Spoiler alert: This piece contains spoilers for “Party of one”, the final of the series of “and just like that“” Now streaming on HBO Max.
This is how the world of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) ends: not with a blow, but with a geyser of human excrement.
Technically, the last one we see of the most emblematic anti-heroine of television is Carrie strutting in her house Gargantuan Gramercy while exploding Barry White. She has just embarked on the idea, via the epilogue of her current historical novel, to be not “alone” but “alone”. This is an appropriate outing for a character who, between boyfriends, helped Glamor the idea of a singledom released for a generation of viewers. But for “and just like that”, the “Sex and the City” series which concluded its three -season race on August 14, the most indelible image on the brand of “Party of One” came a few scenes earlier: Carrie, her good friend Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and, for a reason Einbinder). No bloody details have been spared, up to anatomically correct follies.
The showrunner Michael Patrick King, who directed the final and co-wrote the scenario with Susan Fales-Hill, said that the decision to finish “and just like that” came from him, not HBO Max. However, Carrie’s scenario has made the exception of the opinion of a satisfactory shipment. The Miranda arc is literally pregnant with new potential developments, with its very first little child (!) Always born. The final line delivered by Seema (Sarita Choudhury), the de facto successor by Samantha Jones of Kim Cattrall, is “I do not miss gluten”, about his Thanksgiving pie. And after spending the whole season to accumulate with what seemed to be an inevitable cameo by Michelle Obama, Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) ended up with the vague possibility of a voiceover for her current documents.
Other characters have been slightly more fenced, but not in a way that seemed to exclude future possibilities. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) reconciled with the identity of his young child’s gender – a truly empathetic and sensitive secondary intrigue in a program that could often adopt a hostile position towards children these days – and ultimately overcome the effect of prostate cancer on her sex life. Anthony (Mario Cantone) broke a commitment but kept his relationship, and all that it cost him was a tart in the face.
However, the cumulative feeling given by “Party of one” is not that of an affectionate farewell. It is an overwhelming and essential strangeness – The same strangeness that was hung on this show from the start, with the gaping absence of Samantha and characters disconcerted by time. “And just like that” improved on this score over time, settling down to the point that this criticism found the business more than valid. But perhaps it was just that the show ended with the quirky and strange way that it started, even if it meant that the fictitious people we have known for over a quarter of a century had a somewhat abrupt goodbye.
At no time in “Party of one”, we do not get the type of scene that defined this franchise in popular conscience: four friends gathered around the table of a trendy restaurant, gabbanting life and love. In its place, we get Carrie in a robot restaurant, confusing by technology and looking at a plush toy named Tommy Tomato. Humor is intentional; Maybe the contrast is too. After all, it would be very Carrie – an often terrible friend of the last – to see her own things while letting everyone twist in the wind.
However, this is the shit to which I come back. (I apologize if it is graphic, but the episode itself does not punch, and I will not do it either “and just like that” liked to put its low protagonists, often literally: Charlotte Wilting de Vertigo; Miranda collapses, naked, while making a way out of a tank of sensory deprivation; Carrie gleaning on her naked wood floors; Big (Chris Noth) falling from his peloton while he was undergoing a fatal heart attack, the macabre incident of the show. East Alone – and solo life is not always pretty. It is an internal more coherent ending, if it is less romantic. Whether you like it or not what it means, “and like that” has remained faithful to the last.
