Our long, national nightmare is over. Che and Miranda have broken up. As we all raise a glass to celebrate V-Che Day, let’s also reflect on everything else that happened during And Just Like That Season 2 Episode 6 (“Bomb Cyclone”), a wintry tale of virginity, widowhood, and Hamptons real estate.

This episode starts and ends with Carrie’s laptop. As we begin, Carrie, still promoting her book, has to do a Zoom interview with an influencer who has done no research whatsoever on Carrie’s latest memoir. The book is about Big’s death and Carrie’s grief, but this interviewer doesn’t know that. We all understand that the internet can be a vapid place where research, grammar, and facts are an afterthought, but Carrie’s interview underscores that and then highlights it and circles it in red Sharpie.

When a bewildered Carrie tells her interviewer the book is about death, the girl is all, “Hilarious,” and then asks uncomfortably, “What lipstick shades are you just loving right now?” The joke is that the young influencer is so “effing slammed with her other content” that she has no idea who she’s talking to or what she’s talking about feels like, but to quote last week’s episode, this feels like “a walking boomer joke.” What happens next is one of the great pratfalls of the series, performed by an actor we’ll call Mac Book: Carrie’s laptop falls off the empty box she’s using to prop it up (been there!, effectively ending the interview, and Carrie mutters, “Oh, thank God.”

Carrie is a seasoned author and is no stranger to book promotions, but being a widow promoting her book about grief is a whole new ballgame for her. When her agent Amanda sends her to Widow-Con, a convention for women who have lost their spouses, she looks forward to it even less than she looked forward to answering a question about loving a berry lip. (What is Widow-Con? “It’s like a rock concert, but for sad people. So like a Wilson Phillips concert,” Amanda says. Hold on, what did Wilson PIhillips ever do to you, Michael Patrick King and Rachel Palmer?)

Even worse, the conference is run by Karrie with a K, formerly Karen, formerly Carrie with a C’s old writing partner from the ’90s, and their relationship is awkward at best. (Before you Google it, no, Rachel Dratch did not guest on Sex and the City as Karen/Karrie, but I would love a flashback to their early ’90s relationship if that’s ever a possibility.)

Carrie asks Che to come to Widow-Con for moral support and Che reluctantly agrees… they’re even more reluctant when the day of the event turns into a snow squall. But while at Widow-Con, Carrie is flummoxed by the fact that a hack-y comedian named Patty Thomas (Julie White) who is making corny jokes about being a widow is killing, and Carrie has to follow her. Carrie reads from her book relaying a message of personal growth and change, and while it’s not funny, she wows the crowd, Che included, with her message about moving on.

Carrie’s embracing of widowhood also means she’s embracing her new single-ness, so not only does she agree to rent a Hamptons house with Seema (“I have never asked another single woman to share a summer house, it just seemed too tragic, too Bravo TV… but you and me with our own two-bed, three bath on the beach? Fun. Fabulous, Not tragic at all,” Seema tells Carrie as they shop for a new laptop at the Apple store.) And just like that, we have the premise for the next summer episode, whenever that season rolls around.

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On the other side of town, Charlotte is scrambling to be a modern, supportive, sex-positive mother after Lily announces that she’s planning to lose her virginity. After making sure Lily uses protection, she encourages her daughter to make sure she takes care of her own needs in bed. This grosses Lily out, prompting Charlotte to go from sex-positive to “sex-annoying,” per Lily. But it’s not so annoying when, at her boyfriend’s apartment during the blizzard, Lily calls Charlotte, desperate for condoms, which neither teen has. So Charlotte trudges in the snow and, despite her quaint Upper East Side apothecary being closed for weather, Charlotte somehow comes through for her appreciative daughter.

This is a genuinely sweet scene of a woman helping her daughter be a responsible adult, which is why it’s so weird that, as Charlotte is all proactive for prophylactics, she calls Carrie, and the two have the weirdest conversation about condoms ever. When Charlotte asks if Carrie might have condoms in her apartment because she had been hooking up with Franklyn, Carrie asks, “Why do you need condoms, and why do you think I would have any?” and Charlotte says, “I just thought…”

“Thought what?” Carrie asks, “That I was worried about getting pregnant?”

“I don’t know, like for STDs or whatever?”

“You thought I had an STD situation?” Carrie asks. I mean, anyone can have an STD situation, Carrie! Why is Carrie being so uptight about this? Even Lily, who learned about condoms in 5th grade, understands their myriad uses and benefits, why does Carrie think she’s above the law when it comes to safe sex all of a sudden? It’s weird enough making Carrie a prude, but making her condom-averse is weirder still.

Perhaps the best thing to come out of this bomb cyclone? The fact that Cheranda is done. (And over before I could even coin Cheranda as a nickname! It’s for the best.) True to this show’s core value of making Che the worst, the episode begins with Che refusing to snuggle with Miranda. I truly can’t decide which of Che’s affects is worse, the unnecessary insertion of bad sex jokes (i.e. currylingus, or when Miranda says, “Come here,” as they lie in bed during this episode and Che responds “Come where? We both just came.”) or their harsh denial of Miranda’s basic wants and needs. When Miranda says, “I want to cuddle,” Che actually says, “Ew,” followed by, “Cuddle? What am I Paddington Bear?” I could not hate Che more and that is partly because they’re treating Miranda like a pest, and partly because the Paddington movies in particular are cinematic treasures and invoking any negativity toward the Paddington brand is a dealbreaker.

Wait, yes, I could hate Che more: after saying goodnight to Miranda, they roll over in bed and start to record a series of Cameos – from bed! not even sitting up?! – while Miranda tries to sleep. Since Che’s pilot was canceled, they’ve been in a deep depression, and Cameos are the only way they can pay the bills on the Hudson Yards apartment they never should have moved into. Miranda rightfully wonders why Che couldn’t have recorded these videos during the day, and they fight, so Miranda gets up to leave. Che, the ultimate gaslighter, responds, “You’re leaving?! Great, another thing for me to feel bad about.” For the first time all season, Miranda finally asserts herself with Che, who accuses her of only wanting the upbeat, successful comic version of them, and tells Che, “Don’t talk to me like that. I don’t deserve that,” and you can feel Old Miranda rising up from the muck, making a triumphant return.

Miranda still has to contend with her divorce from Steve though, and at dinner with Nya, Charlotte and Carrie, she says she hopes her split can take a cue from Nya’s: Nya and her ex, Andre, are in the silly texting phase of their breakup, as they’re both determined to have a pleasant, no-fault divorce, as opposed to Miranda’s “all my fault” divorce. This gets everyone talking about their exes, with Charlotte reminiscing about Trey, and Carrie mentioning that she’s cyber-stalked a now-divorced Aidan, which prompts her to draft an email to that old wood-working so-and-so. She doesn’t hit send though… not yet.

Of all the new faces on the show, Nicole Ari Parker’s Lisa Todd Wexley has proven herself as the one with the biggest and best storylines. First off, you’ve got to admire LTW’s commitment to walking wherever she needs to get to. Earlier this season, it was the Met Ball when she forgot to confirm her van, and now it’s to MOMA, where she’s being honored as a Black woman filmmaker, which she has to trudge through the snow to get to when her car service cancels on her.

Her entire story took up just a couple minutes of the episode, but the show has managed to give her some poignant scenes this week, allowing us into that sacred space as she removes her wig (and later replaces it in the public restroom), and again when Herbert shows up to support her at her talk, forgoing his own event in the process. (She also delivers an A+ line after Herbert’s penis gets stepped on by his daughter. “Just tell me: Is it broken?” she asks. “Because if it is, I’m out of here.”)

Miranda really went through it this week. After dealing with Che’s rejections and generally distant behavior, she heads to her house in Brooklyn where she and Steve have it out. Just as Miranda finally found her voice with Che and stood up fro herself in their relationship, Steve does the same with Miranda, first by telling her he lied, he has no plans to move out of their house, and then by tearing into her. “This is my house. You never wanted to come here to Brooklyn. You never wanted me, and you, you never even wanted Brady, so why don’t you find a new place and get the fuck out of our lives” he yells as she cries. Steve immediately apologizes, saying, “This is not who we are.” Steve is so wounded and his reaction is so real, despite the fact that he took it back immediately, his scene resonates because we’ve all said the thing we were thinking and shouldn’t have said at some point in our lives. He and Miranda spoon on their bed and it seems like maybe his outburst was what they needed to get to that point in their breakup of silly texts and pleasantries… until Miranda finds out he was sleeping with “the Whole Foods girl.” Here she’s been, thinking Steve was the victim in this situation, but she storms out when she realizes he’s been getting his kicks 365 Everyday.

Miranda seeks comfort from Che, which Che does not offer (why start now?!), instead, Che explains that their relationship is also over. “This probably isn’t going to get any better,” they say, and then, mirroring Miranda’s scene with Steve, they spoon on the bed, the sad spoon of love that can’t be rekindled. Literally no one is sad about this.

In the final scene, Carrie is back at her computer hoping to rekindle some of Aidan’s old wood. She pulls up the draft the of email she write to her former fiance, and says, “And just like that, I realized some relationships are meant to stay in the past, and some aren’t.” And whoosh, the sound of sent mail signals a fresh start with an old flame.

Liz Kocan is a pop culture writer living in Massachusetts. Her biggest claim to fame is the time she won on the game show Chain Reaction.