This episode isn't about a pair of Manolos. The shoes are symbolic, however. The episode is about how single people, especially women, are shamed for their lives if they don't include marriage and children. They're also shamed if they spend money on themselves, when they've likely spent a lot of money celebrating their friends' marriages and children. Carrie gives a spot-on speech about this while hanging with Charlotte- "If you are single, after graduation there isn't one occasion where people celebrate you... I'm thrilled to give you gifts to celebrate your life, I just think it stinks that single people are left out of it..." and she's completely correct. The end of the episode is incredibly satisfying, with judgy friend Kyra being told to watch her children who are running amok in Manolo Blahnik, and Carrie nicely wrapping with the statement, "Sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then, to make the walk a little more fun."
This is a more cleverly written episode that does a better job of articulating the married vs. Single debate that was clumsily presented in season 1's "Bay of Married Pigs" episode.
This is a more cleverly written episode that does a better job of articulating the married vs. Single debate that was clumsily presented in season 1's "Bay of Married Pigs" episode.
