And Just Like That.. - Season 2, Episode 9

"Surprise! Please don't be having sex.."

"There Goes the Neighborhood"
Original airdate: 8/10/2023

Episode summary: Herbert is stunned when Lisa announces that she's pregnant. Carrie buys a Gramercy Park mansion. Charlotte and Miranda are troubled when they suspect their children of hooking up.

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Recap: Aidan meets up with Carrie at Che's Airbnb after what he complains was a very loooooong week. He gives Carrie a hello smooch, then remarks on how chatty he's being with people in the lobby. An alarmed looking Carrie warns that he shouldn't be chatty with anyone, on account of they're staying in an illegal Airbnb and are therefore supposed to be keeping their presence in the building deep under the radar. Aidan just kind of shrugs unconcernedly and passes along greetings from his sons, who allegedly would looooove it if she returned to Virginia for another visit. Carrie wryly says that fourteen year old Wyatt definitely did not warm to her...and Aidan admits that, yep, his youngest son is "a little tricky". He promptly Face Times with Wyatt, who grunts hello at Carrie, then rudely barks at Aidan to just text him next time, and abruptly ends the call. Following that unpleasant interaction, Carrie is panicked by a sharp knock on the door...and whoever it is slides a letter under the door. Carrie opens it and learns that the building management is onto them as Airbnb guests - no doubt due to Aidan's chattiness - and sternly warns that the guest limit has been officially exceeded. Carrie mournfully says this means they now have no place to hang out when he comes to New York...unless he's willing to step foot in her apartment, something Aidan continues to stubbornly refuse to capitulate on.

Ryan Serhant is showing a ritzy, 37K/month apartment to Seema and Ravi, who's on the phone, self-importantly nattering about something related to the movie he's currently filming. After he ends the call, he glances around the luxurious digs, mutters, "Eeh", and asks Seema if this is the best New York has to offer...and she irritably reminds him that she's shown him the best New York has had to offer for the last three weeks. He flirty retorts that, yep, she has and that he's greatly enjoyed these afternoons, then plants a big smooch on her lips, which she totally looks into. Later, Ryan returns to the apartment and is looking around for the two...and we see that Seema is upstairs, hurriedly getting dressed while a naked Ravi lounges atop the bed. He tells Seema to let Ryan know that he's decided to rent the apartment (now that he's made himself at home by doinking his real estate agent), and Seema rushes downstairs to tell Ryan that they have a deal...and is unable to come up with a reasonable sounding lie that adequately explains why her hair is suddenly so disheveled.

While strolling in Manhattan, Miranda asks Brady about his evening plans, and he tells her he's pulling a double shift at Scout. Miranda says she can't help wishing that he'd enrol himself in the academic summer program in Costa Rica they had previously discussed and pick up some college credits while he's enjoying the fun and sun. When he stares back at her with a weary looking expression, she hastily explains that she merely wants him to have options, then points out that these are important years for him to start figuring out his life's path. Brady snarkishly counters that she only found her path at age fifty-six [which isn't actually true, given that Miranda earned her Harvard law degree several decades ago] and snarks at her to back off.

​Miranda calls Charlotte (who's just arrived home after working late at the gallery) to ask her to please convince Lily, a very driven and focused teenager, to spend some of her leisure time with Brady and talk up the prospect of attending college. Charlotte promises to run it by Lily, then enters her kitchen and looks annoyed that her family ordered food on Grubhub for the umpteenth time this week. Harry whines that he's dealing with a catering crisis for Herbert's upcoming meet and greet [is he a low level event planner now?], namely that several Jewish customers are complaining that the dumplings are far too delicious to be kosher. Charlotte asks Lily if she'd mind heading over to Brooklyn to be a good influence on Brady and motivate him to get on the college track, and Lily rolls her eyes and complains that that'd be really really awkward.

"Please hang out with Brady and do your best to get him interested in college."

"I will translate that to mean the two of us should hook up."

Herbert finds Lisa conked out in her office/closet, and she sleepily explains that she got home hours ago, did some work on her never-ending documentary project, and then nodded off until just this minute. She then announces she's off to bed...and when an incredulous Herbert asks what he's supposed to do for dinner, she tells him he knows where the cereal is. [Along with the refrigerator, stove, plates and cutlery.]

Nya is loudly sexing with a much younger boy toy while Miranda lays awake in the next room, staring up at the ceiling in icked out dismay. 

A hairless woman (Toby) brings a box of kittens that she found on the street into the vet clinic where Che works. She tells Che that they look a lot like failed comedian Che Diaz...and so Che admits that, yep, it's them - but that they're currently working on a series of new jokes for an upcoming Comedy Store set. [Please no.]

Carrie returns home and finds Che waiting for her, along with one of the tiny kittens. Che asks her if, by chance, she'd like a new pet, adding that the sweet kitty has already made itself at home in her apartment by falling asleep inside one of her shoes. Awww.. Carrie cuddles the kitty as she ponders the notion of welcoming a cute feline into her life, then tells Che that she's off to dinner with Aidan and Seema. She also informs them that, oops, she recently received a sternly worded letter from their Airbnb building manager about her and Aidan overstaying their welcome. Che grimly says they know, and got an email to that effect - but happily adds that since they're now gainfully employed at the vet clinic, they can move back into the apartment and eke out a hand-to-mouth type living. [I seriously doubt that a vet receptionist could afford those luxury Manhattan digs, but OK.]

Seema brings Ravi along to dinner with Carrie and Aidan, who starts acting like a total fanboy when he learns that Ravi is the director of his favorite action flicks. An amused Carrie covertly tells Seema that she's quite impressed with her fancy new beau. 
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After a romantic dinner, Guiseppe comes right out and tells Anthony he'd very much like to be invited up to his apartment, quipping, "Five dinners with no dick is not very gay." Anthony mumbles that he's not ready for the two of them to be bumping uglies, then hurries inside his building and personally insults one of his neighbors in the process. 

In the privacy of the restaurant's ladies room, Seema rails to Carrie about how wrong Ravi is for her, not least 'cause she doesn't like it when sexy actresses fawn over him via social media. She then clarifies that she's only casually dating him 'cause 1) it's fun, and 2) he's not marriage material. Carrie changes the subject with the announcement that she's finally ready to let go of her Upper East Side apartment in favor of a place that can better accommodate Aidan and his sons [spoiler: a moot point, since none of them ever end up coming to New York for a visit].

"I've decided to sell my apartment. Again."

"Can I get that in writing, in the presence of witnesses?"

Carrie gives Miranda and Charlotte a tour of her new Gramercy Park mansion, and explains that she's going to need lots of space for Aidan and his boys, along with her shoe collection and hideous wardrobe. In other news, she shares that she's decided to sell her apartment (again), insisting that it feels right this time. A few seconds later, she gets a call from Kathy (Aidan's ex-wife), who wants them to get together for a stern chat next time she's in town.

Nya is loudly sexing again, which is hampering Miranda's ability to use the bathroom (which, unhelpfully, is only accessible from within Nya's bedroom).

Miranda returns to hers/Steve's townhouse and runs into a pants-less Lily as she emerges from Brady's bedroom. Miranda's all, "OMFG" and immediately gets on the horn with Charlotte to report the disturbing development...and Charlotte blurts out, "Wha-a-a-a-t?!" in full hearing range of her gallery co-workers. Charlotte dials it back to her inside voice and tells Miranda that Lily had texted her earlier to let her know that she was sleeping over - but on the couch - and Miranda wryly retorts that when she ran into Lily, she had been in Brady's room wearing a t-shirt and nothing else.

Miranda and Charlotte are out for lunch, each struggling with the disturbing visual of their kids in the sack together. Charlotte is clinging to the hope that, since Brady isn't Lily's usual type, maybe she took off her pants to get a comfortable night's sleep, and that nothing in the way of hanky panky occurred.

That evening at home, Charlotte tells Harry she's in absolute denial that Lily and Brady doinked...but then wonders what it would mean if they did, e.g. are they a couple? a one-time hookup? Harry makes it clear how tiny of a rat's ass he gives about Brady boning his daughter 'cause of how stressed out he is about the unresolved catering crisis: are the dumplings truly absolutely 100% kosher? Charlotte, in turn, ignores what seems like a really easy thing to get to the bottom of and ponders the cuteness of Lily's/Brady's red-haired kids if they ever got married and reproduced...but then cringes at the idea of Miranda becoming Lily's mother-in-law. Harry, meanwhile, continues to wring his hands about the meet and greet, specifically about whether or not he needs to provide a coat rack during spring months. [Mmm, probably..?]  

It's meet and greet time! The event, which is taking place at Charlotte's/Harry's apartment, is approaching full swing, and Herbert is miffed that Lisa is still a no-show. Miranda and Brady make their grand entrance...and after Brady lumbers off to the kitchen to see whassup with Lily, Charlotte and Miranda share with Carrie that their kids might have hooked up the other night. A befuddled Carrie stares into space for several seconds, then says, "That's like hearing that two of my stuffed animals are having sex" before spacily wandering off. 

After yet another round of vigorous sex, Nya checks out her Instagram feed...and abruptly gets sad when she sees a photo of (her ex) Andre and his new lady, who's noticeably pregnant. She abruptly tells her boy toy it's time for him to skedaddle, and he's like, "No problem" and promptly slips into his pants and heads out. 

Back at the meet and greet, Carrie hugs Anthony and tells him she's eager to meet his new poet friend - but Anthony brusquely says he's ending the budding romance 'cause he's pretty sure that the only reason the hot young stud is courting him is 'cause he wants a green card. 

Harry chastises Charlotte for inviting Mark Kasabian to the meet and greet and is leaping to the conclusion that he (Mark) has been asking her to work late 'cause he's attracted to her. Charlotte assures him it's the furthest thing from the truth, not least 'cause it's common knowledge that Mark has a thing for blondes. 

The camera then pans over to Mark, who's flippantly asking Carrie if the end of her marriage was as acrimonious as his was. She solemnly tells him she had a wonderful marriage to a wonderful man [despite calling Big "a big mistake" during the previous episode], and that the union came to an end far too soon. She then excuses herself and heads home. 

Over in the kitchen, Miranda and Charlotte are surreptitiously spying on Lily and Brady, who are fiddling with their phones and chuckling...and it's impossible for Miranda to discern if the two are chuckling at the same thing, or just coincidentally standing near one another as they independently peruse their social media feeds.

"They appear to be engaging in a cell phone dating ritual of some kind."

"Isn't it interesting how either of us could just as easily be standing across the room while we independently fiddle with our phones."

Lisa is once again awakened in her closet/office by Herbert when he phones to ask whassup with her not being at his meet and greet yet. She apologizes and admits that, oops, she fell asleep again - but promises to be there asap. 

Anthony tells Guiseppe he's seen all thirty-five seasons of 90 Day Fiancé and is assuming that, because of their embarrassingly vast age difference, he must be pursuing him so he can get a green card. Guiseppe explains that, in fact, he has dual citizenship 'cause his mother was born in Buffalo, and Anthony's all, "Wuh?" and visibly perks up at that unexpected revelation.

Miranda and Charlotte steel themselves to barge in on Brady and Lily, who they suspect of being inside one of the bedrooms. They fling open the door, but find no one inside...and after they exit the room, the camera pans over to Anthony and Guiseppe, who were hiding behind the door, both with their pants around their ankles. 

Lily and Brady return to the meet and greet with a pizza and explain to their moms that they went out to get some food 'cause they weren't digging the catering. Charlotte reacts to that by staring contemplatively into space, then concludes to Miranda that she definitely doesn't want to know if their kids did (or ever will do) the horizontal mambo.

Lisa arrives at the meet and greet and bickers with Herbert - until she shocks him with the news that she's been falling asleep all the time 'cause she's pregnant. [That seems like an implausibly age-defying trick - but OK, Lisa.]

The next day over beverages, Kathy implores Carrie to please not write about her sons the way she's done with the people in her life in her past books, despite all the interesting material they'd surely provide. Carrie says she's A-OK with keeping them out of her 'I couldn't help but wonder' schlock and lets Kathy know that she just bought a big place to accommodate Aidan and/or their boys whenever they're in New York. Kathy's all 'wow', but warns, "You can't hurt him again" 'cause it's not just Aidan this time around, but also their sons [and says this despite them none of them being small children anymore].

Carrie walks Aidan to her new mansion and tells him there's plenty of space for him and his kids...and breaks the happy news that she's officially ridding herself of her old apartment. She then shares that Kathy preemptively tut tutted her about ever hurting him again, and Aidan gets miffed at that and acknowledges that them hurting each other - with the kind of mundane, pissy type shit they'd make up from later - is inevitable. Carrie concurs and decrees that she really really wants to be with him, and he gives her a long smooch before rushing off to catch his flight back to Virginia. 

On the Upper East Side, Carrie runs into Lisette, who miserably informs her that she's about to lose her sublet. After she rushes off, Carrie calls Seema and confirms that, yep, she's soooooo ready to sell the apartment...and maybe, in the process, make Lisette's dream of continuing to live in this particular building come true.

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