And Just Like That… Season 2 recap: All you need to remember as Season 3 premieres on HBO Max

And Just Like That season 2 ended in August 2023 with its final episode, The Last Supper Part Two: Entrée.

Now that season 3 is set to drop on HBO Max, it is worthwhile to jog your memory about everything that went down on the show's second season. And Just Like That started out as a Sex and the City revival show, aiming to continue Carrie Bradshaw's saga in the present day and age with new romantic quests and challenges.

The finale episode of the sophomore season was set against the backdrop of Carrie organizing a farewell dinner. The finale did justice to several ongoing storylines, while also setting up plot points and narrative threads that could be taken up by the third season of the HBO Max show.

By the end of the second season of And Just Like That, Miranda tried her best to settle things with two of her exes, Che and Steve. Carrie, on her part, decided to take a five-year break from Aidan.

And Just Like That season 2 brought back the familiar Sex and the City vibe

If there's anything that Sex and the City has taught us, it's the fact that Carrie's romantic life always takes a turn for the unexpected, and that's what happened towards the end of And Just Like That. The penultimate and the final episodes covered the farewell dinner, and it was quite the extravagant event, raking in points for being a Michelin-star dinner party. Aiden had been consistently avoiding coming up to meet Carrie at her New York apartment throughout the second season. The finale episode, however, saw him unexpectedly turning up to meet her during the post-dinner party.

We haven't forgotten that Aidan and Carrie broke up twice on Sex and the City and reignited their passion for a brief period of time on the 2010 film Sex and the City 2. Aidan now made it clear that being close to his children and playing an important role in their lives was all that mattered to him. This came after the previously depicted car accident in which his son Wyatt was injured, and that had caused Aidan significant pain.

Although Carrie understood that Aidan cared most for his children, she was disheartened once he started talking about breaking up. Trying to find a middle ground on And Just Like That, Aidan proposed that they break up for five years, i.e., until Wyatt grew out of his teenage years, and Carrie surprisingly agreed to it.

The second season of And Just Like That also saw Miranda reconciling her differences with Che and Steve. The season portrayed Che as an annoying character and this was further intensified after the comedian demeaned queer peoples' lives in his new standup set. Taking Carrie's advice to not always throw out her exes out of her life, Miranda visited Steve at his hot dog-clam shack at Coney Island. She asked if they could be friends, adding that he had been right about several things except about their relationship. Although Steve disagreed with her, they did share a moment of closure.

Moving on to Che, Miranda tried to convince him to be friends, partly on account of Carrie's impending dinner party. Che described their relationship as a "train wreck", followed by Miranda's assertion that it was a beautiful kind of wreck in which nobody dies and they get off at a new place. On the other hand, the season finale also featured a surprise cameo from Kim Cattrall's Samantha Jones. Upon knowing about Carrie's dinner party, the London-based publicist couldn't help but book a flight to New York. However, flight delays didn't allow her to reach the apartment in time.

Nya didn't receive much narrative importance throughout the second season of And Just Like That, but this was remedied in the finale episode. After being nominated to the American Law Institute, she bemoaned not having a man to share this with. However, she soon bonded with Michelin chef Toussaint Feldman, who was catering Carrie's party. Lastly, Carrie and Seema took a vacation to Greece and ended up sipping cosmopolitans on the beach.

Showrunner opens up about And Just Like That season 2

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Variety magazine following the conclusion of And Just Like That season 2 on HBO Max, showrunner Michael Patrick King shared his unique insights about the creative process that went on behind the scenes. When asked about how the final scene with Carrie and Seema on the Greek beach came about, King noted:

"I actually said to the writers right away, “Whatever happens, it ends with Carrie and Seema on the beach, looking out at the horizon” — whatever that means. What it meant to me was: It goes on, and it’s a tribute to women without men. It’s a tribute to glamour. It’s a tribute to pluckishness. A lot of these last voiceovers, from the very first one, “And just like that … Big died” — I mean, you can’t get more heavy and dark and poetic than that. When I was writing the last voiceover, it’s the most casual one: “And just like that … I ordered two more Cosmopolitans.”

He was then asked the significance of the five-year break-up between Carrie and Aidan:

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"It gives us more story. It gives us an open end. It gives us a complicated problem. It gives us space. It gives Carrie a big thing to think about, you know what I mean? What it gives us is a problem that we have to figure out: how Carrie Bradshaw finds her way through this to love."

And Just Like That is available on HBO Max.

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