And Just Like That recap: Genuine tragedy and full-frontal nudity
Over in the Gramercy, Carrie's back narrating life in her empty, echoing apartment from the perspective of 'The Woman' in her vague historical fiction novel. Her newly arrived downstairs neighbour isn't the only one in hell.
This storyline was triggering to me, someone with a heavy-footed upstairs neighbour and fear of confrontation. The only possible cure for my ills might've been seeing the montage of Carrie stomping about in fabulous outfits as her tenant (?) tosses and turns in a dark, water-damaged apartment downstairs, but sadly it was shot only from the calves down, before Duncan Reeves, revered writer of doorstop-sized historical biographies, bangs on the door to declare, 'You are always walking in heels! Have you no rugs?!'
At brunch, Carrie does the unthinkable when describing the scenario to her friends. While announcing that she has rights, she evokes the title of a legendary Sex and the City episode: ' A Woman's Right to Shoes'.
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Remember that one? It was in that blissful season six period after Berger but before we had to endure Petrovsky? When the show said so much about single women and their coupled-up, new-parent friends who judged them for their expensive footwear proclivities? And it did it all in a compact half hour? I dream of those days.
Where was I?
Turns out Duncan is like the Ron Chernow of this universe, and he's also 'a lot of fun' according to the disembodied head sending texts as Samantha Jones. He lives it up in London for half the year, then comes to New York to write about Margaret Thatcher, fuelled only by stew, for the other six months.
The endless back and forth of 'please walk a bit quieter' / 'no I shan't I have to wear heels always' is just another example of the show's writers' memory loss, considering Carrie was already forced into flats in season one after her hip surgery.
Miranda was an awful visitor then – remember her and Che in the kitchen, grunting into each other's mouths while Carrie tried to pee in a Snapple bottle? (My god, what is this show?) – and she remains one now.
Once Carrie remembers she has 'the extra rooms' and offers her lifelong best friend a place to crash, they're both on their absolute worst behaviour.
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Carrie expects Miranda to take HER shoes off and says, 'I know how to walk in mine.' Miranda stalks around the house fully nude like one of the bad guys in It Follows and makes no attempt to cover up. She eats Carrie's yoghurt and banana. Carrie knocks a Coke ('My last Mexican Coke!') onto the new table (I can't even get into the Aidan's-thumbs-down-table of it all any more, we need to have some standards) and mops it up with Miranda's work papers (?!) and then Miranda mops it up with Carrie's silk scarf. These women both need brain scans.
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