With the weight and Just like that recap, Sarah, I have a hot
take and I don't know how people are going to feel about that
hot. That hot take is, I think,
season 3, episode 4 of and just like that one of the best
episodes of the series. Not of Sex and the City, I
don't. Yeah, I don't know if that's a
hot take or not. Why?
Why not? I mean, there's just a lot that
it did right it. Really, it really did.
It really, really did. And one of the things that it
did right was Seema's storyline was short, Lisa's storyline
short. They feature them, but they
didn't go into great detail on their storylines and they
focused on the three main characters and the three main
characters were the ones that got the focus.
It felt familiar, right? So, and each one of them, I feel
as though they had a good storyline this week.
There are two callbacks in this episode that I really loved.
I wonder if other people picked up on them.
What are they? Last week we talked about we
talked about the outfit. Repeat that shirt that Carrie
wore again this week. Did you notice the callbacks to
the episodes, you know, in the Carrie and Aiden season #1
remember when Carrie was like having an existential breakdown
about Aiden because he wanted to stay home with a bucket of
chicken in bed? And what's she doing this week?
Eating a bucket of chicken in bed, Sima.
That was last week. Oh, that was last week.
OK, well, whatever. I'm glad.
I'm still glad I mentioned it this week.
Here's the other call back. My one of my favorite scenes
from Sex in the City is the fight right speed speed stick.
Deodorant. Knock yourself out, put on the
deodorant, and this week, what's What's Aiden say when Carrie
smells bad? Feel free to borrow my speed
stick. Right.
Oh, I didn't even catch that. I like that.
That's great. Listen, this this was I think
the episode that we've been waiting for is in terms of
Carrie and Aid, right. For sure, because let's get into
it. The episode opens, Carrie is in
the guest house at and she hears him outside.
They're painting with the boys and there's Wyatt and there's
Homer. Now Homer is very welcoming to
Carrie, but to absolutely nobody's surprise, Wyatt is not,
and he doesn't hide it. And what I, one of the many
things they did right with this was the casting of Wyatt,
because not only was he just a great actor, but he looked, he
looked like that stereotypical kid in, in high school, the
loner who naps, which is very important because what we learn
in this episode is Aiden really should have been taking those
five years off. So Carrie goes outside and she
sees the boys and she sees Aiden and they're talking and Wyatt's
being very distant. And she, you know, she picks up
on that and they go in and they have breakfast and her luggage
still hasn't arrived. It's in the the old the other
car that was tarred that was towed last episode.
Yeah, it's not going to arrive right.
So she takes the ATV to this corner store, in the corner
store, but sort of this dress shop.
Daisy's dress shop. Daisy's dress shop and she goes
to the store, she gets the dresses, she comes back and
Aiden asks her to spend time with Wyatt.
Well, you know, go go fishing with them.
Aiden, have you met Carrie? What are you doing asking her to
go fishing? Well, she doesn't.
Which she does. She doesn't, but she also says,
isn't this kind of obvious, right?
What we're doing right, yes. So when this goes awry and
doesn't go the way any of them wanted it to, why it suggests
they that they go play this virtual game.
And Aiden didn't want him to, right?
Aiden didn't want to do that. He didn't.
He wanted to sort of take the screen time away from him, I
guess to have him more plugged in with the family.
But they do it. Carrie begs him.
She says this is the first time he's made eye contact with me.
Listen, just give me a break here.
So they go play this game and it's one of those games where
you have the the goggles on and you know it's you, it's virtual
reality and they're killing zombies.
And now they have these big like plastic fake guns and they're
pretending to shoot the zombies. And then at one point, Wyatt wax
Carrie in the head with his gun. And it's unclear.
Was it intentional? Was it not intentional?
I think it's sort of left up to the audience to decide.
But Carrie says, ow, And they stop playing.
And why it says, you know, I'm sorry, I was just looking out
for my day. You know, those zombies coming
from my dad. I was just looking out for my
dad. And it's like, it's OK, buddy.
It's OK. Carrie's rubbing her head.
And he says, what does he say? You know, that's you know.
To the effect of like, don't make him feel bad.
He says, you know, are you OK? That's not like him.
He's not a violent kid. And she's rubbing her head and
she's, you know, kind of still kind of like stinging from it.
And Aiden says he goes to take the vest off.
And he says, you know, let's not make him feel bad.
Let me get this vest off you. And she looks at him because.
And she's like, now I feel bad for rubbing my head.
And the look on her face really showed that she's now realizing
this is a preview of things to come that this kid, I don't
think it was intentional, but Carrie is Carrie.
You don't think it? I mean, I, I do think it was
intentional. Excuse me?
Carrie sees this for the huge warning sign that it is.
Whereas Aiden, he's coddling Wyatt, but I think he's doing
that thing that a lot of parents do when their their kid is going
through something, whether their kids in pain or sick or whatever
it is, where the parents are internalizing it and blaming
themselves, especially in a divorced situation where they
feel like, well, if I didn't do this and if I didn't do this, he
wouldn't be like this. And I can remember my father, it
was something to do with my eyesight.
And I was talking about how bad my vision is.
And he said he's like, that's that's probably my fault.
And I was like, dad, I mean, it's nobody's fault.
It just is what it is. But that's how parents are where
oh, you've got this thing wrong with me.
That's got to be my fault. So they internalize it and they
feel guilty. And so Aiden is obviously
feeling a lot of stuff, and one of them is denial.
He's in complete denial of the situation of what's really going
on with Wyatt. So Kathy, Aiden's wife, comes
over. They're having a birthday party
for Tater Tot, the baby who was in the little carry all when
Carrie was about to have her first date with Burger and he's
turning 21. I thought it was odd that
they're all sitting around that table drinking, but at the same
time and a little bit later when they're talking about the
Adderall, because that did get that did get brought up.
I thought it was weird that they were all sitting around drinking
because when, when Wyatt jumping ahead.
So everything's great. Like, Tate's great, Homer's
great. Wyatt is not.
And it's not just your typical teenage angst.
Like there's something up here. And Kathy thanks Carrie for
bringing the Adderall. And later on when they're all,
they're all sitting around talking about something, I don't
know, they're opening what's his name's gifts, Tate's gifts.
But Carrie and Kathy's new boyfriend?
They're on the outside. Right.
Oh, I love Bob. I love.
Bob, because he was listen, this is a fucking mess.
But they're on the outside of the group, right?
And so they're on the sitting on the flight of the room.
They're not even sitting in the circle.
And Bobby, like, you know, it's tough to tough to fit in, but
you know, after four years, you know, kindly, I'm kind of there.
Meanwhile, he's not even sitting in the circle with the rest of
them while they open Tates gifts.
Yeah, I mean, doesn't need to say something more like after
four years, like I finally kind of gave up or like accepted my
place. He says that.
Or maybe that was just my take away from Bob.
I don't remember what he said besides the fact that like,
yeah, this is difficult. It's a difficult family to,
like, get in there, right? Right.
Right, as all families are. Right.
And then, of course, he drops the bomb with Carrie that Aiden
was opposed to the Adderall. Kathy was for it.
And he was saying to Carrie, you know, I just, I don't even know
why, why Aiden doesn't want it. You know, it's, it's ridiculous.
Carrie realizes shit, like I did something really stupid, which
you did. How did you not immediately call
your boyfriend and say your ex-wife just called me and asked
me to bring Adderall down? I don't understand that.
It happened so quickly because Charlotte took over.
But still, she still could have worked it into the conversation.
But she didn't. That's.
Not our girl, is it? No, but.
That level of 4th. Right, but this is this really
demonstrates why someone dating someone without kids dating
somebody with kids. I thought it's like it really
was sort of a perfect example of what happens in those situations
where someone who doesn't have kids is dating somebody with
kids and they just don't fully get it right.
They don't fully understand that there's sort of protocol and
this is how things play out. And, you know, you know, in
theory, oh, they're always going to put their kids first.
But when they do it, it's it's another story if it just hits
different. So yeah.
I like when Aiden snaps at when she tries to apologize for the
Adderall and he's like, not now. Carrie, not now.
Not like she's a child. Like she's a child.
Yeah, I'm really starting to
hate. Yeah, but that's not gonna have
herself. We're there she but but to be
fair, she was doing the Carrie thing of really this is not the
time for this conversation and she's just going on and on and
he's clearly like trying not to listen to her and he that's when
he snaps Carrie, not tonight. If that it.
I don't, I think if a partner ever spoke to me in a way that
embarrassed me, I don't know that I would recoup from even if
nobody else was around, if you say something to cause me shame,
I, I, I don't think there's any coming back from that.
I, I, I couldn't, I couldn't get over just the whole topic,
everything with Wyatt, it was, it was such a volatile topic and
situation. So they go back in, they're
playing some game that I didn't fucking understand until like,
the end. Oh, it's apples to apples.
Oh, okay, whatever. So they're playing this game,
everybody's having fun. Well.
Actually, this is relevant because this is the reason why
it blows up, right? And this is, I think, a major
clue about why it actually. OK.
So apples to Apples is a card game where you have a deck of
cards that, well, it doesn't, it doesn't even matter.
You have a deck of cards, right? And then someone draws a card
that is like a descriptor and you have to like match your
card. So there's like two ways of
playing it, right? The literal way.
Like if someone draws a card, this is fruit and you have one
that says apple, right? And then there's like the fun
way, which is how everyone else was playing the game right when
Carrie said pumpkin spice lattes are mysterious and everyone
everyone was on board, what with that?
Except it pissed Wyatt off because he's a literal man.
Right. He's a literal man child, right.
So they're playing this game. I don't know he what's his name,
Homer chooses Carrie's thing like the the cafe pumpkin spice
latte because his clue was mysterious.
He chooses pumpkin spice latte and Wyatt flips and he says it's
mine was mystique. I mean, it's literally in the
name. Like what do you why didn't you
choose mine? And the two brothers are clearly
they've hit their fill of the they're over it.
They're way fucking over it, way over it.
And we've all been in those situations where you have my
sister Pam, this was my sister Pam, where you try to sit down.
I'm not going to lie, when this scene happened, I cried and I
don't I've been thinking about this and thinking about what
something like clicked in me. Not clicked but it set off
something in me. The scene was, I think, like one
of the reasons the episode was so well done.
There's such a relief in terms of like, oh God, finally we're
seeing character development because this also, it didn't
remind me of my family exactly. But I think we all see a little
bit of our family in the scene. Yeah, it's one of those
situations where you get together, maybe it's a holiday,
whatever it is, and you're really trying to have a good
time. And what happens?
That one person in the family who always start shit, start
shit and there goes the good time.
And at least one parent is like they can't help.
It right, right. Yeah.
So can't be held accountable, right?
For their actions. So why it isn't getting
increasingly angry? More and more angry and no one
ever picks me and Aiden says, well, you'll get the next one,
bud. No, but he should have picked.
Why would you promise that, Aiden?
But no one's ever picked me. And he goes, Carrie picked you
in the first game. Well, none of you did.
And he's pointing at his family. He's like, and he gets up and he
goes to watch, goes to play video games.
And Aiden is saying, Wyatt, you know, come on, this is family
night or whatever. Come on, come on.
This is Tate's birthday. Put the put the game down.
Put the game down. And finally Aiden's like, put
the game down. Aiden.
Wyatt gets up. You never pick me.
What?
This isn't a family night. They're all, you know, they are
here, so it's not family. And both of the brothers are
like, suck it, you're a crybaby. We're done with this.
And Wyatt leaves, and they're sitting there and they're all
talking and Homer says, fuck you, Wyatt.
And then there's this quiet. And as they're talking, all of a
sudden, Wyatt comes back with some kind of stick, smashes it
into the window. I love, love, love a good
analogy. You know this, this was the
breaking point, the breaking point.
The window shatters and breaks, the illusion shatters and breaks
and caring is now saying she's in that position that I think a
lot of potential step parents find themselves in when they're
dating somebody where there isn't just like every family has
some kind of tension or trauma or drama.
But this was this was extreme. And to me, because we find out
that Aiden that Wyatt had been diagnosed with ADHD and he
doesn't didn't want Wyatt having medicine.
Aiden didn't want Wyatt having the Adderall.
And his wife is saying This is why he needs the medication.
He's got a substance abuse problem and you want to give him
pills? Bro, you're all sitting around
drinking alcohol in front of this kid.
What are you talking about? What what?
What? You just want to be right.
So this is this is it for
Carrie. Carrie now realizes.
And I think this is the first time Carrie has actually shield
away or been turned off by drama, right?
Well, this would do it right? This would do it, but she's in
that position where there that potential step parent role and
you have to ask yourself, does does my love for this person?
Will it make up for what I'm going to be taking on?