There’s something cyclical, almost poetic, in the newly released photos from And Just Like That’s final episode. The Carrie we see today is the same as ever — statement coat, determined stride, eyes still searching for answers — but something in her has shifted. And something in the story has too. If the end of Sex and the City took us to Paris, all signs point to this new chapter’s farewell taking us to London. And, as always in Carrie’s life, the city is more than just a backdrop: it’s a metaphor, a crossroads, a promise.

This time, it’s not about chasing an idealized great love, like it was with Aleksandr Petrovsky. It’s subtler — and perhaps for that reason, truer. Duncan may be the man behind the move, but the choice is Carrie’s. London represents a new creative cycle, a place where she can reinvent herself — not as someone’s muse or partner, but as an author, a mature woman ready to leap into a new beginning. A place where Duncan’s ex-wife, an editor, helps her publish her new book. A gesture that, if the rumors are true, ties old narratives together with threads of reconciliation and growth.

Moving to London also symbolically closes the last chapter of the Aidan arc. The apartment she bought for a shared future — a home with a yard, for the version of Carrie trying to fit into the mold of steady, conventional love — is finally left behind. And with it, the weight of a story that always came back to hurt her.

But what really changes everything is her presence.

Yes, Samantha.

I stumbled across a Reddit post that — while unconfirmed — feels less like fan fiction and more like a carefully leaked piece of inside knowledge. According to it, Samantha returns not just for a symbolic cameo, but for multiple scenes that rebuild her bond with Carrie. A transformed Samantha, far from the hyper-sexualized persona of the past, yet still with the sharp, generous soul that was always her essence. Kim Cattrall is said to have agreed to return for around $2 million, but beyond the paycheck lies the tone: this is not a reprise — it’s a redefinition.

Since the very first episode of season one, the show has been planting seeds for this reconnection. Carrie’s “Want to talk?” Samantha’s “Soon.” The short phone call in season two. And more recently, Carrie wrote about Duncan and sent the piece specifically to Samantha. All of it like a quiet signal: we’re finding our way back to each other, slowly, silently.

And it doesn’t stop there. The rumor also mentions a subtle cameo from another character tied to Samantha’s history — someone whose identity isn’t revealed, but who would serve as a gentle nod to the past and the emotional weight her character carries.

The finale, they say, ends with all four — Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha — together again. A direct mirror of the ending of the first Sex and the City movie. No matter how much the series has (rightly) been criticized for many of its choices, if this ending plays out as described, there’s something deeply cathartic about it. A sense that, despite the flaws, the journey was worth it. That there’s still beauty in seeing these women together — not because they need to be the “magic foursome” again, but because they’ve survived time, trauma, and change, and continue, each in their own way, to rewrite their stories.

Maybe, in the end, And Just Like That was never about reliving what Sex and the City once was, but about accepting that there is life — and meaning — in what comes after. That growing older also means learning how to say goodbye.

And sometimes, just sometimes, the most beautiful goodbye is the one that rebuilds bridges.