The date began with a miscommunication and Massive’s identify even got here up, earlier than one main impediment nearly introduced the night time to a halt.

John Corbett’s return was identified earlier than the brand new season even premiered, after he and Sarah Jessica Parker have been noticed on set collectively throughout filming. Aidan’s identify additionally got here up on final week’s episode, as Carrie mirrored on her previous love and crammed in her mates — and viewers — on what he is been as much as since he final appeared on display in Intercourse and the Metropolis 2 again in 2010.

Whereas the 2 hadn’t had any contact with each other for years, Carrie knew from social media that he was residing in Virginia, made “fairly a reasonably penny” promoting his furnishings firm to West Elm and has been divorced for about 5 years. She additionally emailed him to see how he was doing.

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This week’s new hour started with Carrie seeing a response from Aidan in her inbox, saying he was coming into city for a gathering and asking whether or not she wished to satisfy for dinner that Thursday … which simply so occurred to be Valentine’s Day. There was some debate between the opposite girls over whether or not he knew it was the romantic vacation or if that night time simply occurred to be the one one he was free.

As she later met up with Seema (Sarita Choudhury), Carrie admitted she was “very nervous” about her dinner date with him later that night.

“What if he is totally different, what if I am totally different?” she requested. “I’ve had like an entire life, what if it is an excessive amount of time? We have not laid eyes on one another for 13 years. 13 years.“

Whereas Seema stated Carrie nonetheless seemed unimaginable, she hoped the identical for her ex.

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When it got here meal time, nevertheless, Carrie started to surprise if she’d see him in any respect.

All through the episode, viewers noticed her checking the time on her cellphone as he nonetheless hadn’t proven up for the 8pm date by 8:30. Since that they had reconnected through e mail, she additionally did not have his new cellphone quantity, so she could not contact him through a name or textual content. Ultimately, she received a message from an unknown quantity saying, “I am right here, the place are you?”

Seems Carrie walked into the mistaken restaurant, due to the deal with for the right spot — which was proper subsequent door — being awkwardly situated in a pillar between the 2 buildings. As she rushed exterior, he emerged from the restaurant wanting good-looking as ever; a large smile then took over Carrie’s face, earlier than he pulled her right into a candy embrace.

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As soon as seated, she puzzled how he seemed “precisely the identical” 13 years later.

“I misplaced 40 kilos since I emailed you final week,” he stated, earlier than sharing his condolences for Carrie’s loss, after her husband — and his former rival — Mr. Massive died the earlier season.

“I used to be sorry to listen to about John,” he informed her. “I wished to put in writing you, however I did not know if I ought to. However I used to be occupied with you. I learn your guide about it and it was unhappy and exquisite.”

She assured him she was “higher” now, as they each shared they thought that they had been stood up and revealed they have been additionally each single. “We’re on the identical web page,” he famous, one thing they by no means actually gave the impression to be prior to now.

After their dinner date, he agreed to return to her place — however was shocked to seek out out she was nonetheless residing within the brownstone they as soon as shared. “I assumed you had a special place,” he stated, seeming very uncomfortable with the thought of stepping foot inside their former house.

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“On the restaurant I assumed, how nice, this feels actually nice, we’re again the place we began,” he informed her, “however that is the place we ended with the f—ing wall I could not break by way of and the flooring I redid. It is all unhealthy, it is all in there.”

Carrie tried to guarantee him that whereas it was the identical location, they weren’t in the identical place as folks. She additionally informed him that the within “does not even look the identical” — due to wallpaper and paint — earlier than including, “And it wasn’t all unhealthy, Aidan, was it?”

“I simply cannot do it. Irrespective of how a lot I need to,” he informed her, standing robust. “I am unable to go in there once more with all that. I am by no means stepping into there once more.” She understood, quipping that “it felt too simple” as they reconnected throughout dinner. “I suppose time does not heal every little thing,” she stated, “Irrespective of how a lot you need it to.”

With that, he started to retreat from her stoop … earlier than turning again, exclaiming, “F— it!” and suggesting they discover a resort. The episode ended with the previous lovers sharing a giant, lengthy kiss, as Carrie added in a voiceover, “And identical to that, Aidan and I have been again on the identical web page.”

However will they have the ability to make it final this time? With Aidan residing in one other state and refusing to ever step inside her house, there are actually just a few hurdles to clear earlier than this romance is totally rekindled.

New episodes of And Simply Like That … drop Thursdays on Max.

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