Spoilers ahead for the Season 1 finale ofAnd Just Like That.

Afterward,Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker)goes to Paris to scatterBigs ashesin a huge ball gown.

As for therumors about Season 2?

Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie and Cynthia Nixon as Miranda standing in a bathroom in the Season 1 f…

Not a minute past what you saw [in the finale] has been written, Rottenberg says.

We intentionally left it very open-ended.

Whats your response to that?

Sara Ramirez as Che Diaz and Cynthia Nixon as Miranda talking at a charity event in ‘And Just Like T…

Julie Rottenberg: First, I would say, to us, she still felt very much like Miranda.

Miranda was always a rebel.

She was always pushing back against societal constraints.

Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie and Jon Tenney as Peter in ‘And Just Like That’ standing outside of C…

The fact that she wound up getting married and having a baby, if anythingthatwas the aberration.

Just out of control, really head over heels, the script is gone, the rules are gone.

She’s just following her heart.

I feel like the audience’s struggle with Miranda not feeling like Miranda is the struggle shes having herself.

There was a lot of time to reflect, to over-drink, over-eat, over-everything.

Obviously, it struck everyone in a different way.

The writers had really lively conversations and arguments, even right up to filming that final episode.

For a while, Miranda was not going to go to LA, and we felt good about that.

Then we actually second-guessed it and started really thinking about the real Miranda.

The viewers might want her to say, “No, I’m a New Yorker.”

Rottenberg: We went back and forth about it.

In some ways, I think that would’ve been probably the more expected thing for us to do.

So [her going to LA] felt like the more radical choice.

Tell me more about these arguments and lively conversations about Miranda and Che.

Zuritsky: The writers’ room started in January 2021, and cameras didn’t roll until July.

I remember when we were filming the first shotgun scene I couldn’t believe how intense that moment was.

It was really cool to see that spark actually come to life.

Rottenberg: We loved them together.

I think people just didn’t want to see it happen.

What did Che’s inception look like?

They were our model, but we didn’t know if we could possibly make that happen.

And Sara was happy to share.

Zuritsky: Before we knew it was going to be Sara, we had a lot of conversations.

We knew that we wanted the power dynamic to be different from Miranda and Steve.

And we knew that we wanted Che to be calling the shots a little bit.

We liked the idea of seeing what Miranda would be like in that scenario.

Did you expect the overwhelming animosity toward Che?

Zuritsky: Not at all.

So I think that might be at play.

Lets talk about the infamous kitchen-fingering scene.

Can you tell me how that came together?

Rottenberg: It’s beautifully written, very specific, very detailed.

And she was like, Uh-huh, sure, I’ll be there."

She hates New York.

And then she was not there, and we’ll never let her live it down.

You left us alone with that script page.

Zuritsky: We wanted it to be messy, for sure.

The intention was that it would be sort of clumsy and weird.

I feel like Che knows exactly what they’re doing.

But juxtaposed with that, it’s the height of comedy and sexiness and uncomfortableness.

Why did it feel like the right next step for her?

Who knows what happens in that elevator or after they get off the elevator.

Charlotte has had such a journey as a mother over the course of this year.

What lessons have her kids taught her?

Charlotte has always wrestled with the idea of perfection and the idea of the right way of doing things.

This article was originally published onFeb.