And Just Like That… Season 2 Episode 6 Bomb Cyclone
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) proved she’s still working girl goals as she kicked off the episode rearranging her laptop in the perfect configuration for a Zoom interview only to have the interviewer ask her favorite lip color when she was trying to discuss her new memoir about the death of her husband, Mr. Big (Chris Noth). Thankfully the computer “literally leapt to its death” so she could get out of that nightmare.
At a girls night dinner with Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis) and Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman), the subject of Carrie’s past loves comes up. Enter: The Aidan Shaw moment fans have been waiting for.
Noting they’ve had “no contact” in years, Carrie admits that she knows, “He’s living in VA now and he got divorced five years ago and he sold his furniture company to West Elm for quite a pretty penny.”
Fans will recall that the last time we saw Aidan (John Corbett) was in Abu Dhabi for the franchise’s second film, Sex and the City 2. The exes shared a steamy kiss that immediately made Carrie feel guilty and tell Mr. Big. In the best reaction of all time, he moved past the moment by gifting her a black diamond ring.
But now that it’s been more than a year since Big’s death, Carrie has Aidan on the brain and drafts an email to her ex-fiancé, starting with “Hey Stranger.”
In the email, she says she was thinking of him and wondering how he was doing. Though she doesn’t send it at first, it’s clear something will be happening in the future. After trekking through the elements in the world’s most fabulous puffer coat of all time, Carrie has a successful appearance at “Widow Con,” reading an excerpt from her book. The moment inspires her to move on and she ends the episode by saying, “And just like that, I realized some relationships are meant to stay in the past and some aren’t,” and pressing send on Aidan’s note.
Meanwhile, Charlotte’s daughter, Lily (Cathy Ang), makes the announcement that she’s planning to lose her virginity to her boyfriend. For a brief rewind here, Lily stealing Carrie’s phone is the reason behind her failed first wedding to Mr. Big. Lily’s piano recital is the reason Carrie wasn’t home when Mr. Big had his heart attack. And now Lily ends up sending her poor mother out into a bomb cyclone snow storm to buy her condoms so she can lose her virginity. And we couldn’t help but wonder if Lily is actually the villain of the SATC franchise.
