And just like that, Miranda Hobbes has found a new love interest.
After Season 2 of “And Just Like That…” saw the romance between Cynthia Nixon’s character and Sara Ramirez’s Che Diaz fizzle out, Season 3, which premiered on Thursday, started off with bang for the New York City master’s student.
Season 3 episode 1, titled “Outlook Good,” featured a guest appearance from Rosie O’Donnell, 63, who played a virgin nun named Mary. The pair meet at a lesbian bar, before heading back to Mary’s hotel room where they then have sex.
Mary is visiting the Big Apple from “a small town outside of Winnipeg, Dunnottar,” and works for “Compassion of the Unhoused.”
Although she never discloses to Miranda that she is in fact a nun.
Later in the episode, Mary and Miranda wake up in bed, with the nun telling her counterpart: “I’ve never experienced anything like that. Oh, you are really, really something.”
“It felt so, I don’t know, electric, and yet, still so natural,” Mary continues. “I never dreamed my first time could be both those things.”
After hearing those details, Miranda turns to Mary and inquires: “First time? So then, this was your first time with a woman?” to which her new friend shockingly replies, “This is my first time with anyone. I’m a virgin. Well, I was a virgin.”
“Yes,” she adds, “I’m a nun.”
Miranda later tells Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) what went down.
“In my defense, Mary never mentioned she was a nun,” the former lawyer stated. “And she was dressed like a regular lesbian… In fact, she didn’t mention it until right after she told me she was a virgin.”
“So, you deflowered the Virgin Mary?” Carrie responded.
Carrie had her own wild sex story herself. In one cringey scene, she and long distance boyfriend Aidan (John Corbett) have phone sex. As he sits in his car in Virginia, she is distracted by her cat back in Manhattan. And she inevitably gets interrupted when Aidan accidentally hits the horn of his vehicle.
“My goodness,” Carrie says. Later on, over cocktails, Carrie admits that she faked it. “And now I feel dishonest,” she sighed.
During the episode, Mary continues to text Miranda to meet up until Miranda finally shuts it down for good.
After O’Donnell’s cameo, fans took to social media to react to her guest star role alongside Nixon, 59.
One social media user wrote on X, “omfg, miranda finally comes out as a lesbian and her first pickup is rosie o’donnell as a nun, christ, wut,” while a second chimed in, “Giiiiiirl, Miranda and Rosie O’Donnell was not in my bingo card.”
A third person added, “Really Rosie O’Donell!!!’
“I was -not- expecting to see Rosie O’Donnell pop up!” exclaimed another.
Nixon previously got candid about Miranda’s life post-breakup with Che.
“One of the things that it meant was that Miranda was single again,” she told E! News on Wednesday. “And that the tensions between Miranda and Che—and also Miranda and Steve—had been quelled and quieted.”
“Just speaking for Miranda,” Nixon explained, “it meant that she was setting out on this new dating world having decided she wanted to date women and non-binary people, but not really quite knowing how to go about that.”
Season 3 of the “Sex and the City” spinoff, which also stars Kristin Davis, Nicole Ari Parker and Sarita Choudhury, will see a slew of guest stars, including Patti LuPone, Logan Marshall Green and “Law & Order” actor Mehcad Brooks.
Brooks, 44, will have his own love story play out while working opposite Parker, 54.
He exclusively told The Post about joining the series, “The part of my personality that will do anything for a laugh that has no place on ‘Law & Order,’ I get to do it [on this show].”
“One of the highlights of my career is that I get to act across from Nicole Ari Parker,” the star gushed. “I’ve known her for 20 years, we’ve worked together before – but never in this way.”
Brooks added, “She’s just a joy to be around, I’m learning so much.”
Sharing details about his character, Marion Odin, the “Desperate Housewives” alum said he is “an award-winning editor of films and documentaries and kind of a spiritual guy. He’s funny and goofy and just the kind of guy who is really helpful and earnest but also will do anything for a laugh.”
Brooks teased: “That’s kind of who I am, anyway.”
Without giving too much away, the actor did note that his relationship with Parker’s Lisa — who is married — gets “humorously cloudy.”
