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‘And Just Like That …’ Series Finale Recap: My Everything

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The “Sex and the City” revival ended on an empowering but bittersweet note for Carrie and the crew … and also with Barry White.

A woman wearing a pink fascinator, a pink sequins top and a plaid jacket smiles from the back of a taxi with its door open
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) rolls solo ... for the foreseeable future.Credit...Craig Blankenhorn/HBO Max

Aug. 14, 2025, 9:33 p.m. ET

Of all the mind-boggling choices the writers of “And Just Like That …” have made this season, perhaps the wildest is forcing us, the audience, to watch a disgusting toilet overflow in the ostensibly final moments of this decades-long franchise.

This week’s episode — which, as we learned only a few weeks ago, is to be the series’s last — was a cool 34 minutes. That’s comparable to the lengths of the original “Sex and the City” episodes and down from the roughly 45 minutes most of this season’s episodes have clocked. I’ve noted in previous recaps that the shorter, tighter episodes are better paced, but this time things felt rushed, as if all the characters and their story lines needed more time.

Everything and nothing happened in this episode. The finale of “Sex and the City” included a romantic Parisian backdrop, a long-awaited confession of love, a bewildering slap and momentous lines like “Go get our girl” and “Carrie, you’re the one.” This finale, which ended not only the series but also, most likely, the entire story, included no such pivotal moments. Instead, it simply tied up most of the conflicts in neat little bows and faded to black.

In some ways, the ending was satisfying; there are no loose ends left. But what could have been compelling plot points are barreled through, check, check, check, like items on a to-do list.

Taking place on Thanksgiving Day, everyone, for the most part, could be thankful for a happy ending:

Seema, in the course of a single conversation, dismantles years of programming that made her believe she wanted marriage. She relaxes instead into a relationship with the wedding-averse Adam and enjoys gluten-free pie with his family while wearing jeans.

Lisa puts the kibosh on the illicit romance budding between her and Marion, and despite acknowledging the patriarchal structure of marriage, she decides that is OK, and performs an impromptu vow renewal with Herbert in their bedroom.


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