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And Just Like That...The Writers Room

“The Last Supper” Part 2: Entrée

And Just Like That...The Writers Room

HBO Max Podcasts

After Shows, Tv & Film

4.1610 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Writer, director, and executive producer Michael Patrick King is joined by executive producers Elisa Zuritsky and Julie Rottenberg, consulting producer and writer Susan Fales-Hill, and supervising producer and writer Samantha Irby to break down the season 2 finale of And Just Like That…They talk about their objectives for the season, the exciting challenges that come with bringing so many characters together, and reflect on the highly anticipated return of Samantha. Then, Michael Patrick King shares his experience of writing that final scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This might be what you've been waiting for, and you might be scared to death.

0:11.0

I've been thinking of nothing but you for all these years.

0:16.0

Hello, London.

0:19.0

Hello, lovers.

0:21.7

This is And Just Like That, The Writers' Room, the official companion podcast of An Just Like That from Max.

0:28.0

I'm Michael Patrick King, writer-director and executive producer of An Just Like That, and I'm here in our podcast, writing room, sitting with the people that I sit around a real writing room with every

0:37.8

day. To my left. Julie Rottenberg, hi. Executive producer, writer, director. Susan Fails Hill.

0:44.8

Consulting producer, writer. Elisa Zyritsky. Executive producer, writer, and Samantha Irby.

0:50.9

Supervising producer and writer. Well, today we are talking about, and just like that,

0:57.3

final, final episode of season two called The Last Supper, The Entree.

1:05.4

If you haven't seen this episode, please, I beg you, we all beg you. Go turn us off and go watch it now because

1:12.3

this is the ultimate spoiler alert. And we really want you to not know what's coming. And I would

1:18.8

like to know who wrote and directed this episode. Well, I wrote this episode infused with

1:25.1

all of our hopes and dreams from the writing room that started way before we even

1:31.6

started production. What's great about a finale when it's good from the writing point of view is

1:36.8

you have been driving to this. Every storyline. You know where you're supposed to wind up. You're not sure how you're

1:46.2

going to get there. You know, we have hopes and dreams for these characters. And this season,

1:50.1

season two, was really about all of these seven principal characters, not to mention their loved

1:55.8

ones, but like what did we want to do with them? And our goal was to grow everybody and to literally give them a seat at the table, which is what the last episode is about this Carrie Bradshaw dinner party.

2:08.7

I'm curious.

2:09.8

Alisa?

2:10.3

I am going to ask you a question as a writer because you did write this finale.

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