Why won’t Aidan enter Carrie’s apartment on ‘And Just Like That’? Their past gives clues

When news broke last summer that John Corbett was set to reprise his role as Aidan Shaw — Carrie Bradshaw’s other great love, the one whom she could never commit to for too long — on the new season of “And Just Like That,” it simultaneously felt like a played out joke straight out of a Che Diaz comedy set and the best news ever. “And Just Like That” creator Michael Patrick King recently told the New York Times: “I didn’t bring Aidan back to fail.” Here’s a look at Aidan’s return on Thursday, his intense reaction to Carrie’s apartment and the history of the drama surrounding their relationship. How their relationship began Carrie and Aidan Shaw begin their romance in Season 3 of “Sex and the City.” Carrie originally meets Aidan in Season 3 of “Sex and the City”, after Stanford shows her an ad with the furniture designer’s photo in the paper and drags her to his store to swoon in-person. Aidan’s other return Aidan and Carrie meet in an Abu Dhabi market in 2010’s “Sex and the City 2.” In Season 4, after having a brief interaction with Aidan at the launch party for the bar he opens with Steve, Carrie uses email for the first time to initiate a friendly hangout with her ex in hopes of rekindling their romance.