Sex and the City
Sex and the City

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Alex Richmond: B- | 575 USERS: B
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Ring A Ding Ding

Oh hooray, HBO "won more Golden Globes than any other network." I'll go get my party hat.

Splashy bus, cha cha cha!

We pan by the hole in Carrie's bedroom wall and some empty shelves before landing on Carrie, toiling at her toilet in jeans and pigtails, plunger in her hand. It keeps flushing on its own, "for no reason." Aidan takes a box and slings a duffel bag over his shoulder, announcing, "That's the last of it." Carrie looks all wan and says in a tiny voice, "Okay." Yeah, now get sad. You can't commit, then boo-hoo when he leaves? Wishy. Washy. He offers to fix her crapper. She's all, that's okay. Oh my Lord, just let him fix the thing. He dives in, and asks her to "hold the ballcock." She goes, "Huh?" Then takes hold of the mechanism IN THE TOILET that he was talking about, gutterminds. It's fixed. He makes to leave, and she says, "Our last words to each other can't be 'ballcock.'" He laughs one sad laugh. She asks him to stay for "another day, or at least forever." What? Come ON now. Aidan says he "can't." Good -- now say goodbye and vamoose, you. Back to Alaska, go on now! She says she "left the ring on the clown table." He says it's hers. She says she should "never have accepted it in the first place." Word infinity. They go back and forth for a bit. I'd have to say, since he called it off, she could keep the ring if she wanted. And fighting about it seems pretty small of her, like seeing it would make her feel badly -- but how would seeing it make him feel? Great? Is he supposed to go out and cruise bars with it in his pocket to whip out and make ladies go "ooh!"? Didn't think so. Carrie gets all verklempt in her rubber gloves, threatening, "If you do or say one more nice thing..." she trails off, allowing me to finish her sentence in a myriad of ways. What will Carrie do? Break his heart some more? Not marry him again? Whack him with the plunger? She'll freak the hell out? She'll GO OFF? It is AAWWN? She fusses around and says she can't watch him leave, so she'll just stay in the loo. And so she does, for three hours. And in the envelope Aidan left for her is not "the goodbye letter," as she thought, but a note from his lawyers. Woo hoo! I mean, "awww."

Over a meal with the ladies, Miranda peruses the letter, saying that Carrie isn't being evicted, but has thirty days to decide if she's going to move out or buy the apartment back from Aidan.

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