Meanwhile, Miranda, who wants nothing more than to support Che’s rise to multicamera sitcom stardom, almost ends up thwarting it. She attends the taping of the pilot, but as she is waiting in line to enter, her son, Brady (Niall Cunningham), calls from Amsterdam. (Why in the world is Miranda waiting in line with the rest of the studio audience? Wouldn’t she be on Che’s V.I.P. list?) Brady is sobbing, telling his mom that his girlfriend broke up with him and that he wishes he had been hit by a car. Miranda, worried that Brady might be suicidal, makes him promise to get safely to his hostel and call her back.
So when a security guard attempts to take her phone before she enters the soundstage, Miranda hides it, not wanting to miss connecting with Brady again. Apparently, Miranda was missing his calls because her new phone is an Android and a piece of crap.
Unfortunately, the ringer goes off mid-shoot, and the show comes to a screeching halt just as Che and Tony Danza, who plays the dad, launch into a particularly personal and awwww-worthy scene in which Che’s character has a heart-to-heart with Danza’s about being nonbinary.
Outside, Miranda apologizes profusely to Che, who isn’t having it. Miranda tells Che she is going back to New York to take care of Brady — the “most important thing” to her — but Che tells Miranda she is overreacting. Despite their attempts to smooth things over, the two can’t help but part on a pretty “yucky note,” as Miranda puts it, leaving us wondering where things stand between them now.
Back in New York, Carrie does a little retail-therapy shoe shopping at Bergdorf Goodman, following the advice of her socialite friend Bitsy von Muffling (Julie Halston) to “do whatever you do to make yourself feel better.” Later, Carrie and Seema attend Lisette’s swanky jewelry show, and as they’re admiring the baubles, a couple of cater waiters suddenly — and incredibly casually — start putting pieces in their pockets.
If these episodes keep going on the way they are, I may have to create a segment in these recaps called “The Weekly Clown Show” to mark a scene in which the absurdity reaches peak levels. This time, the jewelry heist is it.
