'And Just Like That's' Lisa Loses Her Dad ... A Second Time in Classic Continuity Error

A recent Daily Mail story showed a glum and not-glammed-up Sarah Jessica Parker shopping the Hamptons with husband Matthew Broderick. Perhaps, the story surmises, she is mulling over the ratings for "And Just Like That..." The Max show continues a downturn in viewership. The premiere episode in 2021 was 1,100,000; Season 2 in 2023 fell significantly to 463,000; and the most recent premiere dropped a bit more to 429.000. According to the website Television Stats, the show currently is in 20th place of television shows online> and According to the website Television Stats, seventh in overall ratings of Max shows>.

But perhaps Parker is furious at her writers for a major continuity gaffe that some astute viewers have observed. Much of the last episode concerned Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker), the documentary filmmaker, who shut her phone off to concentrate on finishing her latest project only to miss calls about the death of her father. On the latest episode, "Silent Mode," she tearfully tells Charlotte York Goldenbatt (Kristin Davis) of her dad's death and her missing the opportunity to get to the hospital in time to see him. The problem is that on Season One, Lisa also told Charlotte that her father had died the year before, which would have been in 2020.

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That detail was caught by a Reddit user, the Daily Mail reports, who posted a TikTok about it that shows both scenes in which Lisa tells Charlotte of her father's death. The only difference is, in the first it happened a year before and she tells her in person; in the second, it occurred days before and they speak on the telephone.

Not only did the writers miss this plot detail, but so did the fact checkers the show uses to check such details. And you got to wonder if both Parker and Davis remembered having played this scene before. Apparently, Parker didn't recall the previous scene because when asked about Lisa's reaction to the death in a recent Variety interview, she said: "I don't know that I would judge her reaction to her father's death like that. It comes as a surprise, and like any human, losing someone you love is earth-shattering, no matter how old you are. It does shake her ground in a way that makes her a little bit more focused - maybe a little hyper-focused. And now her marriage is, you know, not in trouble, but someone else can get her attention in this vulnerable place. So I think the death made her unsteady in a way that she might not even realize."

Could amnesia be a side-effect?