Last night, the fever dream that was And Just Like That … fizzled out with the most bizarre half-hour of television to grace a screen. After 27 years of fandom, Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda bid us adieu with Bond Vet product placement, pie montages, and many close-up shots of a toilet overflowing with poop. To viewers, it was an emotionally unsatisfying, debasing, and frankly vengeful ending. But to showrunner Michael Patrick King and star Sarah Jessica Parker, it was apparently perfect.

Speaking to Variety ahead of Thursday’s finale, King noted that the decision to end things here “was not made at the beginning of the season,” while also insisting this is the right spot for the story to end. “It’s an instinct,” he said. “Anyone else could keep going. I can’t.”

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