Warning: This article contains spoilers for the season finale ofAnd Just Like That.
(Noth wasedited outof the dream sequence in the wake ofseveral sexual assault allegations.
Noth has denied them.)
Sarah Jessica Parker in ‘And Just Like That’.Craig Blankenhorn/HBO
Carrie took more than a few big steps in theAJLTfinale twokisses!
Starting her own podcast (calledSex and the City)!
Reuniting with Samantha (off screen)!
Charlotte’s ‘they-mitzvah’ on ‘And Just Like That’.Craig Blankenhorn / HBO Max
and she wasn’t the only one.
EW couldn’t help but wonder… what does this all mean for a potential season 2?
(HBO Maxhas yet to renew the series, but we’d bet our Louboutins they will.
Full disclosure: We do not own Louboutins.
(And yes, we also asked about Harry’s, um,bigreveal in episode 8.)
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: The finale finds Carrie reaching a new kind of peace after a year without Big.
The major engine of that series was her need to be back with him.
In the series, he was across town or in a marriage, and now he’s gone.
So the DNA is tragic and more finite and more real.
She can’t win this one he’s gone.
If she doesn’t let go of him, it will be torture.
We didn’t want to deny the dark and we didn’t want to not give light.
ELISA ZURITSKY:If you’re open to it, which she finally is.
If there’s a season 2, would you want to explore more with Carrie and Franklyn?
ZURITSKY:Oh, absolutely.
[Laughs]
KING:Boy, you went far!
I was just going to, “Did they share an Uber?”
[Laughs] I like to ensure we have enough story points.
But that’s thrilling.
I mean, the elevator door closes, but the story remains open.
Maybe you’ll be surprised, but the possibility is out there.
That’s a little bit of a spark that was missing with Peter in the first kiss.
Wait, so did you know from the start that she was going to kiss Franklyn in the finale?
I am much more avoidant.
How much press can I take today?
KING:I love that you think they’re presents!
ROTTENBERG:Imagine her surprise.
ZURITSKY:I am very, very curious, to my detriment sometimes.
We all knew we were taking big swings.
We knew we were not like tiptoeing back to put on a fashion show.
So it was exciting and scary, but I was mostly really curious.
And yes, there were days that I overdosed on my presents [laughs].
Was there one hot take or fan reaction that surprised you the most?
And that [her kids] would never have to stay in the same room!
I literally almost felt down.
ROTTENBERG:I’m done.
KING:That is a reach to criticize.
Kristin was like, “What?
Of course they would be in the same room!”
Fan fiction sometimes becomes fan friction.
The character of Che, played by Sara Ramirez, is great example of that.
That’s totally fair, but Che is also sort of this cocksure comedian.
They laugh at their own jokes they can be a little annoying, if we’re being honest.
Do you think that factored into the fan reaction?
ZURITSKY:They’re a narcissist!
There are personalities that are too big.
People could say that Samantha was too big in her lane.
Che is very big in their lane.
Big was very big in his lane!
He was too cocky!"
It’s really about temperature now, what people personally want.
And the idea is that Che is a big personality.
I think Che is a firebrand and honest, and a character that I’ve never seen on television.
You rarely see a stand-up as a love interest on television.
At the end of episode 8, Miranda goes to surprise Che in Cleveland.
Instead, it apparently goes fine, and we don’t even see the meeting.
Were you intentionally trying to confound viewer expectations there?
KING:We realized that people were doing so much work on their own.
Even when we were filming it and Miranda says, “I’m in a rom-com!”
I was thinking that cab’s going directly into a brick wall [laughs].
We decided there really wasn’t a brick wall, as much as theexpectationof the brick wall.
We had more fun with the Meg Ryan cookie scene than we would’ve ever had in Cleveland.
Sometimes, production demands get in the way as well, and you just can’t do it all.
In the finale, we see that Che is going to L.A. to film their pilot.
If there’s a season 2, do you plan to bring them back?
KING: It’s exactly like what happened behind that elevator door with Carrie.
We still don’t know what happened.
ZURITSKY: We’re very curious, though.
KING: And we’re gigantic fans of Sara Ramirez.
Do you have any advice for fans on how to cope with this disappointment?
KING:I think the heart is the right organ that you’re referencing.
[Laughs] You know what I mean?
Look, it’s not deliberate.
The loss is now recognized as something they want to fix.
So that’s the best part of fiction it can repair reality.
ROTTENBERG: We all like envisioning our own scene.
I’m gonna say wine.
I think they had wine.
ZURITSKY: I would go a different way.
KING: What are they drinking in your [scene], Elisa?
ZURITSKY: I was going back to cosmos because I’m so corny.
KING: I would go to champagne because it’s a celebration.
What was the thinking behind giving her these types of challenges?
ROTTENBERG:For us, Charlotte is this incredibly grounding ingredient.
She’s also still struggling with these issues of perfection and control.
Now Rose wants to be Rock.
Now they’re they.
Just when you think you’ve adjusted to the new normal, there’s something new.
How did you break the news to Evan Handler that his character’s penis was getting its own close-up?
ROTTENBERG: You better take this one, Michael.
We leave the dick talk to Michael.
He had so many colors in that scene.
[Laughs]
And you did.
Actors know and I’m gonna make the pun a good part when they see it.
Evan and Kristin both on that day, I mean talk about MVPs.
Male nudity was almost nonexistent onSex and the City, but episode 8 had two penises.
Was that just by chance?
[Laughs] The point of it was we wanted to show two different comfort [levels].
That is not what she wanted out of her brownie moment.
ROTTENBERG: I’m having a memory didn’t we see Richard’s dick?
ROTTENBERG: Walking down dick memory lane!
ZURITSKY: I’m gonna have to go back to that episode.
