And Just Like That… season 3 just did something so wild that I am literally struggling to cope. In last night’s episode, Aidan visits Carrie in New York, and after a very frustrating back and forth about a window, he reveals that he’s actually freaking out because he slept with his ex-wife Kathy. It happened in a moment of tension in their family, and they were comforting each other. It’s a huge revelation, and is even more ironic considering Carrie’s cheating is the reason why Aidan broke up with her during the original series.
In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Sarah Jessica Parker responded to the choice to have Aidan sleep with his ex-wife, saying that she kind of, sort of understands how this happened. Does she think it was cheating? Here’s what she said.
“I think if you share a child and that child is in trouble, and you both have distracting amounts of concern and worry, that reaching out for comfort, which might be almost a habit in their marriage, I wouldn’t find it overly taxing to understand that and not be outraged by it,” she said. A very diplomatic answer!
It’s all part of the confusion in Carrie and Aidan’s relationship this season. Are they together? Are they not? Even they don’t seem to know. While Aidan is deeply apologetic about sleeping with Kathy, Carrie seems less upset about it. She wasn’t planning on literally waiting for him for five years, even though it seems like that’s what he expected. SJP said the lack of clarity is where they went wrong.
“This probably happens with people who are really familiar, who are intimately involved and are doing their level best to be decent to one another,” she said. “They needed to deconstruct it further. And I think they were both trying to be so good to each other that they didn’t pursue what the definition really was. And I think it was because they were trying to honor this idea. If either party had pushed for more meaningful definition, the end result might have been that they wouldn’t have agreed to it.”
Yeah, it feels like there were some big missteps here. It’ll be very interesting to see how this shakes out the rest of the season.
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