And Just like that S3 con't (and hopefully S4) the one where we hope Carrie finally bins Aidan

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All welcome! spoilers allowed on ep release day once the ep is up in the UK.

Yes, what was the song title?

You Got The Love

I think I am remembering something different but thank you!

Have you seen Kim’s Instagram? Is that what they call throwing shade? I have never k own what that meant before. She was missed but it could’ve worked just the three of them.

You're not. Florence did a beautiful cover of it. But they used the Candi Staton original over a montage of what happens to them all, before she gets the call from John and walks down NY having embraced love for herself. It was a beautiful finale.

A photo of a sunset over sea with the phrase "it's the end of a very long week"? (as opposed to end of an era?)
The comments allude to it being shade but it's very subtle. Summer wind, Frank Sinatra, denotes the passing of time/changing of the seasons.
So subtle shade!

I really like the bit where the therapist turns on the camera and staters the session- for the full hour.
It sent a serious message, after what seemed like a pointless plot thread.
Charlotte had been through some serious trauma with Harry’s illness.
She’d had no time to catch her breath, as life moved on and she still needed to process.
As women I think it’s easy just to bury it all , without really healing.

It’s written by Sharon Horgan. It’s very good. Not SATC though. And you never quite believed that SJP’s character was ever married to the fella.

Wonder whether there will be a time jump for the finale episodes? To give a sense of where they’ve go to/going, to give a better sense of resolution? Maybe after the baby is born if it’s Brady’s? See where Miranda and Dolly are at, as well as Seema and Adam? See how harry is post cancer etc?

Unless they've reshot some things I doubt it- I get the feeling they didn't know it was ending when they shot it. I hope I'm wrong though!

I thought all the dialogue between Carrie and Duncan was really stilted and unrealistic - particularly when talking about their books and then the really cringy shoe closet bit.

the only parts I liked were the dinner with Steve and the 3 way phone call that followed.

I think you’re reading into something that isn’t there. All she did was post a pic of nice scenery captioned “it’s the end of a very long week”.

I agree. If there was a hidden meaning it was unfathomably deeply buried!

The comments seem to think there is meaning behind it. I agree it looks very non descript to me.

It will be such a shame if there is no proper ending. I loved the ending of SATC. If it was a shock that it was cancelled and they just filmed the episodes with another series in mind - I’ll feel short changed.

I wonder what we will be watching next and loving?

Yes, a few US dramas use this style- the ending of Brothers & Sisters was one of the more successful ones, it made me cry and you really ‘believed’ they existed in their neighbourhood in the future.
I can really see that working for AJLT, I hope they go down this route.

Brothers and Sisters was fantastic telly. That’s the kind of show we need. Kim was in the fab one where she was menopausal what was that? Skin or something,

I loved Brothers & Sisters. Still watch it!!

Anyone remember the final episode of Six Feet Under? There were several flash forwards in that episode and all hugely poignant. In the Deadline article I posted yesterday it was reported that Michael Patrick King told the cast on Thursday AJLT had been cancelled so there's going to be lots of stuff left unanswered at the end of episode 12. Maybe there'll be a one-off in the future to tie things up e.g. Looking.

They’ve possibly filmed a close to the series that works as an ambiguous forever ending or could be reprised in future as a…dare I say it…an AJLT movie?

So if it’s been cancelled-why did he say in his own statement he thought this series was a good time to stop? Is he trying to save face?

I think so. I mean if it wasn't cancelled then the cast would have been told ages ago. Also, Kristin Davis pointing out yesterday on Insta how "profoundly sad" she is and mentioning the 400 cast and crew "working so hard" heavily implies the show was axed.

Charlotte used to be quite good in SatC. I think a lot of the reason for her poor acting now can be blamed on all the filler in her face, especially the lips. Her face can’t move in the way it used to and as someone else said, she sounds like she’s wearing really bad dentures.

It’s absolutely obvious the show was cancelled, and I suspect the finale will NOT be a satisfyingly clever end to it all. Having said that quite a few characters are in a place that could end things nicely regardless - Carrie happily single, Miranda happy with Joy, Charlotte and Harry past cancer and Seema with Adam. I think that may be more a by-product of the struggle to create decent storylines than anything else though.

Totally agree that the show has been cancelled and all that waffle from MPK about not announcing it because they didn’t want the fans thinking ‘final’ all the way through sounds like face-saving bollocks.

There has been lots of criticism of the storylines this season and I think that’s why it’s been cancelled. So I don’t expect any kind of resolution to anyone’s story in the last two eps.