In this clip: Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker
About the clip: A livid Carrie confronts the married Miranda who has a drinking problem and just had sex in the kitchen with her boss. The scene extends the aquatic misadventure ( the show seems obsessed with drinking, peeing, crying and wetting ) of the previous when a tremulous Miranda realizes it is too late to make amends for Carrie's soaked sheets and her soaked nethers. The married mother of a teen acquiesces that she couldn't feel that in a long time what she did with Ché but continues to receive the moral lecture from the diva about "that other activity in the kitchen".
The scene takes a more serious turn when we witness that the moment perhaps meant more to Miranda than to Ché who seems emotionally unavailable after getting her off. The apologetic Miranda is amnesiac of her behavior, still reeling under the heady intoxication of her moment.
Miranda, realizing she just (Ché)ated on Steve, discloses to Carrie that she's trapped and unhappy in her marriage since forever and we can safely conclude that her once-in-a-lifetime-moment with Ché was like "the match burning in the crocus" that Virginia Woolf describes between Sally Seton and Clarissa Dalloway and that which is a staple in lesbian literature on married women in dysfunctional marriages that lack the emotional intensity that women crave and reminisce with longingness and depravity. Although Carrie appears to empathize with Miranda rather than berate her, at the scene's closure, it befits the occasion to say:
"Until the talented Bradshaw is better able to grasp the complexities of married life... she would be better advised to explore the vow of silence".