Friday, May 5, 2017

Season 3 episode 7 Drama Queens

Now this episode is a memorable episode, things start to get interesting in various ways-- mostly by each of the foursome acting insufferable, especially Carrie.  Although, Charlotte is in the running for the title 'most needing to sit down and clam yo tits'






The question du jour is whether you need drama in a relationship to make it work.

The answer is, of course, No.  But I guess you need drama to make a story arc work.

So, let's begin.

Carrie keeps waking up suddenly in the middle of the night.  She is worried about something, but there seems to be nothing to worry about.  She's paid her bills, she's happily relationshipped with Aiden.  But like clockwork, zap! She's awake. And she's anxious.

She realizes that she must be worried because there's nothing to worry about in her relationship.

Cause she's really stupid.  But this is telling. She's a complete loon, and the looniest of the foursome (Charlotte) has to tell Carrie and the rest of them off for being Cuckoo.

"Now we're breaking up with boyfriends because they're too available!?!?"

Sam had just advised Carrie that if he seems to good to be true, he probably is.




Charlotte continues to chide them by talking about a new book she's been reading (I'm glad to hear she's abandoned "the rules") that deals with finding a mate with business strategy.  I don't know how that would work, it's not like you can micromanage your way to a lasting relationship, but I'll let this go by since it does blow up in her face spectacularly.

Miranda is happy with her relationship with Steve.  They are blissfully predictable and it's exactly what she needs. They share dishes, are comfortable just being around each other, and they're like clockwork: exactly 8 minutes of no frills sex, followed by 12 minutes of frontline.

Sounds good to me.

Until Miranda is doing his laundry and finds she's accidentally, unwittingly, coupled up with skid marks guy.


She decides that they must be in a rut-- that's what is making him just a little too comfortable.  so comfortable he can't manage to wipe his own ass properly.

Anyway.

Sam is meanwhile dating a guy completely randomly.  They found each other... "well, we're not sure, but suffice to say it happened quickly"

He's a guy who takes Viagra recreationally.  Like, he doesn't need it, but he claims that it makes sex that much more intense. I am not sure it works that way.  Even more puzzling, at one of their encounters, Sam asks to have a go with the little blue pill and she has a life-changing orgasm of her own.

I've actually watched a documentary about finding a Viagra-like pill for sexually frustrated women, It was called Orgasm Inc.  Viagra doesn't work that way on women was one of the take-aways.  Another was that women don't work the same way men do-- that a lot of female sexuality is mental.  Pretty sure Sam doesn't need that kind of help getting in the mood.

At her end of the episode, the guy breaks up with Sam because she's become addicted to the thrill of sex with the Viagra.  A little too much drama, perhaps.

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Carrie is out there on a date with Aiden looking for relationship drama.  She's asking him what's wrong with him? why is he single? Why is he always so available?

He responds the only way he can, by offering to buy her a donut.

She talks about it with Miranda. Then she reaches deep and realizes that she's acting like Big in the relationship.  Aiden had offered to introduce his parents to her, and she doesn't want to meet them.

Miranda suggests that Carrie doesn't believe it's for real unless -someone- is playing hard to get.  It's very astute.

Carrie writes about it in her little laptop.  She talks about love like it's a story book, 'act one, act two, happily ever after' and I think therein lies her problem with long-term romance.  There *is* no happily ever after and then credits.  At least, not in real life.

--

Charlotte's story line in this episode is legendary.

She meets up with a couple friend, Dennis and Amy-- couple friends are the city's most untapped resource for eligible bachelors, according to her new 'rules' book.

They are not sure they know anyone who would be a right fit for Char, but Phil is cute ("You think he's cute?" Dennis gobsmacks to his wife) and Charlotte offers to take Phil to the opera.  First she has to go through Dennis.

So, she calls. And leaves a message.  And follows up.  Persistently.  Leaving message after message for Dennis about Phil.  But he never answers and he never returns the calls.

"Can you tell Dennis to call me?  Yes. He'll know what it's regarding!  It's regarding my future husband, Phil! OK? Thank you."

And another message in the montage:

"Well, Obviously you have some good reason for trying to keep Phil and I apart. I can't imagine what it is! But I will tell you that this is Phil's loss and NOT mine.  And don't bother returning this call either!"

In the end, she has to take Carrie to the opera.

--

Carrie approaches Aiden to tell him that she isn't sure she wants to meet his parents this weekend.  He assures her that they'll love her!  And she isn't worried about that, she's worried that if they break up she'll have to deal with -another- set of parents wondering what happened to that cute curly haired chick who was cute. :cough: just like Big's excuse for not introducing his mother to her! :cough:

 

Since they won't be seeing each other that weekend, Aiden says that he'll miss her.

"See? Maybe that's good." Carrie is a nut, "Maybe we should see each other less, so we can miss each other more! You're so available to me and I'm so available to you and maybe we're just too available!"


he says that he does have a life, he was just making room in it for her.  That is just so freaking sweet.

He does acquiesce to her strange demand, and doesn't answer his phone.

Which, of course, drives her nuts.

Make up your damn mind, Carrie!!

--

At the Opera, Carrie points out how lovely a first date this would have been with Phil.

"Well, he seemed nice!"

Then, Charlotte makes one last call to Dennis.  And finally he picks up! He had been on a business trip (then why not call her about Phil before you leave, jackass!) but he's ready to set them up on a date.

In the theater, Carrie is playing around with her opera glasses.  She looks at the singers on the stage, then across the audience to some of the other balcony areas.  Big is there with his wife!  He's looking back at her with his own pair of opera glasses, and then he does that little wave of his.

She has to run away, she can't be in the same theater audience as him!  DRAMA LLAMA ALERT!

Well, that worked out well for Charlotte, I'm glad she has such good reliable friends to go to the opera with.

--

Carrie is woken up again by a shock!  But this time she knows what's wrong, she got the stomach flip from seeing Big again.  "And it also sent my spleen leaping into my throat."

Maybe she should call the doctor about that.

She calls Miranda, even though it's the middle of the night.  The ringtone causes Steve to sit upright in bed and it is comical. He goes back down as Miranda answers the phone and asks Carrie whats wrong.  It's Big, of course. She is realizing that maybe there's something to that 'available man thing.'

Miranda realizes at the same moment, as she looks down at her sleeping boyfriend, that it is kind of nice to have a reliable and available man in her life.  Miranda asks if she's going to call Aiden to let him know that.  Carrie's like, "it's the middle of the night, I'll call him in the morning."

As I already mentioned, he doesn't answer.  And he doesn't call back all day either.

She is worried and wants to make sure that he knows that she's nuts, uh... for sure into him,  so the next morning, she meets him and his parents where he said they'd be.

He explains that he didn't call because she wanted him to be less available, and she chides him for giving her what she says she wants.

AIDEN, SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SHE WANTS.

She does end up meeting his parents, and decides that she's made her own stomach flip.
--

In Charlotte's end, she's waiting for her blind date, Phil to show up at the bar or wherever it is.  She's asking various men if they're Phil.  One of them looks her up and down and responds, "I could be."

Gross.

Finally, it's not Phil, but Dennis who shows up.  He wants Charlotte all to himself, and tells her that he and his wife haven't been working out.  Charlotte is aghast!

"You kept all your great single friends away from me just so you could cheat on your wife?! :smack: You should be ashamed of yourself!"

"You're such a spark plug!" He clearly isn't deterred by her 'no.'

(pictured: he will not be deturd)



"I am not interested in starting some married man's car!"


Charlotte dramatically exits the bar, with Phil in tow.  She's trying to get away when she trips over the curb and a taxicab stops short, nearly hitting her.

And who should show up to her rescue from the back of the cab but Trey!

"And that's how, in the most dramatic fashion, Charlotte met her new leading man."



And that's how I leave this.  Great episode.

Till next time!

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