The crew behind And Simply Like That is defending the controversial sequence finale regardless of not understanding forward of time that the present was ending.
Govt producers Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky addressed the backlash from viewers after Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) was proven embracing the following chapter of her life solo within the August 14 finale.
“Of all of the doable endings of the three seasons, this one undoubtedly rings probably the most true for me,” Zuritsky informed TVLine on Wednesday, August 20. “As a fan of the present and as a fifty-something girl on the earth. I believe it’s kind of additional poignant and feels genuine to [Carrie’s] character that she would attain this second.”
Zuritsky, who labored on the unique Intercourse and the Metropolis alongside Rottenberg, defended And Simply Like That’s imaginative and prescient for Carrie to remain single.
“Carrie has metabolized her grief of being widowed. She’s gone again, in an actual approach, to relationship-land,” she continued. “She’s determined that she’d reasonably be on her personal than in a not-ideal partnership and, like so many ladies we all know, are actually fairly glad in their very own house, in their very own residence, in their very own friendships.”
Zuritsky inspired followers to provide the finale — which was crafted by showrunner Michael Patrick King and EP Susan Fales-Hill — an opportunity.
“I really feel actually gratified that that’s the grace observe for now, that she feels actually full, and totally realized, and like a contented individual residing a contented life and a grateful individual on the earth that she created for herself,” she continued. “It feels in the end gratifying, and I can’t say we’ve seen a ton of that in motion pictures and tv. So I really feel prefer it’s sort of an attractive punctuation mark to a life properly lived.”
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Rottenberg, in the meantime, known as Carrie’s journey “probably the most sincere strategy to finish” the sequence.
“I believe the energy was leaving her in a second the place she says, ‘There may not [be another man for me], and I’m OK with that.’ I believe that’s what we responded to, and that’s what felt just like the clearest strategy to finish, perhaps the cleanest strategy to finish,” she defined. “It’s not a tragedy. She’s obtained a fairly freaking nice life, and she or he has these pals, and we felt like we had been leaving her in a superb place.”
Intercourse and the Metropolis, which ran on HBO from 1998 to 2004, targeted on Carrie (Parker) and her courting life in New York alongside her pals Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Samantha (Kim Cattrall). Intercourse and the Metropolis expanded with two motion pictures earlier than Max revived the present in December 2021 — with out Cattrall’s involvement.
Earlier this month, King confirmed that And Simply Like That wouldn’t return for a fourth season. The information got here as a shock to followers — and apparently, to the present’s writers.
“Michael is clearly his personal individual, and he has his personal instrument, you recognize,” Zuritsky famous. “We’re introduced in on a number of it, after which not. So I really feel like he had a way to his timeline.”
Rottenberg additionally weighed in on why Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte didn’t share a scene collectively within the finale, which she known as “a Michael Patrick King query.”
“I believe the thought is [that] the entire sequence is predicated on the energy of these friendships. So even should you’re not in the identical room … we’ve got these bonds, and we really feel the help and energy of these friendships,” she detailed. “I believe that the sensation was [that] these bonds are stronger than something, they usually’re there even once they’re not there, these pals.”
Regardless of the overwhelmingly blended response to the finale, Rottenberg and Zuritsky are glad the present began conversations.
“I believe it speaks to the truth that nobody desires to say goodbye to Carrie Bradshaw,” Rottenberg famous. “And we share that, the bittersweet second of seeing her and understanding she’s not going to be round each Thursday evening at 9 p.m.”
She continued: “We should always have been apprehensive if there weren’t a cacophony of responses to the truth that this was the tip. We all know higher than anybody you may’t please all of the individuals all the time, however we felt like we needed to do proper by them, and depart all of these characters in a superb place, after which say adieu.”
Zuritsky has discovered herself stepping away from the web to keep away from the unfavorable feedback surrounding the tip of AJLT.
“Typically it’s going to shock me and stun me and kind of wake me up slightly bit after I work together with the world of people that I see face-to-face in life — a number of whom aren’t on the identical algorithms that I’m on — who’re actually fairly obsessed with loving the present and really don’t know,” she added. “All they know is, these beloved characters are again, they usually’re actually glad to see them once more.”
Intercourse and the Metropolis and And Simply Like That are at present streaming on HBO Max.
