Whether you loved it or hated it, you have to admit the Sex and the City reboot had you
hooked for the past 10 weeks.
This reboot series will surprise you.
So let's get into it.
And Just Like That ending explained.
Since the death of her husband in episode one, our favorite sex expert Carrie Bradshaw-Preston
(Sarah Jessica Parker) has struggled with her grievance.
We’ve seen her fall apart and indulge in some light stalking of Big’s ex – at least
it’s nice to know that she hasn’t grown out of some of her more juvenile antics.
She’s also worked hard to revamp her image on the relationship and sex podcast show X,
Y and Me and to re-establish her lukewarm book career.
All the while learning how to live, love and laugh again (excuse the cliché).
All of this has carried her through her year of loss and has readied her to scatter Big’s
ashes on their bridge in Paris.
You know the one.
The “Carrie you’re the one” one.
Charlotte (Kristen Davis) throws a ‘them mitzvah’.
This is Charlotte’s version of a non-gender-specific bat mitzvah for her child, Rock, formally
known as Rose (Alexa Swinton).
Meanwhile, Carrie asks the girls to join her on a three-day trip to commemorate the year
and put Big to rest.
However, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) has a shocking surprise of her own.
She’s relocating to LA for a few months to be with her lover, Che (Sara Ramirez),
who will be working on the pilot for a new show.
The news shakes Carrie ever so slightly, her dependable best friend is giving up her life
in New York for a whirlwind romance.
Miranda has been through some drastic changes throughout this series, having quit law and
returned to school, her life already looks very different from the highflying professional
we left in the Sex and the City Movie 2.
Partway through And Just Like That, Miranda reveals how unhappy she is with her life and
marriage to Steve (David Eigenberg) and is blown away by the feelings she discovers for
Carrie’s boss, Che.
Their relationship develops from lust to romance to love and she eventually leaves her husband
to explore not only this new love but this new part of herself that was reawakened long
before their steamy romp in Carrie’s apartment.
After a tense exchange, Carrie accepts Miranda’s decision and ultimately decides to journey
to Paris solo.
Charlotte’s story arc has been slightly separate from the gang and is enveloped in
that of her family, more specifically with her child Rock.
Though the others make an appearance here and there she’s mainly been focused on Lily’s
period disaster as she learned to use a tampon, Harry’s (Evan Handler), ahem, wong, and
her main trial learning to support a child she doesn’t understand.
Her former obsessive need for perfection has no place in parenthood.
She’s continuing to learn how to let go of her old ideologies of what a perfect family
is and means.
This is a lesson that started with her relationship with now-husband Harry, who was not the man
she pictured herself falling for.
In the final episode we hear Rock say: “I don’t want to be labeled as anything.
Not as a girl or boy, non-binary, a Jew, Christian, Muslim or even a New Yorker.”
After a mini-meltdown (which has more to do with the impressive number of guests waiting
for the party that seems not to be going ahead) Charlotte lets go of the idea that she has
to figure Rock out and just lets them be.
Something which is cemented by her deciding to take Rock’s place and get bat mitzvahed
herself.
The final crescendo of the show finds Carrie in Paris on the bridge.
After scattering Big’s remains she reaches out to estranged friend Samantha via text
– something they’ve been doing throughout the series with a simple message:
“I’m in Paris.
Want to meet for a cocktail?”
The reply.
“How’s tomorrow night?”
Hmmm, OK, well, we won’t go into how Samantha’s story arc painted her as petty for dropping
Carrie as a friend when Carrie stopped using her as a publicist.
Something Samantha would NEVER do… but at least this puts an end to the recurring ellipses,
followed by Carrie’s forlorn face at the tease of a reply.
Che’s sudden career shift has put a definite end to the podcast Carrie was a part of leaving
her career in a bit of a lull.
That is until the podcast’s producer, Franklyn, suggests she have her own podcast… a Sex
and the City podcast.
With her first show behind her she shares an elevator ride with Franklyn (Ivan Hernandez).
The conversation begins with them discussing her performance – him pumping up her ego,
her playing coy – however the chemistry between them is (supposed to be) palpable
And Just Like That the show ends with a kiss.