I Never Liked Aidan for Carrie in ‘Sex and the City’ & ‘And Just Like That’ Proved I Was Right
The moment I realised And Just Like That creators are really bringing Aidan back, I knew it was a bad idea for so many reasons. And now I’m happy they have understood it too.
Carrie Bradshaw’s love and sex life were always the driving force of the iconic Sex and the City series, and it seems like And Just Like That wanted to keep it that way. But they failed immediately.
My personal deal with them is the way they treated Mr. Big, although it’s not so trendy now to root for him. Still, they killed off the guy in a shower in the most disrespectful way and made it look like Carrie didn’t even care about it that much.
And they waited one and a half seasons to bring back another big name of Carrie’s – Aidan. The way he was brought into the story was absurd, showrunners simply thought it would be a nice idea for Bradshaw to write him, and for him to appear hours late for their date, stand there in a cringe pose and say simple stuff.
Well, I was always an Aidan hater, but maybe some of his fans were happy to see him and probably even thought that the two of them will finally outgrow their differences in the sequel and be an endgame couple.
Wrong again. At the end of season 2 we learnt his luggage is just too big and Carrie has to wait again to be worthy of mister “I love my family but still couldn’t keep it together.”
Season 3 multiplied all the cringe by several times, bringing in the infamous hand-licking scene, the wardrobe scene, and the “I slept with Kathy” (which in my opinion Carrie should have had handled differently), making it impossible to believe that the writers don’t understand what they are doing. It felt like they were making the character unbearable, almost caricaturish.
“It’s like he’s slowly descending into something very sinister. All the pent-up rage, the yelling, the bossing everyone around, the disorganized lifestyle, the unpredictability,” Redditor seige197 said.
However, all the bad things he did during season 3 felt right for me – yes, Aidan IS just like that. And we all saw it way earlier in Sex and the City. Trust issues never go away when guys are weak enough not to embrace the reality and still live in their past traumas.
So the end of episode 9 and the fact that Carrie is finally seeing it all for herself is making me believe in a new love story approaching. And god, let this one be with Duncan…
