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Welcome back to another very late And Just Like That recap! I am going to finish recapping this season if it’s the last thing I do (It won’t be. I plan on writing other things!). 

We open with Carrie and Aidan curled up in bed together lightheartedly bantering about whose turn it is to close the shades. They each believe they’ve done it more recently, to which I say: why haven’t you started closing the shades before bed? 

They’re still staying in a hotel ordering $26 omelets and engaging in a sex marathon. Carrie is obviously incredibly happy, and I just wish she’d be this happy about someone who lived in New York and was willing to walk inside her house. Aidan describes his countryside ranch, and suddenly Carrie says “done”. She wants to go back to Virginia with Aidan. 

This is such a twist for our New York City gal!

At lunch with Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Seema, Carrie recaps how madly in love she is. While her lifelong friends are happy for her, Seema seems a little bit put out. Carrie is too in love to notice, though, and announces that she and Aidan want everyone to join them for dinner soon.

I am highly amused by the fact that depending on whose plot we’re focusing on that day, a different POC friend joins Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda for lunch. If you get lunch with Seema, Lisa, and Nya all together this frequently, it can’t be that hard to let everyone become friends! The segregation is weird!

One of the great things about codependent relationships ending is that everyone involved is free to work on themselves, and that’s true for both Che and Miranda. While Che got their job back at the vet last episode, Miranda gets her internship at Human Rights Watch this episode!

She begged for her internship back, and somehow it works. She’s riding a high, and now she wants to make sure Carrie doesn’t make the same mistake that she did in rushing into a relationship. Carrie says she’s not, actually. Her orgasms are the best of her life!

In fact, she wonders if the mistake happened earlier: “Was Big a big mistake?”

Miranda doesn’t know what to say, and says as much.

I can’t decide if this is the show trying to explain why Carrie is moving on with Aidan, if it’s the normal “post-breakup”, new relationship energy glow, or if they’re attempting to shed light on just how toxic Carrie’s relationship with Big was. Either way, Carrie and I are on the same page right now. Big sucked!

Over at Charlotte’s house, she’s gathered her children together to tell them she’s taking a full time job. She expected a reaction, but Rock and Lily are both more excited than anything else. They clearly needed the space from Charlotte, and this hurts her a bit, but it makes me happy that nothing is standing in her way.

Her children’s opinions sorted, she heads to the store with Lisa to purchase the perfect first day of work outfit. She knows just the one! Sadly, she hates how the dress fits when she puts it on because it shows her stomach. Charlotte still feels like being fat is an inherently bad thing, and this makes her feel terrible about her relatively non-existent stomach, something that is perfectly normal for people with organs and bodies to have. She throws a little temper tantrum, but rather than size up the dress so that the belt sits correctly, she purchases the dress.

At home, she’s feeling nostalgic. Charlotte sorts through old photos of herself, nearly crying as she picks up a photo of herself looking hot and young from years before. I hate this so much for her I want to cry.

Miranda finally made it to her law firm! Two young interns come up to her to welcome her into the office. They’ve been at the Human Rights Watch for months, and reassure Miranda that their boss, Raina, might give her a lot of grunt work but it’s a good place to work.

Immediately, Raina comes out of her office and greets Miranda and the other interns. She has a meeting with the US Mission, and she wants Miranda to come take notes. The other interns are shocked. They’ve never gotten to take notes in such a big meeting and they’ve been working there! 

At lunch that day, they ignore Miranda when she joins them at lunch and proceed to text about her while she’s sitting right there. They’re upset at Miranda’s privilege and think the role should have gone to them.

This is such an awkward situation, and it’s part of the reason why in most fields interns are new to the career field they’re working in. When someone already has decades of law experience, it creates tension.

Carrie’s in for a big shock today! She goes to Che’s workplace to see if she can take them out to lunch, and Che tells her that they don’t actually have a three hour lunch window in the middle of the day to waltz around the city. In fact, their receptionist job pays overtime to work through lunch (which feels like a strange way to run a business and maybe even a potential labor law issue, but that’s just me) so they always do.

That’s okay with Carrie. She can talk to Che right there in front of the people waiting for the vet! Che hates the renters at their Airbnb, and Carrie hates having to spend all that money on hotels just to be with Aidan. Carrie proposes that she rent from Che, and that Che live in Carrie’s house when she’s there with Aidan.

Doing all this because a man refuses to get therapy for decade old wounds is absolutely screaming whipped. To use the phrase of my favorite Love Island-er Whitney, it’s not giving healing. 

It’s the episode of jobs, and at his, Anthony finds out that Giuseppe is gay—immediately after he gets a hard-on while Giuseppe teaches him to knead bread. Anthony is clearly into him, and rather than do the normal thing and ignore this, he fires Giuseppe on the spot. After some arguing, Giuseppe threatens to call a lawyer and tells Anthony to “take a chill pill” in French before walking out and saying he’ll be back tomorrow.

And he is! Despite receiving Anthony’s text that fired him with one month severance, he’s back on the job and wants to know why Anthony feels the way he does. This launches a conversation in which Anthony admits to being unable to work with gay men he finds hot (predator vibes but okay) and Giuseppe quits and kisses Anthony. 

It’s love! (I guess)

Renting Che’s goes well, except for the fact that Aidan is a terrible liar. Just after Carrie finishes telling him that they have to pretend to be Che’s cousins and he finishes misgendering Che, the pair run into Che’s neighbor in the hallway. 

“Hi, we’re they/them’s cousins. That’s their name!” Aidan says, before introducing himself as Doug and Carrie as Janet.

They then enter the relatively empty house and decide to head right over to William Sonoma to buy a whole new house’s worth of stuff. Imagine having all that money. I cannot. 

This little song and dance happens once again, with Aidan now calling himself “Brad”, and Carrie correcting him to “Doug Brad”. This is enough to make the neighbor suspicious, and the building ends up calling Che to investigate. 

Che heads over to their apartment to check up on their cousins, Janet and Doug Brad. When they get there Carrie and Aidan are gushing over each other in such an over the top way I nearly die of secondhand embarrassment. Carrie then declares that she’s drinking BEER and offers Che one. This fully took me out of the moment because there is no way Carrie is a beer girl. That woman begrudgingly drinks cider if you drag her to the brewery. 

Che grabs one, and declares that they loves Carrie and Aidan. In fact, they think it should have worked the first time. It didn’t, according to Carrie, because she “made a mistake”, and the lovebirds kiss.

Seema, too, has a job! She’s sitting in her corner office when a coworker comes in and begs her to take a diva client off his hands. She outright refuses, stating that she’s dealt with drama and doesn’t rent, two things that make this man a dealbreaker.

The man hints that he’s very attractive, and when the client walks in he flirts with Seema immediately. I’m praying this means Seema actually gets a storyline the last couple episodes of the season.

Charlotte is still upset about her dress on the day she starts work, despite doing a bone broth diet (bad) and Harry telling her she’s hot (good). She hates her outfit so much that she pulls on multiple pairs of Spanx before heading out the door.

This whole section is played for comedy but warning that it’s extremely fatphobic and not well-executed!

Charlotte ends up pulling off the belt before she enters the gallery. She walks in and is greeted by two super skinny, young girls. She’s panicking until her supervisor comes downstairs, and the woman is overweight. This inspires Charlotte to remove the Spanx and re-add the belt. I guess it’s okay as long as she’s not the fat one? Being fat isn’t a bad thing and I feel like the way this is handled still makes it feel like it is. Very gross but yeah, that’s the plot, and hopefully at the very least the gallery woman will get more screen time and we’ll have more plus size representation on TV.

Come 6pm, Miranda is still hard at work as everyone else packs up. The other interns get annoyed when she flags something wrong with her notes deck, and Miranda takes the opportunity to inform them that she’s a “sexually confused alcoholic who’s in the midst of a divorce”. 

Once the girls leave, Raina comes out and informs Miranda that she wants her to become her interim replacement when she goes on maternity leave in just a few days. Miranda is worried. The other girls have been there far longer, and she flags her own privilege to Raina. Raina tells her not to worry—after all, she has the experience.

And also, she has to be off the clock by 6 or she’ll get in trouble. Miranda leaves, excited, with fears assuaged.

It’s time for Carrie and Seema to get their hair done, but not together. Seema is sitting on the far inside, and she knows that Carrie is at the wash station next to her, but doesn’t say anything. She’s clearly still upset, and tries to sneak out without Carrie noticing.

Carrie does see her, though, and after a confrontation they agree to actually talk about it. Seema has apparently been ignoring all of Carrie’s texts and calls. The reason? She’s upset about the Hamptons House.

Carrie responds that he won’t be there “every week”, and I groan because we’ve all had this friend and they suck. Seema delivers the line read of the episode as she says “I won’t love how I feel about myself while he’s there” and the tears in her eyes bring tears to mine. Seema is upset about Carrie’s two great loves, and while she’s happy for her friend, it’s hard for her to be around that energy. She doesn’t want to spend a fortune feeling terrible all summer, and so she canceled the summer house and is now requesting space.

Carrie refuses. Space only gives friends more space—to which I waited for a Samantha reference that never came—and she doesn’t want to lose her friend. Seema holds her ground, though, and they split ways.

For our final real scene of the episode, Charlotte, Miranda, Carrie, and Aidan, enjoy the dinner Carrie mentioned up top. They’re all chatting and having fun, and then Seema walks in looking so incredible that I can hardly breathe.

Seema is incredibly gracious and compliments Aidan when he goes to fetch her a chair, and she and Carrie exchange smiles of reconciliation. I am truly in love with Seema and if we get a season 3 (unlikely! But still!) all I ask is that we give Seema about four times more screen time than she’s currently getting.

And Just Like That… Carrie grabs a book from her shelf and heads out to Aidan’s farm!