Carrie Goes to Aidan’s Farm, and – Surprise! – His family drama is much worse than he let on.
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Well, Friends, IT SEEMS as Though Carrie Stepped Ono Aidan’s Farm in Virginia and Directly Into a Serious Family Drama. The swings in tone This Show Takes! Its Very Hard to Keep Up With. At the Very Least, This Time Out of the City and Smack Dab in the Middle of Aidan’s Life DOES MAKE THEIR RELATSHIP MUCH CLEARER FOR BOTH CARRIE AND US. In Short, Things Seem Worse than Aidan Has Let On. Much Worse! Ugh, can we just go back to the virgin nun singing Wicked songs in the middle of Times Square? Things Were Simpler then!
Things at the Shaw Residence Start Out Pretty Well, to Be Honest. Aidan has his two Younger Sons, Homer and Wyatt, up painting the outside of the guest, and they are aware is around, and no one has had any teenage meltdown as of yet. (It is Early.) In fact, homer is especally welcoming and offers Carrie some of his cloths Since, as you’ll recall, she and seema lost luggage when the Rental Got Towed. (I mean, I think you’d be able to recalim that luggage but is probably best not to interrogate the logistics here.) HOMER is very sweet! Wyatt, unurprisisly, is Cold and Moody.
SINCE AIDAN ASKS CARRIE TO STOCK AROUND FOR A FEW LEAGES, SO SHE’E TE’LDE FOR HIS OLDEST TATE’S 21ST BIRTHDAY DINNER – AFTER ALL THAT STRESSZING AIDTER OR May or May Not Want to Stay Overnight, Dear Lord – Carrie Decides If If Some Addits Clothing Outside of Teenage Boy Sweatpants. (Although She DOES LOOK PRETTY CHICK HERE.) Carrie Baby’s First Atv Ride into Town to the Closest Closest Store, Which she describes to Miranda as “a sister wives dress” and the Woman isn’t workg. She Makes The Prairie Attire Work and Miranda assures Her that wyatt’s just acting like a typical teen. One family Outing to a zombie VR Room and while Wyatt and Carrie aren’t Exactly Friendly, Everything SEEMS to be Going As Well As One Could Expect.
Andn there’s family Dinner. Tate, Like Homer, Is Nice Enough, and Kathy and Boyfriend Bob Are Nothing But Friendly. KATHY DOES KIND OF OWE CARRIE FOR TRAFFICKING THOSE Drugs to Her and She Knows that. And Bob SEEMS COOL ALTHOUGH HIS “Advice” to Carrie About How to SOK for Him to Sort-Fit in with the Shaw Family is Ominous! Carrie’s Also Not Exactly Thrilled Wen She Discovers that Aidan is AgaNst Wyatt Using Adderer or Any Other Prescription Drug, and Kathy Negleced Her About That Little Detail. Aidan doesn’t blame carrie, but the tensions under that roof are Certainly rising.
Nothing Like a Little Game of Apples to Apps to Ratchet that Tension Up Tenfold. Apples to appples is intense as it is, let Alone with heaps of resentment and anger just lying around. IT’S not long before wyatt is Completely freaking out that no one ever picks his cards. He gets ede anghen when his parents refers to this family game night – Carrie and bob are not his family. Aidan and Kathy Are Fighting Over How to Best Handle Their Youngest Son – to Medicate or Not to Medicate, that is the question. Tate and Homer Are Clearly Over Their Brother’s Outbursts, and the More Aidan and Kathy Try to Contain, the work and unil -ulttely throwing a far objection through the Window. It ‘Distresing for Everyone and Carrie is Silent and Alarmed As She Watches This All Play Out.
The silver lining here is that it leads to Carrie and Aidan Having a Very Truthful Heart-to-Heart. IT WOULD’VE BEEN NICE FOR CARRIE TO HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION PRIGHT, But it is Clear that aidan was trying to shield her from the worst of it. But now she can see aidan really does Need to be down with wyatt and he need to that with Carrie – he wasn’t exaggerating or avoiding her or being overprotective. Wyatt is struggling, and aidan need to put Him first. Aidan takes this as a breakup speech – which maybe it should be – but carrie assures Him that no, she will be in new york Waiting for Him he’s ready, if that they aim a while. She gives Him a key to their place to emphasize where she has stands.
On the one hand, at the least carrie now feels like she dosesn’t have to be around for aidan to make decisions about their home or moving forward with her life other aspect. The Woman Can Buy Suppurie Now. On the other, she leaves virginia not exactly knowing if this new information means she and aidan are closer than Ever or apart. What a fun, sexy Summer Carrie’s Havinging, Huh? (No, but Serious, Can Carrie Start Having Fun This Season? This is Getting Depressing.)
Hey, at Least Miranda Walks Away from this episode Very Clear on Where with the person she’s into the moment. Sure, Things Look Dicey When Joy Gives Miranda a Shot to go on-air for the bbc and she fumbles her just just enough it sounds like “wild county” and it goes viral. Miranda Worldies that this has been tourned joy off, if she was attracted to her at all in the first place.
When Joy Cancels Plans to Come to See Miranda, who is staying at Carrie’s while Carrie is away she’s going to be out with friends Visitting from the uk, it’a carrie who suggests miranda invite the whole Group over. If Joy Says No to That, Then She Might Have a Good Reason to Wand. Joy Says Yes! But when she and her friend and her friend realies Miranda is the “wild cunt” lady, the cunt jokes fly freely and miranda notices that joy gets quiet. This Thing Might be over before it starts.
When Joy Goes to Leave, Miranda Decides to Confront This Thing Head on and It A Good Thing Becauses It Turns out that Joy Simply Shuts Down a Little when she’s attacted to someone. Which Yes, Means She is Attracted to Miranda. They Proceed to make out on Carrie’s (New) Stoop. Now, that is the Kind of Clarity a Needs when it Comes to their Romantic Relationships. Quick, Someone Tell Carrie and Aidan.
• If the pissing in his tight pants escapade was enough of a sign, Harry’s World About What Growing Older will to his virility. He the Feels Better About Things when he learns that his dad is a regular on pornhub and is hooking up with marilyn in 10f. Harry is weird, and i love Him.
• Harry’s neuroses Regarding the use of his dick also leads to a conversation between hym and charlotte About how they’ll always be connected with or without sex. These two relaibly adorable.
• ltw is stuck in a storyline that is spreads about her angst over hiing a highly Qualified mountain named mari ode for her Black feminist trailblazers documentary, but also spreads about how he is asleep is keeping her husband awo divorce. ” Neither is that Compelling, but marion is quite handsome, so that should be fun.
• SEEEME ONCE AGAIN TURNS DOWN THE OPPORTY TO WORK FOR RYAN AND SAYS Good-Bye to Her Office. She performs a real half-assed jerry maguire speech to see if her assistant wants to work for her while she starts her own real estate company, but in the end, seema is on her own.
• I have no idea where “lily dates a polyet dancer” is going and it’s probably best that way.
• I was absolutely love to never hear aidan use the phrase “going to the guest house to ball my Calendar girl” again, please and thanks.
