And just like that, HBO Max’s Sex and the City sequel series returns for its third season. And Just Like That… brings back our long-time New Yorkers Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristin Davis), as well as relative newcomers Seema (Sarita Choudhury) and Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker), to our televisions and laptops. What is summer without our gals talking candidly about sex, making bad puns, and dining and drinking around the city?

Like previous seasons, Eater will be tracking where the gang is eating across New York City, from brunch sessions to romantic dinners to cocktail dates. This guide will be updated weekly when each episode airs on Thursdays at 9 p.m., leading up to the finale. And we’re saying it now: there will be spoilers ahead.

Episode 9, “Present Tense”

THE THING THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR HAPPENED. The women are finally saying the things they want to say, and the plots actually move forward. Hooray: Carrie and Aidan are no longer. They’ve been grappling with old habits, resentment, and trust issues. Aidan can’t get over Carrie cheating on him a billion years ago and the fact that she’s hanging out with someone who gets her writer sensibilities and smokes a pipe (remember his whole anti-cigarettes thing from before?). And Carrie is shrinking herself to be right for him. So, they break up while an on-the-nose Taylor Swift song plays.

“Present Tense” is a decent episode among a spate of duds, thanks to a lot of callbacks to Sex and the City that made the original series enjoyable. Carrie and Duncan’s relationship recalls her failed tryst with novelist Berger and the scrunchie debate, while the slapstick comedy antics of Charlotte navigating her vertigo and Harry’s post-surgery bulge remind me of the plot where they both get food poisoning.

100 East 63rd Street, near Park Avenue, Upper East Side

Seema rushes over to chef Daniel Boulud’s restaurant (which is playacting as a spot called Pelican — maybe the show couldn’t get the rights to use the name?) to meet a client. She pre-orders a truffle pizza, and the guy comments on whether the server has “body order” (oh god), and Seema realizes it’s her. She heads to the bathroom, which is occupied, so she takes out emergency deodorant (doesn’t everyone have one of those in their bags?) and slathers it on in public without embarrassment.

253 West 11th Street at West Fourth Street, West Village

Aidan texts Carrie while she’s shoe shopping, asking if she wants to meet for lunch at “that place we love” — it’s the second reference to a neighborhood spot they frequent this season. It turns out to be the longtime West Village bistro (not to be confused with the San Francisco-based bakery chain of the same name). Aidan’s already there, sitting at a patio table near the door, and orders them iced teas. They have an honest conversation about his trust issues and her frustration that everything she’s doing for their relationship will never be enough. Their tenses reveal how they feel about their relationship, speaking in the past rather than the present. And just like that, they’re done. Cue Taylor Swift’s “How Did It End?”

113 Greenwich Avenue, at Jane Street, West Village

The real Carrie Bradshaw is back: she’s in a hot dress walking along the cobblestone streets of the West Village, meeting her friends at the Italian restaurant. We’re peering into the restaurant from the outside, seeing Carrie greet each of her friends as if she’s returning after a long time away.