‘And Just Like That’ Season 2, Episode 9: Carrie moves on

WARNING: This story accommodates spoilers from this week’s episode of “And Simply Like That.”

Location, location, location!

This week’s episode of “And Simply Like That” is all about the place the women are — and the place they’re not.

First up: The place precisely are Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Aidan (John Corbett)?

Romantically, the re-coupled couple has shot nicely previous “critical,” as Carrie has even met Aidan’s sons and performed good together with his ex-wife in Virginia.

Bodily, Carrie and Aidan are nonetheless illegally subletting Che Diaz’s (Sara Ramirez) residence since Aidan remains to be refusing to set foot in Carrie’s place, the place the specter of their romantic previous nonetheless looms.

However when the couple overstays their welcome, Che will get a stern letter from constructing administration about breaking the home visitor coverage.

Carrie snaps into gear searching for a long-term resolution and decides — brace your self for this subsequent half — to promote her residence.

That’s proper. After greater than 25 years of Carrie’s iconic Upper East Side jewel box, Miss Bradshaw decides to surrender the area to put money into her future with Aidan.

The subsequent cease on this episode’s tour of thematic areas? An over-the-top, four-bedroom, three-bathroom, two-floor residence that Carrie buys for herself and Aidan, plus Aidan’s three boys.

Carrie additionally walks again her feedback from final week about her marriage to Mr. Massive (Chris Noth) probably being a “massive mistake.” When Charlotte’s boss (Victor Garber) tries to flirt along with her, all she will say is that “it was an exquisite marriage to an exquisite man” and “it ended far too quickly.”

Nonetheless, she’s extra dedicated to Aidan than ever — her awkward espresso chat with Aidan’s ex-wife, Cathy (Rosemarie DeWitt), proves it. Cathy makes a well mannered request that Carrie not use her sons as content material in her writing — and tosses out a less-polite request that Carrie additionally not “harm [Aidan] once more.”

“It’s not simply Aidan now,” Cathy tells Carrie, who’s baffled by the frankness. “It’s my boys.”

Harsh? Perhaps. However whereas we love our woman Carrie, it may not be the worst factor for her to listen to.

In any case, it helps her resolve that she’s all in with Aidan.

“You simply have to make sure,” Aidan later advises Carrie about promoting her residence, thereby leaping with each ft into their relationship. “Are you positive?”

Who is aware of what subsequent week could deliver? However for proper now — she’s positive.

Whereas we’re within the neighborhood of Carrie’s attractive abode, Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) additionally occurs to be struggling along with her location this week.

After days of listening to roomie Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman) get it on with a stranger from Tinder, Miranda wistfully jokes about transferring into Carrie’s spacious, new place. So far as Nya’s hookup goes, the Columbia regulation professor is having the time of her life — that’s till she finds out that her ex-husband and his new spouse are having a child.

After Nya’s bedfellow sends Miranda working again to her Brooklyn residence for a bathe, she will get a shock seeing Charlotte’s daughter, Lily York-Goldenblatt (Cathy Ang), come out of her son Brady’s (Niall Cunningham) room sporting solely a T-shirt.

Whereas Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda had conspired to get their children collectively to speak school, they didn’t anticipate that they may get collectively collectively.

Once they inform Carrie that they think their children are having intercourse, her response is priceless.

“That’s like listening to that two of my stuffed animals are having intercourse,” Carrie says.

Along with her characteristically endearing kookiness, Char immediately spirals out concerning the a whole bunch of the way a Brady-Lily relationship may go flawed “except they get married.”

The latter thought has her fixated momentarily on the “lovely, red-headed, Chinese language-Jewish infants” they might have, however on the finish of the episode, she snaps out of it. After she and Miranda eavesdrop on their offspring for the higher a part of a celebration thrown by Harry York-Goldenblatt (Evan Handler) and Herbert Todd-Wexley (Chris Jackson), they sagely resolve to remain out of their children’ intercourse lives — for now.

The Harry-Herbert social gathering unites the abilities of each males in assist of Herbert’s marketing campaign for metropolis comptroller. On the social gathering, Anthony Marantino (Mario Cantone) and his Sizzling Fellas bread supply boy Giuseppe (Sebastiano Pigazzi) lastly go all the way in which after 5 pasta dates with no second course.

Anthony will get chilly ft and tries to place off sealing the cope with excuse after excuse — like he’s “an quaint form of woman” or he thinks Giuseppe’s utilizing him for a inexperienced card.

However when he finds out the new fella’s mother is from Buffalo, New York, they find yourself locking lips in Charlotte’s daughter’s room.

Talking of which, Sizzling Fellas isn’t the one factor with a bun within the oven.

After a couple of passive-aggressive exchanges between Herbert and Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) — culminating within the fashionista falling asleep on her love seat, stiletto in hand, and almost lacking her husband’s marketing campaign social gathering — Lisa broadcasts that she’s pregnant.

It’s a plot line that got here just about out of nowhere however, naturally, we stay up for seeing how the peerless LTW makes maternity garments look enviable.

Our closing cease on this episode’s actual property tour sees Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury) closing multiple cope with the horny superhero film director to whom she’s displaying luxurious residences.

Confronted with a $37,000/month price ticket, Ravi Gordi (Armin Amiri) is unbothered. What he’s actually focused on is getting Seema sizzling and bothered — which he does, proper there in his new residence.

Smitten Seema even takes Ravi on an impromptu double date with Carrie and Aidan, the place Carrie’s man seems to be an enormous fan of Ravi’s motion pictures.

The ever-cool Seema blusters an apology to Carrie for astonishing her with a debonair date.

Carrie deadpans, “You know the way I hate spending time with charming, worldly males who know how one can costume.”