Sarah Jessica Parker Responds to the ‘AJLT' Hate Watchers
'I don't think I have the constitution to have spent a lot of time thinking about that,' SJP told The New York Times when asked about the hate watching phenomenon. 'We always worked incredibly hard to tell stories that were interesting or real. I guess I don't really care. And the reason I don't care is because it has been so enormously successful, and the connections it has made with audiences have been very meaningful.' Touché.
Showrunner Michael Patrick King had a slightly different take on the And Just Like That...hate watchers when asked about it in a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly. Calling the show 'the press piñata,' Michael seemed to understand that even hate waters were having fun. 'It's like a party game,' he said. But, he added, that feeling isn't necessarily representative of the entire fandom.
'There's a whole other experience besides the tip of the iceberg, which is the clap back and the fun and the, 'What's that hat about?'' He continued, 'There's 'What's that hat about?' And what we're more interested in is, 'What's that heart about?' And that's the show. It's both those things.'
And he's right. Because now that And Just Like That... has officially ended, whether you were a hate watcher or a tried and true fan, you're left asking yourself the same question: What in the world am I going to watch now?
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