Is Carrie Bradshaw's Story Really Over? And Just Like That EPs Hint That A Return 'Could Happen'

And Just Like That...'s story has ended — but just like the show's title, maybe it ended not with a period, but with a dot-dot-dot.

HBO Max's Sex and the City sequel signed off last week after three seasons (read our finale recap here), and showrunner Michael Patrick King is saying he's done writing for Carrie Bradshaw... but he also admits that he's said that before and then returned. So have we really seen the last of Carrie?

Well, "she's alive," AJLT executive producer Elisa Zuritsky points out in a recent chat with TVLine, "so it could happen." Series star "Sarah Jessica Parker is Michael Patrick King's muse," she adds, "and the reason he says 'I've said goodbye before and I've come back' is because it's true."

Ultimately, it's King's call, Zuritsky says: "We serve at his pleasure." But "I am the eternal optimist. So I don't like to be too final about things, and life is long. I mean, we've all seen lots of things happen." She even admits to keeping notes and ideas for future stories about Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte "on my phone, on my computer."

Sex and the City ended its original run on HBO more than 20 years ago, but the writers never stopped thinking of ideas for the characters, fellow EP Julie Rottenberg (who also wrote with Zuritsky on SATC) reveals: "We would have some embarrassing experience, and we would say, 'That would have been a perfect Miranda story.' 'My husband just went and did this crazy thing. That would have been a great Harry story'... We keep a little list." And maybe one day we'll get to see that list come to life on our TV screens again.

Would you want to revisit Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte again somewhere down the road? Let us know in the comments.