"And Just Like That"-Thread 5

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The finale will be the most disappointing finale of all time.

I love how HBO didn’t bother changing the preview to say “series finale” instead of “season finale.”

The closing shot will be of the back of a stylish blonde walking through a busy London restaurant, her cell pressed to her ear.

We hear Kim C, “Carrie Bradshaw? Never heard of her. Anyway, what fun I'm having here in London…” We see her arrive at a table of smart, sophisticated people, a gorgeous man taking her hand lovingly to lead her to her chair.

… and that man is Duncan.

Has someone considered what will happen to Kristin Davis after this is over?

SJP and CN will both work. KC never stopped working. KD is shito out of lucko

Kristin Davis also is a single parent of two kids, a 14 year old and a 7 year old. She needs the money.

“She needs the money” as if she’s a minimum wage worker…

She can't act in this, who the fuck would hire KD for anything else?

Charlotte and Harry will do just fine once they land an erectile dysfunction medicine advert.

R3

Because it’s not, they are doing two extra episodes to wrap everything up now

[quote]Kristin Davis also is a single parent of two kids, a 14 year old and a 7 year old. She needs the money.

She made $33 million for doing AJLT.

Damn

Is Kristin Davis “on assistance”?

I agree this finale looks lame.

You just know she's moving back to her old apartment.

Did that girl buy the apartment from Carrie?

The writing is so bad, it won't surprise me if Carrie trades her townhouse for the tiny apartment.

I think Carrie is just leading it to Lisette, right?

If so, wouldn’t Lisette have needed Carrie’s permission to subdivide the unit?

^You can lead a Lisette to your quarters but you can't make her think.

No, she sold to Lisette at a great price, which is how Lisette could afford it

What did KD do between SATC/AJLT ventures...nothing much. Somehow she survived. Her kids are little--she'll be able to spend time with them.

They can look cold and waif-like as unemployed mommy shakes a tin cup at Grand Central begging for coins.

Is Lisette that grubby looking woman who makes hobo jewelry?

Tomorrow’s the day!

What will we do with ourselves afterwards?

I guess we can hate watch “Landman.”

I got the impression the English writer had been coming to NY and renting that apartment off and on for awhile. Why all of a sudden is he not ever returning? Did I misunderstand or did he bolt from Carrie?

Wouldn’t you bolt from Carrie?

Is he going to claim he can’t write there any more because Carrie is too much of a distraction?

[quote] Maybe you imagined Miranda peacefully partnered and living in Brooklyn? Alas, Miranda spiraled into alcoholism and embarked on a journey of sexual self-discovery that included an interlude with one of the most justly ridiculed TV characters ever.

I haven't followed the show, so can someone explain more about that justly justly ridiculed TV character referred to? Thanks!

You haven’t followed the show but have commented on every thread?

R29, this is my first time on any of these threads. I read something in the Times on the show and thought I'd ask what they were referring to.

I’m not ready. What could have been.

I’m ready for it to be put down. A disaster filled with vain, egomaniacal actresses.

SJP seems to truly believe she is supermodel gorgeous. It is really baffling.

The writing was terrible, but I did admire SJP’s willingness to play downbeat and subdued at times. I wish they had done more with that.

I don’t think there has ever been a character as overindulged as Carrie Bradshaw. Usually the lead gets knocked down a peg or two by their costars. Typically they are injected with their own doubts and humility. But Carrie has always been an untouchable. It would actually make a lot of sense if we learn that this entire thing, since 1998, has been her fantasy fiction, considering reality has never controlled her behavior or others’ behavior towards her.

R28 sure if you’ll pay me my going rate!

Today’s the day. Sigh. Even though I enjoyed the series, AJLT could’ve been so much more. It is stunning SJP, who I believe is smart, allowed for such shoddy writing. It’s mind boggling. I’ll be sad to see this go, though.

I thought the last episode was a two parter? That means next week will be the final episode.R35 is right about Carrie. Once SJP became a producer, Carrie had zero flaws both in looks and personality in the world of both shows. Everyone around her was awful, but never her.

Wasn't last week Part 1, R38?

[quote] What did KD do between SATC/AJLT ventures...nothing much. Somehow she survived. Her kids are little--she'll be able to spend time with them.

She was having mad, passionate sex with her heterosexual lover John Travolta. The heat from their coital sessions was so inferno-like the fire department had to called on several occasions. They lost count of the mattresses they’ve gone through so far🔥.

R39 yes

It’s almost over!

“Somehow she survived”

Again, she isn’t a minimum wage worker. She made millions off SATC the show and then was paid millions for the films. She also makes a lot off royalties.

You seem to think she’s working for $10 an hour.

It will never be over. Not as long as Sarah Jessica has anything to say about it!

In tonight's episode, she wakes up in bed next to Matthew.

I figure we’ll be on Thread 6 in record time tonight!

Did you bitches pick up some yogurt, bananas and Mexican Cokes for tonight's viewing party?

Prediction for tonight

Carrie is told she is fabulous

No Kim Cattrall

Carrie ends up with London guy

Miranda is humiliated for old times sake

I assume Miranda is found wandering the streets of New York, naked and crying out "Baby Mama, where are you, Baby Mama???"

Finale is only 34 minutes…

It also contains “sequences of flashing lights, which may affect photosensitive viewers”.

Be warned.

***Spoiler***

Harry gets a hard-on 🍆🍆

The Baby Mam is crazy and manipulative. Carrie really needs to ditch the shoes when she's at home. Miranda 's girlfriend seems less of a psycho.

They wrapped things up in the best bow possible. Not the worst episode, but not very good.

R48 “the London guy” Duncan’s last episode was episode 10. He isn’t in 11 and 12 because these two episodes were filmed a few months after the rest and they couldn’t get him back.

We are 7 minutes from the end of the entire franchise, and we have shit coming up out of a toilet.

The end credits gave me a lump in my throat, I’m not going to lie. Nice touch, if not a little too late…

What a shitty ending

well, that was a lovely meh. Adios, bitches of AJLT.

An extended pie metaphor?! Oy vey.

R46 there ain’t enough shit to make this thread last that long.

I would like the record to reflect, I ain't going anywhere near that shit.

I did crack up when that ditsy queen started voguing. Stupid, but you have to take what you can get here.

Was it necessary to show that shitty toilet for a full 30 seconds (or however long it was)

good riddance, AJLT. you were the crème de la crème of excrement tv. i will miss hate watching you.

Interview with MPK about the finale.

[quote] Whenever anyone in this universe, “Sex and the City” or “And Just Like That,” stands on a soapbox to make a speech, the soapbox breaks. We cannot take ourselves too seriously. For the gorgeousness of Carrie’s pink, sparkly top and tulle skirt — that’s the high — the low is a toilet filled up with shit. Because guess what? Being single, there’s a lot of shit, and relationships are a lot of shit. It’s the comedy, with the drama, with the romance, with the fairy tale. I guess it’s a response to the fairy tale.

Deadline interview with MPK, which includes [bold]spoilers[/bold].

And just like that, he admits how bad this series really was.

Sweet fucking Christ MPK, what was that?

He stole the plot from DL;

Spoiler alert: Poo - Shoes!!

Wow, MPK is so deep.

Not forced to marry anyone and I got to show my naked ass.

Winning!

Another interview with MPK in THR. He is shoveling more shit tonight than Epcot!

This is also where we wanted to leave Miranda, cleaning a toilet.

Too bad the robot didn't attack her in the Chinese restaurant.

"For a show that tended to treat its characters, plotlines, continuity, and viewers like shit, it was rather fitting, I suppose, that And Just Like That… would go out with one final turd. I just didn’t expect it to be so literal."

Miranda’s woke Thanksgiving came complete with a grumpy pregnant teen, her trans friend EPCOT, and a cartoonishly loud gay stereotype — the kind that could be used in a PSA about how gays for Gaza since Che is no longer available to do it.

I think we all know who committed literal violence tonight!

EPCOT was less annoying than the rest. Brady must have been massively drunk to fuck Mia.

It was my favorite TV finale ever!

I had just started eating my lunch when the toilet scene started.

Seriously, all that fucking bullshit about her nobility just so that bitch could hand out a bunch of pies to fuckers all over town.

This is Spike Einbinder, who played Epcot tonight, the character who provided the most unforgettable part of tonight's finale. He is Laraine Newman's FTM son.

His sister in Hannah Einbinder from "Hacks."

Epcot was played by Hannah Einninder’s sister-brother

WTF did I just see? Honestly, I thought they'd at least end the series with everyone around a table. No Carrie delivering pies and then all the characters having separate festivities, disastrously.

Lisa and Charlotte’s arcs end with perfect marriages where they are more in love than ever with perfect families and they never have a financial care in the world. So relatable!

Rock is going to be many people throughout their life. (Pan away to KD family all looking interested and close knit).

Even my deaf cat could hear the sound of my eyes tolling at that bullshit.

This is pretty terrible trying to stitch everything together at the end.

We're back to "I have to accept that I may be alone." Carrie did this in SATC. They should have had her sitting at an outdoor cafe drinking a glass of red wine like she was the first time.

[QUOTE] They should have had her sitting at an outdoor cafe drinking a glass of red wine like she was the first time.

Or walking into the ocean to commit suicide like Joan Crawford did in Humoresque.

So Carrie walks in to her house after being out for the day and the cat isn’t at the door waiting for attention? Does she lock Shoe in a room when she goes out?

Or getting finger banged by Che ending with, “ and just like that, I’m the one who’s a lesbian.”

R82. Please God, don't let Spike anywhere near his/her sister's show, Hacks.

Yeah, I quit that bitch. I'm living with Samantha and Duncan now, in swinging London!

[quote]We're back to "I have to accept that I may be alone." Carrie did this in SATC.

She was back with Big at the end of SATC..She wasn't married but she was partnered. At hhe end of SATC, all four ladies were happily partnered. Having Carrie be on her own is far better than that bullshit SATC ending.

Are Brady's baby momma's friends supposed to be funny?

A lot of pissing, shit, and reference to shit smells in this episode. What an odd way to go out.

Who did Victor Garber piss off (pun intended) to deserve this?

Poorly executed show goes out with a whimper. There is no way that (1) King and Parker voluntarily chose to end this show this way; and (2) Parker doesn't work like hell to continue this somehow/somewhere else.

Im curious about the IP ownership and rights to all of Carrie et al. Who has the call about future projects? Could Candace Bushnell state this thing was so lousy and assert an IP right to stop King and Parker from future efforts? AJLT did real damage to the value of this franchise.

[Quote] My parents are huge Disney fans. - Epcot

Well they dropped the ball by not naming you Goody.

^Goofy

R99 Too late, sweetie. I was about to burst out laughing.

That was VERY underwhelming - even for AJLT. I get it, they have to account for everyone and show us where they're at as the series ends. It's just not well-executed. I never really took to the show, but didn't hate watch it - I wanted it to take off and be better. It had a few pretty good episodes, but was pretty lackluster overall.

Excuse me, we didn't all get closure! Who am I fingerbanging now? And whose kitchen am I in?

It should have ended like this.

I felt bad for Carrie having to spend Thanksgiving with Miranda and Brady, Charlotte's boss and those Gen Z freaks. If she were on DL, she would have material for a great post for our annual Let's Pretend We're Thanksgiving Dinner thread!

Who were the unknown characters in that quick shot of Miranda and Joy early on - late teens who I swear called Joy "Mom". Maybe they were explained in something that hit the cutting room floor. I thought that Joy's whippets were her only babies.

New York Times recap.

On the bright side - Victor Garber is obviously getting plenty of hydration.

My friend and I were watching at the same time and talking on the phone, and when the toilet started overflowing, we lost it. She said it was like there was a turd for every horrible plot line over the last three seasons.

One of my favorite things was this bitch wanted to change her garden...and says so at the end of November in New York.

Indiewire.

I was hoping Aunt Gladys would show up at Carrie's door. Or Miranda's door.

The finale was truly awful.

No attempt to tie up much of anything, yet we spend a lot of time visiting pie woman, hearing about Joy’s dogs, visiting a bridal fashion show (?!), and of course hanging out with three brand new Gen Zs and an overflowing toilet.

Didn’t some website publish a story a few days ago saying the cast only found out the show was ending a day before the public found out? So, not a planned ending.

It’s kind of hilarious how this blew up in SJP’s face.

Even though she acts like in every interview that she has no idea that reviews are bad and people hate watch the show, she had to know that this kind of ending for a legacy reboot is literally right down the shitter!

Kim was right to run far away from this mess.

Perhaps the worst episode of the entire reboot. What the fuck was that?

And no New Yorker in 2025 is going to go from neighborhood to neighborhood in a cab to hand off pies.

Why did Miranda’s guest bath open right into her dining room? One of a hundred questions—was it all intentional, to make this ending as awful as possible?

I’ll miss the show due to the discussion here and elsewhere. Sometimes the phenomenon is better than the product. Can’t wait for the next iteration. Until then!

R115 and be the last one to leave at the end of a very log day, yet the sun was still streaming into her townhouse when she got home. In November. And there was no traffic to hinder her deliveries—when there’s a huge fucking parade on the streets…

And among many other ridiculous things, why did the karaoke song have singing on it?

And who the fuck throws a bridal fashion show uptown in Central Park during Thanksgiving week? And why would any designer care if those women were in the front row? And why were they having two separate conversations—why were they taking at all during the show? Why were those designers gowns so ugly?

Does anyone actually plant bulbs in November?

What kind of karaoke machine is loaded to play back the original song with vocals?

How many separate turds were there? One for each HBO executive?

What a shame. We could have gotten a great sequel to SATC. I’ll miss this, though. As bad as it was it was still enjoyable.

Seema’s boyfriend had an autistic brother he was deeply protective of — even having him work alongside him when they first met. It was almost as if he was his guardian. Then, the moment Seema entered the picture, the brother vanished without explanation. Why even include him in the first place — just to tick another DEI box for “underserved groups” on the show? It ends up looking like the boyfriend simply dumped his brother to be with Seema. At the very least, they could have kept him in the story so the two could share the rent-controlled apartment their mother left behind. Talk about a loose end. No Emmy nod this year, or at least one would hope.

Shit jokes equal shit writers. Using physical shit as a joke in anything is never funny. Just gross, stupid, cheap and lowbrow. Wouldn’t someone of Carrie’s wealth have a private driver? Such bad, bad writing on this whole series. 2/10 overall. It makes SATC look like a masterpiece—and it had flaws.

Does anyone know for sure if SJP or Kristin Davis read The Data Lounge? They must be absolutely plotzing over some of the criticisms.

R82 Jesus, did Laraine have any cis or het kids that survived?

Coming next year, spin-off with Brady and his new Gen-Z friends with Special Guest Star Sarah Jessica Parker. They all move in with Carrie and new shitty highjinks ensue

[quote]Seema’s boyfriend had an autistic brother he was deeply protective of — even having him work alongside him when they first met. It was almost as if he was his guardian.

He’s his nephew, not brother.

[quote]Or walking into the ocean to commit suicide like Joan Crawford did in Humoresque.

Or rocks in her pockets and a nice long stroll into the East River R88.

[quote]Does anyone know for sure if SJP or Kristin Davis read The Data Lounge? They must be absolutely plotzing over some of the criticisms.

R125 if anyone does it’s SJP because CUNT Andy haunts this site and has probably told her.

Who would ever give someone a pie without the box??

The show about that bitchy, vogueing gayling would've been more interesting.