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She also dyes her hair red.
Charlotte takes over her kids they-mitzvah after Rock reveals theyre neither prepared nor interested in going ahead with it.
They love the characters, King said ofAnd Just Like That…sviewers.
And thats a blurse a blessing and a curse.
(The shows sixth writer, Keli Goff, was not available for an interview.)
Michael Patrick King:The really clear pitch is Carrie Bradshaw is single again at 55.
Big had to die.
Otherwise, there would be no reason to come back.
Post-pandemic, everybody was exercising in their houses.
Hes not an old guy, like, You kids today on your Pelotons.
Its a damaged heart, but its pumping.
Thats all up for debate.
Samantha Irby:In my interview for the show, I was like Big has to die, right?
What are they going to do?
MPK:The death in the shower felt like poetry on the page.
Trying to create death in a shower with two bodies getting wet.
It was harder to film than to write.
Kinghas saidhe does not expect Cattrall to ever appear in the new series.
Then Franklyn [Carries podcast producer whom she kisses in the finales last moments] represents the future.
Connecting with Samantha was the present, letting go of Big was the past, and Franklyns the future.
Julie Rottenberg:Because Carrie has this history with Samantha, we wanted to honor that.
The worst thing that could happen to Carrie already did.
So letting Big go is liberating for Carrie.
Shes going to give it one more try, to make this bold invitation.
And to have Samantha say yes we loved that reward.
SI:I was really lobbying for Che to have some fuckboy energy.
I know the internet is like, Fuck Che Diaz, but thats also kind of the point!
But she then does get another addiction, which is that she is madly preoccupied with Che.
It certainly takes the edge off boredom.
Che is not the perfect solution, but the representation is that Miranda is embracing chaotic change.
Its about a woman who was very structured and dogmatic willing to do something very unknown.
I did not elaborate.
And when I first saw the episode, Cynthia was like, barking or something.
I was glad it was a little bit like, bitch, shut up.
When SJ spit the straw out, I was like, goddamn, give her an Emmy.
The doctor suggests she get work done instead.
MPK:Anybody whos taken a bad selfie has thought, Do I need a little …?
We were excited to put that plastic-surgery scene out there.
For this series, it felt like, what if they talked honestly about aging?
As women, were told not to talk about it very much.
We were excited to proudly embrace the aging process.
But a 50-year-old Gujarati woman from Queens, thats going to be part of her life.
We open on her dad watching a Knicks game, which is how my dad was.
The word we settled on for Seema early was effervescent.
JR:We very much wanted to get them together, but in due time.
We wanted to get there organically.
Michael, Elisa, and I all have separate lives and friends who havent all met.
Its richer because it took time to get there.
We had to come up with the conflict with the host at the restaurant first to destabilize Nya.
Julie and I are mothers, and Kelli has chosen not to have kids.
We wanted Miranda to give Nya permission and advice about motherhood that we never heard before we were mothers.
We wanted Miranda to impart wisdom based on reality.
Miranda trips over herself trying to prove to Nya that shes a good white woman who readWhite Fragility.
(She comes around to organizing a they-mitzvah by the finale.)
MPK:The idea for us was the human foible of someone trying to do their best.
Theyre all trying to do their best to stay current in a time when current is changing.
I loved watching Charlotte and Harry slowly get on the level.
You dont have to save me?
About that Chucky Subway Assault … SI:Michael, Julie, and Elisa are New York supremacists.
I dont love New York.
Maybe Im too midwestern.
It almost got cut for time, but Michael was like, No, were doing Chucky.
MPK:We moved the pieces of this decision up to the very end.
We actually had the very fast, last-breaking thought that Miranda would go to California.
It became part of the writing to decide, does Miranda claim her old self or her new self?
The old self would have stayed and taken care of Brady and chosen the internship.
We even had a line where Miranda went, I just remembered Im Miranda, not Rambo.
But we looked at it and went, Why?
Why would we change that?
That opened up the conversation to the last speech, and the choice of red hair.
MPK:Why are you bringing that line now to Vulture?
We could have used that!
EZ:But I felt strongly that she shouldnt always have to be judging herself.
Team Steve
Before Miranda goes off with Che, she breaks up with Steve.
RF:Im amicably divorced and have feelings about how divorce can be portrayed in the media.
It was heartbreaking to write the scene where Miranda breaks things to Steve.
JR:The Steve-Miranda breakup was going to be a biggie.
People were invested in them as a couple.
Elisa and I were joking recently that it was like they were all the children of Miranda and Steve.
EZ:They were all babies!
Its not like its their fault.
You didnt do anything wrong.
Youre disappointed, we know.
EZ:I will say there are viewers out there who are really happy about that too.
Che was a symptom of where she was, but not the reason for the action, necessarily.
Miranda was already in a place where her marriage was not feeling full.
SI:With Miranda and Steve, what would we watch them do together?
Steve already had an affair.
He was already a loser who didnt have money.
What would you tune in for next week?
MPK:When we were in the original series, that was bumpy too.
The first two seasons, people were like, No!
At first they were just dating the show.
But there were small devoted camps that eventually became a love affair.
