Aidan’s ‘And Just Like That’ Return Has Given The Show New Life
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers from “A Hundred Years Ago,” the eighth episode of Season 2 of “And Just Like That,” now streaming on Max.
I was as skeptical as anyone when it became clear that Aidan was returning to “And Just Like That.” The “Sex and the City” character, Carrie’s other great love and one who, in his status as an obvious second choice to Big, wasn’t really so great, seemed to have run out of dramatic possibility a while ago.
His appearance in “Sex and the City 2,” with a credibility-straining chance meeting in Abu Dhabi, seemed only to be happening to cast into relief what worked, and what didn’t, in Carrie’s marriage.
Aidan’s own qualities as anything other than not-Big didn’t meaningfully enter the story. With “And Just Like That,” Max’s continuation of the “Sex and the City” TV and movie franchise, the writers seem to have finally figured out what to do with Aidan: Embrace his not-Big-ness.
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