10 TV Show Scenes With INSANE Implications
1. Aidan Dumps Carrie - And Just Like That...
Sex and the City's sequel series And Just Like That... kicked off with the sudden death of Carrie's (Sarah Jessica Parker) husband Mr. Big (Chris Noth), and in the recently aired second season, she rekindled her romance with Aidan Shaw (John Corbett) from years prior.
Carrie and Aidan previously broke up after Carrie had an affair with Big, and this baggage looms large over their newly resumed relationship, enough that Aidan won't even go in Carrie's apartment due to the unpleasant memories it invites.
Near the end of the season, Carrie sells said apartment and the pair plans to move into a townhouse to accommodate Aidan's sons, but once the ink has dried, one of Aidan's sons is involved in a DUI accident.
A guilt-riddled Aidan decides he needs to be there for his sons and so breaks things off with Carrie, moving back to Virginia and making a pact with Carrie to pick things up again in five years when his sons are adults.
This outcome was widely criticised by fans as a blatant, lazy attempt to inject more drama into Carrie's life and keep the show going, but it also invited a prominent and strangely believable fan theory, that the whole rekindled relationship was actually a revenge ploy by Aidan.
Whether consciously or not, many have surmised that Aidan teasing Carrie with a happy ending only to pull the rug out and make her wait another five years was basically a means of punishing her for cheating on him in the past.
It's certainly a more compelling implication than the writers simply having no better way to drive a dramatic wedge between them.