'AJLT' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Carrie Has 'Exiting-out-of-Grief Sex' and Miranda Makes a Big Discovery About Che

Photo:James Devaney/GC Images

James Devaney/GC Images

Warning: This post contains spoilers from the first two episodes of season 2 of Max’sAnd Just Like That…

And just like that… Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda have returned to our screens.

Season 2 ofAnd Just Like That…premiered with two episodes on Thursday and saw Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) navigating her friends with benefits relationship — or “exiting-out-of-grief sex,” as she called it — with her podcast producer Franklyn (Ivan Hernandez).

While explaining it to Charlotte, Carrie asked the mom of two not to do “the Charlotte thing” and make her and Franklyn into a “happy couple.” So instead, Charlotte channeled Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) and asked, “How big is his d—?”

Craig Blankenhorn/Max

Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) checked in with Nya (Karen Pittman) from Los Angeles and reported that she was loving life on the West Coast, where partner Che (Sara Ramírez) had started filming a sitcom pilot. Later, Miranda tried using a strap-on in the bedroom with Che. “Didn’t they have a beginner model?” Miranda asked.

HBO

Back in New York, Charlotte and Carrie were preparing to attend the Met Gala. Carrie planned to bring Seema (Sarita Choudhury) as her date and Charlotte told Anthony (Mario Cantone) she’d take him, but Charlotte’s husband Harry (Evan Handler) assumed he’d be going with her. But when Seema bailed to meet her new man Zed’s (William Abadie) son on Met Gala Monday, Carrie shifted to bringing Anthony and Harry got his ticket.

Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) encountered her own problems while prepping for the Met Gala when her husband Herbert (Chris Jackson) interrupted her primping for a quickie, a distraction which caused Lisa to miss the chance to order a van to take them to the gala, so they had to walk (her elaborate headpiece wouldn’t fit in a standard cab or Uber).

Harry decided to ditch the whole thing when he found out he wouldn’t be walking the main stairs like the celebrity attendees and likely wouldn’t get to meetRihanna. So Charlotte ended up bringing Anthony after all, and Seema became free to go with Carrie once she found out Zed still lived with his ex.

After hours of work, though, Smoke couldn’t pull together Carrie’s dress, so Carrie pivoted.

“I may have something,” Carrie told Smoke, locating her wedding gown from when Big (Chris Noth) left her at the altar. “I’ve only worn it once. It’s not the best memory.”

She pulled out theinfamous bird headpieceandVivienne Westwoodgown and paired it with the cape Smoke made to complete the look. “And just like that, I repurposed my pain,” Carrie said in a voiceover.

Gotham/GC Images

Craig Blankenhorn/HBO Max

Charlotte’s daughter Lily (Cathy Ang) did some dumping of her own, selling off a lot of her clothes in order to get money for recording equipment. When Charlotte learned about this, she freaked out and tried to track down the designer garments to buy them back.

Nya decided she didn’t want husband Andre Rashad (LeRoy McClain) back after she FaceTimed him on tour to initiate sex, only to discover he had a backup singer in his hotel room. He claimed they’d been working on music together, but critically told Nya during a follow-cup call that “nothing happenedyet.”Nya’s husband suggested getting a surrogate to solve their fertility struggles, but Nya didn’t like that idea.

“Motel girl plus the surrogate equals I’m done,” Nya told Miranda over the phone.

Miranda questions her own relationship with Che when she learns that Che is still married, a discovery she made when she lost her phone at a beach cleanup and Che sent their husband Lyle (Oliver Hudson) to pick Miranda up.

When Che got home from a dinner withTony Danza, who had been booked to play their dad on their sitcom, Che explained that they only stayed married because they and Lyle are “both such slackers, we never got around to getting divorced.”

At the end of the episode, Carrie felt like she finally nailed the ad copy, only to find out that Apple had bought her podcast studio and canceled herSex and the Citypodcast. Franklyn said he didn’t want to move forward with the podcast or with Carrie because he desired more than just a hookup, leaving Carrie completely single once again.

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

New episodes ofAnd Just Like That…drops Thursdays on Max.

source: people.com