On August 1, 2025, in the middle of an innocent workday, it was announced that HBO murdered And Just Like That … without warning. The show, only three years old, though also in some ways 27 years old, though also ageless in that it will live on forever as a staggering snapshot of whatever happened to the collective consciousness post-2020, remained a fascinating object for every moment of its brief and wonderful life. To judge it on a spectrum of good to bad would have been missing the point entirely. And Just Like That … was a state of mind, and that mind was in a coma. It was a place to go for 27 to 44 minutes a week, a windowless white room filled with nitrous oxide. It was a safe and necessary container for our wild and dangerous national id, which will now roam unchecked and destr

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