Enter Franklyn (Ivan Hernandez): the tall, handsome, emotionally intelligent producer of her podcast. He was safe. He was kind. He didn't have a "dark side."

But AJLT wisely refused to give us the simple happily-ever-after. Instead, it gave us the logistics of a second chance. Aidan still carried the scars of Carrie’s affair with Big. He demanded time—five years of patience while his sons grew up—before he could fully commit. Carrie, now in her 50s, was asked to wait.

While the Che relationship ultimately imploded (they were too self-absorbed to truly partner with Miranda), the result was a Miranda who finally knew what she wanted—eventually finding a quieter, more compatible love with the intellectual, grounded Joy (a promising Season 3 arc). The point wasn't Che. The point was the earthquake. Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis) has always been the romantic purist. In AJLT , she got her most adult test: her perfect husband, Harry (Evan Handler), began experiencing erectile dysfunction.