Did you know that Carrie Bradshaw loves a dark berry lip?
But, unlike the incompetent journalist profiling Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) in this week’s episode of “And Just Like That,” who centered Carrie’s cosmetics in an interview about her husband’s death, we won’t dare waste another second on Miss Bradshaw’s lip color.
Not when this episode is jam-packed with break-ups, make-ups and Charlotte the condom fairy (more on that later).
Episode 6 delivers several major plot points all at once in an unexpected windfall — or perhaps we should say snowfall.
Just as last week’s episode found the ladies inexplicably celebrating Halloween, this week features a mid-winter blizzard.
While we may not understand the timeline, no seasonal event can catch the likes of Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York-Greenblatt (Kristin Davis) and Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) off guard.
In their separate plot lines, each sports a voluminous coat and treats the snowy streets of Manhattan like her own personal runway. So what’s important enough to drag them out of their designer pajamas in the middle of a snowstorm?
For Miss Bradshaw, it’s WidowCon. WidowCon is like “a rock concert, but for sad people” — complete with merch in the form of vibrators (aka “Widow Wands”) and entertainment (a comedian memorably referred to as “the Don Rickles of death”).
Carrie agrees to be WidowCon’s keynote speaker at the behest of her publisher, and subsequently realizes that the convention is organized by an old colleague (portrayed by the peerless Rachel Dratch) who has less-than-fond memories of Carrie’s professionalism.
Carrie’s trepidation about the event turns out to be unwarranted — she blows the crowd away with a reading from her new book, and the whole experience somehow brings her to the brink of emailing her ex-fiancé Aidan Shaw (John Corbett), who hasn’t been seen in the “Sex and the City” orbit since 2003.
After waffling before her Gmail desktop, Carrie hits send at the end of the episode.
In a nice throwback to Aidan’s arc in the original series, Carrie also breaks her laptop this episode.
When Carrie’s computer broke in the original series, loyal viewers may recall that her subsequent meltdown turned into one of her biggest fights with Aidan.
When her laptop pitches itself to its death from atop a shoebox during the ill-fated “dark berry lip” interview, Carrie audibly sighs “Oh, thank God.”
And just like that, people can change!
Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) fans have a rough go of it this week, as our favorite legal eagle suffers not one, but two break-ups.
After Che’s (Sara Ramirez) TV pilot is canceled, Miranda’s partner spends their time eating Pirate’s Booty and curling up under the covers — which sounds like the dream, until Miranda suggests that Che has hardly left the house in four weeks.
Miranda’s chiding inspires Che to say yes when Carrie invites them as a plus-one to WidowCon, the hottest ticket in town. At the convention, Che gains some much-needed perspective about the difference between the death of your soulmate and their canceled TV pilot.
Meanwhile, Miranda is given a long-overdue (verbal) dressing-down by Steve, who she says has been walking around like a “kicked puppy” since she left him for Che. When Miranda asks how his apartment search is going, he blows up.
“This is my house!” Steve yells at a flabbergasted Miranda. He accuses her of not wanting a life with him, of not even wanting their son, until she nearly runs out in a fit of tears.
Steve apologizes immediately and the two share a horizontal hug in their old bedroom.
It seems like they’ll be able to move on, until, what’s that? Miranda finds a condom wrapper, admonishes Steve for sleeping with someone else in their bed, and storms out in a fit of self-righteousness.
That’s when Che drops the bomb that, just as Miranda is lamenting the fact that she and Steve have lost their chance to be friends, Che suggests that maybe “friends” might be the right label for their relationship, too.
This would be a tragic moment for viewers invested in the Che-randa romance, if there were any.
This week’s final main storyline — as promised — features Charlotte as a one-woman sexual protection pony express.
When Charlotte’s daughter Lily declares before the whole family that she’s ready to — excuse the pun — be deflowered, Charlotte snaps into an athleisure-clad font of wisdom about the birds and the bees.
Char drops the subject when Lily declares that she’s “gone from sex positive to sex annoying,” but she dutifully tracks down a box of Trojans when Lily says that her boyfriend, Blake, failed to account for protection.
Across town, Lisa Todd Wexley spends her precious few minutes of screen time speaking at MOMA about her work as a black female filmmaker (where her interviewer dons the same Loewe style worn by Beyoncé on the Renaissance tour).
LTW isn’t given a whole lot to do in this episode, but she deserves an honorable mention for the glorious moment where she adjusts her wig in a public bathroom after trekking across the city in a blizzard.
When Lisa says the show must go on, you can be assured she’ll deliver.
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