While I was watching episode 8 of “And Just Like That’s” second season, I texted Claire an important question: Do I have Stockholm Syndrome, or has this show become significantly more watchable?
After a much-needed nearly two-hour breakdown of the back half of the SATC spinoff’s sophomore season with Claire herself (!!!), my conclusion is that the answer is both.
There were some real delights in episodes 7-11: Miranda going back to work and wearing the most beautiful ombre coat I have ever seen in my god damn life, Charlotte going back to work and getting blackout drunk with her chic colleagues (incredible commitment to physical comedy from Kristin Davis), Miranda having a classic SATC-style doomed meet-cute with an audiobook narrator played by “Younger’s” Miriam Shor, Carrie reconnecting with one of her all-time great loves, Aidan Shaw, an anticlimactic Samantha Jones cameo that somehow still reminded us how much we miss that character and Kim Cattrall’s distinctive embodiment of her. …
