Recap: Carrie is at a bakery ordering a ridiculously large number of pies to bring to Miranda's Thanksgiving get together. A bemused woman in line behind her asks her if she's placing pie orders [answer: yes], then complains to the baker that she just told her she wasn't taking any more Thanksgiving pie orders. The baker confirms that she's not - except when it comes to St. Carrie, who she claims has ordered pies from her bakery every single Thanksgiving since its founding. Carrie's unwavering support of this local business [which, I'd like to point out, was never once referenced during the entire run of SATC and/or up until now in AJLT] included the Covid lockdown, when she ordered and paid for several pies while knowing she wouldn't even be able to pick them up. The baker chides the customer for her piddly croissant orders, and firmly decrees that Carrie's business is so sacred to her that she can order however many Thanksgiving pies she damn well wants. It remains unclear why this customer doesn't tell the baker where she can shove her croissants and storm outa there. After exiting the bakery, Carrie calls Miranda to inform her that she just ordered enough pies to feed an army, and Miranda calculates her massive order as a "two people per pie" ratio. Carrie's like, "Oops! I don't know what the hell I'm doing!" [which seems to contradict her long history of Thanksgiving pie ordering] and tells Miranda she's currently strolling around the Upper East Side to wistfully stare at her old brownstone - just as Lisette comes bounding down the stairs. Carrie jokingly informs her that she wants her old place back, and Lisette gives her a hello hug and tells her she just broke up with her latest boyfriend - a fleeting relationship that only lasted seven months. Carrie can't resist one upping her by sharing that she recently split with Aidan, her love of twenty-two years, despite the fact that she and Aidan were only ever girlfriend and boyfriend for a sum total of maybe three years [meaning, the years that passed when you and Aidan were married to different people don't count, Carrie]. Lisette then tells Carrie she's hosting a party just before Thanksgiving and invites her to attend, then bids her adieu and climbs into a waiting Uber. While setting the table for dinner, Harry grumbles to Charlotte about how desperately he does not want to spend Thanksgiving at Miranda's apartment, 'cause 1) he doubts she has the first clue how to make tasty stuffing, and 2) he can only assume that she'll ban football watching and force her guests to listen to NPR...or some shit. Charlotte reminds him that she's making the stuffing and bringing it over to Miranda's - but Harry insists that he wants to eat her stuffing in his own home, and then watch football on his own couch before passing out. Charlotte weakly promises to try to get them out of it - just as Rock exits the bathroom wearing a pretty brown wig and glittery red costume dress (for their role in the upcoming school play, Thoroughly Modern Millie). They sashay towards Charlotte, who stares at them with an expression of longing wistfulness. Rock grumbles about how much the wig itches, that Lily caked on way too much makeup, and makes it clear that they're only dressed like this 'cause showbiz has decreed that they need to wear this girly get-up. While in the fitting room at Bergdorf's, Guiseppe gets down on one knee and proposes marriage to Anthony, who stares back at him in shock before uttering a yes. Carrie's editor (Amanda) raves on and on about how her new historical novel is fan-fucking-tastic and has such moving, fluid prose. When she says she just needs to see the last chapter, Carrie tells her it's already in the manuscript...and when Amanda reads the final pages, she scrunches her face disapprovingly and says in bewilderment that the story appears to end with "the woman" sitting in her garden alone. She cheerily reminds Carrie, "You know me. Happy ending gal" and makes clear that she can't/won't green light a book that ends in tragedy. When Carrie asks why a woman living alone is a tragedy, Amanda points out that a woman in 1846 living alone in a ginormous townhouse mansion would be a romantic tragedy. This really does seem like sage writing advice, Carrie. Just take it.
Over at the townhouse mansion, Charlotte tells Miranda and Carrie that they haaaaave to come to Rock's school play...and adds that Rock looks soooooo grown up and pretty in their Thoroughly Modern Millie costume. Charlotte hastily adds that she's not sure she's allowed to be saying that about her non-binary child - but can't help herself from fantasizing about what might have been had Rock self-identified as a girl. Carrie says she'd love to attend the play, while Miranda declines 'cause she has plans to attend a lecture with Joy. She then announces that she invited Mia to their Thanksgiving get together without telling Brady, and justifies keeping him in the dark 'cause he's already very nervous about cooking the turkey. Seems like really weak reasoning, but OK. Carrie eventually pivots the conversation to herself by recounting the chat she just had with Amanda about her latest manuscript, and says she's bummed that her publishing house considers it a romantic tragedy when a woman ends up alone. She adds that Amanda has asked her to write up an epilogue to offer a feel good ending for readers, then grumbles that she much prefers her "honest" ending of her book, aka "the woman" sitting alone in her courtyard. She muses about what sort of hope she should be giving to her potential readers - when Charlotte abruptly shrieks that she suddenly remembered Anthony and Guiseppe are now engaged. After Adam indulges Seema with oral sex in the shower, he invites her to join him at his sister's place for Thanksgiving. He cooingly says he's most thankful for her, then declares, "I love you" ... and Seema reciprocates before they press against each other for a smooch. Carrie arrives at The Arbor School to attend Rock's play, where she runs into Anthony and gives him a congratulatory hug on his/Guiseppe's recent engagement. Anthony scrunches his face concernedly and admits that he's having second thoughts about shackling himself to someone so young - but that he couldn't resist saying yes to the well-hung young man who proposed to him on bended knee. Carrie naturally makes it all about her when she recalls that Aidan did the very same thing in Season 4: "Aidan...a knee...a street...a dog...a ring...a yes." (Which all promptly turned into a no.) A few seconds later, Charlotte arrives with her gallery boss (Mark Kasabian) whose daughter is working behind the scenes at the play before Guiseppe wanders over and is congratulated on his engagement. Soon after, Harry and Lily appear and hand out black and white cookies to everyone so that they have a snack during the intermission. A group of mothers tell Herbert they're disappointed about his election loss, and non-subtly guilt him about all the campaign money they donated...and then the principal stops by to toot his own horn about shoring up support for Herbert from the LGBTQ community. Showtime! A lot of airtime is devoted to footage of Rock performing the lead role of Thoroughly Modern Millie. Charlotte asks Carrie if she wouldn't mind taking a photo, 'cause she needs a roundabout way to honor her child's expressed wish that she take no photos for posterity while sneakily being able to capture this wonderful moment. The next morning, Herbert glumly tells Lisa he's going to be working from home today 'cause he's deeply embarrassed at having failed himself and his family when he lost the election. Lisa assures him he hasn't failed anyone and that she's proud to be his wife - but he grumblingly retorts that she's not helping, and urges her to head off to her studio and continue editing her interminable sheroes docuseries. While laying in bed together, Harry starts to get amorous with Charlotte...and when she excitedly remarks that she feels something hard against her back, he wryly pulls out his iPad from under the sheets and explains that he was using it to watch porn to see if it'd help stir some penile action [end result: not]. Charlotte tells him she couldn't bring herself to tell Miranda that he desperately does not want to spend Thanksgiving at her place, and Harry digs in hard about how much it comforted him (while enduring his prostate cancer ordeal) to anticipate spending the holiday at home with his family. Charlotte looks moved by that admission and promises to allow him to celebrate Thanksgiving exactly the way he wants to. Later, Charlotte studies the photo of Rock that Carrie took during her performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie. After staring at it longingly for several seconds, she deletes it. Miranda has invited Joy over for some takeout when Brady arrives home and bitchily asks his mother whassup with the text from Mia, accepting her invitation for their Thanksgiving get together. Miranda looks surprised that Mia actually accepted, then explains to Brady that she took it upon herself to go to the hair salon where she washes hair..and felt bad when she learned that Mia's mom blocked her from Facebook and left her with no Thanksgiving plans, and extended the invitation. Brady barks that "it is soooo fucked up", to which Miranda points out that it's an opportunity for them to get to know each other, given that there's a baby on the way. Brady asks Joy to weigh in, but she's too focused on the anxiety of her dogs (who are reacting negatively to Brady's fury) to express any kind of opinion.
While out for drinks, Seema tells Carrie she has to (mercifully) take a hard pass on Miranda's Thanksgiving dinner 'cause Adam invited her to spend the holiday at his sister's place. She then changes the conversation to the now vacant apartment below Carrie's townhouse mansion and says that since Duncan has opted to not renew his lease, the family who owns it wants to sell. When she asks Carrie if she's interested, Carrie chucklingly asks why she'd want yet more space, and Seema's like, "Uh resale..?" and points out how desirable it'd be, from the prospective of a property owner, to own the entire thing. Carrie gets visibly upset 'cause she'd hoped Duncan would change his mind and return to New York, and leaps to the conclusion that Seema is suggesting she should sell her ridiculously large home. Seema assures her she was merely "asking a business question", and Carrie apologizes for being so weirdly prickly and shares that she just got invited to her old studio apartment for a party, and is worried she'll feel pangs of regret for selling it. In the next scene, Carrie arrives at her old building and is startled when she sees that Lisette and her friend Ezekiel now share the space, and that they've built a wall that splits the small living space into two very small living spaces:
Lisette pours two glasses of champagne and tells Carrie she haaaaates living alone 'cause she fears being murdered by an intruder or - worse - being abducted and kept alive in a cage "for whatever". [I'm wondering if maybe this woman watches way too many true crime shows.] She asks Carrie if she isn't scared of living alone in her multi-story townhouse mansion - but Carrie just kind of shrugs and says she has a security system in place. Later, Carrie returns home and writes the epilogue to her historical novel: "the woman" returns home, lights a candle, and sees that there's an envelop waiting for her. Inside is an invitation to attend a party welcoming Virginia Perry's cousin (Joshua Perry) home from his recent trip to London. "The woman" can't help but be intrigued, given that "this was the handsome widower Virginia had spoken so highly of". It's interesting that Virginia and Joshua Perry get first and last names, while "the woman" is deprived of that courtesy. Thanks for reading! If you are enjoying TVofYore's recaps, consider thanking me by buying me a "coffee"!
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