“Present Tense”

And Just Like That...The Writers Room

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After Shows, Tv & Film

4.1 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Executive producers Michael Patrick King, Julie Rottenberg, and Elisa Zuritsky are joined by co-executive producer Samantha Irby and executive story editor Lucas Froehlich to discuss the complicated heartbreak of episode 9: “Present Tense.” Michael reveals the line that John Corbett contributed to the episode, the backstory behind that Andy Cohen cameo, and which scene Sarah Jessica Parker said was among the hardest she’s ever had to do as an actor. Plus, the writers dig into their decision to have Miranda risk saying the unsexy thing to Joy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Carrie.
0:05.0	Carrie, stop, come on.
0:08.0	How dare you?
0:10.0	No, really, how dare you?
0:12.0	How is it possible that I haven't earned your trust by now?
0:17.0	I have done everything to show you how fully committed I am to you. I have moved
0:24.4	mountains and apartments. I have agreed to arrangements, arrangements that even you yourself
0:32.5	could live up to. Hello, lovers. Welcome back to And Just Like That, the writer's room, the official companion
0:39.6	podcast of An Just Like That from Max. I'm Michael Patrick King, writer director and executive producer
0:44.6	of An Just Like That, and I'm here around the writing room table today with executive producer
0:49.2	and writer Julie Rotenberg. Hi. Executive producer and writer Lisa Zeritsky. Hello.
0:54.1	Co-executive producer and writer Samantha Irby. Hi. Executive producer and writer Lisa Zeritsky. Hello.
0:56.6	Co-executive producer and writer Samantha Irby.
0:57.2	Hello.
1:00.3	Executive story editor and writer Lucas Frolic.
1:01.1	Hey, guys.
1:01.9	Hey, everybody.
1:07.7	Well, we are here today to discuss an episode called Present Tense.
1:10.7	This is episode number nine.
1:16.9	Nine. Present tense. Written by Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zeritsky and directed by a new valia.
1:24.5	If you have not, and I've said this a lot, if you have not seen this episode, please go and watch it now and then come back. Because this one of all of them is the spoiler alert central of everything.
1:30.5	This one could kill you, the spoiler.
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