The Curious Case of LTW's Father's Multiple Deaths
“Losing a father is hard enough. For Lisa Todd Wexley, she had to lose him twice.”
“Hey, I’ve died twice.”
That was Buffy Summers in Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s a line that could have been uttered by Lawrence Todd (the father of Lisa Todd Wexley) who, like the titular vampire slayer, managed to eclipse his first bout of death.
Continuity errors are a Hollywood staple. George Lucas has quite a few in the original Stars Wars trilogy. Martin Scorcese, Quentin Tarantino and James Cameron all have them in their film canon. So it should come as no surprise that And Just Like That has one or two. Or quite a few. There’s Lily and Brady’s age, for instance. Lily was first adopted as a baby in Season 6 of the original series (2004) but is somehow still a high school junior on the follow-up series. Brady was birthed in Season 4 of the original series (2002), which would make him around 23 on the follow-up series. However, he briefly dates Lily in Season 2 of And Just Like That when she’s — according to AJLT’s timeline — 16 years-old. Yeah. And then there’s Harry’s mother. When Harry and Charlotte first meet in 2003, he tells her that he told his mother he’d marry a Jew “... right before she died.” In Season 2 of And Just Like That, 20 years later, he says she died 10 years ago. So keeping with tradition, the latest episode of And Just Like That chose to retcon lore introduced not 20-plus years ago, but just two seasons earlier.
In the very first scene of the “next chapter” series, we meet Lisa Todd Wexley, a documentarian, wife and mother of three played by Nicole Ari Parker. She’s brought into the universe of the show as Charlotte’s friend via their kids going to school together. In Episode 2, Charlotte is grappling with the death of Big and turns to Lisa for support. “I could barely keep it together in front of the girls just now,” Charlotte tells her. “I was the exact same when I lost my dad last year,” Lisa responds.
On the latest episode of And Just Like That, Lisa dealt with the unthinkable… her father died again. Let’s get into it.