SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers from “A Hundred Years Ago,” the eighth episode of Season 2 of “And Just Like That,” now streaming on Max. I was as skeptical as an…
This review contains spoilers from “A Hundred Years Ago,” the eighth episode of Season 2 of “And Just Like That,” now streaming on Max.The “” character, Carrie’s other great love and one who, in his status as an obvious second choice to Big, wasn’t really so great, seemed to have run out of dramatic possibility a while ago.
Which makes “And Just Like That” as brilliantly frustrating as it’s been in its two-season run. We’ve been living with the stories set up in “Sex and the City” for some twenty-five years now. And like any friendship, or any relationship, of such long standing, the pleasures of engaging with the characters now are double: The comfort of familiarity, and the realization that even those we know best can still surprise us.
Wrong, but not out of character. Carrie has spent the run of “And Just Like That” grieving, and grief does strange things. Carrie is neither precisely repeating the beats of her past relationship with Aidan nor totally forgetting their history; she’s refracting it all through the reality of the past years of her life, ones in which she’s been painfully lost and alone. Of course Aidan looks like a lifeline. He comes from a time when her life had a sense of possibility.
But it’s Sarita Choudhury who gets the best bits of the episode, a fine reward for a performer who’s tended to be better than her material in the early going of the show. Choudhury’s Seema is legitimately put out at Carrie’s having outright forgotten their plan to summer in the Hamptons together, and is unwilling to adjust their plan to accommodate a friend who has eyes only for her boyfriend.
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