“And Just Like That…,” the HBO Max series that explored the lives of Carrie Bradshaw and her fashionable friends after “Sex and the City” went off the air in 2004, will end after Season 3.
Michael Patrick King, the series’ showrunner, writer and director, made the announcement on social media on Friday. “While I was writing the last episode of ‘And Just Like That…’ season 3, it became clear to me that this might be a wonderful place to stop,” he wrote.
Season 3, which is currently airing, will wrap up with a two-part finale that extends the original series order for the season from 10 episodes to 12.
King said that he and Sarah Jessica Parker, who shot to fame as Bradshaw in the original HBO series, had held off announcing the news until now because they did not want the word “final” to overshadow the fun of watching the current season.
This season’s 10th episode, “Better Than Sex,” aired this week. Episode 11 will air on Aug. 7 and episode 12 will air the following week.
On social media, Parker shared a montage of images of Bradshaw, in some of her most dazzling ensembles, with other members of the cast from the original series through the current day. “Sex and the City” ran for six seasons, starting in 1998, and led to two films.
“Carrie Bradshaw has dominated my professional heartbeat for 27 years,” Parker said. “I think I have loved her most of all.”
Parker said that she and King had both “recognized, as we have in the past, this chapter complete,” and added that she hoped viewers would love the final two episodes. “‘And Just Like That…’ was all joy, adventure, the greatest kind of hard work,” she said, praising the cast and crew.
The series debuted in 2021. Since then it has developed a dedicated following. Some fans were delighted and tuned in for the weekly episodes, others found themselves hate-watching and sharing their snark on social media.
Either way, they always returned for more.
Derrick Bryson Taylor is a Times reporter covering breaking news in culture and the arts.
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