{"id":1963114,"date":"2025-08-15T23:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1963114"},"modified":"2025-08-15T23:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:49:01","slug":"and-just-like-that-was-the-fyre-festival-of-tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/and-just-like-that-was-the-fyre-festival-of-tv-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;And Just Like That&#8217; was the Fyre Festival of TV shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2Fajlt4_copy_720.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026 \u201d ended as it started: terribly.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not the only \u201cSex and the City\u201d fan who thinks so. On Thursday, I attended a small viewing party for the finale of the reboot series with a group of pals who loved the original.<\/p>\n<p>Like me, the majority of them were <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/15\/entertainment\/and-just-like-that-ripped-for-poop-scene-in-franchise-ending-finale-i-feel-insulted\/\">disappointed and, yeah, disgusted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw at her laptop in the final scene of *And Just Like That \u2026 \u201d <span class=\"credit\">HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is unhinged!\u201d one \u2014\u00a0dressed as actress Lucy Liu from her 2001 \u201cSATC\u201d cameo \u2014 shouted as a shockingly gross scene played out. \u201cOver twenty years of watching this show, and this is what we get?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What could have provoked such a response? <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Kirsten Fleming<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Thanksgiving dinner at Miranda\u2019s apartment, when a person named Epcot \u2014 yes, Epcot \u2014 clogged the toilet. Epcot is a friend of Mia, the hyper-flatulent girl knocked up by Miranda\u2019s son, Brady.<\/p>\n<p>But the show\u2019s writers didn\u2019t think it enough to simply tell us about plumbing difficulties. They showed us. For at least 10 seconds, the remains of Epcot\u2019s day assaulted our eyes. It was gag-inducing and vile.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) cleans up a clogged toilet in the finale of \u201cAnd Just Like That\u2026\u201d \u2014 then commits a disgusting act. <span class=\"credit\">HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>(<\/strong>Not even \u201cDumb and Dumber\u201d went so far as to allow the results of Jeff Daniel\u2019s laxative-induced bathroom ordeal to appear on screen).<\/p>\n<p>And now, a glamorous franchise built on fashion, friendship and sex will be <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/14\/entertainment\/how-carrie-bradshaws-story-ended-on-and-just-like-that\/\">remembered for actual crap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when fans were so excited for the premiere of \u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026 \u201d back in 2021? We were promised more time with the most fabulous friends the Big Apple has ever known.<\/p>\n<p>That first episode brought us up to current day for the iconic characters\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In the series premiere of \u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026 \u201d Mr. Big played by Chris Noth dies of a heart attack. <span class=\"credit\">Photograph by Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Miranda had gone to grad school, unleashing a barrage of micro-aggressions at her black professor. Charlotte struggled with her tomboy (soon to identify as nonbinary) daughter not wanting to wear a frilly Oscar de la Renta dress. Carrie, responding to current industry trends, fired Samantha as her book publicist; in turn, Samantha cut everyone off and moved to London.<\/p>\n<p>We met the \u201cqueer, nonbinary, Mexican Irish diva\u201d Che, who soon added another facet to \u201ctheir\u201d lengthy identity cluster: the most insufferable character to ever appear on HBO (or Max or whatever they\u2019re calling it these days).<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And Mr. Big died from a post-Peloton cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Che (left, played by Sarah Ramirez) was the most insufferable character on the show. <span class=\"credit\">Photograph by Craig Blankenhorn\/Max<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was not an auspicious start. <\/p>\n<p>And still, I persevered through <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/01\/opinion\/and-just-like-that-its-over-thank-god\/\">the woke morass<\/a>. Even in this Season 3, as the series tried to extricate itself from the humorless pit of identity politics and limp toward the finish line with unrealistic plot lines and characters, poor acting \u2014 and far too much nudity from Cynthia Nixon, who disappeared the real Miranda so she could play herself.<\/p>\n<p>How would they land the plane? I joked that maybe they wouldn\u2019t. Perhaps, en route to a girls\u2019 trip in Portugal, the ladies would all die in a fiery plane crash and put us all out of our misery.<\/p>\n<p>That would have been brave and merciful.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, with Thursday\u2019s series finale, we were given a literal pile of crap.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The good old days of \u201cSex and the City\u201d were edgy, funny and included the wild Samantha Jones, played by Kim Cattrall. <span class=\"credit\">Moviestore\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thankfully, HBO Max does not offer the scratch-and-sniff option.<\/p>\n<p>The gross-out continued as Miranda, wearing rubber gloves to clean the sewage leak in her bathroom, is surprised by her girlfriend \u2014\u00a0who she excitedly embraces, rubbing those contaminated gloves all over her beloved\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of \u201cAwwww,\u201d the room I was in filled with a chorus of \u201cEwwww.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake off the filthy gloves!\u201d one friend yelled.<\/p>\n<p>It was like the Fyre Festival of streaming TV.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In the series finale, Carrie Bradshaw delivered pies to all of her friends on Thanksgiving Day. <span class=\"credit\">Craig Blankenhorn\/HBO Max<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The show wrapped up with a soulless montage showing the characters in their respective homes, eating the Thanksgiving pies Carrie had hand delivered earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Carrie returned to her massive Gramercy spread solo.<\/p>\n<p>She took to her computer, erasing the epilogue of her novel set place in the 1800s \u2014 and instead wrote, \u201cThe woman realized she was not alone. She was on her own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After all that, Carrie ended up single in a home so big it could have eased our city\u2019s migrant housing issue.<\/p>\n<p>Her love story, which drove the entire franchise, became an afterthought. <\/p>\n<p>But I did get a genuine laugh courtesy of \u201cSex and the City\u201d this week as I watched the new version of \u201cThe Naked Gun.\u201d In the movie, someone mentions Miranda Rights to the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr., ably played by Liam Neeson. He deadpans in response: \u201cNo Carrie writes. Miranda is the lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I couldn\u2019t help but wonder \u2026 if the stars and creators of \u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026 \u201d could go back in time and kill the series before it sullied a great legacy, would they?<\/p>\n<p>I hope so.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026 \u201d ended as it started: terribly. I\u2019m not the only \u201cSex and the City\u201d fan who thinks so. On Thursday, I attended a small viewing party for the finale of the reboot series with a group of pals who loved the original. 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