{"id":71026,"date":"2025-08-16T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71026\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:34:10","slug":"and-just-like-that-s-finale-was-perfect-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71026\/","title":{"rendered":"And Just Like That \u2026\u2019s Finale Was Perfect, Actually"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night, the fever dream that was And Just Like That \u2026 fizzled out with the most bizarre half-hour of television to grace a screen. After 27 years of fandom, Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda bid us adieu with Bond Vet product placement, pie montages, and many close-up shots\u00a0of a toilet overflowing with poop. To viewers, it was an emotionally unsatisfying, debasing, and frankly vengeful ending. But to showrunner Michael Patrick King and star Sarah Jessica Parker, it was apparently perfect.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Variety<\/a> ahead of Thursday\u2019s finale, King noted\u00a0that the decision to end things here \u201cwas not made at the beginning of the season,\u201d while also insisting this is the right spot for the story to end. \u201cIt\u2019s an instinct,\u201d he said. \u201cAnyone else could keep going. I can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a separate Variety<\/a> interview with Parker, King said the two of them instinctively knew when to wrap Sex and the City, and apparently they had the same gut feeling this time around, notwithstanding the fact that they spent the bulk of this season on the horror show of Aidan Shaw and other bonkers plotlines that evaporated into nothingness. \u201cWe both look at each other and go, I think this is where we are,\u201d King said. \u201cThe thing I get from Sarah Jessica is this complete willingness to stop when we want to, and not just keep going because we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked explicitly about what they chose to include (and not include) in this episode, King and Parker defended their decision to skip out on a scene of Miranda, Carrie, and Charlotte together, and instead spend precious minutes on a toilet crisis. Parker suggests there was actually no need to \u201cpaint a portrait of a threesome\u201d in the finale because the \u201cdecades of profound intimacy and friendship\u201d among these women are supposedly implicit. Actually, this season has led me to suspect these once tight-knit friends all hate one another and are doomed to stay in each other\u2019s lives out of habit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe audience understands, and we don\u2019t have to assure them. Everybody\u2019s well. Everybody\u2019s good. Everybody is solid. Everybody ends together,\u201d said Parker, who added that Carrie\u2019s ending \u201chonors the audience\u201d and \u201cdoesn\u2019t just exploit them in some way.\u201d Being assailed with turds? I\u2019ve never felt so honored in my life.<\/p>\n

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