It hasn’t been announced yet if there will be a third season of And Just Like That, but in the episode ‘Aidan Returns’, it finally looks like the series has hit the page with its fans. It was a round episode, at the closest pace to the original and we are more in tune with the old and new characters. Even if the drama is light.

So a mea culpa right away: I heard 30, but Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) said 13 years. Age interferes with hearing, sorry and in English the sound is more similar than in Portuguese. The account is right and every conversation between the two was perfect.

The reunion was sweet. Aidan’s (John Corbett) grief was also in the right tone, lamenting his widowhood and putting Carrie in her place when he returns to her apartment. The place may have held fond memories, but it was the catalyst for everything they’ve lived through: him trying to break down the walls, her loving someone else. There is much to revisit about this relationship, much more complex than the toxic one she lived with Mr. Big (Chris Noth) throughout Sex and The City. Aidan moved on, had the family he dreamed of, and now divorced can contemplate a third chance with Carrie. It could be the lucky one!

Aidan’s ‘return’ makes sense for who Carrie is. She is not daring or modern, she fell in love with a complicated man, tried to forget him, but since it was fiction, it had its happy ending, and life until death did them apart. It would make sense that instead of someone ‘new’, she would go back to what she already knew to start over. Lucky for Aidan’s availability (and the definitive disappearance of Jack Berger (Ron Livingston). In fact, it’s strange that even in New York, she never knows if he’s returned to writing or bumped into his ex-boyfriend, but that’s a topic for another post.

Aidan and Carrie rekindle a romance that divided fans while Big was around. Now you have the challenge of seeing how Carrie does as a stepmother, no more? No surprises.

Of surprise, no one else had anything to balance the series. Che (Sara Rodriguez) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) came to an end (as well as the comedian’s career), and the lawyer defined that her thing is really other women, it wasn’t just a passion. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) continues with the perfect life. An exceptional husband, daughters growing up and now he’s going to resume his career as a gallerist before she feels the empty nest complex.

We head into the final stage, knowing we’ll find Steve (David Eigenberg) moving on with her life, but we’re close to something happy for everyone. Are we on the same page?

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