This article contains spoilers for episode eight ofAnd Just Like That…
The ladies ofAnd Just Like That…are entering new stages of their lives.
For Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), that means accepting the fact that her cool, young neighbor called her “ma’am.” For Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), it’s asking her husband for a divorce and jetting off to Cleveland to see her new partner, and for Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), it’s facing that her 15-year-old daughter is growing up.
When the neighbor came up to apologize the next day, Carrie was quick to assure her that she wasn’t trying to sleep, lest she appear uncool.
“I stay up really late too,” Carrie fibbed. “I only yelled because I was trying to write. Because I’m a writer. I write books.”
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Later, Carrie had a run-in with the neighbor’s boyfriend when she tried to deliver her some brownies.
“Oh we don’t eat sugar,” said the man, wearing only a sheet around his waist. Then, Carrie replied, “Of course you don’t.”
When his sheet fell off, embarrassing them both, Carrie heard it again — “Sorry about that, ma’am.”
With the help of some snooping, Carrie figured out that the neighbor’s name was Lisette and she’s a “super chic, hip, successful jewelry designer.” And after accidentally witnessing a fight between Lisette and the boyfriend, she even managed to find some common ground with her.
“I’m mortified that you had to see me like this,” Lisette said after kicking out the now-ex boyfriend, adding: “I’m an asshole for going out with that guy.”
“Well, what are you gonna do? It’s New York dating,” Carrie teased.
“Thank you — you’re cool,” Lisette told her.
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Elsewhere, Miranda realized that in order to keep up her budding romance with Carrie’s boss and comedian Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez), she had to finally tell longtime husband Steve (David Eigenberg) that it was over between them.
Che had previously been under the impression that Steve and Miranda were in an open marriage, and cut things off with Miranda as soon as they learned that wasn’t the case.
“I want Che and this is something that I have to do, or there’s no Che,” Miranda told Carrie before finally breaking the news to Steve.
When Miranda told Steve she loved him and asked to hold his hands, he joked, “Why? You want to ask me for a divorce or something?”
Shocked to find out that that really was the case, Steve said, “Holy s—. I was just kidding again. Are you serious?”
“I can’t do this anymore,” Miranda said. “I’m not happy.”
After processing the news for a minute, Steve reflected on his marriage with Miranda.
“Miranda, you and me we’ve been together for a long time, and it’s always like this,” he said. “You don’t think that I’m enough, then I’m kind of enough. And then I’m not enough again. And I’m always there, you know, hanging in there for us.”
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“I don’t know that’s life. Or the life that I don’t want anymore or even ever,” Miranda said, before telling him that she’s met someone else.
Recounting the conversation to Carrie, Miranda was relieved to have shared her feelings and revealed that she was in a cab on her way to meet Che at their comedy show in Ohio.
“I’m going to surprise Che at their show. And tell them that we can be together. I’m in a rom-com Carrie!” an excited Miranda said, though Carrie seemed to barely recognize her friend.
“Okay, well, safe flight. Whoever this is,” Carrie said.
New episodes ofAnd Just Like That…drop Thursdays on HBO Max.
source: people.com
