This interview contains spoilers for the series finale of “And Just Like That …”

Sarah Jessica Parker doesn’t love to cry for the camera. But while shooting the final episode of “And Just Like That …,” the three-season HBO Max show that followed three of the four main “Sex and the City” characters into middle age, she couldn’t help herself.

“Carrie’s not weepy,” she said, speaking of her character Carrie Bradshaw, the dizzy, fizzy, feelings-forward, fashion-very-forward sex columnist she has played off and on since 1998. “She is sentimental, but she’s not an insipid, treacly person. But it was really hard!”

The final episode, which arrived on HBO Max on Thursday, finds Carrie at home, once again in tulle, grooving to Barry White, strong enough to stand on her own in high heels. This was, in its way, a happy ending, but Parker still had complicated feelings about saying goodbye.

“I don’t know what it means yet, and I’m not sure I will for some time,” Parker said, speaking by phone the day before the final episode premiered. She was gracious — even when asked about the show’s more awkward moments — and appropriately wistful.

“And Just Like That …” was not an unqualified success. Four new main characters were introduced, all people of color, but they seemed often like accessories to the main characters rather than protagonists in their own right. (That was somewhat remedied in the third season, though by then two of the characters, Karen Pittman’s Nya and Sara Ramirez’s Che, had been written out.)