And Just Like That... (TV Series) February 14th (2023) User Reviews

Best episode yet

[drbarbc-526-517466 · 9/10 · 28 July 2023]

One word: Aiden. He brought us back to the best of this show. That warm hug seemed to be exactly what Carrie needed.

Many of us have been in Miranda's shoes. High expectations we've found someone special, only to learn that exterior veneer is exactly that. I fell in love with a woman over the sound of her voice. I could listen to her read the phone book, but it didn't make for a meaningful connection.

Che looked great w/a hat on. So beautiful. Thought the hair was all wrong. Guess that's true.

Overall, this episode brought me back to those early days I was so glad my parents had HBO. This show, now, they should renew.

Ahhh Aiden, can you save us?

[Mothership8 · 7/10 · 30 July 2023]

Totally agree with other reviews in the fact that it was a pleasant welcome to have Aiden back but can he save this show? We'll have to wait and see but it's a start.

Now onto Miranda - why is she so desperate to find a date when her and Che only split up 5 minutes ago? They're making all the 50-60 year old's desperate as hell and totally consumed with thinking only of sex. Very unrealistic. If Miranda is unsure of her sexuality why is she only cruising gay sites?

Oh Charlotte, why are you acting like a Stepford wife/mother? Just stop now please and stop referring to your daughter as more than one person - you're just confusing her and us.

I love watching Mario (Anthony) as he's a great funny actor but once again the writers have to make him a gay bimbo. Did we really need a new young guy with a supposedly large um package? It wasn't funny, just embarrassing. Even Drew Barrymore couldn't save that ridiculous scene.

I really wanna like this show and I do love some of the scenes but a lot of it still falls flat and seems to focus too much on superficial wealthy women who continually want to outshine their men, instead of maybe, just maybe acting like their equal.

Getting it back

[cleo-45376 · 7/10 · 28 July 2023]

There's a lot of plot shifting in this episode as the ladies return to their old selves. Charlotte, who has been an irritating irate mother figure of late, realises she needs to focus on herself again which is a relief, because her kids were taking up a lot of screen time and the audience for this show is largely not interested in bog standard family dynamics of whinging kids.

Given how much audiences hated this character from the get go, reducing the screen time of Che is a welcome relief, so we can all rejoice from here on in.

Wussy Carrie (why can she not speak up for herself in the restaurant? Is she a New Yorker at all???) finally reunites with Aidan in what I can only describe as a pathetic, poorly 'written for tension' reason of will they won't they, which sees Aidan initially turn down Carrie because of the memories her flat gives him. Come on! No man in the history of time and space would turn down an offer of sex because of such a terrible, feminine reason, and really highlighted how the show is written by people who don't understand how straight men think. Still, the show is an enjoyable piece of fluff, an escape from reality. Especially with Antony and his bakery business, a character who definitely needs more screen time over the pointless and uninteresting new side characters.

In all, this is a return to form for the show, obviously wrapping things up for the ever nearing season conclusion.

We finally have an episode that feels like the original series.

[CHUDMasterPatriot · 10/10 · 29 July 2023]

The episode was great. The writers finally gave us an episode that resembled the original series with the exception of Charlotte's storyline. Miranda's and Carrie's stories were excellent. Speaking from someone that is 45 years old and a rabid fan of the original series, this episode was funny with Miranda's date, and emotional with Carrie's re-connection with Aiden. Aiden refusing to go up to Carrie's apartment because of the pain of the breakup was very realistic for a man that remembers now bad it felt to end an engagement. I loved Carrie's response by acknowledging his feelings and validating them. Miranda's date was also something I've experienced; meeting someone and thinking they're a perfect match and then getting overly excited and dressing up only ti get disappointed right away. I'm excited to where the characters end up at the end of the season. I'm hoping Miranda and Steve reconcile. I really like the three new ladies on the show and detest what they've done with Charlotte. She's annoying, her kids are awful and entitled, and she tries to hard to be the perfect parent. I hope things get better now that she is going back to work. Harry is great and so is Anthony. He is still funny and ridiculously over the top. The only one missing is Samantha; the best character of the series which we all know will return in the finale.

Not getting any better.

[likealark · 6/10 · 1 August 2023]

The show spent all of season 1 showing us how inclusive it is and establishing "colorful" new characters, and now they are completely superfluous. There is so much time spent on giving each sub-character a scene that the show feels completely disconnected and shallow.

Now onto my beefs with this particular episode... the edibles scene could've been so much funnier if the writers had given it a couple more minutes of screen time. Wow, Miranda is moving on quickly and seems annoyingly chipper, despite the fact she is having a sexual identity crisis. Why the hell didn't they explain why Carrie was at the wrong restaurant? And what is the deal with all of the child sex!?!?

I'm sticking with the show out of nostalgia, and no other reason.

Worse the second time through

[nmottel · 3/10 · 21 October 2023]

I decided to give season 2 of And Just Like That another watch to see if my criticism had softened. Nope. There are so many things the writers didn't get right (pun intended). Charlotte and Harry were once a strong couple. Harry is now a wimp and Charlotte a door mat for her bratty dids. There is NO WAY this couple from the original series should have morphed into such insipid parents. Miranda is displayed as an inept klutz in both her personal and professional life. No, no, no. She was the feistiest of the four original women and now a wimp. We come to Carrie and her renewed relationship with wimpy Aiden. First off, Aiden looked ridiculous in his designer jacket. Yes, lose the flannel shirt but leave the guy some dignity in his manner of dress. And seriously...Aiden wants to end their first date with sex but can't step foot in Carrie's apartment? Come on, what a wimp. Since I know where this story line is going I've decided I cannot watch season 2 to completion. I am aware of my overuse of the word but "wimp" but that is how I called it when watching the season 2 episodes.