And Just Like That… Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: Lessons in Chemistry.
What do you think will happen when you “haven’t had [the] discussion until now” about how Aidan asked you to wait five years for you, Carrie? Aidan “cheating” on you, that’s what!
If Carrie agreeing to that last season (which she says she didn’t in this episode) wasn’t infuriating enough, her reaction to hearing that Aidan slept with Kathy is bafflingly even-tempered, which is great for personal ~growth~ but not very dramatic for a television character. Sure, Carrie did the same to Aidan all those years ago, so she doesn’t have any right to be too angry, but to come to that conclusion in three minutes is puzzling. And yet they still don’t talk about it, on-screen at least.
It’s always been a battle of the intellectual and the physical between Carrie and Aidan. Instead of dealing with their issues, Aidan thinks home renovation will fix both the problems in his relationship with Carrie and the antique glass he smashed in her French door. I can’t help but notice the similarities in Wyatt smashing a window a couple of weeks ago and Aidan breaking Carrie’s window (and heart?) with his childish antics in this episode.
Meanwhile, Duncan is appealing to Carrie’s cerebral side, and the two are bonding over sharing pages of their work. Hiding under Duncan’s curmudgeonly first impression, after all, is the tall glass of water that is Jonathan Cake. Aiden better (hopefully!) watch out!
Other things I couldn’t help but wonder about:
Lisa’s father dies and the crew trek to New Jersey for the funeral, organised by the general manager of his theatre company who has hot sauce in her Michael Kors bag, swag.
Harry has a good survival rate, but his treatment forces him to choose between long-term bowel dysfunction and long-term erectile dysfunction. In a scene earlier in the season, when Harry and Charlotte are trying to have sex and Harry is having performance issues, prompting him to get the symptom checked out (along with peeing his pants in the club), Charlotte poses the question: “Will not having sex mean that we aren’t Harry and Charlotte?”