"Hi, Mrs. Collier. I'm a Jew now. How are you?"
-Charlotte
Carrie brings Berger out for a dinner with the girls,
and the conversation flows smoothly, but things come
to a screeching halt when Berger gives Miranda some
blunt advice about her lovelife. The advice may be difficult
to hear, but ultimately, Berger scores points with the
girls for his honesty. Later that night, Carrie and
Berger share their first "I Love Yous," and
things couldn't seem to get any better.
Unfortunately, they soon get worse. Berger gives Carrie
a copy of his book, "Hurricane Pandora." Carrie
loves his writing, but gently ribs him for having a
female protagonist from New York that wears a hair scrunchy.
Berger does not take to this light criticism well, shutting
down completely, and becoming very cold to our Ms. Bradshaw.
Meanwhile, Samantha and Jerry's sex life is heating
up, with the pair acting out several different fantasies
in the bedroom. Sometimes Jerry plays an IRS agent,
other times a doctor... but the scenarios always end
with a steamy bedroom encounter. While acting out one
fantasy in a bar, Samantha is shocked by an unexpected
bit of information about Jerry... that he's a recovering
alcoholic. That puts the kibosh on the roleplaying for
a while, until Jerry manages to meet up with Samantha
and talk things out with her. Samantha accepts Jerry's
past, but seems less thrilled with his real last name:
Jerrod.
Miranda tries to test Berger's theory about men in
her daily life -- namely that men don't send hidden
messages to women -- but this backfires badly on Miranda
when she goes out with a man and misinterprets her date's
stomach ailments for a lack of interest.
The newly converted Charlotte takes to her new role
as a Jew with great vigor. She peppers her conversations
with Yiddish phrases and cooks Harry a massive dinner
for their first Shabbat together. However, Harry wants
to watch the Mets game during the Shabbos, leading to
a huge argument between the two. Charlotte demands that
Harry propose to her then and there, but instead, he
walks out of her apartment, leaving her as another single
Jewish girl in New York.
The tension between Berger and Carrie hits a boiling
point at a Manhattan bar when Berger notices a woman
wearing a scrunchy. He thinks that he finally gets one-up
on Carrie, but it turns out that the woman is actually
from Georgia, not New York. When the date ends, Berger
decides not to come upstairs with Carrie, but rather
than give up on the relationship, the two talk things
out. Carrie discovers that Berger is still smarting
from the commercial failure of his book, the real source
of his recent discontent. With that out of the way,
the couple make up and resume their perfect relationship.
- from HBO.com
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