And Just Like That… Episode Eight SPOILER ALERT: Harry and a hunk bare ALL in SATC’s most full-frontal scenes to date, Charlotte’s sexual favours astound the group, Miranda asks bereft Steve for a divorce and Carrie fights earning ‘Grandma’ status
And Just Like That… was all about the sex factor on this week’s episode of the Sex And The City spin-off.
In the show’s 94 episode, six series and two movie history, nudity has been mostly restricted to the ladies – yet the eighth episode of the reboot, named Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered, saw two men bare all – with Evan Handler’s character Harry Goldenblatt and an unnamed hunk both exposing themselves entirely.
Harry’s nudity came in the lead-up to his wife – Kristen Davis’ character Charlotte York Goldenblatt – performing a sexual act in their bathroom, before being interrupted by their daughter.
Aside from the eye-popping scenes, viewers also see Miranda. depicted by Cynthia Nixon, finally tackle her marriage to find love with non-binary Ché Diaz, played by Sara Ramirez, while Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, is seen negotiating life as ‘the old lady’ neighbour of her hip and trendy new building-mate.
Ahem! And Just Like That… was all about the sex factor on this week’s episode of the Sex And The City spin-off as Harry and an unnamed hunk are seen baring all in shock scenes
The episode opens at an equality march with Ché on-stage, being watched by Miranda, whose main storyline thus far has followed her heated dalliances with the star – who is Carrie’s boss – and her inward battle to end her marriage while exploring her sexuality.
Speaking to the crown, Ché says: ‘If you’re living your truth then you’re part of the revolution. You’re a part of the evolution. We know that visibility isn’t justice but visibility can be the key that unlocks it all…
‘I want to thank you all for living in your truth today and saying: “F**k this rain s**t… I mean y’all are making me wet! And I wanna thank our LGBTQ allies’ – after which Miranda spots her son Brady in the crowd.
Clearly horrified she begins to hide behind a fellow marcher, which Ché spots and pointedly says on stage: ‘Live your truth you have nothing to hide, that’s right you know what, hiding is like so five years ago, hiding isn’t the key to anything. Hiding takes away the bright light that you own. So f**k that shade and shine.’
Pained: Miranda finally tells Steve she is done with their marriage, in heartbreaking scenes
Fighting: The episode opens at an equality march with Ché on-stage, being watched by Miranda, whose main storyline thus far has followed her heated dalliances with the star – who is Carrie’s boss – and her inward battle to end her marriage while exploring her sexuality
Oh no! Miranda spots her son Brady in the crowd and begins to hide
From the stage, Miranda can be seen fleeing the march in a panic before she returns with iced coffees.
As she is grilled over why she ran away like ‘a Looney Tunes character’ – ‘what, was Yosemite Sam chasing you down or some s**t?’ – Miranda reveals: ‘No, I saw my son and I didn’t want him to see me here with you’.
A stunned Ché asks: ‘He doesn’t know about me?’ before Miranda explosively announces: ‘He doesn’t know about me! Or you! Or me with you!’ – Ché replies: ‘He doesn’t know you’re in an open marriage? You are in an open marriage aren’t you?’
Uh oh: As she is grilled over why she ran away like ‘a Looney Tunes character’ – ‘what, was Yosemite Sam chasing you down or some s**t?’ – Miranda reveals: ‘No, I saw my son and I didn’t want him to see me here with you’
Shock: A stunned Ché asks: ‘He doesn’t know about me?’ before Miranda explosively announces: ‘He doesn’t know about me! Or you! Or me with you!’ – Ché replies: ‘He doesn’t know you’re in an open marriage? You are in an open marriage aren’t you?’
Clearly uncomfortable, Miranda says: ‘I wasn’t until you’, Che asks: ‘Are you f**king kidding me? I’m on stage telling people not to hide and then I find out the person I’ve been f**king for three weeks is skulking away’.
Miranda begins to squirm, telling her enraged lover: ‘I know, but I didn’t want to bring up something…’
While Miranda details being ‘married forever’ and not knowing how to handle the situation, Ché – clearly hurt – responds: ‘Jesus Christ Miranda why did you put yourself out there if you weren’t available?… I don’t sneak around, I don’t lie, I’m not a homewrecker. This is over until you sort out your life.’
Wow: After watching Miranda’s personal woes play out, we shoot to Carrie in her apartment, which is jam-packed with rails of clothes, ahead of the arrival of her real estate pal Seema Patel, played by Sarita Choudhury, who she warns: ‘Enter at your own risk!’
Epic: Carrie showed Seema through her iconic ensembles
After watching Miranda’s personal woes play out, we shoot to Carrie in her apartment, which is jam-packed with rails of clothes, ahead of the arrival of her real estate pal Seema Patel, played by Sarita Choudhury, who she warns: ‘Enter at your own risk!’
Seema replies: ‘Oh my God it’s like the Barney’s Warehouse Sale… I used to get my assistant to camp out on 17th Street to get in the queue so I’d be the first one in, that was quite a scene.’
Eagle-eyed fans will notice Carrie was clutching the dirndl she famously sported in Season Two, Episode 14 – entitled The F**k Buddy. The traditional German dress caused quite the stir.
Carrie reveals to Seema that she has been ‘sitting in her 20s, 30s and 40s’ all week, while sorting through her clothes before she unveils the Versace Couture Mille Feuille gown worn when she was in Paris in Season Six, Episode Two An American Girl in Paris, Part Deux.
Nice: Carrie shows Seema her new neighbour from her window
She explains to Seema that she has worn the dress twice, once in Paris and once in her apartment.
Carrie reveals that Charlotte’s daughter Lily has been helping her archive her clothes and has been betrothing ‘the vintage pieces that sadly were not vintage when I bought them’ on to her friend’s child.
As Seema goes to light up a cigarette, Carrie asks her not to smoke, as she explains that she has been allowing herself one cigarette a day and when she smoked in the apartment ‘everything smelt like smoke’. She reveals her one cigarette a day has seen her wrapping her hair up and walking around the block with rubber gloves on.
Glam: As the scene turns to Carrie’s shrieking neighbour sitting with a bevy of friends on her stoop, the writer is seen in her home calling her podcast co-star Jackie Nee, played by Bobby Lee. She asks him if there was any ‘cool way’ to ask her to be quiet – to which he suggests bringing a gun
She says: ‘I’ll come and sit with you on the stoop – if my new neighbour’s not out there again!’, before peering out the window only to be greeted with the sight of a 20-something on a date: ‘She’s so cool. Always very one shoulder naked with a gorgeous rope jewellery or something special around her neck’.
Her neighbour then locks lips with her date. Carrie says: ‘What I want to know is how she can afford the good apartment under me?’ – as Seema questions: ‘Russian hooker?’
As the scene turns to Carrie’s shrieking neighbour sitting with a bevy of friends on her stoop, the writer is seen in her home calling her podcast co-star Jackie Nee, played by Bobby Lee. She asks him if there was any ‘cool way’ to ask her to be quiet – to which he suggests bringing a gun.
Any advice? As the scene turns to Carrie’s shrieking neighbour sitting with a bevy of friends on her stoop, the writer is seen in her home calling her podcast co-star Jackie Nee, played by Bobby Lee. She asks him if there was any ‘cool way’ to ask her to be quiet – to which he suggests bringing a gun
After asking if she has closed her window, Carrie reveals one of the girls has a laugh that ‘defies the sound barrier’. Carrie is seen in bed begging the group to stop before sticking her head out the window and uttering: ‘Come on!’ – ahead of getting a very hollow apology followed by further noise.
We are then transported to the Upper East Side, where Charlotte scolds her husband Harry for not wearing his new Oura Ring – which ‘tracks Heart Rate, Temperature, Movement and Sleep’.
He replies: ‘Yeah I feel silly wearing a fitness ring babe’, with Charlotte responds: ‘Well I don’t know if you’ve noticed but men your age have started developing heart problems’ – as Harry responds: ‘Is this about that baked brie I ordered last weekend?’
Ahem: We are then transported to the Upper East Side, where Charlotte scolds her husband Harry for not wearing his new Oura Ring – which ‘tracks Heart Rate, Temperature, Movement and Sleep’
Sweet: The fitness ring means one thing leads to another
The reference to heart problems seems to be a nod to Carrie’s late husband Big, who passed away in the first episode from a heart attack. His character has since been omitted after actor Chris Noth was hit with allegations of historic sexual assault – which led the three leading ladies to state: ‘We stand with the women’.
After again telling him off – this time for eating Hershey’s Kisses she found in the cupboard – Harry agrees to wear the ring, so long as Charlotte ‘proposes’. He then says: ‘So long as you’re down there’, while a kneeling, giggling Charlotte states: ‘Do you think we have time?!’ and begins to unbutton his trousers and perform a sexual favour.
In this moment – fans see a full frontal image of Harry’s penis – in possibly one of Sex And The City’s most graphic scenes to date.
Cheeky! After again telling him off – this time for eating Hershey’s Kisses she found in the cupboard – Harry agrees to wear the ring, so long as Charlotte ‘proposes’. He then says: ‘So long as you’re down there’
Aghh! Their daughter Lily arrives and Charlotte slams the door in her face and says: ‘I was checking your dad’s penis for cancer’ – much to Lily’s disgust and upset
Their daughter Lily arrives and Charlotte slams the door in her face and says: ‘I was checking your dad’s penis for cancer’ – much to Lily’s disgust and upset.
Carrie is then the focus, as she continues to archive her clothes with a face mask and heels on. As her door knocks we reveal she is awaiting Lily’s arrival: ‘Hope you’re ready for some heavy lifting Lily’ – yet the other side of the door voices: ‘It’s your downstairs neighbour’ – to which Carrie utters ‘S**t’.
The ab-flashing neighbour offers Carrie a gushing apology for her behaviour about the night before.
Hello… Carrie is then the focus, as she continues to archive her clothes with a face mask and heels on. As her door knocks we reveal she is awaiting Lily’s arrival: ‘Hope you’re ready for some heavy lifting Lily’ – yet the other side of the door voices: ‘It’s your downstairs neighbour’ – to which Carrie utters ‘S**t’
Carrie lies about not being asleep before revealing she was ‘up writing – because I write books’.
The main trio begin dinner at a lobster restaurant where Miranda announces: ‘So, tonight during our dessert ritual I’m going to ask Steve for a divorce. I mean I have to I can’t sneak around anymore, it’s not fair to Ché or to Steve.’
Charlotte insists she is ‘not throwing shade’: ‘Miranda, what do I know about how you handle your life. I can’t even handle my own life right now… No [this isn’t about my daughter Roc]. It’s Lily, she came into the bathroom this morning when I was about to blow Harry.’
Dinner date: The main trio begin dinner at a lobster restaurant where Miranda announces: ‘So, tonight during our dessert ritual I’m going to ask Steve for a divorce. I mean I have to I can’t sneak around anymore, it’s not fair to Ché or to Steve’
Looking utterly bewildered, Carrie and Miranda look up while the former says: ‘Back up, back up’, before the latter states: ‘You still blow Harry?’ while Carrie asks: ‘Was it his birthday or something?’
Charlotte exclaims: ‘Do you guys have that out of your system so I can talk about my problem? I panicked when Lily saw me holding his penis, so I told her that I was checking it for cancer…
‘You guys this isn’t funny! I have this whole parenting philosophy where I want to normalise sex so they won’t be weird about it growing up like me and in this one violent impulse I’ve ruined everything. I slammed the door and it hit her in the head. I didn’t want her to see me that way.’
Carrie suggests she discusses the situation with Lily and ‘reframes’ the situation. Miranda continues in her shock at the fact that she ‘still blows Harry’.
Uh oh! Charlotte insists she is ‘not throwing shade’: ‘Miranda, what do I know about how you handle your life. I can’t even handle my own life right now… No [this isn’t about my daughter Roc]. It’s Lily, she came into the bathroom this morning when I was about to blow Harry’
Yum! While walking away from dinner, Carrie and Miranda stop at a brownie shop, where Carrie reveals she is buying a brownie for her neighbour to apologise for demanding she be quiet
While walking away from dinner, Carrie and Miranda stop at a brownie shop, where Carrie reveals she is buying a brownie for her neighbour to apologise for demanding she be quiet.
She then suggests: ‘Maybe you could bring Steve a brownie for your dessert ritual. You’re exploding his world – spend a couple of bucks’ – yet Miranda insists: ‘I’m not exploding his world. I’m telling himself something we both already know – that we’re dead in the water, that I want out’.
Carrie asks if she will tell Steve about Ché yet Miranda insists she won’t as she believes ‘she would have got to this place’ even if Ché was not in her life: ‘This is something I have to do’, yet Carrie warns of loneliness.
Wah! As Carrie arrives home, she knocks on her neighbour’s door – where a naked man wearing only a towel opens the door and tells Carrie she’s still asleep: ‘Could you give this to her? It’s from the writer upstairs’
Agh! He tells Carrie they don’t eat sugar – before dropping his towel in another full frontal moment: ‘Sorry about that m’aam’
I love you: Miranda is seen waiting outside work for Ché, who tries to shirk her yet Miranda begs to know if the situation is worth it – leading to Ché professing she ‘is in love’ with a delighted Miranda
As Carrie arrives home, she knocks on her neighbour’s door – where a naked man wearing only a towel opens the door and tells Carrie she’s still asleep: ‘Could you give this to her? It’s from the writer upstairs’.
He tells Carrie they don’t eat sugar – before dropping his towel in another full frontal moment: ‘Sorry about that m’aam’.
Miranda is seen waiting outside work for Ché, who tries to shirk her yet Miranda begs to know if the situation is worth it – leading to Ché professing she ‘is in love’ with a delighted Miranda, who insists she will ‘change the circumstance’ as she is in love with her too and ‘just wants to be with her’ and will take care of her marriage.
Shocked: Charlotte and Lily are seen at lunch, where they sit on their phones yet Charlotte asks to drop their phones in the middle of the table: ‘I wanted to talk to you about me and daddy the other morning’
Ahem! As Lily’s phone pings, Charlotte spots an Instagram notification which she opens and discovers Lily’s secret Instagram account. The image in question depicts her in a crop top and ‘sexy workout wear’
Charlotte and Lily are seen at lunch, where they sit on their phones yet Charlotte asks to drop their phones in the middle of the table: ‘I wanted to talk to you about me and daddy the other morning’.
As Lily’s phone pings, Charlotte spots an Instagram notification which she opens and discovers Lily’s secret Instagram account. The image in question depicts her in a crop top and ‘sexy workout wear’. Charlotte begins an alarmed outburst, in which she voices worries that a 55-year-old may be commenting on the shot.
Lily storms out of the restaurant and is then seen at Carrie’s house, where Charlotte calls. Getting caught in the middle, Carrie says she will take the call in the bathroom, after Lily said she doesn’t want to go home and asks if she can stay at Carrie’s house.
Designer diva: She picks up a package and learns her name is Lisette Alee and she is a jewellery designer from California
Charlotte sends Carrie the images, to which Carrie says: ‘Yes but sweetie you went out with me in the 90s, when I was wearing far less… I can see her wheels spinning, she’s trying to figure herself out. Charlotte’s it’s just clothes’.
After agreeing to the sleepover, Carrie is seen awake next to a sleeping Lily at 4.10am, where music is thumping from downstairs. ‘That is not cool’, Carrie utters before jumping out of bed and running out of her apartment to head downstairs where she heads into her neighbour’s apartment and finds her asleep on the sofa with a wine in hand.
She picks up a package and learns her name is Lisette Alee and she is a jewellery designer from California.
Help: After scenes of Carrie’s bizarre ‘Granny’ ensemble hit the press last year, we now see her in the ensemble walking along the street to enjoy her cigarette and avoid smelling of smoke
After scenes of Carrie’s bizarre ‘Granny’ ensemble hit the press last year, we now see her in the ensemble walking along the street to enjoy her cigarette and avoid smelling of smoke, while filling Seema in on the fact that she is ‘not a hooker’ – but is in fact a designer: ‘Her stuff is cooler than you can imagine’.
Carrie vows to make friends with Lisette so as not to be seen as ‘the crazy neighbour lady’ – but is then confronted with the stunner, who is clad in a sexy sheer dress, while Carrie is rocking her bizarre grandma look.
Charlotte heads into Lily’s room where she discovers they are still at loggerheads over their row: ‘Look I love that you feel comfortable in your body and I am not trying to shame you but I’m just surprised you’re expressing yourself that way’ yet Lily comforts her by revealing just a handful of pals follow the account.
As Charlotte then goes to explain her intimate moment with Harry – she learns that Lily believed her story about looking for cancer.
Sad: Tension rises in Brooklyn as Miranda sits with Steve and asks if he has his hearing aids in for the chat. Once they are in, Miranda states: ‘Steve I love you… give me your hands, please’
Tension rises in Brooklyn as Miranda sits with Steve and asks if he has his hearing aids in for the chat. Once they are in, Miranda states: ‘Steve I love you… give me your hands, please’.
Steve asks: ‘Why? You wanna ask me for a divorce or something?’, Miranda then states: ‘I’m not happy… I can’t do this anymore, I’m not happy. This isn’t enough for me. This is about me…
‘Are you happy? Are you happy? If you have to ask [what’s happy]. I want more. I want more everything, morte connection, more energy, more sex, more me. What about you?..
‘Do you want more? Really? This is enough for you? TV, little dessert bowls, sitting on this couch until we’re old? We’re 55. That’s not old. You want 30 more years of this. This is really happening.
Worries: Steve asks: ‘Why? You wanna ask me for a divorce or something?’, Miranda then states: ‘I’m not happy… I can’t do this anymore, I’m not happy. This isn’t enough for me. This is about me’
Her speech is littered with protestations from Steve, who says: ‘You and me we’ve been together a long time and it’s always like this. You don’t think I’m enough, then I’m kind of enough, then I’m not enough again…
‘I’m always there. Hanging in there for us. In the last couple of years we’ve got to a place where it’s got so f**king up and down everyday. Where it’s kind of the same. We get up – we come back here to each other. We sit on the couch, we talk about Brady, we watch TV. That’s married life Miranda, that’s life.
She replies: ‘I don’t know if that’s life or the life that I want anymore or even ever’, as Steve says: ‘Well this is about you, I’m fine with this life, in fact I’m good with it but if you’re not, you’re not. I’m too old to rally for us again, I don’t want to. I want you to be happy. I don’t know what else you think is out there’.
Happiness: Miranda then drops the bombshell that she’s met someone, before the camera shoots to her on the phone to Carrie revealing the news and that ‘the headline is that he wants me to be happy’
Miranda then drops the bombshell that she’s met someone, before the camera shoots to her on the phone to Carrie revealing the news and that ‘the headline is that he wants me to be happy’. She tells Carrie she’s in a cab on her way to Cleveland to surprise Che and tell her they can be together: ‘I’m in a romcom Carrie’.
As Carrie leaves her building, she walks into Lisette in argument with her boyfriend who throws him out and says to Carrie: ‘I am mortified’ yet states that Carrie is ‘cool’, when she comforts her in the row.
The protagonist is then seen sitting in her window, wearing her Versace gown and eating sweet treats, while the voiceover states: ‘And just like that there are some things that should never be put into storage’.
Storing away: The protagonist is then seen sitting in her window, wearing her Versace gown and eating sweet treats, while the voiceover states: ‘And just like that there are some things that should never be put into storage’
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