Aidan Shaw is again. On And Simply Like That… season two’s seventh episode, “February 14th,” Miranda dives again into the relationship scene with blended outcomes, Charlotte has a profound pot-brownie induced revelation, and Carrie lastly comes face-to-face along with her previous flame, Aidan Shaw. Nonetheless Watching hosts Hillary Busis, Richard Lawson, and Chris Murphy are right here to unpack the complete factor.
For a second there, it seemed like Aidan and Carrie would by no means reconcile. After taking pictures out her “Hey Stranger” e-mail in episode six, Carrie begins episode seven by opening her laptop computer to seek out that Aidan has not solely responded, however desires to satisfy for dinner. On Valentine’s Day, no much less. However when Carrie arrives to the restaurant, she is greeted by, effectively, no one. After ready an agonizing half an hour for Aidan to point out up, Carrie is about to lose all hope when she sees her ex-fiancé on the road, having proven as much as the improper restaurant. The machinations of this virtually missed connection do pressure credulity: “She actually would’ve waited half an hour on the improper restaurant with out making an attempt to determine the place he was?” requested Busis. “She by no means thought to get his telephone quantity earlier than agreeing to this date?”
Plausible or not, Carrie and Aidan ultimately find yourself on the similar dinner desk, after which exterior Carrie’s condo. At first, the ex-lovers fell again into their previous rhythm with out skipping a beat. However as soon as they’re standing exterior Carrie’s brownstone, previous wounds from their damaged engagement start to open for Aidan, inflicting him to have second ideas. Lawson appreciated how And Simply Like That gestured again to Intercourse and the Metropolis and all the issues Carrie and Aidan had as a pair by giving Aiden chilly toes, noting that it “can be a sillier fantasy if none of that was acknowledged.” However though it is acknowledged, finally Aiden is ready to let bygones be bygones (so long as he does not have to enter her previous condo) and ends the episode by kissing Carrie.
“I feel that the tip of the episode units us up for extra to return,” Lawson says. “It is very tenuous, however in the mean time simply comfortable to see one another and comfortable to have discovered one another on the similar second.”
Elsewhere , the surreality continues when Anthony winds up on The Drew Barrymore Present accompanied by Giuseppe, a model new Sizzling Fella bakery worker with a really massive baguette in his pants. This ends in a a splendidly weird cameo from Drew Barrymore herself, basking within the glow of Giuseppe’s baked items. “Drew Barrymore is actually on a special planet,” says Murphy. “And I might like to dwell wherever she lives.” And after setting Anthony up with Giuseppe, Charlotte by accident eats one among Lily’s pot-brownies, touchdown herself within the hospital but additionally facilitating an essential realization that it is time for her to get again to work. So do not be shocked if there’s extra of Victor Garber‘s gallery proprietor Mark Kasabian because the season continues.
Whereas Charlotte skilled some essential profession readability, Miranda, recent off not one however two break ups, realizes that she does not actually know what she’s in search of in a accomplice. She goes on her first post-Che date with Amelia Carsee (Miram Shor), an audiobook narrator who initially appears straight out of Miranda’s beloved Jane Austen novels, however who finally leaves a lot to be desired. Moderately than keep on a nasty date in Amelia’s cat crammed studio condo, Miranda decides to depart, which Murphy was comfortable to see. “I haven’t got to remain on this small, cat-litter-filled condo simply because this scorching girl invited me over,” says Murphy, following Miranda’s thought course of. “I’ve company. I can go away.”
For extra on all issues Aidan and Carrie, you may hearken to the complete breakdown of “February 14th” beneath, and, as at all times, ship questions and feedback to Nonetheless Watching at stillwatchingpod@gmail.com.
