[This story contains major spoilers to the season two finale of And Just Like That, “The Last Supper Part Two: Entrée.”]

When the And Simply Like That writers began chatting in regards to the finish of the season two finale, even they admitted they had been dreading reliving the dialog between Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Aidan (John Corbett), the previous love of her day with whom she reconciled with earlier in the season.

“She looks out the window and there is Aidan, throwing a rock up at the window, much like she threw a rock up at his window in Sex and the City when she visited him at night after his second return,” stated showrunner/scribbler/director Michael Patrick King in regards to the callback in episode 11, “The Last Supper Part Two: Entrée.” King, talking on Max’s authentic better half podcast for the layout, And Just Like That… The Writers Room with EPs Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky and manufacturers/writers Susan Fales-Hill and Elyssa Zuritsky, defined that Aidan coming as much as Carrie’s condominium within the finale — a playground he vehemently instructed her he would by no means go back to, because of their historical past there — used to be no longer a just right signal.

“The plot point is simply that Aidan believes now that bad things happen if he’s not there,” stated King of Aidan’s choice to name off his long-distance constancy with Carrie to bring to be provide for his 3 sons later 14-year-old Wyatt’s very critical, drug-induced automotive hit. “He admits to her that he’s really the home for these three boys and that’s who he’s always been, and that this kid, Wyatt, had psilocybin in his system, he had been on mushrooms and drunk.”

King and the writers defined how this dialog noticeable their latter plan for Carrie’s dating in season two, which might be checked out as a manufacture just right of varieties for audience of the unedited layout who felt that Carrie beggarly Aidan’s center (as he famously instructed her within the unedited layout).

“We are now building the case for what becomes the plot of what we decided to do the entire second season which is: We’re bringing Aidan back, she’s not going to hurt him because she knows she can’t — and we also don’t want the fans to think we did that again — so he’s going to hurt her,” stated King. “And the only way we knew that he would ever pull away from her is if the bigger love — and every parent would assume that this is a bigger love — is the responsibility and your love for your children.”

Aidan asks Carrie to attend 5 years so he can proceed to be the principle guardian to his youngest kid. “He says to her — and this will be the debatable point — ‘Can you give me time until Wyatt is out of his teens?’ She goes, ‘That’s six years.’ And then he desperately says, ‘It’s five; his birthday is next week.’ But the question is: What is happening right now?” endured King of Aidan telling Carrie he can’t proceed splitting his era in Virginia and Long island. “He snaps [his fingers] and says, ‘It’s only five years. We haven’t seen each other in 10 years and it went by like that [snaps]. And five years…’ and he doesn’t snap he says because, ‘I already did and you didn’t see it; that’s how quick it was.’”

The episode next is going into an intimate montage for the entire starring characters, a callback to how the season opened: Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and husband Harry (Evan Handler) are again running as a crew; Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Che (Sara Ramirez), Anthony (Mario Cantone) and Nya (Karen Pittman) each and every pursue possible unutilized relationships; and LTW (Nicole Ari Parker) and husband Herbert (Chris Jackson) akin the montage tenderly following her miscarriage, cementing themselves as an essential couple on the series.

In the meantime Seema (Sarita Choudhury) and Carrie, regardless that each and every has made up our minds to drop and look ahead to their loves to go back (in Seema’s case, she’s ready 5 months for her filmmaker boyfriend, performed via Armin Amiri, to go back from a kill), their ultimate scenes in mattress with their companions are bright ones.

Of Carrie and Aidan, King stated, “It’s the most open I’ve ever seen those two actors. They’re naked and they’re open and it’s fun. And that’s the thing that’s so interesting about how they played it. They’re deeply connected, but it’s not like ‘I’m holding onto you because I’ll never see you again.’ This whole last night in this bed that they’ve never slept in, they’re just there with each other.”

However the season in fact ends on what King known as a hopeful notice, with Carrie and Seema consuming Cosmopolitans at the seaside in Greece. “We wanted to end with that moment of believing the truth that [Carrie and Aidan] made that connection and it’s going to stay there,” stated King, sharing that he knew the overall shot can be on Carrie and Seema, and no longer Carrie and Aidan.

“Our only little tip to you, the audience, the people who are watching this and wondering what we’re thinking,” he endured, “there’s a little tiny thread of what we’re thinking at the end [when] Seema says, ‘Well, we ran at love, where did it get us? In Greece. I’m waiting five months and you’re waiting five years,’ and Carrie says, ‘Well, I may get some time off with good behavior.’ You would only say that if you already were going, ‘It’s not going to be five years.’ She’s very cute. But then she does move on to say there will be others.”

He added, “We try to sometimes end with these poetic lines … and when I tried to write something poetic for this it was just too forced so I thought, ‘What’s the most poetic thing Carrie Bradshaw can do?’ She orders two more drinks and says, ‘And just like that, I ordered two more Cosmopolitans.’”

And Just Like That was renewed for a third season forward of the season two finale, with paintings at the upcoming season at a halt amid the continued WGA and SAG-AFTRA moves. When speaking to The Hollywood Reporter earlier than season two introduced, the 3 unedited stars/government manufacturers all stated they had been on board to manufacture extra episodes of And Simply Like That. Additionally they stated former co-star Kim Cattrall’s much-buzzed-about finale cameo as Samantha used to be not going to bring in the fourth unedited personality returning in a bulky approach; they and King known as it a present to the target market for the display’s twenty fifth yearly and stated they had been disillusioned it leaked forward of era, in lieu of bizarre enthusiasts who tuned in.

King and the writers in brief addressed Cattrall’s fleeting appearance at the podcast. “Of course, it was a huge [spoiler] that the Samantha call leaked because my goal for us was to have Carrie pick up her phone, look at it, see the word ‘Samantha’ and have the audiences head blow off,” stated King, explaining how Samantha would by no means omit Carrie’s see you dinner to her condominium. “It’s hard to not imagine that Samantha would have gotten a call from Charlotte and Miranda saying, ‘Hey, Carrie’s doing the last supper and this time, it’s real; she’s leaving this apartment.’ Always in my multiverse of And Just Like That, Sex and the City, they were always talking. Always. Texting and talking. And not just Carrie, but Samantha and Miranda and Charlotte. But we laid off the texting this season because I felt we were going to the well too much.”

Destitute climate in London gardens Samantha’s flying (she is “fucking furious!”) and when Carrie suggests they proceed out the upcoming evening, she is touched to listen to that Samantha used to be creating a one-night-only shuttle not to omit her pal’s sentimental night. “You realize, oh, it’s casual. It’s not some giant moment when they’re talking,” stated King. “It’s really the friendship.”

Later comes any other callback, this era, as King identified, it’s a 20-year echo to the Soho Space lake for the title Samantha offers Carrie as her British alter-ego: Annabelle Bronstein. “Then the phone call is over and something amazing happens when they say goodbye, which is Samantha kisses the phone. Which was not in the script,” stated King. (Cattrall and Parker did not cross paths while filming the scene, as has been reported.) “It’s just totally a moment of an actor playing a moment, and it’s really nice.”