And Just Like That recap: Justice for Steve!
She keeps her camera off until they finally connect in a quiet room and Charlotte mentions Harry's cancer. The psychic flicks her camera on and it's Susie Essman! But that's it, end of storyline.
What?? This episode is flooded with ghosts – Aidan, Margaret Thatcher, Adam's mother and Steve's hang-ups over Miranda's pregnancy with Brady – but we cut the line to the spirit world there?
Seema began the season so quick to reject anyone at the slightest hint of disagreement or incompatibility but Adam's showing her even if she pushes after 'killing his mother' by tipping a plant out the window, he's not going anywhere. She's got her driver back, he's got a gorgeous rent-controlled apartment. They're perfectly aligned for a future flush with cash and armpit-huffing. I'm into it.
Before we get to the excellent roommates in Gramercy, two quick notes on Anthony and Giuseppe shacking up. First, wasn't Giuseppe's mother shopping for 'queer masters' to adorn the SoHo loft she was buying him two episodes ago? Why is he rooming with an elderly puppet maker? Secondly: asking your hot boyfriend to trade a 'sweet, asexual roommate' in for 'a sexual' one is an excellent way to ask him to move in. I give the writers a lot of grief, so it's only right I also give it up once in a while when they get it right.
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Time for the heart of this episode. I'm suddenly giddy seeing Carrie on my screen again! Sure, she's still possessed by the spirit of a woman called The Woman from the 1840s, but she's lighter. Her home is not filled with a man and his awful children, but with shoes, Vivienne Westwood gowns, reams of printed pages and Duncan. She has chairs!
Duncan is thrilled by Carrie's writing, and she glows under his praise. They're so playful with one another. It's a delight. They have a 'who's a bigger bestseller' pissing contest. He's tickled by her fun frocks and what goes on in her office.
He wants her to come to a party with him. A party where his publisher, who's also his ex-wife, raves about Carrie the moment she walks in. We so rarely get to see our girls through other people's eyes and I appreciate the praise. It's been years since anyone – besides Candice Bergen with her menopausal Goop newsletter – has acknowledged Carrie as a notable person in this city. I'm so glad she swapped the black heels for her sparkliest pair.
We learn Duncan is leaving for London the next week, but Thatcher isn't finished. He's missed a deadline but got a lifeline – which is cheesy and also the kind of thing a certain woman would've written in her column many moons ago. The way they look sipping a post-coital scotch and discussing their books in bed makes so much sense.
Carrie believes the woman will die of loneliness. Duncan urges her to let the character live. I'm doing the same, begging creator Michael Patrick King to keep Carrie like this for a little longer.
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