Carrie’s getting new digs. On the ninth episode of And Just Like That… season two, “There Goes The Neighborhood,” Miranda and Charlotte attempt to figure out if their teens are more than old friends, Seema and Nya entertain new lovers, and Carrie commits to Aidan by letting go of her old apartment.
On this week’s episode of Vanity Fair’s TV podcast, Still Watching, hosts Hillary Busis, Richard Lawson, and Chris Murphy discuss an episode they all agree is a return to form for the series. “I’ve been grinning throughout this whole episode,” said Lawson. “It was a good episode.” Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis’s interweaving storyline provided a lot to love as Miranda and Charlotte attempt to figure out if their children, Brady and Lily, have hooked up—a plot device which Murphy guessed might happen earlier in the season. “It’s a dynamic that we haven’t seen before, but that makes sense considering the characters and who they are,” Busis notes. “I think that that’s a smart direction for the show to go in, to trade on what we already know in an interesting and maybe unforeseen way.”
Another perhaps unforeseen development was the return of Dr. Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman), after an entire episode off-screen and little to do before that. Nya gets to experience the pleasures of no-strings-attached sex—much to the ire of her roommate, Miranda—until she discovers that her soon to be ex-husband, Andre Rashad, is having a baby with another woman. There’s also another surprise pregnancy this episode, as the overworked and exhausted Lisa Todd Wexley tells her husband Herbert that she’s expecting their fourth child shortly before he gives a speech at a campaign event hosted at the Goldenblatts’. Her reveal prompts a discussion about how the show will handle this new development in the Wexley’s life. “I sort of hope that this is the show’s way of introducing an abortion storyline that would be different from the last one,” says Busis.
Carrie is also preparing to welcome children into her own life, namely Aidan’s three boys, Homer, Wyatt, and Tate. After Aidan gets them evicted from Che’s Hudson Yards apartment, Carrie makes the bold step to look for a new apartment. With the help of Seema, Carrie finds a truly gorgeous duplex, a four bedroom dwelling that comes with a key to Gramercy Park. There’s plenty of room for Aidan and his kids, prompting a lively discussion between the hosts about the potential cost of Carrie’s new apartment. Busis went so far as to find a comp on sale for just under $6 million, showing just how much Carrie’s investing into her new relationship with Aidan.
But before Carrie can sign the lease, she has lunch with Aidan’s ex-wife Kathy, played by Rosemarie DeWitt. At the lunch, Kathy asks Carrie to refrain from using her children as material in any of her writing and warns Carrie that she can’t hurt Aidan again, because this time, there are children involved. Murphy thinks “the seeds of discord” were sewed in Kathy’s somewhat foreboding warning to Carrie, while Lawson wondered whether And Just Like That… would be daring enough to have Carrie break Aidan’s heart a third time. By episode’s end, Carrie is on her stoop, running into her downstairs neighbor Lisette, and seemingly coming to peace with letting go of her classic apartment.
Elsewhere, Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones drops by the podcast again to share her thoughts and feelings on the season thus far. “I have been enjoying it,” says Jones. “I felt like a couple of episodes reminded me of the original of Sex and the City, in a good way. I stand by what I said the first time I visited this podcast, which is that I would honestly just spend time with these people organizing their sock drawers.”
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