Kristin Davis (33:38)
So they have this sexy scene, and then she gets up in the middle of the night, and she goes onto his stoop to smoke, and he comes out and finds her, and she goes, oh, you said you couldn't date a smoker. And he says something like, well, that's not all of who you are. And then he says, I'm not perfect. And of course, this whole time, all she can think about is, should I tell him? Should I not tell him? Should I tell him, Should I not tell him? Which, you know, we've all been there in some form or another, and so she almost tells him. And then she says something so sweet. She says, I was just afraid that he would never look at me. Like the way that he's looking at me now. And he is really just gazing at her in the most adorable way. So I totally understand that she doesn't tell him. So she leaves. She says, oh, I've gotta. I've gotta, you know, get ready for the wedding. But really what it is is she's. She's running away from their closeness because she feels like she needs to confess. And then she's not sure that she should confess. But this is why I think she does have to confess. Because she can't even really be with him because all she can think about is that she did this bad thing. And she. So when it takes you over in that way, I don't think you really have a choice. It might not be a smart thing to do. But on the other hand, if you can't even, like, function with the person that you're with because you have the secret, then I feel like you have to tell him. So I kind of get why she tells him. But I do think, as Clark, Greg and I discussed, that maybe she doesn't express it very well when she tells him. She kind of. She can't really look at him when she tells him, which I think is also very, very real, because I think she can't. It's hard for her to be with this side of herself that did this cheating, you know? And so she can't really look at him, which is kind of sad. But she also just says, like, I did this thing, you know, which is not a great way to phrase it when you're gonna tell somebody that you cheated on them. And then he also really smartly says, are you saying that it happened once? And then she says, no, like, three weeks or whatever she says. Which is also just horrible. Horrible. I don't know how she expects him to just be like, oh, okay, I can live with. I don't know how anybody could. I would not be. I would not be. I would not be thinking that that was fine. And I don't think she thinks that he's gonna think it's fine. But I also don't think that she expects him to literally look like if you just ran over his dog, which I think is what he looks like. Like, he just looks so sad, and it's crushing. It's just so crushing. And he's so good. I mean, my goodness. And she's so good. So then, of course, she tells him Right before the wedding, which, you know, maybe not the best timing, but whatever. He comes to pick her up for the wedding wearing a kind of a really large suit that I do want to talk to Molly Rogers about. Like, why is he wearing this really large untailored suit? It's interesting. But henna's brown. You know, it's a big brown floppy suit. It's interesting. I do guess it was kind of the times. It's kind of 90sish. Right? Anyway, we're going to talk to Molly about that, but. But he comes to pick her up in the big brown suit and she confesses. And then he says that he's gotta go and that she should give us the gift, which is kind of sad. And then she has to go, you know, she's late, obviously, to the wedding. Because we're all standing there ready to walk down the aisle. So she doesn't even have time to tell anybody. But. Oh, wait, no, she doesn't tell. She doesn't tell anybody until he shows up outside the gate. And they have their really sad scene where she cries into his. Into his chest. And he cries into her hair. And I was very worried about her bun. I was like, corbitt's gonna mess that bun up and someone's gonna have to fix it. But they make it through. That's cause he's so tall. But it's really sad. It's really, really sad. He says, I just wish I didn't know about this. I just know myself. This isn't the kind of thing I can get over. I just need to be on my own for a while. And then he kind of mutters again, like, be on my own. I really loved you. Oh, it's so painful. It's so painful. And of course she just feels horrible. Horrible. Like we don't really see Carrie cry that often. We'll see her get emotional and look like she might cry. But she doesn't actually cry. Like how she cries here very often at all. Like in the whole. Until the movies, basically. I could be wrong, though. We're gonna see as we watch the show. But she doesn't do it very often. And I thought it was really, really so sad. And she did it so beautifully. And then she goes up to take the pictures with all of us. She tells Miranda. Cause Miranda can see that she's upset. And they come, the two of them join Samantha and I to take the picture. And I'm of course, oblivious. And she kind of like hides her face while she's collecting her tears. And Then her voiceover says that it's amazing to be loved for who you really are. And I was so lucky that I had found three people who loved me like that. And it's us, which is a beautiful, beautiful ending to such a great episode. Let's talk just a little bit more about Miranda, too, because this episode, this, this storyline, I really, really loved. And I didn't remember one single bit of it. I do remember the time in New York that people would do this crazy speed dating thing. And I remember thinking it was fully insane. And I do think that our writers did it and that I don't know if they did it for research or if they just had already done it for regular life, but it was a real thing. You'd go and you'd sit down and there was a little timer and you would talk to some guy for whatever it was, five minutes, seven minutes, and then they would move and then you talk to the next one. It just seems so insane. But when you actually think about what the apps are, they're very similar. They're just not face to face. Right. Like it was a precursor to the apps, which we're all living in now, of course. So the fact that Miranda can tell by the look on all these guys faces that she needs to lie and say she's not a lawyer. Oh, my God, it's just still so true. I mean, I do think there are really successful guys out there who, if you said I. I was, went to Harvard and I'm a partner in my law firm, I think they'd be totally into it. I mean, I'm gonna hope that that's true. I. I'm pretty sure it is. I don't know if it's every guy though. Right. And I think it would depend on what that guy was doing in life and what that guy pictured for his life. Right. Like, does he picture a powerful wife where they're going to be like a. Like a power couple, you know, like share their. The powerfulness, the success, the intense work life, or is it somebody who doesn't want that? Right. And so Miranda pretty much decides that the group of guys who's at the speed dating thing, they don't want that. And I think that that's still really true. There's a whole bunch of guys who do not want that. So she really smartly decides to lie to this adorable guy, Harris, who says that he's an ER doctor. So she tells him that she's a stewardess, which is hysterical. And then when they go out, she wears this whole outfit. And she wears this scarf around her neck and her hair is poofy. And then when they get home and they have sex, she's got, like, a flowery bra on. I don't think we have ever seen Miranda in a flowery bra. It's really funny. It's like she came over to Charlotte's and she borrowed some stuff to pretend that she was a stewardess. So she also has many funny things she says to try to, you know, make her part believable. You know, she says at one point that she's in charge of the inflatable slide, but that in reality, if a real emergency happened, it's every man for themselves or something. She's very funny. Very, very funny. And Clark is so funny as this guy who's saying he's an ER doctor. But then in the morning, she actually asks him to my wedding, which I was so excited when I was watching. I was like, oh, Clark Reagan, come to my wedding. How great. I don't remember him there. Well, that's because he didn't make it. Because the morning of the wedding, she's cutting a bagel. And you can tell that this is going to happen because they do a close up of her just recklessly sawing at this bagel with this knife. And of course, she cuts herself. And she, you know, goes to the man she thinks is an ER doctor who happens to be in her kitchen. And she's like, oh, it's really bad. And he's like, ah, don't put it in my face. And she says, what do you mean you're an ER doctor? And he has to confess that, no, in fact, he is not an ER doctor. He is an assistant manager at the. The Athlete's Foot, which is just painful. Okay, I'm sorry. That's pretty bad. And then I thought she was really gonna confess back and that they could have had, like, a shared experience of lying about what they did for a living. But she doubles down. She doubles down and she says something like, really cutting. Like she hopes he's never on her flight. And then he says, well, it probably wouldn't be in first class. He looks really sad, like a little doggy that you've been mean to. And she says, yeah, you wouldn't be in first class. And she's very haughty about it, like in her pretense Druidus manner. And then the good news is she takes Stanford to my wedding, which is great, because I do remember Willy being there, which is wonderful because he's always really funny. And he got us through the long day of Charlotte's wedding. Long day or days. Anyway. I just love Clark Gregg and I really feel like. I feel like it would have been great if they could have both confessed that they were both lying. But I also think it would have been great if she'd run into him again on the street or something in the future and they could have somehow gotten over it because he has such a great. I think he has such an intelligent presence and also funny. He's got a little twinkle in his eye all the time. Clark. Greg, as an actor where you're just like, what's he up to? What's he up to? I like that about him. He was great. He was a great casting. We have so many great guys, obviously, but he's great, Great, great casting. And I wish we'd had him for more episodes. All right, so that's it for our recap of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, which is a great episode. Thanks you guys for being with me for both parts. Let me know your thoughts. Come over to our Instagram. I love to see you guys. Comments. Are you a Charlotte podcast? That's us on Instagram and you guys can comment there. Tell me your thoughts about this episode. I do know that I think Cynthia has always said this is one of her favorite episodes and I really was like, wow. Yeah, this is one of our best episodes. I think this is when one of the first episodes where we really have almost more drama than humor in one particular episode. And I think it's because we're getting more confident in our long term story arcs and where we've gone with, you know, the Aiden Carrie big situation and also kind of playing out Charlotte's storyline more than like one, one date episode. So it's having like the payoff of investment is really happening now, which I love to see. It's great. It's great. And it's great to see that we have enough confidence to go there as actors, you know. Anyway, I love this episode. Thanks for joining me. Bye.
