And just like that and the return of Aidan in the Valentine’s Day episode

The Valentine’s Day episode risked being a sugary letter to broken hearts. But no, in the second season of And just like that… (on Sky and NOW) it’s as if the writers suddenly pinched each other and woke up to report the protagonists on the right track.

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Which does not simply mean a happy ending for all but to return to show the range of feelings and situations that can be lived with or without a pounding heart.

The sixth episode seems almost a miraclea light in the middle of the hazy and somewhat boring haze seen so far.

Obviously the main reason is the Return of Aidan (John Corbett), which from a height of almost two meters, embraces Carrie managing to wrap her head over her heart. The deja-vu starts, the nostalgia effect and even the peacemakers of some viewers.

But, finally, it’s not the widow Bradshaw who sucks all the air out of the room and monopolizes every bit of the viewer’s attention.

Yes, why tAll the other characters – starting with the two best friends – make their needs and opinions loudly heard on Valentine’s Day.

Let’s start with Mirandawhich it seems very confused from LGBT+ labels and – without Che – he no longer knows what kind of partner to look for. Sure, the marriage had had her ups and downs with Stevie, and her move to Brooklyn hadn’t done her any good. Anyone who knows her knows that the home version of her is tight and doesn’t satisfy her, like the job of a lawyer in which she excels. To reinvent it, the writers inserted a non-binary character that few liked. And not because of her gender identity, but precisely because she doesn’t suit Miranda, she doesn’t pay attention to her, she doesn’t understand her and, even when the redhead moves to the other side of the United States for her, she treats her like a fan. bit too sticky. Let’s face it: you have a hypertrophied artist ego who wants to feel rebellious at all costs, even at home.

Having filed this unsuccessful lovestory, Miranda looks around, without prejudices and without second thoughts. And there back to being the champion that Sex and the City he had portrayed so well. About her Her unexpected Valentine’s Day date doesn’t go as she predicted and this makes us love her even more because it is very close to what the viewer finds himself stuck living. Nothing to do with the hot nights of sex galloping in desires and not even a shred of romance, but the squalor of the human inability to look the squalor of the human inability to look beyond themselves. Miriam Shor (star of Younger Of Darren Star, the creator of Sex and the City, as he told us at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival) however it is absolutely delicious.

Charlotte does Charlotte: she wants to prove that she is perfect in everything and with everyone to find fulfillment, but thank goodness she too comes to her senses at the end of the episode and understands that she cannot live according to her daughters and her husband. She takes back – even if daringly – her identity.

His best friend Anthony offers one of the most hilarious moments of the episode. To get her cake delivery service delivered by dudes off the ground, she finds herself as a guest on Drew Barrymore’s show but with none of the available employees. So thanks to Charlotte finds an unknown Italian poet in the bookstore that sells love poems for one euro, with a typewriter in the middle of the room. Handsome but not athletic, kind but not servile, with good features but not absolutely fleshed out by botox. It’s a note of freshness between steroids and touch-ups.

The actor chosen to play him, Sebastiano Pigazzi, is absolutely perfect for the role and the puns are funny without being too vulgar. Also thanks to Ross Matthews, American conductor, best friend of Drew Barrymore and juror of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Looking forward to Samantha’s cameothe other side stories are also very good, which show a different but no less pleasant Valentine’s Day.

It’s premature to say that And just list that… has risen from its own ashes but perhaps someone has found it in some dusty box in the attic the consistency of the charactersa crucial factor for the series but now missing for a long, too long time.

Carrie has now touched every single cliché of the loss without ever really living through it, at least now she can try again to find serenity with a man who has given her stability. And she who knows…