The women are getting all the way down to business this week on Max’s “And Just Like That” — and seemingly re-evaluating every part.
Charlotte accepts a full-time gig at an art gallery, Miranda goes back to lawyer-land, and Seema takes on a high-profile client.
And Carrie? Well, she makes some executive-level decisions about her new-old relationship.
Let’s start with Miss Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), who we learn has spent the past month in a romantic-comedy montage with Aidan Shaw (John Corbett).
At the start of the episode, Aidan tells Carrie he wants her to satisfy his three sons and are available see his red-brick Virginia farmhouse where, oddly, one in all the chickens lays eggs in a single offspring’s bed every morning.
Carrie, for her part, seems to have come a great distance since her city-slicker soul rebelled against Aidan’s country house in Season 4 of “Sex and the City” — she tells her pals over brunch that she will be able to’t wait to play the Southern belle.
Things are going so well with Aidan since their V-Day reunion that Carrie has even been rethinking whether she made the mistaken decision the primary (and second) time around.
What if she had ended up with Aidan way back? What if she’d sabotaged their original engagement for a person — John “Big” Preston (Chris Noth) — who wasn’t right for her?
A 12 months after the death of her first husband, Carrie wonders aloud to Miranda: “Was Big an enormous mistake?”
But perhaps this recent, Birkenstock-clad Carrie should take it easy.
In any case, we haven’t addressed the elephant within the room — or, more accurately, the elephant who refuses to enter the room.
Aidan still won’t step foot in Carrie’s apartment, so the love birds have been nesting in expensive hotels with $26 omelets.
As an alternative of trying to alter her beau’s mind, Carrie approaches Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez) with a proposal. Since their TV show tanked, Che has been working at an animal hospital, living with grandma and renting out their expensive apartment on Airbnb to sub-par tenants.
Carrie offers to rent Che’s apartment while Aidan is on the town — Automotive-bnb, for those who will.
It’s a sweet gig for the humorist, who gets to remain in Carrie’s place when Aidan is on the town and move back into their apartment when he isn’t.
Because Carrie and Aidan determine they simply need all types of home gear from a Nespresso to a pepper mill, Che also gets a hodgepodge of cookware as an added bonus. Che also helps themself to a tour through Carrie’s closet, as if they didn’t learn anything from Braxton’s transgression into Lisa Todd Wexley’s (Nicole Ari Parker) sacred space last week.
Che asks Carrie and Aidan why they split up the primary time around, seeing how cozy they’re after just a little over a month of being back together.
Carrie seems to have made up her mind about her earlier query as as to if Big was the correct alternative: “’Cause I made a mistake,” she replies.
Aidan and Carrie seem more committed to every aside from ever before, but unless Aidan learns to cohabitate with the memories of their past in her apartment, one has to wonder when the opposite Manolo Blahnik will drop.
Charlotte York-Greenblatt (Kristin Davis) can be stuck previously this week as she starts pounding back the bone broth to slim down for her job as a gallerina. Her slim-fit recent work dress doesn’t feel quite right — the tiny pink belt keeps riding up — and she or he hates that she will be able to’t drop 5 kilos like she used to.
Taunted by thoughts of the petite colleagues she’ll have, Char opts to crush her lungs into about five pairs of Spanx. But after meeting a classy colleague who also isn’t a size 2, our favourite art history major lets herself breathe and throws away all of her shapewear.
Well, all but one pair — just in case.
The “Hot Fellas” bread business rises to the highest of this week’s subplots as Anthony Marentino (Mario Cantone) discovers his smoldering, Italian-poet delivery boy is unexpectedly gay. That makes Anthony realize that he’d like a slice of Giuseppe (Sebastiano Pigazzi), so he fires the wordsmith out of fear for his or her skilled relationship.
“Go wear burgundy and do other poet-type things!” is a contender for the very best line of the episode, but Giuseppe later surprises Anthony with a kiss that is healthier than carbs.
Mamma mia!
Probably the most “WTF” storyline features Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) ruffling some feathers at her recent job.
After begging for an internship on the human rights law firm that she’d previously turned down, the opposite two, younger interns are envious of Miranda’s quick rise to the highest of the pack, blaming her “privilege.”
They gossip about her over text right in front of her at lunch and complain that they’ve been on the job for months, while Miranda only just began.
What’s bewildering, though, is that these two ladies look hardly out of undergrad — whereas Miranda Hobbes, Esq., has greater than 30 years of corporate law experience under her belt.
In any case, it’s nice to see the “SATC” legal-minded brainiac getting a win considering that, in her words, she’s a “sexually confused alcoholic who’s in the course of a divorce.”
Elsewhere, Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury) goes AWOL. She tells Carrie over a cigarette on Madison Avenue that it’s hard to listen to about her friend’s two great loves — Big and Aidan — knowing she might never get even one.
She asks for some space and tells Carrie she decided to tug the plug on the Hamptons rental they’d decided to book together.
“I don’t wish to lay our a fortune having this sense,” Seema tells newly-lucky-in-love Carrie. Still, Seema shows how much she cares when she shows up anyway for the women’ group dinner with Aidan.
Seema’s real estate agency also gets an excellent hot, superhero-movie director as a client this week — the sort of guy who answers his phone in the course of a convo and says things like, “Sorry, it’s London.”
WIth the immediate sexual tension, we couldn’t help but wonder: Will Seema’s heart be the subsequent property taken off the market?
