How And Just Like That’s finale betrayed the friendships that made Sex and the City iconic?

And Just Like That is a reboot or continuation of the same world as Sex and the City, a franchise that builds a legacy on friendship as the beating heart beneath all the romance and glamour. However, the HBO reboot series recently released its season 3 finale on August 14, 2025, and it seems like it has forgotten to value its genuine moments of friendship, making it feel hollow.

In the new show, the characters are older, their circumstances have changed, but the DNA of the show is the same as that of Sex and the City. The finale explored family dynamics, love interests, and self-discovery, but the blossoming and deepening friendship among the female characters took a back seat.

Instead of gathering the characters together to reflect, laugh, or even clash in the way Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha once did, the show closed out with everyone largely in their own lanes.

How And Just Like That’s finale betrayed the friendships that made Sex and the City?

The genuine friendships Sex and the City showed were something that made the show iconic. The women's bond always found its way back to warmth, solidarity, and humour. Ending And Just Like That with Carrie and Charlotte bickering over a failed setup, rather than sharing an intimate moment of support, almost rewrites the franchise's DNA.

Moreover, And Just Like That season 3 finale portrays a bridal show scene with all the women literally sitting apart, suggesting that their friendship isn't the gravitational pull anymore. Instead of anchoring the chaos of divorces, new romances, and career shifts, the women are no longer in touch with each other, but just share a formal bond.

Carrie decides to distribute pies to her closed ones in thanksgiving. When she visits them, the show reveals how the characters are now spending their Thanksgiving separately. This was the point where the show could have chosen to reconnect these characters, once again offering a heartwarming finale moment, a shared table of friendship. Therefore, this left the audience with a strange aftertaste about female friendship that ended on fractured and lonely notes.

How Sex and the City did it differently from And Just Like That?

The Sex and the City finale was bittersweet and romantic, but it never lost sight of the show’s true heartbeat: Friendship. Carrie finds her way back to Big and returns to her girls, reminding the viewers that no matter how many men came and went, these women were her constant. The real "Love Story" of the series.

And Just Like That, on the other hand, seemed to sideline that ethos entirely. There could have been one last heart-warming moment between Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda, weaving the years-long history and emphasising that even if the world turned upside down, their friendship would remain the same. But the reboot gave the viewers distance, and that is a real loss in its legacy.

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