Despite the sudden departure of Big, series creator Michael Patrick King previously explained the dramatic storyline was essential for the evolution of Carrie’s character in And Just Like That.

“I also felt comfortable because the DNA is the same,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “People forget, Carrie never had Big in the series. She had him briefly – a minute or two. And she doesn’t have Big now. It’s just a different circumstance. It’s more final.

“People are like, ‘How could you have done this?’ The last voiceover in the series is why I did it. Everybody thinks when she’s walking down the street and Big says, ‘I’m coming, baby’ that that’s the happy ending. And it is. But what Carrie’s really saying in the voiceover is that the most significant, challenging, loving relationship you will ever have is the one you make with yourself. And if you find somebody else who sees you, that’s fabulous. So this [show] is about the significant, challenging, loving relationship – we’re trying to prove the thesis and the theory that you’re enough.”

All episodes of And Just Like That are now streaming on Sky and Now TV.

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