Carrie finally arrives at Miranda\u2019s, where Brady is cooking their meal. Miranda informs Carrie that her big Thanksgiving feast is getting smaller by the second because now, even Joy can\u2019t come, her dog is \u201csick\u201d \u2013\u00a0but Miranda just thinks Joy is lying because after witnessing Miranda and Brady\u2019s fight last week, it does seem like the Hobbes family dynamics are kinda fucked up and who can blame her for getting scared off? Ultimately, after Miranda calls Joy, she learns the dog really is sick and is in the process of getting emergency surgery after swallowing a Lego so she races to the vet to be with her, bailing on her own meal.<\/p>\n
Remember how the season two finale featured Carrie hosting a fabulous meal at her old apartment flanked by every one of her close friends? Well, this season finale features Carrie flanked by her best friend\u2019s kid and four randos, one of whom has to keep explaining that his parents were \u201cDisney freaks,\u201d which is why he is named EPCOT. Listen, I am a borderline Disney Adult and I take offense to all of this, mostly because there are way better names besides EPCOT that Disney nerds would name their kids, like Sassagoula or Figment. (And yes, I\u2019m capitalizing EPCOT because it\u2019s an acronym so maybe I was lying about being a borderline Disney Adult and I just fully am one?) Carrie, Brady, Mia, her friends EPCOT and Sylvio, and Mark Kasabian, the art dealer played by Victor Garber, all find themselves together, a bizarre pairing that is only going to end in a literal shitstorm. But I\u2019m getting ahead of myself.<\/p>\n
When Brady sees Mia, he greets her kindly, and Sylvio is like, \u201cOh, he\u2019s a ginger? No, girl.\u201d Then EPCOT announces that he\u2019s lactose intolerant, and Mia says she only eats \u201ccucumber, brown rice and seaweed.\u201d When Brady says \u201cI don\u2019t have any of that,\u201d Mia says, \u201cWell, no one asked me so that\u2019s on you.<\/em>\u201d I write all of these specific quotes down to ask, why does this show want us to actively hate all these people?<\/p>\n\n\nCraig Blankenhorn<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Brady runs out and find those things for Mia, leaving Carrie to cook the turkey (she does a terrible job and it\u2019s still raw come dinnertime) and at this point in the episode, there\u2019s only ten minutes left and I\u2019m wondering, are they going to make Carrie try to fall in love with Victor Garber in the last moments of the show? Because as he flirts and mentions how he wants someone to share his big East Hampton house with, it\u2019s clear this man is not for her but why is he even here? Charlotte pops in for a moment to drop off some stuffing, and explains that she wanted to set Carrie up with Mark because, as she says, \u201cI thought you had a connection,\u201d adding, \u201cI just hated the fact that you think there\u2019s no man out there.\u201d Charlotte has been a great friend to all throughout this whole season, but her logic that she thinks Carrie will like Mark because he has his own plane feels misdirected and out of character.<\/p>\n
Miranda finally returns to the apartment after consoling Joy and learning that Sappho the dog will be just fine, and that\u2019s when EPCOT, who previously announced they he was lactose intolerant, makes a run for the bathroom after mainlining all the cheese. When Brady sees Mia also eating cheese (after she told him about her limited diet) he rightfully gets annoyed and flips out on her, so Miranda tries to calm him down, which Mia appreciates. And that\u2019s how that whole story, the one that threatens to blow up all their lives, ends. Miranda proves to Mia that she\u2019s not crazy or bipolar, Brady is mad at Miranda, and that\u2019s the end of that\u2026forever. We\u2019ll never have to think about farting Mia ever again. Shitting EPCOT, on the other hand, has only just become a problem.<\/p>\n
After the meal, all the 20-somethings take off, leaving just Carrie, Miranda, and Mark and the second instance of Too Much Bathroom in this episode. Carrie explains to Miranda that this whole meal was Charlotte\u2019s attempt to set Carrie up with Mark, and she dreads having to say no to him when he inevitably asks to take her home. Turns out, Carrie doesn\u2019t have to worry about that because while Mark is in the bathroom, peeing \u2013 we see the stream! It\u2019s not necessary to see the stream! \u2013 the toilet, clogged from EPCOT\u2019s cheese intolerance, starts to overflow.<\/p>\n\nMark exits the bathroom to tell Miranda, \u201cThe toilet is overflowing and there seems to be no end,\u201d adding that it totally wasn\u2019t him, he has no issues digesting French cheese. And then,\u00a0to Carrie\u2019s relief, he tells her,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ll see myself out,\u201d because he knows that in life, when it comes to bathroom stuff, the one who denied it supplied it.<\/p>\n
As Miranda scrubs her bathroom floor, Joy shows up to her apartment later to thank her for being there for her at the vet. It brings Miranda to tears and yet, as gross as it is to image that they\u2019re both kneeling on a floor that is most definitely a biohazard, it solidifies their relationship and if Miranda\u2019s love life had to end this way, I don\u2019t have any complaints.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the episode, Carrie asks Charlotte, \u201cWho will I be alone?\u201d as she\u2019s still unsure what her next chapter is going to be. \u201cI have to quit thinking \u2018maybe a man,\u2019 and start thinking \u2018maybe just me.’\u201d And so, when Carrie returns to her big, empty house, she walks in the door \u2013\u00a0keeping her shoes on, like in the old days before Duncan \u2013\u00a0and turns on the karaoke machine Miranda had left there, cranking the music up to Barry White\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019re The First, The Last, My Everything\u201d (my heart skipped a beat when I thought we might actually hear SJP sing! We don\u2019t, not really.) As the music plays, we get a montage of everyone else in the cast as they end their Thanksgivings. (Most significantly, we see Giuseppe throwing a pie in Anthony\u2019s face because off-camera, Anthony told him he has mommy issues, and Rock telling Charlotte she\u2019s comfortable with Charlotte saving photos of them dressed as Millie from the school play, to soothe Charlotte\u2019s guilt over this issue that sprang up last week.)<\/p>\n
In the final moment, we see Carrie erasing the epilogue she wrote for her novel\u2019s main character last week, revising it so that there\u2019s no hint of a man coming in to save her heroine from a life of solitude. She writes, \u201cThe woman realized she was not alone. She was on her own.\u201d<\/p>\n\nYet it wasn\u2019t this new epilogue, this reframing of Carrie\u2019s situation that gives her agency over her singleness and her independence, that made me feel something as the show ended. No, it was the fact that the Sex and the City<\/em> theme song played over the credits, which is the true nod to our love for these characters, that made me realize I\u2019ll actually miss this show. At its worst, the show, at least seasons two and three, often felt out of touch and awkward, rewriting history for some of TV\u2019s most beloved, iconic characters. At it\u2019s best, it was a reminder that we\u2019re constantly evolving, and that process usually involves growing pains, even in a fictional setting. And now, we can consider this show something like an old friend that now lives on an opposite coast (or, say, in London) \u2013 it\u2019s not a daily presence, but I\u2019m glad we had our time together.<\/p>\nAnd Just Like That<\/em> Series Finale Honorable Mentions:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWho are those people with Mama Mia?\u201d \u201cHer backup singers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cThe turkey is raw.\u201d \u201cI guess the dark chestnut umber deceived us!\u201d Victor Garber\u2019s role is pretty thankless but I appreciate his delivery of this line.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Liz Kocan is a pop culture writer living in Massachusetts. Her biggest claim to fame is the time she won on the game show<\/em> Chain Reaction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clocking in at 34 minutes long, this week\u2019s And Just Like That episode had a lot of work to do if it was going to deliver a satisfying series finale (and yet, it was so much more than that, it\u2019s a franchise finale, an end to a whole beloved universe of characters as we know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1961688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[315568,345662,345664,345663],"class_list":["post-1961687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-carrie-bradshaw","tag-ltw","tag-mark-kasabian","tag-steve-brady"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/\u2018And-Just-Like-That-Finale-Review-On-Her-Own.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}