Would you like to see a second season of And Just Like That? Discuss.

The show’s three leading ladies were quick to condemn the alleged behaviour on Instagram, but an uneasiness still lingered over the remainder of the series. Big was supposed to have a cameo in the finale (appearing via fantasy sequence), but it was hastily written out. Each time he was mentioned, it was hard not to think about why he was missing.

Then there was the chorus of criticism about the show’s attempts to rewrite the sins of its past.

While it was great to see several characters of colour introduced and non-binary representation via Che (Sara Ramirez) and Rock (Alexa Swinton), And Just Like That still felt painfully tone-deaf. We had Miranda mistaking her black professor Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman) for a student because… it’s shocking for a person of colour to be a professor?

Let’s not forget sari-gate, when Carrie, who is 55-years-old but has never heard of Diwali, wears a traditional lehenga but insists on calling it a sari. Carrie and Seema briefly discuss whether the outfit is cultural appropriation before Seema declares, “It’s not cultural appropriation, it’s cultural appreciation.”

Social media wasn’t as present during the original run of Sex and the City, so it was easier to get away with slip-ups without being slapped down in real-time. But as Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte have learned, the world is a different place. Mistakes will be dissected, debated and discussed at length online.

The finale also brought the troubling arc of everyone’s favourite (former) redhead, Miranda Hobbes, into focus. From the get-go, And Just Like That has been the story of Carrie dealing with Big’s death and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) falling in love with Che. Sadly, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) was relegated to bit-part parent, pottering around the house and trying not to say the wrong thing.

The problem with Miranda isn’t that she’s changed; we all have the right to grow (or go grey). It’s that she keeps changing, flip-flopping between Old Miranda and New Miranda. Miranda’s decision in the finale episode to toss away her highly sought-after internship to follow Che to Los Angeles is actually on-brand for New Miranda. “I’m following my heart here and trying not to second guess myself like I normally would,” Miranda explains to Nya.

But she’s been second-guessing herself all season, most notably in her relationship with Che. Characters don’t have to be consistent, but they have to be believable, and at every step of the way, Miranda has felt forced.

Why is she so uneasy around people of colour, despite dating one of the few black characters in Sex and the City? (Miss you, Dr Robert). Why doesn’t she know what a podcast is? Why is she an alcoholic for three episodes, and then it’s abandoned?

To make things more confusing, in Miranda’s final scene of the series, she turns around to reveal her hair is once again red. And Just Like That, Miranda is back, or is she? Who even knows anymore?

Naturally, speculation will now drift towards a potential second season. In an interview with Variety, Sarah Jessica Parker hinted there was one en route. “There feels like there’s momentum,” Parker said. And the series was careful to tease a possible love interest for Carrie in podcast producer Franklyn (Ivan Hernandez), the pair sharing a steamy kiss at the end of the episode.

The funny thing is before that scene, Ivan had said a total of four words throughout the series. I honestly couldn’t have picked him out of a podcast producer lineup. Given how vital Carrie’s relationships have been to the show’s soul, to shoehorn in a new man was jarring.