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Ah, the spreading of the ashes scene in the And Just Like That finale episode. I have admittedly felt disconnected from almost every scene in every episode of this chaotic reboot – why, at 55, are characters deaf, getting hip replacements, uneducated about race and gender, or technologically challenged? But something about this final scene made me tear up.
Maybe it’s because I am a member of the spreading of the ashes club – my family had the unpleasant experience of doing such a thing when my late father passed a couple of years ago. Or perhaps it was, finally, a summation of real grief from the shows creators. The dealing of the G word thus far has felt brief, at best. (And who really thought going into this we’d be watching the awkward exchanges of this G word in lieu of the G spot? But alas, we are here.)
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Watching Carrie, dressed in Valentino, muster up the tired courage to scatter the remains of her beloved husband on a bridge in Paris was… beautiful. For the first time, I felt her heartache, her braveness to do it alone, and her known need for closure. (I was just waiting for the bridge’s lamp to flash – did anyone else think that would have been a nice ending? I should have been in TV producing, clearly.)
The moment Sarah Jessica Parker laid eyes on the bright cantaloupe gown, she knew she didn’t need to try on any other gowns.
“It was the only gown that came into the room,” AJLT’s costume designer Molly Rogers told InStyle of the Valentino dress. “SJ [Parker] saw it and said, ‘look no more.’”
“We wanted to add a puffy stole as well, off the shoulders, but the simplicity of the gown with her hair choice seemed like enough…if we could keep her warm!”
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Just like she mismatched shoe colours in original Sex And The City episodes, Parker wanted to mismatch her clustered earrings for this moment, says Rogers.
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Creator Michael Patrick King said the scene was about coming full circle. “Paris is about a dream, it’s about a return. The name of the episode is ‘Seeing the Light,’” he said in the And Just Like That… The Documentary which follows the streaming of the finale. “It’s about light, but really it’s about returning to the most magical place in her heart, aside from New York.”
The episode ends with Carrie giving advice to a listener on her podcast, in the same way the voice inside her head would close an episode by reading her notes from her magazine column all those years back.
“So much of life just doesn’t seem to makes sense,” Carrie tells the listener. “But if there is anything I’ve learned from my recent loss it’s that you will laugh again, especially if you have one or two good friend in your corner.”
I couldn’t agree more. To friendships.
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