WARNING: This story incorporates spoilers from this week’s episode of “And Just Like That.”
All blissful families are alike, but each unhappy family is crazy in its own way.
No less than, that’s the lesson you’d learn from “And Just Like That” in its second season’s tenth episode, ominously titled “The Last Supper Part One: Appetizer.”
Everyone seems to be scuffling with their family members this week, whether single, dating, amicably divorced or not-so-amicably divorced. So let’s get into it.
Ladies first: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) has had a banner couple of episodes while living happily ever after with long-lost lover Aidan Shaw (John Corbett), who left the unique series as a frog but become a prince somewhere along the way in which.
As Carrie and Aidan prepare to maneuver into their recent four-bedroom castle in Gramercy Park, the princess — who prefers Manolos to glass slippers — plans a “Last Supper” party with 15 of her closest friends to say goodbye to her beloved old apartment.
Carrie tells Aidan she’s saving him a seat at her dinner — despite the fact that he still won’t set foot within the place due to all that had transpired between them there.
“I made some mistakes about us, too,” Aidan says during a heart-to-heart, referring to when Carrie blamed herself for his or her two previous breakups.
He apologizes for all those years ago when he was so insistent that they get married immediately that he scared Carrie away. He also admits that he was afraid to return to her apartment in case being there made him offended at Carrie all yet again.
“That was a mistake, too,” he confesses.
It’s a mature moment and a seeming resolution to the one tension their relationship has faced to date — which suggests it could possibly’t last.
Sure enough, Aidan immediately gets a phone call from his ex-wife back in Virginia. His 14-year-old son, Wyatt, has broken his leg and his collarbone after fighting together with his mom and attempting to drive — drunk — to Aidan’s farm in the midst of the night.
Carrie’s man flies home immediately and breaks all the way down to Carrie over the phone at the tip of the episode.
“I should’ve been there,” he sobs.
Carrie can only offer meager consolation.
“Breaks heal,” she says meekly.
The primary true fault line of their relationship has appeared, one week before the season finale. Will the town mouse and the country mouse have the opportunity to maneuver past this?
Because the episode’s title guarantees, this is barely the primary course.
After a couple of blissful weeks and not using a Miranda-Che interaction, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) decides it’s a great idea to surprise Che (Sara Ramirez) at their stand-up performance in Brooklyn. She’s been excited about her tendency to chop her exes out of her life “cold turkey,” in Nya Wallace’s (Karen Pittman) words, and he or she wants to alter her ways.
But at Che’s show, Miranda goes from cold turkey to Thanksgiving turkey. Very like the unlucky bird, she learns it’s hard to enjoy yourself at an event where you’re on the menu.
Che’s entire performance is about how an “eight-month relationship with a married, straight, white woman” was a complete disaster because the girl was a tragic mess who brought a husband and a son along as emotional baggage.
Who on Earth could they be talking about?
Immediately after the performance, Miranda confronts Che, who seems apologetic at first — before becoming flat-out defensive.
“Why are you surprised?” Che asks in a somewhat jaw-dropping display of audacity. “I’m a stand-up comic — that’s what I do. I get on stage and I make jokes in regards to the bad things that occur in my life.”
Miranda reacts pretty poorly to being called a “bad thing that happened” and tells Che off about how they’re a multitude, too, before storming off. They’re each invited to Carrie’s “Last Supper,” though, which is on the right track to attain levels of dinner-party awkwardness previously unknown to man.
Nya, meanwhile, is taking out her anger on her ex in a really different way: by buying a thousand-dollar baby stroller.
After being too diplomatic in regards to the baby Andre Rashad (LeRoy McClain) is expecting together with his recent wife, Nya decides that revenge is a dish best served along with her American Express. Now each time they use the brand new stroller, they’ll consider Professor Wallace’s full wallet.
Anthony Marantino (Mario Cantone) also has an ex-husband encounter this week when Carrie passes along news of Stanford Blatch (played by the late actor Willie Garson). Over a moving Cosmopolitan toast, Anthony and Carrie wish Stanford well in his recent life as a monk in Japan.
Carrie reads Stanford’s letter aloud to Anthony, which details that he’s forgoing earthly attachments and giving all of his belongings to his ex-husband.
“I let all of it go, with love,” Stanford writes.
Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury) is on this episode for all of 90 seconds, nevertheless it’s enough time for her to panic about saying “I really like you” to Ravi Gordi (Armin Amiri). After “30 years of smart dating,” Seema’s still petrified of three little words.
Across town, Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) is grappling with her surprise pregnancy. She worries about what it could mean for her profession, which is blowing up after PBS expressed interest in making a 10-part series out of her documentary.
She decides to maintain the child all the identical, but at the tip of the episode, Lisa realizes that she’s bleeding. She and Herbert (Chris Jackson) rush to the hospital — nevertheless it looks prefer it’s too late.
Last, but never least, is Charlotte (Kristin Davis), who’s loving her gallery job. After selling a painting to superstar Sam Smith, playing themself, Char’s co-workers insist on taking her out for a drink — their tradition when someone sells a painting for greater than $100,000.
But Charlotte realizes she desires to strangle her kids and husband when their insistent text messages keep asking when she’ll be home.
It’s enough to make a woman need to chuck her phone right into a pitcher of margaritas — so she does.
Stumbling home wasted, Charlotte confronts her family about how they all the time expect her to be around.
“I’m slaying at my recent job,” she says emphatically to Harry (Evan Handler), Rock (Alexa Swinton), and Lily (Cathy Ang). “I’m greater than just your wife and your mom. It’s good to get that and get it together!”
