Can Aidan Shaw and Carrie Bradshaw lastly make it work? And Simply Like That creator Michael Patrick King dropped an enormous trace about their future.
The Max collection, which serves as a follow-up to Intercourse and the Metropolis, will present John Corbett returning as Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) ex-fiancé in season 2. “I didn’t carry Aidan again to fail,” King teased in an interview with The New York Occasions on Tuesday, June 20.
Aidan was first launched in Intercourse and the Metropolis season 3 and was engaged to Carrie throughout season 4 till they cut up. Carrie couldn’t commit (and even carry herself to put on her engagement ring on her hand) whereas Aidan grew to become judgmental and vindictive.
The 2 crossed paths a pair occasions after ending their romance. First, Aidan made a cameo in season 6 with a child boy, Tate, in his arms. He revealed that he settled down with a furnishings designer named Kathy. Then, he appeared in 2010 film Intercourse and the Metropolis 2, revealing he welcomed two extra sons earlier than sharing a quick kiss with Carrie — regardless of her marriage to Massive (Chris Noth).
The primary season of And Simply Like That debuted in December 2021 and coated Carrie’s grieving course of after Massive’s demise. The second installment, which premieres Thursday, June 22, will present her shifting on.
“It’s a wealthy relationship,” Parker, 58, stated of Carrie and Aidan’s connection whereas talking with Leisure Tonight on Tuesday. “It’s undeniably thrilling as an actor and positively for writers to discover. Who’re they now? Are they good for one another? Are they, you recognize, apologetic? Are they making an attempt to course appropriate in some methods? Are they higher for one another? Are they worse for each other? And it’s only a massively joyful factor to discover with that actor, with John Corbett, as a result of he brings a lot to it.”
That levity is required after the columnist-turned-podcaster spent a lot of final season dealing with loss.
“There’s pleasure and curiosity and concern,” the Hocus Pocus star defined of Carrie’s love life. “I feel the way in which she’s pursuing it’s nonetheless with the hope and the optimism and the actual curiosity in it. However she’s a grown up and she or he’s an impartial one who isn’t needing to be reliant upon somebody. However she is somebody that’s, you recognize, deeply romantic and excited concerning the flirt, and the chase, however extra so maybe on her phrases than she would have been capable of create in her youthful previous.”
And Simply Like That season 2 premieres Thursday on Max with new episodes dropping weekly.
