And Just Like That, I’m Gonna Snap

Gird your loins.

The first thing I need to do is apologize to you. In my recap of the finale of season one, I praised them for not wasting Hot Franklyn the Podcast Producer, and then wrote, “This probably means they’re gonna dig up Aidan in season two.” Reader, what if I did this to us? What if this is the same evil force of the universe that, years ago, responded to a lunchtime conversation about whether Richard Pryor was still alive BY HAVING RICHARD PRYOR DIE LATER THAT DAY? Why would I put those WORDS into the UNIVERSE, knowing that I occasionally have great and terrible powers?

Second: Carrie Bradshaw is DELUSIONAL. And no one is calling her on it; ergo, her friends are also DELUSIONAL. The producers are, I fear, DEEPLY DELUSIONAL. It’s one thing to want to explore another nuance to a familiar relationship, but quite another to be so revisionist about it that you end up fire-bombing six seasons and two movies. AJLT feels so divorced from reality sometimes that it’s folding back around on me and m…