‘And Just Like That …’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: Bringing Sexy Back

Season 3, Episode 8: ‘Happily Ever After’

If anyone else had been wondering where the sex has been in this “Sex and the City” spinoff, it showed up in Episode 8.

First, we have Carrie and Aidan, who were able to have sex this week because Aidan was actually able to come to New York. As he tells Carrie, once Wyatt returned from Outward Bound (which was confusing because didn’t Wyatt refuse to get on the plane?), he decided he wanted to live with only Kathy.

While this is obviously sad for Papa Aidan, it’s clearly not that sad because it means he can visit with Carrie almost indefinitely. He shows up on her doorstep with tons of baggage (pun absolutely intended) in the hopes that she will clear her calendar for the day, or week, or lifetime.

The two make love and then nap — a true dream — but Carrie wakes up just in time to make her meeting with her neighbor Duncan, with whom she’s swapping pages and notes. It’s strictly a working relationship, she fibs to Aidan, conveniently leaving out the Scotch-sipping and smiles they shared last week.

But Aidan isn’t buying it. He is curious about Duncan, at the very least. Invite him to dinner with us! Aidan suggests, but Carrie knows better. Sharing a meal with your “boyfriend” and your “flirking” buddy kind of kills the magic on all sides.

Some might cringe at the term “flirking” — a portmanteau of “work flirting” — but not me. If it becomes the Magnolia Bakery cupcakes of this franchise and trends all over the place, I’m OK with it. I think all of us have been unconsciously searching for a word to describe the way we behave with our work crushes, and we finally have it.