And Just Like That 2: what Aidan is doing there and everything we know about the second season

After the success of the first season, news broke in March of 2022 that the sequel to Sex and the City – And Just Like That…, had received the green light for one second season. John Corbettwho played one of Carrie’s boyfriends in the original series, Aidan, would reprise his role in season two. And it looks like it won’t just be a fleeting cameo, after images of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Aidan (John Corbett) hand in hand on the streets of Manhattan set social media ablaze.

Shared by Parker and the Official HBO Max Series Account as a co-post on Instagramthe roundup of images on the set has the caption: «Shh. Don’t tell anyone». The images show Carrie in a typical her ensembles, in gray velvet boots, a shirt dress and matching tartan coat with a hot pink cape, with long hair down. Carrie’s apparent reunion with her ex sparked the debate in the comments, ranging from “He’s still hot” to “Carrie, PLEASE don’t hurt him!!!!” and even «He’s too good for her», and again «Stop representing toxic relationships as a love story» and «Not him, please».

Set more than ten years after the last film by Sex and the City (widely panned by critics), And Just Like That… follows Carrie Bradshaw, Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) – alas, without Samantha Jones (Kim Catrall) – in a new era, with teenage children, marital breakups, career changes, and identity crises to deal with.

The reboot was a huge streaming hit, becoming HBO Max’s most-watched series ever by the time it premiered in February of last year. Viewers were happy to return to New York and the whirlwind lives of Carrie and her trusted friends; moreover, new characters have been introduced such as Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez), Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) and Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury), after the creators responded to requests to incorporate more racial diversity and LGBTQIA+ representation into the reboot.

The first season brought fans back into Carrie’s life in a moment of dramatic crisis for the character: at the beginning of the series, in fact, her husband John “Big” Preston (Chris Noth) dies following a heart attack. Over the course of nine more episodes, viewers accompany Carrie as she learns to handle life in the wake of the mourningmaking new friendships and reaffirming old ones, embarking on new career projects and diving back into the world of blind dates.

Last we saw Aidan (when he and Carrie shared an ill-timed kiss in Abu Dhabi in the second film), he was married to one other person, after two breakups with Carrie – and also a thwarted engagement – in the original series. Being a key character in the series, fans were surprised that he didn’t appear in the first season of And Just Like That…; King later explained, “It just felt like it was too much for Carrie’s life…We wanted her to get over Big’s death first».

Created by Darren Star, the original series of Sex and the City was based on the rubric of New York Observer and on Candace Bushnell’s subsequent book. And Just Like That…, instead, it is developed by Michael Patrick King (writer, director and producer of the original series and films), with Parker, Davis and Nixon among the co-executive producers.

To take the show’s fabulous fashion aesthetic into a new chapter, Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago, who worked in the series’ costume department (under the guidance of the legendary Patricia Field), created some extravagant creations for the new spin-off.