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The Season 2 promo photo for And Just Like That <\/i>featured a \u201cLast Supper\u201d homage, with Carrie Bradshaw as our lord and savior, her closest friends, Miranda and Charlotte, at her side, and the extended cast fanning out from there.<\/p>\n
Ironically, the series ended last night after the third season with a last supper, Thanksgiving, but instead of being a whole cast get-together, it was a small, chaotic, literal s–t show.<\/a><\/p>\n Carrie leaves Miranda kissing her girlfriend on the floor of her flooded \u201cpowder room,\u201d goes home alone to her Gramercy Park mansion, and dances to Barry White. There\u2019s nothing wrong with this final image, except that, in the entire episode, the last time we\u2019re ever seeing our Sex in the City<\/i> girls, the three main characters do not share a scene.<\/p>\n Carrie sees each of her friends at least once during the last episode, and there are several permutations with the other side characters: Seema and LTW join Charlotte and Carrie for a bridal fashion show for some reason no one cares about, Carrie and Miranda spend most of Thanksgiving together, and even Anthony gets the afterthought of a plotline yet again.<\/p>\n Why couldn\u2019t Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte interact even once this whole episode? There\u2019s no way this was meant to be the series finale, no matter what Michael Patrick King says. Someday the truth will out, but, for now, we can mourn what could have been.<\/p>\n The series reboot needed to end more like the original. The main cast needed to be seated around a table. At minimum, it could have been at the Thanksgiving dinner. The best case scenario would have the three main characters alone at a table in some hot NYC brunch spot the next morning. I would have accepted Seema and LTW along for the ride. But it needed to be the friends, not the various main characters scattered to the corners of Manhattan with their lovers and spouses.<\/p>\n The promo for Season 3 featured the main lady characters marching across the street, which is in fact reminiscent of one of the final images of the original series: the four women (Samantha included), arm in arm, laughing and chatting as they take up the entire sidewalk. The original show ends with Carrie alone, walking down the street until she fades into the crowd.<\/p>\n Via voiceover, Carrie says, \u201cThe most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you that you love, well, that\u2019s just fabulous.\u201d She\u2019s referring to Big, but it\u2019s implied that the girlfriends love the Carrie that she is, as well.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the AJLT<\/i> finale ends with the horrible \u201cWoman\u201d protagonist of Carrie\u2019s novel. Carrie\u2019s voiceover says, \u201cThe Woman realized she wasn\u2019t alone. She was on her own.\u201d Any self respecting Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/i> fan knows that \u201cOn My Own\u201d is the anthem for pining, and the line, like much of the show, lacked the skillful prose of the original.<\/p>\n Alone and \u201con her own\u201d are synonymous, and both are okay, when referring to being in a romantic relationship. But Carrie is not alone in the world nor is she on her own in life.<\/p>\n Hey, it\u2019s fine for Carrie to be single at the end of the series. I think that is the right move. But she, and we, needed the moment of connection with her friends to remind us what the SATC universe is really about.<\/p>\n Throughout the original series, movies, and reboot, Carrie has been a flawed protagonist, something SJP has been increasingly defensive about in interviews<\/a>. However, her most redeeming quality isn\u2019t her ability to thrive on her own (with a ton of inherited wealth). It\u2019s that, even though she often fails, she tries to be a good friend. Carrie spends a chunk of the last AJLT<\/i> delivering pies all over the city to her people, never lingering more than a second, as if she couldn\u2019t care less about her friends\u2019 little dramas. Her good deed is only a gesture, and it feels like an obligation.<\/p>\n In Season 4, Episode 1 of the original series, after Carrie bemoans being single on her 35th birthday, Charlotte says, \u201cMaybe we can be each others\u2019 soulmates.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n