever a time when she thought it was a crossover while reading the scripts, Nixon adds, “That would be really, really great. We would discover that Ada [her character] is actually… Well, she doesn’t have any children, so she can’t really be an ancestor of Miranda’s.”

“If you were forcing me to do a storyline about a Gilded Age crossover within And Just Like That,” King says (to which EW replied, we are!), “I would say that Cynthia’s character on Gilded Age’s dog — I think his name is Pumpkin — breaks into Carrie’s backyard. She doesn’t understand how a dog time traveled through some portal to get to the present, but the dog is probably fixed, which makes it very And Just Like That.” Case opened, case closed.