{"id":146741,"date":"2025-08-15T03:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146741\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:10:12","slug":"and-just-like-that-co-creator-michael-patrick-explains-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146741\/","title":{"rendered":"‘And Just Like That’ Co-Creator Michael Patrick Explains Series Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from the series finale of And Just Like That<\/a> on HBO Max<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\n\tCarrie Bradshaw\u2019s second chapter in the Big City finally came to an end Aug. 14, with the Sarah Jessica Parker<\/a> character realizing that marriage wasn\u2019t in the cards, and it was more than okay to have an absurdly large brownstone all to herself. <\/p>\n

\n\tCarrie\u2019s circle of friends also received some tidy goodbyes, though Cynthia Nixon\u2019s Miranda had to wade through literal shit (way to drop it like it\u2019s hot, Epcot) after having to accept that her son Brady was about to become a dad. <\/p>\n

\n\tHere, co-creator Michael Patrick King<\/a> reflects on the comedy\u2019s final season, why Miranda was required to literally shovel shit, and whether another movie is in the cards for Carrie and her clan. <\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE Is this the ending you wanted? <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tMICHAEL PATRICK KING<\/strong> Yes. I wouldn\u2019t have stopped. The ending told us to stop when we were writing, and that sentence, the woman realized she was not alone. She was on her own. It was so important for me to hear, and it just sort of appeared. I was like, well, that\u2019s the ending, especially since it is a response and a callback to Carrie at the end of Sex and the City when she says, \u201cthe most significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And then if you find someone to love, love you, love, that\u2019s fabulous.\u201d She\u2019s saying that voiceover while Mr. Big is calling to say, \u201cI\u2019m coming to town.\u201d So the growth and the evolution and the resonance of her saying a new version of that when maybe no one is coming is the most significant addition we could add to this whole Carrie Bradshaw universe. I knew then that I wanted her to stop there because I believe that\u2019s her message to everyone who\u2019s been watching for many, many years. It\u2019s for the women who have someone or the people who have someone. More importantly, it\u2019s for the people who don\u2019t have someone. If you can feel good about the life you create, it\u2019s great. <\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE And the other characters?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWe ended all the other characters in this, I guess, projection of a happy ending. Miranda and Joy are back together, even though they have to clean up some shit every now and then. Harry and Charlotte are back in bed, which is so important because everything else in their relationship works as well. Even [Harry and Charlotte\u2019s nonbinary child] Rock ends by saying, \u201cI\u2019m going to be a lot of different people in my life.\u201d Seema is saying she doesn\u2019t miss the gluten, but she\u2019s really saying is, \u201cI don\u2019t miss the idea of a marriage binding people together.\u201d And then Lisa is recommitting to Herbert by saying, I\u2019m here. Even though there was no real split, there was an emotional doubling down on who they are. So yeah, that\u2019s where we felt it should stop. It felt so real to me that I went to Sarah Jessica and said, \u201cI think this is it. This is where we stopped for Carrie.\u201d And she said, \u201cthen we stop.\u201d Luckily we\u2019re at a place like HBO Max where they go, \u201cwe think you did an amazing story. You got them all where they need to be.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE The show has always gotten so much attention, this season notwithstanding. What has that been like for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MPK<\/strong> Well, I do the very clever thing of saying, what if you gave a party and nobody came? Everybody works really hard and you want it to be reflected back. It becoming a press pi\u00f1ata that\u2019s a party game was maybe something unexpected. But beyond everything that people have printed, there are people who have been watching it for many years. So there\u2019s this great back and forth between all the noise of how they would do it differently or what they like or don\u2019t like. And then there\u2019s just appreciation for the fact that they\u2019re seeing characters who went from 35 to 59. Trust me, you don\u2019t write for nothing, for no reaction. I mean, if you did that, you\u2019d be a poet. I want a reaction to the work we all do. It\u2019s a double-edged sword. Yes, they\u2019re watching. And guess what? Yes, they\u2019re watching.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDEADLINE Why the poo in Miranda\u2019s toilet? And not to get too down and dirty, but what served as your poop? Babe Ruths? <\/strong><\/p>\n

MPK<\/strong> It was silicone poop. And it was a one-take poop. We didn\u2019t have to do it twice. Sex and the City and And Just Like That has always dealt with a lot of relationship shit. This was a manifestation of how shit backs up and you have to deal with it. And also, we\u2019ve always done high-low on the show. We\u2019ve always done couture and comedy. We also had this highly elevated Victor Garber character trapped [in the apartment], and plot-wise, I wanted him to leave. But Carrie Bradshaw is hard to leave unless you\u2019re humiliated and don\u2019t want to be there. Otherwise, it was the symbolic version of having to deal with a lot of doo doo in relationships and it backs up if you don\u2019t.

DEADLINE There was something very special about the way Carrie talked to Seema about marriage at the wedding dress fashion show. <\/strong><\/p>\n

MPK <\/strong>That killed me. It\u2019s on the line where Seema says, \u201cwhy did you want to get married?\u201d And Carrie says, \u201cbecause it meant I was chosen.\u201d It resonates all the way back to Carrie Bradshaw [in Sex and the City] when she was someone who felt she needed to be chosen. And here she is at the end, choosing herself. I mean, that\u2019s it. That resonance and the fashion show and the idea of looking at marriage and the shiny part of it versus the depressing parts that Lisa and Charlotte are dealing with \u2026 even with all the ups and downs and average things that have happened, Carrie Bradshaw and these characters have always felt things and experienced things that maybe you haven\u2019t seen vocalized on television. Maybe you\u2019ve seen \u2019em in life, but not this way. <\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE So in your mind, does Lisa end up getting Michelle Obama to narrate her documentary?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MPK<\/strong> Yes! Now we\u2019re at the point of fan fiction. What do I want to have happen? I think the documentary that we\u2019ve shown is legitimate enough and important enough from the writers in the room to make Michelle Obama say, \u201coh, that\u2019s an interesting thing.\u201d So yes, she does it. Let\u2019s do more fan fiction. Does Miranda finally win over [the mother of Brady\u2019s child] Mamma Mia? Yes.<\/p>\n

DEADLINE Really? <\/strong><\/p>\n

MPK <\/strong>Yeah. Because there is a line where Carrie says, \u201cI think you won her over.\u201d And Miranda says, \u201cyeah, I won the battle. Lost the war.\u201d Miranda\u2019s going to make that happen. And apparently Joy\u2019s going to overcome her family stuff to be right there with her. And then the very last thing Rock says in the series is, \u201cI\u2019m going to be a lot of different people in my life.\u201d I mean, what could be more evolved than the youngest character in the show saying there\u2019s a lot of people you can be? <\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE So can we expect And Just Like That movie? <\/strong><\/p>\n

MPK<\/strong> Look, I closed the book. Here\u2019s the sound of the book. Boom! And happily, there was no dust that came out of it. It was very alive, very active, very in the moment. It wasn\u2019t pulled off an old shelf. I chose it because it means something was alive. We took a show that\u2019s 27 years old and made it so alive that people had to have conversations about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from the series finale of And Just Like That on HBO…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30334,171,487,1097,1096,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-146741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-and-just-like-that","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hbo-max","11":"tag-michael-patrick-king","12":"tag-sarah-jessica-parker","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115030592025654113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}