So, let's get into the plot, shall we?
It begins with narration about Carrie visiting her married friends Patience and Peter (heh, Peter) in the Hamptons. She is telling the couple some spicy story about meeting some guy and doing some things, pretty fun stuff, and saying that it is her job as the couple's "single" friend to tell tidbits about her sexual escapades.. OK. Whatever. I don't define my friends by their couple status, usually there is something else there. You know, like the other careers she mentioned before she mentioned "single friend"-- designers, accountants.. no knitters though. There is a lack of crafty friends in her life I think. But fine, her hobby is hooking up with people, there are worse things to do with your time.
The next morning, she is surprised by Peter's penis in the hall. This scene is bizarre, funny, but mostly bizarre. Carrie tells Patience about Peter's.. well, peter, and Patience kicks her out of the house. I always thought that she was kicked out because Patience was embarrassed by Peter. But in the following scene, the girls seem to think that Patience is jealously guarding her husband from the seductive single woman "who can sleep with anyone, anytime"
They make funny jokes about Peter's rather large pepper mill sized dick and then talk some more about how married people always make them feel like outcasts and pity them for their lack of couple-dom. Pity them, and call them whores and are totally jealous since married people just want to be single again. I don't even know. Like I said, divisive.
In the next scene, Carrie is talking with Stanford about the issue. He talks about how even in the gay community people are hooking up and getting married in Hawaii. ah, life before gay marriage was legal. how quaint! They are stopped in the street by one of Carrie's friends we never see again, who is with his new "life partner" and they ask Carrie if she'll donate one of her eggs. This whole scene is confusing, and illustrates, at least to Carrie, that married people don't even see singles as people, just egg farms. Now, to me, it just seems like her friends are a little desperate and have lost that "appropriate casual conversation to have in the street" filter. lol.
Anyway:
In the next scene, Miranda is at a sports field to play softball at some company softball game. This is a thing, I'm sure. Some guy brings Miranda a date-- and surprise! It's a lesbian! Miranda's like.. I'm not gay, I'm single! and the guy is bashful, and I find it deliciously ironic since Cynthia Nixon *is* gay. But Miranda is nice and tells Sid that she isn't gay, and they have fun playing ball. Miranda's boss congratulates her on the game and gives her and Sid an in to his inner circle-- she takes advantage of this, prolonging her "relationship" with the woman in order to do so. Sid is quiet about this, but I bet she's seething, lol.
Random aside: every single one of the four women will end up skirting the line of lesbianism at least once. I love it. Once, my stepmom was talking to me about sex and the city, and she said in a vague kind of way "the one who is with the lesbians" and I had to rack my brain, I mentioned every single one of them before I realized she meant the one I didn't mention. ><
Miranda feels like her boss wants to invite her in and get to know her because she is "figured out" that is, gay, not single. Apparently single people confuse marrieds. This plot is confusing. In the end, Miranda comes clean to her boss, saying that she isn't gay, but felt that she should take advantage to bend his ear about the firm and get close. ah, networking. I don't know why her lack of coupledom would deem her unfit to get along with her boss in a casual way, but apparently it does. She kisses Sid in the elevator on the way out of the dinner party, and laments her straightness. As if being in a couple would solve all her problems. Sid is like. yeah, you're straight.. stop trying me on, I'm not a pantsuit!
This is what I imagine when I think of pantsuits.
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Carrie's deepening plot:
Carrie goes on a lunch date with another of her couple friends and is "surprise" set up with the couple's friend-- the Marrying Guy. She gets to know him a bit and realizes that he wants to get married and decides to try him on anyway. This guy seems nice, he recently bought an apartment, and has nothing negative about him, except that he wants to get married.
While Miranda is off at that dinner party, Charlotte, Sam and Carrie attend the Marrying Guy's housewarming party, and it is full of married couples. Sam feels betrayed and goes off to drink tequila shots and lament that she's slept with many many of the men there, thought she'd never see them again, and hates being in parties with couples because the women are always jealously guarding their husbands from her so she can't talk to anyone. I would feel left out too. poor Sam. lol. Charlotte takes Sam home since she is so drunk, and Sam ends up hooking up with Charlotte's doorman. Charlotte finds the doorman in the middle of the night in her apartment and she asks him to leave. He does, but not before opening one of her doors for her. ><
Meanwhile, Carrie dumps the Marrying Guy because he wants to get married. She doesn't know what she wants, she says. He says, in a dejected way, that every single woman he's been out with recently won't date him because he wants to get married. Which would be frustrating. Carrie sets him up with Charlotte and she dumps him in the end because he likes the wrong China pattern. -_-
Charlotte has that problem that will become clear in later episodes, she is driven by fantasy a lot. She envisions her perfect life with her perfect china patterns. I really do love the way the show writers have Charlotte grow and develop as a character through the entirety of the show. It is perfection.
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These recaps have been coming quickly for now, I have them written up to the middle of the second season on my personal journal. So after I've caught up, they'll come about once a week or so.
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