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A tell-all book or miniseries examining the monumental screwup of And Just Like That feels inevitable.

The nay-sayers had it wrong. We weren’t hate-watching And Just Like That . We were hope-watching it.

Every Thursday for three seasons, we would tune into the HBO/Max series with a ragged, here-we-go inhale, wondering if this was finally the episode where the characters would return to some semblance of the women we best-friended on Sex and the City . So the abrupt announcement that AJLT was ending felt like a gut punch. You took a franchise that meant a lot to us, mangled it, didn’t know how to fix it and so you’re just … out? To paraphrase the last line of Carrie’s dreadful novel, we’re not alone, but the show has certainly left us on our own.

That’s right, we’re

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