But as Charlotte told us in season 3 of a decidedly unawakened conversation about bisexuality , “I really like labels,” and she wasn’t ta...
But as Charlotte told us in season 3 of a decidedly unawakened conversation about bisexuality, “I really like labels,” and she wasn’t talking about Gucci and Versace. Charlotte worked incredibly hard to get everything that belonged to her: wife, mother and above all Jewish. “Someone go there and get their mitzvah todayshe laughs. In a fitting twist, that person turns out to be Charlotte.
Meanwhile, Carrie spends much of this episode haunted by Big. An old lamp goes on and off inexplicably, even after she redoes it, and she can’t help but wonder if Big is trying to tell her something from beyond the grave. Is he mad at her for the lukewarm kiss she shared with Peter on her doorstep? Is he just tired of being stored in the closet next to his old shoes?
Perhaps Big would have told her more explicitly if it had come to him more clearly, and originally he did – he was cut from Carrie’s dream sequence after sexual assault allegations have surfaced against the actor who plays him, Chris Noth. Instead, Carrie must rely on her interpretation of the dream, in which she finds herself in Paris, standing in the street as a line from their love theme, “Hello It’s Me,” echoes, partly in the Big’s voice: “It’s important to me that you know you’re free.
It’s the permission Carrie needs to finally move on.
She also takes it as a sign that Big wants his ashes scattered in Paris, from “their bridge”, the bridge of Arts. (which is basically the bridge of each couple, to the right? But Carrie is grieving so we’ll let her have it.) This is the one he finally told Carrie she was the love of his life on, at the end of the original series.
So, in Carrie-est-of-Carrie fashion, she shows up in their old place in an over-the-top dress, looking like a walking orange sherbet sundae, opens her utterly impractical Eiffel Tower purse that serves as a travel urn, and unleashes Mr. Big: his remains and his ghost.
The scene is moving, a bit ridiculous and somehow poignant, which is the random combination of this show.
COMMENTS