(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)

OK, now it feels like we’re being trolled.

After the first part of the And Just Like That finale delivered a lesson in navigating the push-pull between audience expectations and creative choices, the concluding episode goes all-in on overflowing toilet imagery. Paris, this ain’t.

Given the level of criticism that has been thrown at the Sex and the City spinoff since its debut in 2021, it is hard not to read this plumbing issue as a metaphor. If people think AJLT has gone to s--t, then here is the literal representation in all its horrifying glory.

Not that co-creator Michael Patrick King hasn’t embraced toilet mishaps before (hello, poor Charlotte in the first movie). Yet, now it resembles pointed commentary rather than a low-brow gag.

“What happened to

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