And Simply Like That Season 2, Episode 7: Aidan’s Return

Joyful V-Day in July, lovers.

This week’s installment of “And Simply Like That” is brimming with pinks, plaids and ghosts of boyfriends previous as our favourite 50-somethings tackle February’s infamous Hallmark vacation.

First up, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) will get her long-awaited reunion with — drumroll, please — Aidan Shaw (John Corbett). However, in basic Carrie trend, she makes a couple of mistaken turns alongside the best way.

When Aidan asks her to Valentine’s Day dinner, Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte dissect his e mail (a la Nora Ephron) for clues as as to if Carrie’s former fiancé is flying solo as of late.

Carrie arrives at her 8 p.m. date at a fashionably late 8:07, and she or he’s greeted by a desk for 2 with zero ex-boyfriends in sight. After an extended half-hour, throughout which Carrie wonders if she’s been stood up, she realizes that an ill-placed handle quantity threw her off.

As Carrie dashes subsequent door, she meets Aidan standing on the street, tall and good-looking as ever.

They share an extended hug and Aidan says to her, “Once I’m with you, it’s like 10 years simply …” He trails off and snaps his fingers.

It’s a touching reunion with Miss Bradshaw’s one which bought away, and it ends with the 2 of them on Carrie’s similar stoop from twenty years in the past, the place their entire relationship fell aside. Aidan will get chilly ft when he’s confronted with the house the place all of his and Carrie’s skeletons nonetheless dwell.

“I can’t do it,” he says, over Carrie’s protests. “I’m not moving into there once more with all that.”

However one wide-eyed look from Carrie will get them again on the identical web page.

“F–okay it,” Aidan says. “That is New York. They’ve resorts, proper?”

Carrie’s not the one one with a sizzling date for Valentine’s.

A pair months after her massive breakup, Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) kicks off this week’s episode making an attempt to determine if she’s homosexual homosexual or if she was simply Che homosexual. (Sara Ramirez’s single scene this episode sees Miranda and Che bringing a stray pet to an animal shelter.)

Assembly sizzling lesbian audiobook narrator Amelia Carcy — whose Jane Austen recordings Miranda used to jog to — instantly settles the query. The women set a Valentine’s Day dinner, giving Carrie the prospect to tease Miranda about her “Nice Sexpectations” for her literary woman.

“May Ms. Carcy be your Mr. Darcy?” Carrie quips.

Unluckily for Miss Miranda, her sotto voce sweetheart seems to be a slob with soiled sheets and an evil cat named Pickles. However throughout a basic mid-date telephone name with Carrie, Miranda finds energy in realizing that — as a 56-year-old on the courting scene — she will simply go house. Not such a foul debut for newly anointed “Lesbian Miranda,” in spite of everything.

Our different fabulous singletons, Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury) and Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman) don’t have time for love this episode. When a spa schedules Carrie and Seema for a pair’s therapeutic massage, owing to their Valentine’s coverage, Seema threatens to trigger a Yelp storm, however Carrie rushes her out earlier than she will begin a “February 14 spa rebellion.”

“Single folks have rights too!” Seema yells.

Nya takes her first Valentine’s Day post-divorce extra in stride, and declares that she might be having a “me-vening.” She whips up a chocolate souffle for one and decides that the one “physique” she wants at her desk is a full-bodied glass of pink wine.

Switching over to our married crowd, Charlotte and Harry (Evan Handler) York-Goldenblatt have just a little run-in with “Until demise do us half.”

Whereas ready for a desk for his or her romantic dinner, Charlotte complains about their ungrateful youngsters.

Lily (Cathy Ang), who bought damaged up with two weeks earlier than Valentine’s, was terribly ungrateful about Charlotte letting her have an “F the boys” occasion — full with Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” blaring within the background.

Rock (Alexa Swinton), with whom Charlotte scoured town seeking a modeling company after the success of their Calvin Klein advert, abruptly determined they’re not — even accusing Charlotte of getting “‘Dance Mother’ vibes.”

Charlotte works herself up till she thinks she’s having a stroke. “I can really feel my blood!” she shrieks to Harry.

However as an ER physician quickly informs her, the brownie she snagged from Lily’s occasion earlier was just a little extra Mary Jane than Betty Crocker.

Tremendous excessive and feeling low, Charlotte realizes it’s time to do one thing for herself, and decides to take Mark Kasabian (Victor Garber) up on his job provide at an artwork gallery from a couple of episodes again.

This week’s installment additionally includes a enjoyable cameo from Drew Barrymore, who has Anthony Marentino’s (Mario Cantone) Scorching Fellas bread supply service on her discuss present.

Lastly, Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) declares battle on son Henry’s girlfriend, Baxter. Baxter is just a little too PDA-obsessed for LTW, who decides to set a “booty entice” earlier than leaving the teenagers alone in her house in order that she’ll be capable to inform if they’ve intercourse in her mattress.

The mattress is meticulous when she and husband Herbert (Christopher Jackson) return from dinner, however one thing isn’t fairly proper. Lisa finds Baxter posing along with her über costly purses — a capital offense for these fluent in Hermès.

“Intercourse, that’s one factor,” Henry’s dad scolds him. “However your mom’s closet? Have you ever misplaced your thoughts?”

Lisa discovered a husband who understands that it’s higher to mess with the mattress than the Birkin, and that’s a fortunately ever after if we’ve ever heard one.