Sunday, August 17, 2025

Winter Warmer Watchlist - And Just Like That... - Season Three/Series Final

And Just Like That... is finally over!

The hate watching stops now.

Another HBO Max bites the dust. Following Bookie, Sex Lives and College Girls and recently one and done, Duster.

The revival & sequel of the HBO television series Sex and the City created by Darren Star, which is based on Candace Bushnell's newspaper column and 1996 book anthology of the same title.

Season one was billed as a one-off miniseries, however, a second season was announced in March 2022. The following August, the series was renewed for a third season, which was announced to be its last the same month, expanding the season from 10 to 12 episodes, & therefore concluding the Sex and the City franchise.

Across the three seasons, AJLT has received mixed reviews, with some critics deeming it unnecessary and inferior to the original Sex and the City series.

The third season however was awful!


But how'd it all end? Was the series finale as bad as the rest of the cringe third season? With so many cringe moments, this season went to new lows.

Could AJLT be the worst ever reboot? With Dexter currently rewriting wrongs of that terrible season ending, along with the average OG reboot. Dexter is currently airing a second brilliant reboot in a row. Original Sin was a fun, prequel series, while Resurrection, is a super charged sequel series, which takes the lead to New York.

But back to AJLT.

Miranda and Steve admit they are unready to be grandparents. 

Harry regains his sexual function. FUCKING CRINGE!

Lisa and Marion confront their mutual attraction and agree to be strictly professional. Lisa and Herbert reaffirm their relationship, and Herbert rebounds from his election defeat. Why were these character added? So boring.

Guiseppe assures Anthony that he does not consider him as a parental figure. Likewise here, Guiseppe was good looking but Anthony was just too much!

Seema accepts that Adam does not believe in marriage. This was a better storyline than the crystal as an alternative deodorant!

Miranda's large Thanksgiving dinner party dwindles as invitees bail, including Harry and Charlotte, the Wexleys, Steve, Seema, and Anthony. Meanwhile, Mia arrives with two eccentric friends, one with dietary issues. God this was CRINGE! Everything involving Miranda this season was DIRE!

Carrie is surprised when thrice-married Mark Kasabian also arrives, apparently as a set-up arranged by the absent Charlotte. But will Carrie end the run a single lady? Answer below.

Chef Brady, dealing with an undercooked turkey, is annoyed by Mia being there. Miranda briefly leaves the party to comfort Joy, whose dog is having emergency surgery. 

The evening finally washes out when the toilet backs up and floods Miranda's bathroom. This could not symbolise the series any clearer. Shit all over the floor! A clogged toilet caused by a young lactose intolerant brat, named after a Disney park! FUCK!

Back home, Carrie amends her novel's epilogue to read that the heroine realised she was not alone but was 'on her own'. This is what we watched all 12 final episodes for?

Thank god that is over. HBO Max better deliver with the second run of Peacemaker. Thank god for them, The Pitt was a hit.

Hacks is still their best series. But with limited shows incoming, does HBO Max still need to exist? I think it's time for HBO just to operate on its own. With Task and IT incoming, HBO could finish the year on a high, however some of the Max titles have been questionable as fuck! 

AJLT left our screens with a whimper, this was a trainwreck!

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