[PREVIEW] 'And Just Like That' Finale Gave Us Aidan And Samantha (Sort Of)

While I was watching episode 8 of “And Just Like That’s” second season, I texted Claire an important question: Do I have Stockholm Syndrome, or has this show become significantly more watchable?After a much-needed nearly two-hour breakdown of the back half of the SATC spinoff’s sophomore season with Claire herself (!!!), my conclusion is that the answer is both.There were some real delights in episodes 7-11: Miranda going back to work and wearing the most beautiful ombre coat I have ever seen in my god damn life, Charlotte going back to work and getting blackout drunk with her chic colleagues (incredible commitment to physical comedy from Kristin Davis), Miranda having a classic SATC-style doomed meet-cute with an audiobook narrator played by “Younger’s” Miriam Shor, Carrie reconnecting with one of her all-time great loves, Aidan Shaw, an anticlimactic Samantha Jones cameo that somehow still reminded us how much we miss that character and Kim Cattrall’s distinctive embodiment of her. For the first time since the beginning of AJLT season 1, I felt like I was watching characters that seemed to resemble the people I knew them to be in the original series.But, of course, this is “And Just Like That,” which is to say that it’s a show that fundamentally has no fucking clue what it’s about or what it’s trying to say. It zips through storylines in 30 seconds. It has so many main characters that even though I enjoy most of them, none of them feel truly fleshed out. There’s some absolutely baffling uneasiness with talking about abortion. And for some inexplicable reason, Aidan believes that adulthood only begins at 20.Claire popped back in from mat leave to recap this stretch of AJLT with me, which is a real gift to us all. Hope you enjoy our conversation about this zany show we love to criticize, but also will watch every episode ever made. XoIf you liked reading this, click the ❤️ button on this post so more people can discover it on Patreon!Refer a friendGive us feedback or suggest a topic for the pod • Subscribe • Request a free subscription