Maybe the key to And Just Like That is to let the teenagers run the show. Because on this week’s episode (“There Goes The Neighbourhood”), I’m pretty sure Carrie bought a four-bedroom apartment in order to appeal to Aidan’s 14-year-old son Wyatt, and Miranda and Charlotte definitely spent the whole time wondering if their own children were having sex with each other. Oh, and Anthony and Giuseppe were fooling around like teenagers at Charlotte and Harry’s cocktail party. And I was invested in all of these hijinks.
The last time there were this many sneaking-around-in-apartment-having-sex antics, Carrie was running away from Natasha after having sex with Big in Season 3 of Sex and the City. I much prefer these lower-stakes, more lighthearted romps.
Let’s begin with Anthony and his well-hung Italian boy-toy Giuseppe. It turns out Anthony hasn’t even had sex with him yet, despite how cute they are together; Giuseppe calls Anthony “Tony” and refers to himself as “Maria” and theirs is truly a West Side Story in that they met in Hell’s Kitchen and there is no sex whatsoever. “Five dinners with no dick is, how do you say, not very gay,” Giuseppe tells Anthony, but Anthony won’t give in. Seems entirely un-Anthony to me, but it turns out, he’s convinced Giuseppe is only with him to seduce him and marry him for a green card.
Meanwhile, Seema has been showing the Marvel director Ravi Gordi (Armin Amiri) all the apartments in Manhattan for what feels like an infinity war and it turns out, he’s been purposely delaying his decision on which one to rent because it gives him an excuse to keep seeing her. Seema risks losing her real estate license by giving in to his endgame and she sleeps with him in one of the apartments she shows him. No one is more thrilled by Seema’s new man than Aidan because Aidan and his three sons are huge fans of Ravi’s work as an action movie director. He directed Nepal Kapow! NEPAL KAPOW!!
In the Airbnb hijinks department, Carrie and Aidan have been carrying on in Che’s apartment for a month now. Problematically, though, Aidan has become “Mr. Chatty McNiceguy” with the doormen, which is a big red flag since he and Carrie are supposed to lay low as subletters. (“Chatty McNiceguy” is perhaps the best way to describe John Corbett’s oeuvre. I have literally gone to Applebees and ordered a Sizzlin’ Fajita Entree because John Corbett’s disembodied voice made it seem like the right thing to do when he was the brand spokesman. And let’s not forget his ultimate Chatty McNiceguy, Cicely, Alaska’s premier DJ, Chris Stevens on Northern Exposure.)
Even though Carrie and Aidan are spending time in Virginia so she can hang out with his boys, Homer, Tate, and the youngest, Wyatt, who definitely doesn’t like Carrie, they’ve also worn out their welcome at the Airbnb. They’re getting evicted. After this development, Carrie realizes she’s ready for the next step in her life which is to sell her apartment (and, presumably, use all of the money from that sale to furnish the enormous home overlooking Gramercy Park that she’ll actually buy with Big’s money).
This bodes well for Carrie and Aidan, she’s really committing to a life with him with this decision to leave her old apartment behind, but Carrie also is now invested in his whole family situation and she wants to make space for them all in her life. That’s when Aidan’s ex-wife Cathy (who is played by Rosemarie DeWitt, who happens to be the real-life wife of Ron Livingston, a.k.a. Jack Berger of “I’m Sorry I Can’t Don’t Hate Me” Post-It note fame!) asks her to lunch to ask a favor. Seeing as how Carrie mines her entire life for Content, Cathy wants to ensure that Carrie will never use her three sons as fodder for any of Carrie’s writing. Carrie assures Cathy she would never (Oh, how I hope that’s true, because while Carrie is a self-absorbed friend at times, I really don’t want her to veer into self-absorbed “bonus mom “and yes, I even hate myself for using that term, sorry sorry.) Cathy also warns Carrie that everyone knows just how much Carrie hurt him in the past, and she had better not do it again. When Carrie tells Aidan Cathy said this, he explains that, guess what, “This is now. Different time, different place. Are you gonna hurt me? Of course. And I’ll hurt you, we’ll mix it up,” but also, they’ll work it out and move on. Because they’re not teenagers. They’re not even 35-year-olds. They’ve grown and learned and are finally ready for each other. (“I couldn’t help but wonder…is a key to the park the key to my happiness?” is my fan-fic version of how this script could have gone.)
In Brooklyn, Miranda is trying to encourage Brady to focus more on school. He’s been working overtime at Steve’s bar, Scout, and Miranda’s disdain for hospitality workers burns hotter than a fryolator when she tells Charlotte, “My only child is making french fries for a living. I don’t want his life’s achievement to be mastering the crinkle cut,” and she begs Charlotte to have over-achiever Lily get in touch with Brady and convince him to stay in school. Damn, Miranda, crinkle cuts are the best cuts, how dare you?) The plan works a little too well though, because the two get together, and Miranda walks in on a pantsless Lily at her house. Convinced their kids are sleeping together, the two women spy on them at the cocktail party Charlotte and Harry are throwing, and I feel like Conspiracy Theorists Charlotte and Miranda is a dynamic this show has not explored nearly enough.
Over in Lisa Todd Wexley’s storyline, Lisa keeps falling asleep everywhere, which annoys Herbert, who IS still running for comptroller after all, a plot point I really thought someone let slide but I’m thrilled that it’s made it’s resurgence, because we all know what a nail-biter the city comptroller race can be. Harry has been frantically trying to find a Kosher caterer to cook for a party he’s throwing to support Herbert’s political bid, but the bigger issue at hand with this party is that LTW is missing. She fell asleep while putting her shoes on! She was napping on her closet ottoman because she has a closet ottoman! This could very well have served as the grounds for a very special episode, a “Dorothy Zbornak learns she has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” moment, but that would veer too serious for this hijinks-heavy episode. Instead, when LTW finally arrives at the York-Goldenblatts, Herbert chastises her for her lateness just before giving a speech to his supporters, and that’s when LTW reveals she is pregnant. This is not the moment I was expecting – I have to ask, though, were they using birth comptrol?
As if that weren’t enough, this party just keeps on giving. When Anthony confronts Giuseppe with his fear that Giuseppe is only with him for a green card, Giuseppe explains that he actually has dual citizenship. “My mahther was born een Buffalo,” he says, calming Anthony, and never before have those words had such an aphrodisiac effect on a person. While Charlotte and Miranda snoop around the apartment looking for evidence that Brady and Lily have scampered off to have sex somewhere, when they finally bust in on one of the bedrooms, what they don’t notice is Anthony and Giuseppe, pants around their ankles, finally kneading each others’ loaves. ‘Cause, you know, HotFellas Bakery.
Also attending the party is Daddy Jack Bristow/Victor Garber as Mark Kasabian – and what a backstory he has! I do love that his thrice-divorced art gallerist character once dated the woman in 2F and would dare to put the moves on Carrie. Would that the AJLT prop designers could just mock up The Big Book of Bikinis as an Easter Egg for us… Cheers to his whole vibe. Jeers, however, to the writers’ decision to make Harry jealous of Mark, a storyline that went nowhere and made no sense given how supportive Harry was last week of Charlotte’s new job.
And as for Brady and Lily, they weren’t having sex at all, they just went out for pizza together! As Charlotte and Miranda’s spy adventure concludes, Charlotte explains that even if they were sleeping together, she wouldn’t want to know. “Miranda, I had a lot of sex that my mother did not know about, and everything worked out. So no, I don’t want to know.” Healthy!
NYA! Nya’s whole shtick this season is that she’s either non-existent or fully in flagrante. This week, she found a partner on Tinder and discovered sex without emotion or conversation. (“Now we get to look at our phones without pretending we’re not? This shit just gets better and better,” she says to her fuck-boy when he starts scrolling after sex. This is livinnnnnng!) But because Nya can’t have nice things, after a few nights of this, as she phone-scrolls, she sees on social media that her ex Andre has knocked up his bandmate and this sends her into a spiral. We see her kick the guy out of her bed, but why doesn’t Nya get to explore more of this with any of her girlfriends? Why must she spend the majority of her screen time this season alone?!
I think we can all agree that Che and Miranda are 1000 times more likable apart than together, but that still doesn’t mean I need to see Che’s inner life working at a vet’s office, flirting with new people, and realizing they’re a cat person. Having said that, I do want more of Che’s boss Judy and I definitely want to know whether Ilana Glazer actually has a parakeet.
At the end of the episode, Carrie runs into the one person she always runs into at the end of the episode, her neighbor/avatar of her younger self Lisette, who is frantic about the fact that the gay guys who own her apartment are moving back to New York. The way she angrily spits out “gay guys” feels like a hate crime but okay.
“Can you imagine anyone ever wanting to leave this place?” Lisette asks Carrie. “Actually, I can,” Carrie tells her, as she mentally prepares to spend the rest of eternity holding the key to a gated park fifty blocks south.
As the episode concludes, I couldn’t help but wonder… Carrie’s not just gonna GIVE Lisette that apartment, is she? A Nespresso for Che, an East 73rd Street apartment for the random jewelry designer who lives below you… Nothing would surprise me.
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