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It’s the penultimate episode of my favorite TV show to recap and least favorite TV show to watch, and boy, is it a doozy. Before I could even get around to watching, the memes for And Just Like That Episode 10: The Last Supper Part One: Appetizer were absolutely off the charts. The whole season may be worth watching just to experience the collective horror of watching this one! Okay! Into the episode we go.

We open with Carrie and Aidan at Coney Island. It’s Carrie’s first time ever going despite the over 35 years she spent in New York. The only reason they’re attending now is that Steve is opening up a new shop on the Boardwalk.

As Aidan picks up a call from the 14 year old Wyatt, Carrie and Steve crack open a couple of cold ones and catch up. By the time Aidan returns, Brady is rolling up on his bike as well. For those of you that don’t remember, Aidan and Steve were good friends in the original Sex and the City. This is a bit of an alternate universe where double dates were casual and frequent, the exact opposite of what I would expect with Big.

Miranda is now the interim head of the Human Rights Watch, and she’s unsure how to handle things. She’s relying on the other interns to answer her questions, which I would imagine is incredibly frustrating for said interns. She doesn’t have to stress for long though, because Raina is back! It’s been 5 weeks, but she’s tired of maternity leave and wants to get back to work. 

During one of her first days back, Raina has a trip to the UN and brings Miranda along with her. At the very end she has to hurry off to breastfeed, leaving Miranda to wrap up the meeting. The woman they were meeting with was charming and pretty, and she exchanges some flirty banter with Miranda as they leave. Maybe I’m just hoping it was flirty banter, but I really do hope we see her again!

At the gallery, Charlotte is walking Sam Smith and someone else I don’t recognize—who’s introduced as Jeffery—around the store. Sam Smith wants to buy a painting, and Charlotte aims to sell it to them. Having Sam Smith on this show perfectly embodies AJLT politics. While Sam is nonbinary and thus ostensibly queer representation, they also pose proudly with police and their politics are, at most, moderate. Despite adding four new non-white characters to the cast, And Just Like That is decidedly white feminism and white gay politics.

Charlotte gets interrupted by a phone call from Rock, who’s calling because they forgot their notebook at home and need Charlotte to bring it to them. Charlotte is annoyed, and she calls Harry and tells him to take care of it. The two parents are both busy, and it does seem like they should teach Rock a lesson by not bringing it to them. Harry tries to argue, but Charlotte cuts him off and calls him on his sexism, and he agrees to go get it.

Despite the fact that her work is incredibly busy and often keeps her out too late to eat dinner with her family, Charlotte does manage to make time for lunch with Miranda, Carrie, and… Lisa! As our subbed-in player of the week, Lisa’s presence indicates that this is a Charlotte episode, since obviously she has been deemed unworthy of her own plot.

Excitingly, Lisa’s documentary has been accepted as a 10 part docu-series by PBS. This news is delivered by Charlotte, which initially confused and annoyed me, but we’ll address that later. These celebrations get sidetracked when Lily calls to complain about the fact that her mom isn’t home. Charlotte snaps that she hasn’t seen her friends all week and she plans on having (vegan) brunch with them, but Lily isn’t happy. Ever since she went back to work she’s felt like her children are more dependent than ever.

In other great news, Carrie won a school raffle for a Michelin star dinner for her and 16 of her friends. After pondering whether or not she knows 16 people, Lisa suggests she has a “Last Supper” at her old apartment, and Carrie is delighted. A full cast gathering!

On the way out of brunch, Carrie catches Miranda up on her week. She went to see Steve’s “magical” new restaurant, and she’s excited to watch Che perform their standup. Miranda is rattled. She doesn’t know why Carrie has to go on a tour of her exes. Carrie says that they’re her friends too, to which I wonder at which point Carrie and Che went from co-workers to friends. Apparently somewhere along the line!

Charlotte and Lisa’s post-lunch shopping conversation calls back to lunch. Lisa doesn’t want to tell anyone about the PBS docu-series yet, and is clearly a bit upset that Charlotte told Carrie and Miranda the news. Charlotte doesn’t get it. She doesn’t understand why it wouldn’t happen, considering how well Lisa already balances everything.

Tears come to Lisa’s eyes, and she admits that she’s pregnant. I’m fairly certain Lisa is younger than the rest of the cast, but she has to be at least late 30s, making this a highly dangerous pregnancy. I’m unclear if we’re ever going to address that. 

Charlotte starts crying as well, and as always she’s the best possible person to have by your side in a moment of emotional strife.

I don’t want to even recap Che’s scene, but here we are. The once cocky Che Diaz has lost all confidence in their comedy, and tells their friend/vet store boss to not even bother coming to their show. She says she’s of course coming, and then a doctor walks out and misgenders Che. 

Che, rather than the person we just established was a long term friend, corrects the doctor and complains about how many times they’ll have to correct him. They give a speech about “who they are now” and it’s incredibly performative and silly and unnecessary for the show except for the fact that it’s expressly pandering to moderate liberals.

If you were wondering whether Anthony was a top or a bottom, today is your day to find out. He’s a top! Giuseppe and Anthony finish hooking up, and then Giuseppe asks to top, to which Anthony refuses. They argue for a bit, and Giuseppe can tell that Anthony has an issue. Apparently, he’s never in his life been fucked, because he’s “not the woman”. Yikes. 

We get a “gay men of my generation” conversation that recalls the Tales of the City reboot, the men say they love each other, and Anthony leaves to avoid talking about the issue further.

One person who’s not afraid to get fucked is Seema. In fact, she’s having a great time with Ravi. So good that while they’re having sex, she says “I love you” and he says it back. In Seema’s opinion, it’s way too early to be saying things like that, and combined with the fact that it was said during sex, she’s unsure what it means.

She takes the issue over to Carrie’s old apartment, where we find out that she’s SELLING the place at a reasonable price to Lisette. If she was willing to sell it to “a single girl”, I’m unsure why she didn’t consider single friend Miranda, but maybe lesbians don’t really fit the image in her head. Or else we’re just cementing just how bad of a friend Carrie truly is.

She’s also madly in love, and she tells Seema: “If you feel love, run after it, give it all you have, hold back nothing”. Oh, and also, she’ll be keeping the cat.

Nya got the invite to Carrie’s dinner, and she’s excited to attend. She’s less excited about the invite she received to Andre’s baby shower. This seems like kind of a dick move, especially considering he attached a registry, and Nya pettily orders a $999 stroller so that the new girl has to think of her and all of her disposable income every time she goes for a walk with her child.

Miranda objects to this line of thinking, but Nya mentions that she doesn’t want to cut off her exes like Miranda does. This comes as a shock to Miranda, who seemingly never realized she ghosted all of her past relationships until right this very second.

Speaking of past relationships, Che is watching their old stand up sets and chuckling as they smoke a cigar. They seem to be getting back in the flow of standup, and then they click on a set from pre-transition, where they have long hair and refer to themselves as a girl. This understandably makes Che sad, and I hate this for them! Let our enby (lol) friend live their life without constantly dredging up trauma!

That night, Lisa and Herbert lie in bed while Lisa throws a mini temper tantrum. She’s upset that Herbert didn’t get a vasectomy eight years ago when she asked him to, and she’s upset that she’s pregnant when her career is just taking off. Herbert attempts to sooth her, but Lisa reminds him that he doesn’t even help enough with the three kids they already have.

This brings Herbert to mention, “the other thing” which is of course abortion, and is (of course) not mentioned by name. In this political climate, bringing up abortion in a way that’s not stigmatized is so important, and I do wish that the writers had made the decision to have Lisa—a mother of three who loves her children and just doesn’t want any more—get an abortion. Instead, she says she “can’t” but is “grateful to have the option”, which is nice I guess but less impactful.

Later in the episode, Lisa ends up miscarrying her child. This is incredibly devastating and I hope they dive into the emotional impact of this in a far more sensitive way than they did with Nya. So many women have miscarriages, and given the fact that Lisa is almost certainly over 40 years old, her pregnancy would be considered geriatric and the odds of a miscarriage are much higher. Still, all this considered, the miscarriage does seem like a little bit of a cop-out plot. If they were going to force Lisa to endure even more unnecessary trauma, I’m not sure why they had her get pregnant in the first place.

When Lisa tells Herbert that she’s bleeding, he initially wants to race her to the hospital, but she shakes her head. “It’s too late”, she says, and the sorrow in her voice combined with how she (the person with a miscarrying fetus inside of her) is so much calmer than her husband, is so incredibly powerful and sad that I wish I could step through the screen and give her a hug.

It’s an episode of closure, and it’s time to finally give Stanford the send-off he truly deserves. Carrie invites Anthony over to her house, where she serves him a martini while still wearing her pajamas. Anthony is initially confused and grumpy about his situation with Giuseppe, but when Carrie tells him it’s about Stanford he sobers up a bit.

Stanford apparently abandoned his TikTok manager career to become a Shinto Monk. He would have told Anthony himself, but he knew Anthony would make fun of him, which of course Anthony did in fact do. Stanford gives the apartment and all of his possessions to Anthony “with love” and despite the horrible photoshop photo of him, it’s an otherwise touching moment.

Anthony and Carrie cheers “to Stanny”, and Carrie chugs her drink.

Charlotte did end up selling the painting to Sam Smith! To celebrate, the other gallery workers want to take her out for drinks. It’s a tradition when someone sells a painting over 100k, and although Charlotte argues at first, she eventually caves, clearly excited to be hitting the town. 

At the bar, Charlotte gets incredibly drunk, pounding shots and laughing with her friends. When she receives yet another text from her family, she groans and throws her phone into a blender full of margaritas, not even bothering to snatch it back when the bartender moves it away.

It’s in this chaotically drunk state that Charlotte returns home to deliver the scene of the episode. When she walks through the door, her entire family is there waiting for her. They were initially worried, but that worry turns to confusion when they see how drunk she is.

Charlotte is delighted with herself. The woman clearly had a great night! Harry starts to yell at her, but she turns on them, clearly over it. 

“I was a person before you! I was a person before all of you!” she snaps, whirling around on each of them. “I am more than just your wife, and your moms, and you need to get that, okay, and get it together! God!” with that, she storms into her room and slams the door. Ruby, the family dog, tries to follow and she opens the door, cooing as she lets her in.

I love this for Charlotte. She needs to put everyone (besides Ruby) in their places!

Meanwhile, Carrie and Aidan are attending Che’s comedy show. Aidan is a big baby and doesn’t want to sit up front because he’s worried he’ll be made fun of by the comics. He also refuses to come to Carrie’s Last Supper, despite the fact that she left an open chair for him.

Miranda shows up, and Carrie is shocked. Nya’s comments clearly got to her, and now she’s planning on surprising Che by being there. 

It turns out this wasn’t the best idea Miranda ever had, because Che’s set is all about her, and not in a nice way. Che roasts Miranda for bringing “her husband, and her son” into the bed with them—as if Che didn’t actually bring their husband into bed. They also say Miranda was bad at sex and confused about everything, while Che was just confused why they were dating Miranda.

It’s painful, and Miranda ends up getting up to leave. Che sees her walking out and freezes. They try to pull it together and continue their set, but then decide to run out after Miranda. Despite how absolutely cruel the stand-up set was, this still makes them nicer than Carrie, who decided to stay and watch the show!

On the street, the exes have a confrontation. Che says they didn’t know Miranda would be there, and also that they make jokes about “the bad things” in their life. This is understandably hurtful. Miranda doesn’t consider Che a “bad thing”, and it sucks that Che thinks that about her. 

Miranda storms off, and Toby rolls up to talk to Che about how they’re a “strong, enby person”. Then they pause. Is it even okay to call Che enby? Upon hearing this line uttered, I became so overwhelmed with embarrassment that I could no longer even properly recap. Real queer people do not talk like this! Especially not queer people over the age of 18! 

Either way, Toby is clearly into Che being an absolute ass to their ex, and the two of them walk off together. 

Terrible news! Just as Aidan is confessing to Carrie that he made mistakes in their past relationship as well, especially by pressuring her to move too fast, Kathy calls. Wyatt broke his collarbone and is in the ER, and Aidan needs to get there immediately.

Carrie and Aidan both jump into action, and Aidan is on the next flight.

Miranda then calls Carrie to inform her that she will not be attending Carrie’s Last Supper given that her ex who just publicly humiliated her will be there. As an incredibly loyal friend, I probably would have said something like “Che is absolutely uninvited, I want you there and I don’t want to be friends with anyone who is mean to you.”

Instead, Carrie says that it’s not high school and Miranda is required to attend. Yikes.

The final phone call of the episode is from Aidan to Carrie. He’s calling her from the car, sobbing. Wyatt not only broke his collarbone, but he also broke his leg in two places. He was mad at his mom, and he found his way to his dad’s place, got drunk, and tried to drive the truck home, despite only being 14.

Aidan’s sobbing, repeating that he should have been there for his son. He should have been! 14 is a pretty pivotal age, and while I think all parents should live their lives, only being home half-time for a kid that clearly needs you isn’t the best decision. 

Carrie gives strong no-kids-energy here and says “breaks heal” as a way to console Aidan. This, obviously, doesn’t help. 

And just like that… for the first time, Carrie was worried.