Warning: Major spoilers ahead

As we pick up with the ladies, Carrie has settled into her new sprawling home by Gramercy Park – though still doesn’t have any furniture, and her house alarm is broken, repeatedly going off by noting her back door is open when it’s not.

After agreeing to keep her distance from Aidan for the next five years, the star-crossed couple have taken to sending wordless postcards between New York and Virginia.

The new arrangement doesn’t sit well with any of her friends, who worry Carrie is setting herself up for a fall. No one is more explicit about it than Anthony, who gets into an argument with her while at the ballet with her and Charlotte’s daughter, Lily.

Back at home, Carrie’s burglar alarm goes off, but in the rush to shut it off she falls over, landing on her back, prompting Miranda to come to her rescue.

Later that evening, Carrie gets a call from Aidan, who says he misses her and initiates phone sex with her from his truck, but it gets awkward when he hits his knee on the horn, so Carrie decides to fake it for him. She later shares with the girls that she felt weird, as their sex life was ‘the most honest part of their relationship’.

Carrie later tries to reinitiate phone sex with Aidan, but they can’t as he’s looking after his son. As her door alarm goes off once again, Carrie can’t sleep and brings out her trusty laptop – noting that she couldn’t help but wonder what she’d gotten herself into with her new arrangement with Aidan.

Miranda is navigating life now she’s officially out as a lesbian and splitting from Ché, and asks Carrie and Charlotte to join her at a gay bar so she doesn’t feel alone.

Off her game, Miranda thinks her luck has changed when a young woman waves her down at the bar, but she’s left embarrassed when she realises it was one of son Brady’s old babysitters. Instead of flirting, she blurts out her life story in the years since she’s met, prompting the girl to leave.

However, she has better luck later with a woman called Mary (played by Rosie O’Donnell) who has come into New York from out of town. They spent the night in Mary’s hotel room, but Miranda quickly grows to regret it when Mary shares it was her first time – not just with a woman, but with anyone, because she’s a nun.

Soon Mary is going full tourist around the city, and wants Miranda to join her on her adventures, prompting Miranda to consider ghosting someone for the first time.

However, she later has a change of heart and meets Mary in Times Square after she’s seen Wicked to break up with her face-to-face. Miranda tells her that she doesn’t want her to leave God for her, and to think things through as she navigates this next phase of her life.

Mary says she will never leave God as they’re married but appreciates Miranda for awakening a part of her she had hidden for so long. With a quick serenade of the Wicked song ‘For Good’, Mary and Miranda part ways amicably.

Charlotte – or more specifically her dog, Mr Burton – finds herself a victim of cancel culture when a woman accuses Mr Burton of attacking her dog, Peanut, while off-leash. Charlotte insists her beloved dog always remains on his leash in the park, but that doesn’t stop the woman from demanding her pay for an MRI scan for Peanut and bad-mouthing her around town.

This later gets worse when Charlotte’s dog walker quits over her “trust issues” and she’s forced to miss Lily’s trip to the ballet, where she has a crush on the lead dancer.

Charlotte is sure Mr Burton would not attack another dog without due cause, but after the pup starts eating one of Seema’s rare dolls, she begins to have a change of heart and worries that there’s an angry side to her dog she didn’t realise.

Charlotte meets with the other dog owner, and offers to pay for an MRI, but their information exchange is disrupted by another dog off a leash. Realising Mr Burton had done nothing wrong, she demands that the woman post an apology and leaves.

Seema is struggling in her new relationship with film director Ravi, being forced to wait for hours while he’s out of the country on set to enjoy video sex with him.

One evening, the wait becomes too long for her, and she almost burns down her apartment after lighting a cigarette while in bed waiting for his call. She ends up having to cut her hair after charring some of it, much to her annoyance and frustration.

Seema joins Carrie for a walk in the park and asks her how to be relaxed in a relationship as she can’t be, and later insists Ravi return to New York to repair their romance.

While he does so, he doesn’t remember why she’s suddenly had to cut her hair, and Seema soon finds herself dragged along a location scouting day with his team.

After missing a fancy lunch and dinner together as she’s ignored in favour of his work, Seema decides the relationship isn’t working for her and splits up with him – but gives him a romantic film ending as she does so.

Lisa is still deep in the production process of her documentary series about unsung Black women in history – unable to sleep and causing distance with her husband, Herbert.

She gets annoyed when producers suggest she include Michelle Obama in the group of women, noting that she is a proudly sung hero of our time, not a woman whose work has gone unnoticed. Plus, she has no connection to the White House or Obama’s team.

However, when she meets up with the girls to have dinner and watch Herbert’s choir perform at a bar, one of his aides proves to be the lifeline she needs to keep her project afloat.

Episode 2 – ‘The Rat Race’ >