It begins with Miranda on a date with a modelizer (a lame term for a New York man who sleeps with models.. I don't know why this is a bad thing, but it is). Alas. This is a bad thing for her, she thought she was having a good date until she learned that his friends put him up to date someone who wasn't a model.
The next scene, the foursome are chatting about their insecurities. Charlotte hates her thighs, Miranda thinks that models are giraffes with big breasts and that beautiful people get all the societal leg ups and it is unearned-- which is true, but the models themselves aren't responsible for that. Samantha loves herself and her body. I hate that she isn't respected by Carrie more for her body positivity. I think Carrie is meant to be the audience, aghast at Samantha not having any negative feelings about herself. Body Positivity has to start somewhere, shouldn't it start with friends who are supportive of their own body positivity? yes?
Like this, yes?
In the next scene, Carrie is interviewing a friend, some artist who makes shitty art, who is also a modelizer. She learns that he has not only slept with an awful lot of models, but that he secretly films their sexual encounters. Just.. wrong. wrong. I hate this guy. Those poor women. I think it is implied that it is how he makes his money in order to afford his lavish studio apartment living.. who knows though? This scene is pulled straight from the book. I wish I remembered something more from the book-- maybe his parents afford his apartment? Whatever. After this episode we, thankfully, don't see this guy again.
On the street with Skipper, Carrie finds out exactly how doomed his relationship with Miranda is. He tells her how into Miranda he is, admits to calling her a hundred times. She just won't return his calls. I wonder why?
He asks her to ask Miranda if he still has a chance, whips out his late-nineties cell phone (it's huge!) ((that's what she said!)) and is dialing the number while Carrie is asking "really, right now in front of you?"
It's the machine. Skipper grabs the phone back and proceeds to leave one of the most embarrassing phone messages in history. It's almost cute, it would be cuter if she was into him. You know the rule!? What is cute can be creepy based on the way it is taken by the recipient.
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Sam and Carrie attend a fashion show.
Before the show, Carrie is backstage hanging out with Stanford. We are introduced to Darek, the bone, (I don't know why they included this detail, it is also straight out of the book and apropos of absolutely nothing) the sole modeling client of Stanford. Stanny has a terrible crush on the Bone. "It's like he travels with his own personal lighting director"
You know, watching this episode again I realize an inconsistency. In the first episode, Carrie talks about Stanford being down to one client-- the Bone-- but here, Narrator Carrie calls him his most -important- client, implying he has more.
After an embarrassing interaction between The Bone and Carrie, she goes to her seat next to Sam and the show commences. Narrator Carrie takes the time to make another dig at Sam's high self esteem, but Sam kind of acts like a jerk toward the models, pointing out their flaws. :/
Carrie's Creepy Modelizing Friend is in the row behind them, and Sam learns that he films his conquests and she is intrigued. The fashion is rather lame, but there is some sort of a sheer top that one of the models wears and you can totally see her nipples. :D
There's an after party. Carrie runs into Big. Carrie asks Big about the modelizing thing-- why anyone would want to date models? He says the obvious "because they're beautiful" DOY.
And she says the ubiquitous, "wouldn't it get a bit monotonous?" (You know, cause they're stupid! hur dur!)
Whatever. I hate this plot.
After party, the Bone asks to go home with Carrie, since he's lonely. They talk about boring things like what The Bone wants to be when he grows up, and Carrie thinks that beautiful people must repel each other which is why The Bone wouldn't want to date models. I don't care.
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Miranda is shopping for cat food in the next scene. Skipper happens to come in to the store as she's starting to pay for her "yes, just cat food" and he walks down an aisle and comes back with Cap'n Crunch. The writers are shrinking New York again (or Skipper is a creepy stalker, but I refuse to believe that).
Skipper boldly asks why Miranda hasn't been returning any of his calls, and she apologizes, but claims to be busy. You know, I always had taken Skipper's side of this whole thing, since he is such a nice guy, but Miranda looks exhausted from dealing with this bullshit. She isn't required to date him. They aren't barbie dolls. And he is rude for calling her so much.
He says that he thought they had a connection, and Miranda is like, "I dunno? Why does rejecting someone have to take this much emotional labor?" (paraphrasing again) She finally outright asks if he maybe should go out with someone his own age.
Skipper is flabbergasted: "It's got nothing to do with age, I think you're luminous!"
Miranda's never been complemented that way before. Her tone has softened and she invites him back to her place. Nice.
(only she doesn't let him buy his cap'n crunch, which is tres rude!)
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Sam goes home with Carrie's Creepy Modelizing Friend. The creep. She asks him where the video camera is as they are getting it on, and he says "hush, slut, I only like a record of my romps with models" (I'm paraphrasing) and she says that she wouldn't mind-- but you know he deletes the video after she leaves. poor Sam though. what a blow to her ego!
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In the last scene, Mr. Big surprises Carrie at a coffee shop while she's writing her column about models. He says he's been thinking about the dating model comments from their last interaction and he makes the, oh so common, comment about ending up with someone who makes you laugh-- which is sweet, but you know, not really true. I mean, I guess you should end up with someone who gets your humor. But, I kind of don't want to take relationship advice from these dysfunctional people, in general. :P
Join me next time for the next episode wherein Perpetually Single Women attack Married Women for no good reason.
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