And Just Like That.. - Season 2, Episode 11

"You're far less of a dumbass than I've been regarding you as."

"The Last Supper Part Two: Entrée"
Original airdate: 8/24/2023

Episode summary: Miranda reconnects with Steve at his new Coney Island eatery. Nya flirts with the Michelin chef at Carrie's dinner party. Aidan informs Carrie that he's putting a pause on their relationship until Wyatt is out of his teens.

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Recap: Carrie arrives at her brownstone while chatting on the phone with Aidan, confirming that his troubled spawn Wyatt is safely recuperating at home from his near tragic joyride. After that, she gets a call from Samantha, who makes a pointless guest appearance to inform Carrie that - surprise! - she had planned to jet across the pond to attend The Last Supper - but since her flight is being delayed by three hours, there's no way she's going to make it to New York in time. She unconvincingly rails, "I'm fucking furious!", says she had really really wanted to pay the apartment her respects, and asks to be put on speaker so that she can directly address it as a "fucking fabulous flat". After that, she weirdly lapses into a thick British accent and pretends to be Annabelle Bronstein (a nonsensical shoutout to Sex and the City's Boy Interrupted episode), and wishes Carrie a lovely dinner party. This 73 second cameo - that had zero physical interaction with any of the AJLK cast - hardly seemed worth the $1million pay check that Kim Cattrall reportedly scored, but...whatever, producers. 

"This is one expensive phone call, Samantha."

"Especially since I mostly called to say bye to your apartment and pretend I'm British."

Harry wakes Charlotte, who's still fully clothed from collapsing atop her bed after getting sloshed the night before. He informs her that Anthony is on his way over to discuss "losing his ass virginity", then whines about how he's been solely parenting their kids for the last day and a half and "can't do it all". A groggy Charlotte shoots him a withering glare and points out that, in reality, he's doing the bare minimum of the job women are routinely expected to do, year after year. She adds that she fully expects him to help out, preferably without so much bellyaching, and wants to continue her work at the gallery 'cause of how super great she is at it. She then orders him to tell Anthony that she has no interest in weighing in on his virgin/non-virgin asshole conundrum.  

Miranda drops by Steve's new Coney Island eatery to sheepishly tell him that she doesn't want to just be in his past - but rather a pleasant presence in his present and future. She credits him for being right about a lot of their life decisions: having Brady, buying the Brooklyn house. When she says he wasn't right about them, he argues that he actually was...at least for a little while. As they pat each other affectionately, Brady arrives at the eatery on his bicycle and looks touched by the sight of his parents' togetherness. 

Nya's boss drops by her office to happily announce that she's been elected to the very prestigious American Law Institute, and that the panel's voting was uncharacteristically swift and unanimous. A stunned Nya's all, "Wha-a-a-a?" and looks overwhelmed by the honor. 

Nya returns home and shares her exciting news with Miranda. She then sadly reflects that her first impulse was to call Andre - but then remembered that they're no longer a couple. She tears up and laments having no man with whom she can share her successes, self-piteously conceding, "There. I said it." She adds that she's really not feeling up to attending Carrie's dinner party, prompting a look of alarm from Miranda at the prospect of raising Carrie's ire by anyone pulling a no show. She beseeches Nya to attend what is sure to be a sumptuous Michelin chef-prepared feast, and Nya's like, "Yeah sure OK whatever."  

Lisa and Herbert arrive at Carrie's dinner party early and gush about the gorgeous place settings that include thick fancy napkins with - I shit you not - CB embroidered on them. A few seconds later, Charlotte arrives and cackles with Carrie about all the times they chowed down on cheap takeout in this very living room. While Carrie goes downstairs to check on the chef's staff (who are apparently cooking the food in Lisette's better equipped kitchen), Lisa covertly tells Charlotte that her implausible pregnancy is no more, and then Harry arrives and explains that he was just at the Apple Store, picking up a new iPhone for Charlotte. 

When Che makes their grand entrance, Lisette introduces herself, gushes about how much she loooooved their (wretched) podcast and asks if there's a new comedy venture she should be looking out for. Che despondently says there's absolute bupkis on the horizon, 'cause failing at one pilot has fully wreaked havoc on their comedic mojo. Lisette clucks sympathetically and recalls that she too indulged in a cocoon-like phase soon after she moved to New York - but then snapped out of it after making the butterfly ring she now wears on her finger everyday...and was so inspired by her own skill that she soon became a wildly successful jewelry maker. 

Jackie arrives with his wife Smoke - not exactly sure why those two peripheral cast members would be invited - and then Jackie and Che perform an impromptu roast of each other before hugging it out.
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After entering Carrie's building, Nya glumly warns Miranda that she's not feeling very chatty tonight - just as she encounters the Michelin chef named Toussaint, who she had met and flirted with during the season premiere. She giddily shares that she's not married anymore, then sends Miranda upstairs without her so that she can flirt with the handsome chef some more. 

Miranda sees Che in the kitchen, taps them on the shoulder, and warns that they're going to have to refrain from any kind of blowup that could risk ruining Carrie's dinner party. Che promises to never perform the awful jokes they made about her at the club the other night, and Miranda expresses genuine shock at the vitriol, 'cause she was under the illusion that their toxic relationship had ended on a good note. Che says it did - up until the part where she ghosted them...then describes their disastrous coupling as a train wreck. Miranda argues that it was a good kind of train wreck, where no one died, and everyone eventually got off the train to get where they needed to be. Che mulls that over for a few seconds and laughingly agrees that, yep, the two of them were a good train wreck. 

"Our relationship was a toxic train wreck."

"I much prefer to think of it as a head on collision with no mass casualties."

Guiseppe announces to the partygoers that he's considering moving back to Italy next month 'cause he's not progressing in his career to the point where professional success is...'how do you say?' impenetrable. Anthony reacts by looking alarmed at that unsettling double entendre. 

Carrie chitchats with Ravi...and when he rushes off to take a work-related phone call, she chides Seema for acting so uncharacteristically mute and unsociable. Seema explains that she's deeply annoyed by how frequently Ravi is on the phone, and also really really regrets being the first one to say 'I love you', 'cause she's pretty sure that Ravi is starting to pull away as a result. Carrie points out that he clearly adores her and wonders if maybe she's the one who's been pulling away. She urges Seema to consider that Ravi could very well be the great love she's been waiting for her whole life...and to just take a deep breath and deeply ponder the possibility. 

Over in the privacy of Carrie's closet, Anthony rails at Guiseppe for threatening to leave the country because of his stubborn refusal to be anally penetrated. Guiseppe complains that the barriers between them are about more than his yet un-infiltrated asshole...they include the emotional wall he's always putting up. Anthony admits that, yep, he definitely has issues when it comes to relationships and lets it slip that he's only ever been in love once before [the other man being, I'm assuming, Stanford the Shinto Monk].

Carrie introduces her kitty Shoo to the guests, then announces that she's putting the feline to bed...despite cats being nocturnal and not so easily controllable about where they decide to lay their furry heads. As everyone coos over Shoo's cuteness, Lisa gets emotional and makes a beeline over to Carrie's bathroom...and a concerned Herbert follows her. She sits on the edge of the tub and wonders aloud if she "wished the baby away", and Herbert assures her that such a thing is literally impossible - 'cause duh - and that, assuming the whole thing wasn't just a phantom pregnancy, birthing a child in her fifties simply wasn't meant to be. 

Toussaint walks the dinner guests through the meal's first course while exchanging overt sexual innuendos with Nya. As everyone raves about the delicious appetizer, Ravi gets another call and rushes down to the building's foyer for privacy, while Nya and Toussaint continue flirting inappropriately.
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Seema follows Ravi downstairs to urge him to rejoin the party, but he tells her he's busy trying to figure out how to get permission to film in front of Egypt's Great Sphinx. Seema doesn't buy that and accuses him of distancing himself from her because of her unprovoked 'I love you' declaration - but he insists that he has legitimate work issues to sort out, and that he's done nothing to give her any doubt about his reciprocated love for her.

Carrie instructs her dinner guests to each take turns blurting out one word that represents a thing they want to let go of...and the rules are: no passing, and no repeats. Most of the guests take the assignment seriously and say things like fear, control, possessiveness...and when it's Carrie's turn, she declares that she's letting go of expectations, e.g. no longer getting so wigged out about things not turning out the way she thought they might. Che wryly points out that that sanctimoniously insufferable speech was way more than one word (lol), and everyone raises their glasses to toast whatever they vowed to no longer burden themselves with.

"Each of you must declare something you plan to let go of in your lives."

"Making personal declarations at dinner parties!"

"Attending any of your future dinner parties!"

"Ever paying fair market value for a Manhattan apartment."

​As the dinner party wraps up, Miranda rushes over to where Carrie is chatting with Charlotte and Harry to inform them that her boss is busy with her new baby and needs her to rush over to the BBC studio for a live interview asap. 

Toussaint offers to give Nya a lift home - just as Miranda races down the stairs to share her exciting BBC news, then dashes outside in time to hail a cab that just happened to be passing by at that exact moment. 

Later, Ravi tells Seema that he finally got official permission to film in front of the Great Sphinx and invites her to travel with him to Cairo. Seema sneeringly retorts that she's not interested in abandoning her well paying career to uselessly stand by a man's side - but then admits how terrified she is that he's leaving. Ravi assures her she has nothing to be afraid of, and that he'll promptly return to New York after the filming wraps 'cause 1) he's in love with her, and 2) she made him sign an iron-clad lease agreement for this luxurious apartment. Har har.

Miranda arrives at the BBC studio, and is hastily greeted by Joy before she's seated in front of the cameras to go live and answer some serious sounding human rights type questions. 

Later that night, Aidan shows up at Carrie's apartment to break the news that he's pausing their relationship in order to keep a close eye on the troubled Wyatt. He says he'll no longer be able to travel to New York to hook up 'cause he wants to be "the constant" for all of his sons...and rebuffs Carrie's offer to periodically drop by Virginia so that they can canoodle every now and again. Aidan insists that he doesn't want to lose her, but that he needs to focus on Wyatt until he's out of his teens: five years, give or take. He assures her that the time will go by like the quiet snap of a finger, and Carrie looks doubtful 'bout that...but that since she had declared to her dinner guests that she was letting go of expectations, she's decides that ultimately she's totes fine with having what seems like a weirdly estranged relationship. 

"How long do we have to be apart?"

"Just until Wyatt is out of his terrible teens."

During the season finale montage...

• Charlotte and Harry are sitting in bed together, struggling to set up her new iPhone
• Miranda is enjoying friendly and enthusiastic banter with Joy at a bar
• A tentative looking Anthony is getting boned by an enthusiastic Guiseppe
• Che is smooching hairless Toby
• After Toussaint escorts Nya home, he asks her if she has anything to eat, and she happily invites him inside...and that's the last we ever see of either of them
• Aidan and Carrie are going at it in bed, as are Seema and Ravi
• Lisa stares contemplatively into space while being spooned by Herbert

The next morning, Aidan gives Carrie a goodbye-for-now kiss and assures her that their relationship will survive his Wyatt problems [though: not]. After he leaves, Seema calls Carrie to inform her that she got them a place on the beach, and it's not the Hamptons. In the next scene, we see that Carrie and Seema are lazily lounging on beach in Greece, enjoying the sunshine as Carrie somehow manages to order Cosmopolitans in Greek.

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