Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are
Speaker 1: you a Charlotte? Hello, everybody. We are just going to
Speaker 1: have a little recap of All or Nothing. It's episode
Speaker 1: three ten. It aired August thirteenth, in the year two
Speaker 1: thousand and This is a really, really, really really good episode.
Speaker 1: It's one of my all time favorite episodes. Directed by
Speaker 1: Charles McDougal, one of my favorite directors, and written by
Speaker 1: Jenny Banks, one of my favorite writers. And in this
Speaker 1: episode we have great people. Of course, we have Corbett
Speaker 1: it's playing Aiden. We've got Kyle playing Trey, we have
Speaker 1: Franny playing Bunny. We have Josh Hamilton playing George, whom
Speaker 1: I love so much. He's a great actor, you guys,
Speaker 1: and his part's really funny. So this is the episode.
Speaker 1: The gist of this episode is that this is when
Speaker 1: Carrie has been cheating on Big. She has not confessed
Speaker 1: to any of the friends that she has been doing this.
Speaker 1: She is trying to just kind of move along with
Speaker 1: Aiden as though it didn't happen, and focus on the
Speaker 1: fact that she has a wonderful boyfriend. And then she'd
Speaker 1: be walking along and she'll have these flashbacks of the
Speaker 1: sex with big, and then she's like, oh God. And
Speaker 1: she's really really good when she has these, because I mean,
Speaker 1: we've all been there, and she's you know, internally riddled
Speaker 1: with guilt and trying to kind of somehow muddle her
Speaker 1: way through, and she's like, I'm never doing it again,
Speaker 1: and you know whatnot, so let's.
Speaker 2: Talk about it.
Speaker 1: Basically, what happens is she's got these flashbacks. We come,
Speaker 1: we start at Samantha's new apartment in the meatpacking district.
Speaker 1: We're having this little like party.
Speaker 2: Where one of the really funny, very.
Speaker 1: Time type things we're talking about is how you can
Speaker 1: have anything delivered, because Samantha says, I said, oh, did
Speaker 1: you make these whatever we're eating, and she says, no,
Speaker 1: I have them delivered, just like the dinner and the
Speaker 1: drinks and the DVDs. And we're like, oh, you can
Speaker 1: have DVD's delivered, Like it's it's so much the year
Speaker 1: two thousand, it really makes me laugh. So she's like, yes,
Speaker 1: you can have anything you want delivered. Yesterday I had
Speaker 1: condoms delivered. And then someone says, I hope you didn't
Speaker 1: have sex with the delivery guy and she's like no, anyway,
Speaker 1: it's pretty entertaining, and she goes to the window. Samantha
Speaker 1: goes to the window and her this is her beautiful
Speaker 1: new apartment in the meatpacking district that she bought. She
Speaker 1: goes to the window and she opens the window and
Speaker 1: she kind of shouts to the meatpacking district like.
Speaker 2: We've got it all.
Speaker 1: Basically, she wakes up the next morning, she has these
Speaker 1: huge windows, the sun is shining on her face, and
Speaker 1: she is sick. Samantha is sick. We have rarely seen
Speaker 1: Samantha sick. And she goes to try to shut the
Speaker 1: curtains and she breaks her curtain rode. It falls on
Speaker 1: her because she's kind of delirious because she's got a fever.
Speaker 1: And so then it's like, breaks my heart. This whole
Speaker 1: montage breaks my heart. She starts going through her black
Speaker 1: book and calling the guys that she casually has sex
Speaker 1: with and asking them if they could come over and
Speaker 1: hang her curtain rod, and all of them say no.
Speaker 1: It is really sad to watch. I felt really really
Speaker 1: bad for her, and I fully relate to this because
Speaker 1: it's tough being a single goal and having stuff break
Speaker 1: around your house. And my advice is to call the
Speaker 1: handyman I'm sure we all remember that Charlotte actually has
Speaker 1: sex with her handyman in the second season because she's
Speaker 1: so excited that he comes over and fixes something at
Speaker 1: her house. I mean, I relate to all this. I
Speaker 1: know it's probably very sexist for me to say this
Speaker 1: or whatever, but it is very relatable, and.
Speaker 2: I feel really bad for Samantha.
Speaker 1: So eventually, luckily in the episode, Samantha calls Carrie and
Speaker 1: Carrie does go over there to take care of her.
Speaker 1: And I had fully forgotten that Samantha basically makes her
Speaker 1: make the syrup that people in Atlanta drink, which is
Speaker 1: like cold medicine codeine, which I don't think Samantha has,
Speaker 1: and what's the drink, like Fanta or whatever. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: kind of funny. So she has Carrie make this medicine
Speaker 1: for her, this drink, and she's like, give me my drink.
Speaker 1: It's pretty funny. It's a pretty funny little scene. So
Speaker 1: Carrie's over there with six Samantha. No wait, she confesses
Speaker 1: after the party, I forgot. So once the girls leave
Speaker 1: the party, it's just Carrie and Samantha, and Carrie decides
Speaker 1: that Samantha is the person that she should confess to
Speaker 1: because Samantha might not judge her, which of course she's right,
Speaker 1: and Samantha is a very good listener and says, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to judge you, and Carrie says, like,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, judge me just a little bit.
Speaker 1: Samantha's like, not my style, and that I thought was
Speaker 1: a really beautiful moment, and I think it's great to
Speaker 1: have a friend who's not going to judge you. I
Speaker 1: think that's important because obviously Carrie's being hard enough on herself,
Speaker 1: which doctor Orna in our Companion episode this week does
Speaker 1: say that Carrie feeling guilty is a sign of being
Speaker 1: healthily integrated in your mind to your actions. So I
Speaker 1: think that's very important that Carrie got the stamp of
Speaker 1: approval of being a healthy person from doctor Orna. And
Speaker 1: I want all the people who hate Carrie to hear that,
Speaker 1: because if she was really a full narcissist, she would
Speaker 1: probably not even feel guilty. That Orna didn't spit that out,
Speaker 1: but I think that's really what she was saying, is
Speaker 1: that they compartmentalized to the extent where they're not even
Speaker 1: really necessarily aware of the things.
Speaker 2: That they're doing.
Speaker 1: That they shouldn't be doing, so they don't even feel guilt,
Speaker 1: which is terrifying to think of.
Speaker 2: So Carrie is not that person. She's not that person
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: So she confesses to Samantha before Samantha gets sick. Samantha
Speaker 1: is a very good friend, does not judge her, and
Speaker 1: then Carrie tells Samantha it's not so. Samantha says, so
Speaker 1: you're having an affair and Carrie says, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's just this one time. So you're like mhmm, because
Speaker 1: of course we all know that's not true. Then Carry
Speaker 1: goes after over there and takes care of her, which
Speaker 1: is really adorable. Then Samantha's better and comes to my
Speaker 1: engagement party, so we'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 2: So we find Charlotte in Burgdorf's.
Speaker 1: This is the scene I remember so well that I
Speaker 1: talked to someone about Kyle. I guess we were in Burgdorf.
Speaker 1: We had somehow hauled a big crane up there, and
Speaker 1: Charletts wanted this shot, kind of an aerial tracking shot
Speaker 1: through the China department. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: remember in the first season, Charlotte goes out with the
Speaker 1: guy that Carrie had dated because she thinks he's the
Speaker 1: marrying type, but then she does not date him when
Speaker 1: they see some china in a window and he doesn't
Speaker 1: like the pattern that she likes. He likes a different
Speaker 1: pattern that she does not approve of. Charlotte has some
Speaker 1: very specific opinions about china patterns.
Speaker 2: So we're in Burgdorf. I'm flipping this plate over.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it, and then I'm looking at who
Speaker 1: made it, and we did it like thirty six times,
Speaker 1: That's what I remember. And Kyle's there, and Kyle comes
Speaker 1: over and looks at the china and says, I believe
Speaker 1: He says fourteen hundred dollars, which does seem insane, but
Speaker 1: apparently that is the actual price of the actual plate
Speaker 1: that I was holding, which.
Speaker 2: Is also like crazy. I don't think I.
Speaker 1: Knew at the time that I'm like flipping over a
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred dollars plate in burger If I think, I
Speaker 1: would have been really scared. But Kyle Trey says, you know, oh,
Speaker 1: you know. He kind of makes a space and he's like,
Speaker 1: I can't afford that because we'll be eating ramen off
Speaker 1: of this based on my china debt and Charlotte pouts
Speaker 1: and then he's like, oh, I can't take that face.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, see, this is all because I saw
Speaker 1: Bunny do that alrighty thing, you know, where she put
Speaker 1: his hand on his arm and then he does what
Speaker 1: she wants. But it's not a good relationship situation to
Speaker 1: be pouting to get what you want. So I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I blank that part out. That was interesting.
Speaker 2: Tray's like, yeah, yeah, we'll register for that.
Speaker 1: And then I say, did you do your wedding your
Speaker 1: engagement party list and he says, oh, yeah, I almost forgot.
Speaker 1: So he gets these papers out, he hands them to me,
Speaker 1: he walks away. The China saleslady's looking at us. I
Speaker 1: think because we kiss or something. She's like disapproving or whatever,
Speaker 1: which was interesting. And then I look at the papers
Speaker 1: and I see his really really messy handwriting, which I
Speaker 1: was also interested in, like, I do not think that
Speaker 1: that's Kyle's handwriting, but okay, and then I look at
Speaker 1: a paper behind that and I say what's this and
Speaker 1: he says, oh, that's.
Speaker 2: A pre nup.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just normal. Everyone in my family does one.
Speaker 1: And I look kind of shocked. And then we he says, oh,
Speaker 1: just have your lawyer look over it. We cut two
Speaker 1: lunch with the girls. Who is my lawyer, Miranda, Miranda
Speaker 1: Hobbs is my lawyer. She's reading over She's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's all standard. But Charlotte, Charlote's got some big eyes,
Speaker 1: and she's like, but it's so unromantic. And basically she
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like is it?
Speaker 2: What do I do?
Speaker 1: And Miranda's saying, oh, it's just normal. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of people get prenups. Carrie's like, oh, yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of people get prenups. And Miranda says, you know,
Speaker 1: this is just an opening offer. You can negotiate. And
Speaker 1: I say, but I don't want to. It's not romantic.
Speaker 1: And she says, oh, you know, it's pretty standard. And
Speaker 1: then she goes, oh, but this is odd. He has
Speaker 1: you on a on a vestment thing something like that.
Speaker 1: I'm not, obviously not not versed in prenup language, where
Speaker 1: if you have a boy you get oh here it
Speaker 1: is here it is for every five years they're married,
Speaker 1: she gets a percentage of five hundred thousand dollars over
Speaker 1: thirty years. I mean, that's lame people. And obviously Charlotte
Speaker 1: feels the same way. And then if Charlotte were to
Speaker 1: have a boy child, she gets one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: free and clear. And then Carrie says, well, what does
Speaker 1: she get for a girl? And Miranda says nada. And
Speaker 1: as doctor Orna and I talk about, that is horrifying,
Speaker 1: and for some reason Charlotte doesn't seem horrified.
Speaker 2: Enough in that scene. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I wanted to be horrified and
Speaker 1: they didn't want me to be horrified, or if I'm
Speaker 1: just generally upset and they didn't want me to be
Speaker 1: specifically upset about that. But it does seem really fully
Speaker 1: one hundred percent insane that somehow he would give me
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars if I had a boy baby,
Speaker 1: but nothing if I had a girl baby.
Speaker 2: What the heck? Man is just wacky.
Speaker 1: And also, five hundred thousand dollars over thirty years, based
Speaker 1: on every five years, that's a horrible deal.
Speaker 2: That's a horrible deal. So I hadn't really thought.
Speaker 1: About all these numbers, because back at the time, I
Speaker 1: don't think I was paying attention to the numbers. I
Speaker 1: think I was so stressed by the scene that I
Speaker 1: knew was coming where I have to try to negotiate
Speaker 1: with Bunny and the engagement party scene and I have
Speaker 1: to say to her, I'm worth a million, which lives
Speaker 1: on on the internet, which is of course a joy,
Speaker 1: but at the time, so scared, you guys, to do
Speaker 1: that scene, so scared, so weird to do a scene
Speaker 1: where you're actually saying a number, a figure of money
Speaker 1: that you're worth to marry someone.
Speaker 2: It's very, very weird.
Speaker 1: But when I watched the scene, I did really love
Speaker 1: it because I love Franny Sternhagen, who's playing Bunny, and
Speaker 1: I remember the scene because I was in such a panic,
Speaker 1: and I remember Jenny talking to me about it. I
Speaker 1: remember Charles talking about it, I remember Darren. I think
Speaker 1: Michael Patrick, like so many people, had a lot of
Speaker 1: ideas about how I was supposed to do it, and
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like what they wanted was for
Speaker 1: me to be very strong, and when I watched it,
Speaker 1: I felt like I was strong.
Speaker 2: Because I think just to even say it is strong.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I delivered it the way
Speaker 1: they wanted, because I remember feeling at the time that
Speaker 1: I hadn't done what they wanted.
Speaker 2: But when I look back on it, I think I
Speaker 2: did fine.
Speaker 1: It's one of those ones where I'm like, see that
Speaker 1: I was worried for no reason there. But I do
Speaker 1: really like that scene because I don't feel like we
Speaker 1: see stuff like that very often. And I also feel
Speaker 1: like it is, of course showing us a lot about
Speaker 1: that family that they would have this prenup that apparently
Speaker 1: everyone in the family signs. That's kind of bonkers, right,
Speaker 1: And I do feel like Charlotte should have been worried.
Speaker 1: But I also feel like when I say I just
Speaker 1: really love him and I want to marry him, I
Speaker 1: do think that's one hundred percent true. And also what
Speaker 1: I've forgotten is like I go to the girls to
Speaker 1: tell them like, oh, I did it. I negotiated with
Speaker 1: Bunny and I signed the papers, and they're like great, baby.
Speaker 2: And then they don't call me baby. They say great.
Speaker 1: And then Kyle comes and says, can I steal my bride?
Speaker 1: And I go off with him and I kiss, and
Speaker 1: I think Sir Jessica Carrey says something like at the
Speaker 1: end of the episode, I think she says something like
Speaker 1: and then there were three. I'm just like, oh God,
Speaker 1: it seems like I'm leaving them. I totally forgot about that.
Speaker 1: But we all know it doesn't last, so it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fine, you guys. But I had a moment of panic.
Speaker 1: I'm like, don't do that, Charlotte. Leave them, don't leave
Speaker 1: them into a scary family. That's not smart. That's how
Speaker 1: I felt watching it. I don't know how you guys
Speaker 1: feel watching it, but that's how I felt. Okay, then
Speaker 1: let's go back to Samantha for a second. Did I
Speaker 1: carry everything?
Speaker 2: Yes? I did? I did. Oh no, I forgot. She's sick.
Speaker 1: Carrie goes over there to make her medicine for her.
Speaker 1: Samantha says some totally crazy Charlotte like things. It was
Speaker 1: I didn't remember this at all. She basically says I
Speaker 1: should have gotten married because there's no one to hang
Speaker 1: her curtain rod right, and Gary's just looking at her
Speaker 1: like who are you? And then later on, thank goodness,
Speaker 1: I mean, she just say we are all alone, Carrie,
Speaker 1: and Carrie says, no, we're not.
Speaker 2: We have each other, which is adorable.
Speaker 1: And then luckily at the end, when Samantha feels better
Speaker 1: to come to my engagement party, and Carrie says something like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you were saying some crazy Charlotte like things. She says, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm fine now you know I had a fever. And
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, well, golly, that was scary. That was scary, Samantha.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Miranda for a second, because I
Speaker 1: had remembered that Joshua was on the show. I'm a
Speaker 1: big josh Hamilton fan, but I did not remember this
Speaker 1: part at all. So when we're at the early scene
Speaker 1: where Miranda is reading the prenup to me, this handsome lawyer.
Speaker 2: Walks by and he's like, oh, you're working over lunch and.
Speaker 1: She's like yeah, and he said, oh, you sent me
Speaker 1: to this hip restaurant. And Carrie's like him and looks
Speaker 1: at Samantha, I mean sorry, Miranda like, oh, you're not him,
Speaker 1: which is also funny. And then it turns out they
Speaker 1: have a date that night, so they go on the
Speaker 1: date and then they make out in the hallway, but
Speaker 1: then the guy has to go his character's name.
Speaker 2: Let's see, his character's name is George.
Speaker 1: George has to go back to Chicago where he lives,
Speaker 1: and she says, you know what we do it agangst
Speaker 1: is all very hot, and heavy in the hallway, and
Speaker 1: he says, of course, I come and go all the time,
Speaker 1: but there's also the phone, and she's like, okay. So
Speaker 1: then they start having phone sex, and it's kind of.
Speaker 2: I feel bad saying this. It's a little cliched.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a little cliched phone sex where I had
Speaker 1: to think through, like what do people actually say?
Speaker 2: And I feel like it. I guess if you have.
Speaker 1: Never had sex with the person and then you're having
Speaker 1: phone sex first, which kind of seems odd, but I
Speaker 1: guess that might happen in life, then you might just
Speaker 1: go to kind of like the stock things that you
Speaker 1: would say, which I feel like is what they're doing.
Speaker 1: But I also feel that in the year two thousand,
Speaker 1: we have probably not seen characters on television show having
Speaker 1: phone sex, right, so so I'm going to give our
Speaker 1: writers a break there. But I did think, like, we
Speaker 1: need to be more creative at our Phone sex was
Speaker 1: really what I was thinking, because they were having basically
Speaker 1: it seems like they're having phone sex every night, and
Speaker 1: then the really entertaining thing happens, which is at.
Speaker 2: One point, oh, I forgot this.
Speaker 1: At one point, Miranda's having phone sex and I call
Speaker 1: her about the prenupt to tell her that Bunny's not
Speaker 1: going to negotiate, and I'm like, I'm in a panic
Speaker 1: on the other line, but she's having phone sex. She's like, Charlotte,
Speaker 1: I've got to go, and you can hear me trying
Speaker 1: to talk to her and she clicks over right, which is.
Speaker 2: Kind of funny.
Speaker 1: Then the next time we see them having phone sex,
Speaker 1: he gets another call and he clicks over and then
Speaker 1: he comes back to continue the phone sex, but he's
Speaker 1: skipped ahead in the phone sex to a part that
Speaker 1: they weren't at, which alerts her that something is off,
Speaker 1: and she's like, no, no, you were kissing my breast
Speaker 1: and he's like, no, no, I was thrusting and she's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: you weren't.
Speaker 2: We hadn't gone to that, and then.
Speaker 1: He goes, oh uh, and she says, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: and she sits up. Are you having phone sex with
Speaker 1: other people? And he's like, well, Miranda, we never said
Speaker 1: that we were exclusive. Like he's kind of entertaining, and
Speaker 1: that's the end of George. We don't get to see
Speaker 1: Q Josh Hamilton again, which is kind of sad. And
Speaker 1: apparently I read in the notes that he was in
Speaker 1: the other room. He wasn't recorded pre recorded, And this
Speaker 1: is something that we would very commonly do, especially in
Speaker 1: the early days, Like if we had a phone conversation
Speaker 1: that was in any way important, right, like, like I
Speaker 1: mean really any phone conversation, if there was any way
Speaker 1: that the other actor could be there, we would do
Speaker 1: it that way. Because what you're left with if you
Speaker 1: don't do it that way, you would never have a
Speaker 1: pre recorded voice of the other person because that would
Speaker 1: be weird. You would have the script supervisor read it.
Speaker 1: But of course the script supervisor is probably a woman.
Speaker 1: They normally are I don't know why, and they're just
Speaker 1: reading it kind of like without emotion or whatever.
Speaker 2: So it's hard to do your.
Speaker 1: Performance in the same way that you would do it
Speaker 1: with the actual other actor. Right. So like even if
Speaker 1: it was you know, I don't remember if I also
Speaker 1: was in the other room to call Miranda, I could
Speaker 1: have been, but I also could have been on another
Speaker 1: set doing another scene, right, So you're always trying to
Speaker 1: make it work out that you're free for the time
Speaker 1: that they need you to do the other off camera,
Speaker 1: you know, voice, which is your your performance, your side
Speaker 1: of the phone performance, right, But I remember, like I
Speaker 1: have an argument with Miranda coming up down the line
Speaker 1: where I say, I choose my choice. I choose my choice.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember that? I remember one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: She came and sat on my apartment set so that
Speaker 1: we could actually act with each other. I can't see
Speaker 1: her because I'm on the phone, right, She's like behind
Speaker 1: the wall. But you know, it makes a huge, huge
Speaker 1: difference in your performance for phone conversations. I don't know
Speaker 1: if everybody does that or not, but that's what we do.
Speaker 1: That's what is preferable, I think. Anyway, Carrie, let's discuss.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness me, this is just like the height
Speaker 1: of Carrie's really intense drama, but also the height of
Speaker 1: Sarah Jessica's like incredible acting, like incredible acting. I felt
Speaker 1: like it was so real and grounded what she always is.
Speaker 1: But just the guilt when you're just like just can
Speaker 1: eat hardly think straight because you feel so guilty. And
Speaker 1: of course Aiden's just being super sweet, because that's always
Speaker 1: how it is when you've done something bad to somebody.
Speaker 1: They're being super sweet because they don't even know. It's
Speaker 1: super interesting. So first we see Carrie and she's you know,
Speaker 1: happy and kissing Aid and then she's saying that she's
Speaker 1: going to go off with us, and he says, oh,
Speaker 1: what do you guys talk about? And she says, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, we braid each other's hair.
Speaker 2: It's really funny.
Speaker 1: And then he goes, well, don't you talk about the
Speaker 1: Fellas and.
Speaker 2: She's like, uh, well, you know, I guess it comes up.
Speaker 1: Which I'm just laughing because, you know, this is like
Speaker 1: the commentary about the show right at this point is that,
Speaker 1: you know, we talk about men, and we talk about
Speaker 1: men in the ways that people didn't used to think
Speaker 1: women talk about men, which is all very interesting. And
Speaker 1: then at some point he says something about his head
Speaker 1: of hair or whatever. I can't remember why, and then
Speaker 1: he says he's not losing any and then apparently later
Speaker 1: in the show we're going to see some rogue and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some conversation about So that's one of
Speaker 1: those things that the Internet would be very upset with now,
Speaker 1: but we didn't have Instagram back in the olden days,
Speaker 1: so we got away with it, I guess. But she's
Speaker 1: all loveyw with them is basically what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: Then she goes off to see us at Samantha's new apartment,
Speaker 1: and then she ends up confessing to Samantha, and then
Speaker 1: even though she wasn't supposed to see Aden that night,
Speaker 1: she goes and knocks on his door, which was another
Speaker 1: time that I thought about the now versus the then
Speaker 1: when we were doing and just like that, we had
Speaker 1: a scene where Chay knocks on Carrie's door and Miranda
Speaker 1: opens it, and I personally got so many texts like
Speaker 1: that would never happen. Why didn't Chae ring the bell
Speaker 1: down on the street like it's real like in reality,
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my gosh, you guys like
Speaker 1: sometimes someone's coming out the door and you go in
Speaker 1: the door. But now that like in a New York
Speaker 1: City building. I don't know if that made sense, but
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, sometimes you don't have
Speaker 1: to use the intercom because you can just go anyway.
Speaker 1: My main point that I want to make is that
Speaker 1: now that I'm rewatching the show show, I'm realizing that
Speaker 1: it happens.
Speaker 2: All the time in our show.
Speaker 1: Big shows up at Carrie's and just bangs on the door.
Speaker 1: Carrie shows up at Biggs with all the different outfits.
Speaker 1: You think he's buzzed your up.
Speaker 2: No, people are not prepared and people show up at
Speaker 2: their doors.
Speaker 1: It's just what we did because you know why, it's
Speaker 1: dead screen time to watch people buzz. Now. I do
Speaker 1: remember other scenes in Carrie's out because Carrie has a
Speaker 1: little intertercom by her door where people would buzz. So
Speaker 1: I guess if it's something interesting, we would have them buzz.
Speaker 1: But it's not something interesting. It's dead time. We don't
Speaker 1: have time. We only have twenty five minutes to do
Speaker 1: the whole show, right, So that's why we don't do it,
Speaker 1: which is the same reason why we don't hug each
Speaker 1: other every time we see each other or every time
Speaker 1: we say goodbye. There is not screen time. There's no
Speaker 1: hugging aloud. Anyway, back to this show, So Carrie ends
Speaker 1: up going back to Aiden's apartment.
Speaker 2: She comes in.
Speaker 1: He's in a sheet, he's all adorable and he's like
Speaker 1: massive sheet for his naked sleeping self. And she comes
Speaker 1: in and you can tell she just so happy that
Speaker 1: she has him and that he doesn't know the truth
Speaker 1: about what she's been doing, and it's kind of sweet.
Speaker 1: And then She's still struggling to try to get the
Speaker 1: thoughts out of her mind a big and so she
Speaker 1: does all this organizing in her apartment, wearing the cutest,
Speaker 1: weirdest little green like jumpsuit, one of her very unique,
Speaker 1: you know, at home outfits. She's smoking a lot, and
Speaker 1: then she calls Big and she's like, we.
Speaker 2: Need to talk about what happened.
Speaker 1: And he's like now, and he's kind of his regular
Speaker 1: dick self, if I might say, and she's like yes,
Speaker 1: because you know, it was just a physical thing and
Speaker 1: we are not going to be that immature and let
Speaker 1: that rule us.
Speaker 2: And he was like, we're not.
Speaker 1: And she goes, no, we can, you know, go against
Speaker 1: those urges. And he said, well, can you really do that?
Speaker 2: And she's like yes. Cut to them in bed together.
Speaker 2: So sad, so sad.
Speaker 1: So I was really having a lot of mixed feelings
Speaker 1: because I was on aid inside this whole episode. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I guess it's just a on
Speaker 1: the episode whose side I'm on. But they sleep together again,
Speaker 1: and then Aiden's been out of town.
Speaker 2: I left that out.
Speaker 1: He had to take a chair to someone in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: which I'm like, wait and just like that. I think
Speaker 1: he goes to Virginia, which is where he lives, but
Speaker 1: in this time he has to go to Pennsylvania in
Speaker 1: the truck. It's all very it's all very. Aiden has
Speaker 1: a lot of similar similar through lines. So Aiden comes
Speaker 1: back and she's like, oh, I missed you so much,
Speaker 1: and there's no sheets on the bed because they smelled
Speaker 1: like Big. But Big had said he can smell Aiden
Speaker 1: on the sheets, and she's so worried that Aidan's gonna
Speaker 1: smell Big on the sheets, so she taken the sheets off.
Speaker 1: And then, oh, Samantha, weirdly had said to Carrie in
Speaker 1: the first scene, if Aiden hasn't said I love you yet,
Speaker 1: then you're a free agent. And I thought that that
Speaker 1: was so odd because why does Samantha care what the
Speaker 1: guy is gonna say. Shouldn't it be up to the
Speaker 1: woman if she's a free agent or not. Thought that
Speaker 1: was really interesting. So then Aiden comes back and he says, Carrie,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about something while I was gone, I
Speaker 1: love you, and you can see carry just like man.
Speaker 1: It's oh god, apparently now I'm not a free agent now.
Speaker 1: And then she of course tells him that she loves him.
Speaker 1: Back and then oh, this was so scary. It's like
Speaker 1: maybe the next morning and the phone rings, and oh, Aiden,
Speaker 1: proving he's so smart, is filling in the password the
Speaker 1: sorry the crossword for her, which is like so impressive
Speaker 1: because there's this whole through line with the crossword puzzle.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys remember where carry walks
Speaker 1: down the street and she sees Big on the street
Speaker 1: and he's trying to do the crossword and she leans
Speaker 1: over and tells him a word in the crossword and
Speaker 1: he looks up at her like, well, I didn't know
Speaker 1: you were so smart, which of course he should have
Speaker 1: known because she's a writer. So in this particular scene,
Speaker 1: Carrie's doing the crossword puzzle and Aiden leans over and
Speaker 1: says and she says what and he says exotic animal
Speaker 1: four down EMU and she goes, oh, well, I would
Speaker 1: have gotten that, and he said, no, you wouldn't because
Speaker 1: you have this word over here and it's wrong, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, Aiden, awesome job. Then the phone rings.
Speaker 2: She picks it up. It's Big.
Speaker 1: He's like, I need to see you and she's like,
Speaker 1: oh hey, Miranda, and you know, tries to carry it
Speaker 1: off and he says, I'm downstairs and I'm coming out.
Speaker 2: I'm coming up if you don't come out, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: what a jerk, you know.
Speaker 1: So then Carrie's got Aiden upstairs and Biggest downstairs on
Speaker 1: the street, and we've already seen that he's willing to
Speaker 1: just show up, right, So she goes down there and
Speaker 1: she says she has to walk the dog, Pete, and
Speaker 1: you know what's coming, you guys. This is one of
Speaker 1: the most terrifying, terrifying storylines in the whole show.
Speaker 2: I think she takes.
Speaker 1: Pete, the adorable, innocent dog down with her. BIG's down
Speaker 1: there wearing the weirdest like Hawaiian shirt. I don't even
Speaker 1: understand what's happening with that shirt. And they're in the
Speaker 1: beautiful village in the spring. It's gorgeous. Carrie's wearing her
Speaker 1: adorable gym shorts and her red slides heels, and Big
Speaker 1: is like, you know, I'm telling my wife tonight.
Speaker 2: And she's like, no, don't do that. She gets really.
Speaker 1: Mad, and she gets she kind of gestures with her
Speaker 1: hands and then she looks down and Pete's not there.
Speaker 2: He's run away. You guys. The anxiety I have watching
Speaker 2: this scene.
Speaker 1: I cannot live through it because I couldn't remember what
Speaker 1: happened to Pete.
Speaker 2: I was like, is Pete gonna be okay?
Speaker 1: He's running through the West Village with all the cars
Speaker 1: and all the people, and he's running full tilt, right.
Speaker 1: So when she realizes he's gone, she runs in the
Speaker 1: heels and they track along with her. The most gorgeous shots,
Speaker 1: like the trees are blooming. It's just gorgeous. But it's
Speaker 1: also terrifying because the dog is running through the traffic
Speaker 1: and Big is running and huffing and puffing after her,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Big needs to work out more,
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking. And then Carrie, of course,
Speaker 1: because Sara Jessica is a pro, she is running in
Speaker 1: those heels like nobody's business. And I'm just so happy
Speaker 1: she didn't an ankle because there's not even an ankle
Speaker 1: strap on the shoes, right, they're just slides and she's running.
Speaker 1: But this is who the woman is, guys, she really
Speaker 1: does this. It's impressive. So she runs, she runs, She
Speaker 1: runs for three hours. She never calls Aiden, who's at
Speaker 1: her house, because she doesn't have a cell phone, and
Speaker 1: because she can't find his dog she thinks she's lost
Speaker 1: his dog forever. Can you imagine, Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: was dying. Then it starts to rain and she's wet
Speaker 1: and her shirt is fully see through, which I did
Speaker 1: not remember, you guys, And this was in our peasant
Speaker 1: shirt phase. We all, she bought me some peasant shirts.
Speaker 1: We wore a lot of peasant shirts this one summer.
Speaker 1: And her shirt and her bra or sea through and
Speaker 1: I'm like, does Sir Jesca know that that thing happened,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if she knows, but I felt
Speaker 1: something anxiety about that, but most of those really anxious
Speaker 1: about Pete. She goes home in total defeat, and thank god,
Speaker 1: Pete is there, you guys.
Speaker 2: He's at the apartment. He found his way home. What
Speaker 2: a relief.
Speaker 1: And then Aiden says, basically, I can tell that you're cheating.
Speaker 1: And she sits down and she looks crushed like she's
Speaker 1: going to have to actually tell him. But what it
Speaker 1: is is that he thinks she's been smoking cigarettes, and
Speaker 1: so he says, you've been smoking, haven't you? And she's like, uhuh,
Speaker 1: And the voiceover says something like it was true and
Speaker 1: it was true. Of course it's not the whole truth,
Speaker 1: but it was in fact true. So then she gets
Speaker 1: away with it, but not for long, as we all know.
Speaker 2: But it's so good. It's so good.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't even live through watching that dog
Speaker 1: run through the village though, I can't even watch it.
Speaker 1: It's just really stressful, but just so good, just so
Speaker 1: incredibly good. Oh my gosh, Oh should we read her
Speaker 1: really excellent voice over in the beginning.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of those those episodes where
Speaker 1: we were really I think cheating is just fascinating, is
Speaker 1: that doctor Orner says. There's so many different reasons that
Speaker 1: people cheat and different things why they might cheat or
Speaker 1: what they might be trying to express. But I mean,
Speaker 1: it's endlessly fascinating to me why people cheat and whether
Speaker 1: they tell or don't tell, And you know, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: So this is Carrie's initial, you know, thought for her column.
Speaker 1: Since the since birth, modern women have been told that
Speaker 1: they can do and be anything we want, be an astronaut,
Speaker 1: the head of an internet company, a stay at home mom.
Speaker 1: There aren't any rules anymore, and the choices are endless,
Speaker 1: and apparently they can all be delivered.
Speaker 2: Right to your door.
Speaker 1: But is it possible that we've gotten so spoiled by
Speaker 1: choices that we've become unable to make one The part
Speaker 1: of us knows that once you choose something one man,
Speaker 1: one great apartment, one amazing job, another option goes away.
Speaker 1: Are we a generation of women who can't choose just one?
Speaker 1: From column ad? We all have too much to handle?
Speaker 1: Or what's Samantha right? Can we have it all? And
Speaker 1: I say no, we can't have it all, But I
Speaker 1: think we can have it all, just at different times.
Speaker 1: I think it doesn't. It's not possible to have it
Speaker 1: all at once. That's what I think. That's what I
Speaker 1: think we need to understand and give ourselves a break about,
Speaker 1: Like you're doing one thing now and you can do
Speaker 1: something else in the future, or maybe you used to
Speaker 1: be focused on one thing, but then you can change
Speaker 1: your focus to a different thing. But I do think
Speaker 1: it's hard to focus on everything at once because there's
Speaker 1: just there's always so much time and energy and something's
Speaker 1: going to suffer.
Speaker 2: That's what I think.
Speaker 1: I hope that's not not a downer, that's like Kristin
Speaker 1: not Charlotte, obviously.
Speaker 2: But it's a really good episode.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoy it, Let me know your
Speaker 1: thoughts on Instagram if you want to, and thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us.
Speaker 2: Bye,