“If there was a great disaster, it would have been if ‘And Just Like That’ tried to be ‘Sex and the City.’”

Sex and the City showrunner Michael Patrick King thinks And Just Like That will ‘age well’

"If there was a great disaster, it would have been if 'And Just Like That' tried to be 'Sex and the City.'"

By Wesley Stenzel

Wesley Stenzel

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April 4, 2026 5:58 p.m. ET

Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, and Sarah Jessica Parker on 'And Just Like That'. Credit:

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- *Sex and the City *showrunner* *Michael Patrick King thinks *And Just Like That* will potentially "age well."

- He says the follow-up series "has the same DNA" as* SATC.*

- "If there was a great disaster," he added, "it would have been if* And Just Like That* tried to be *Sex and the City*."

Michael Patrick King couldn't help but wonder: Will the world eventually come around to *And Just Like That*?

The showrunner discussed his polarizing *Sex and the City* follow-up series while promoting his other big HBO revival, *The Comeback*, which was resurrected in 2014 after being canceled in 2005 and has now returned for its third and final season.

"If *The Comeback* has taught me anything," King told *The Guardian* in a new interview, "it's that perceptions can change over the years. *The Comeback*'s first perception was: It failed. Then it grew in relevance as the world caught up."

Michael Patrick King in Los Angeles on March 28, 2026.

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Because *The Comeback *charted an unusual path in the TV landscape, King has hope that *And Just Like That* will also find resonance in the future. "I think *And Just Like That* will potentially age well," he said. "It has the same DNA as the original *Sex and the City*, which was society telling 35-year-old women they should be married. In *And Just Like That*, society was telling 55-year-old women they shouldn't be wearing tulle."

He added, "I've always tried to be excited about writing the individual v society."

King said he always wanted *And Just Like That* to have its own identity, and for Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) to continue to evolve. "I'm interested in how characters change," he explained. "The surprise for me was discovering that fans don't want their characters to change — they want to see them frozen in the time they fell in love with them. That's a particular dilemma if you're trying to move things forward."

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The director, writer, and producer thinks *AJLT* maintained its integrity by doing its own thing. "If there was a great disaster, it would have been if* And Just Like That* tried to be *Sex and the City*," he told *The Guardian*. "It's much better to come back, break it, and be a new show, even though you're going to get hit with, 'We like the other show better.' Well, okay — it's still there."

Sarah Jessica Parker on 'And Just Like That'.

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*And Just Like That *abruptly ended in 2025 after three seasons on HBO Max. King explained the rationale behind finishing the show in an interview with ** shortly after its conclusion. "We did everything we wanted to do fully for that expression of the individual versus society," he said. "Each of the relationships is in a place where you can fan-fiction the rest of it yourselves."

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King also said Parker was supportive of his choice to end the show. "I said to her, 'I think it's time to stop,'" he recalled. "And she said, 'Then we stop.'"

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