- Rating: 7.00
- Year of issue: 1998
- Genres: Romance, Comedy
- Countries: United States
- Duration: 29 minutes
- Complexity: 9
Four women Brand-new Yorkers chatter about their sex lives (or lack thereof) and locate brand-new ways to deal with being a woman in the 1990s.
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1. Sex and the City
DescriptionColumnist Carrie Bradshaw introduces her narrative style by a short story about a British girl who thought the Manhattan manner would be the same. Characters and extras on screen do some of the philosophizing about modern sex life and the life of both sexes she usually does off-screen in her column-style. Among the main cast of four best friends, PR executive Samantha bluntly stands for sex without relational crap, golden spoon-WASP Charlotte for the fairy tale-romantic ideal, while sensitive flirt Carrie herself and stuck-up pragmatic lawyer Miranda seek a middle way… -
2. Models and Mortals
DescriptionMiranda discovers she was invited at Nick's, where all guests are asked with which movie star in the prime they would have loved to do it, to make a change with all those brainless models he keeps dating. The girlfriends see models as a living nightmare as those terribly demanded competitors actually walk around in Manhattan, giving them socially imposed inferiority complexes, except man-eater Sam. Carrie's friend poor painter Barkley, a serial ‘modelizer’, treats models as things and secretly videotapes his sex with them; Sam sees him as a challenge for her as … -
3. Bay of Married Pigs
DescriptionCarrie is invited to stay with a married friend and her husband, Peter, at their beach house. Her trip is unexpectedly cut short when she walks in on Peter who is naked in the kitchen. Back in Manhattan, she contemplates whether there is a secret war going on between the singles and the married. Later on, she is introduced to a guy who's desperately trying to start a family. It seems that dating the marrying-type guy has suddenly made her a member of a club for married couples. -
4. Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys
DescriptionCarrie and Mr. Big keep bumping into each-other till they date (without that term) at Samantha's hot restaurant PR-opening, but he cancels last minute. The cook, just Jon, is reserved for Samantha's bed, but his hot friend Sam, also twenty-something (those always seem to know the right people) flirts with Carrie; Big turns up saying he was on time but couldn't find her, time to leave town. At a twenties club Sam takes Carrie on his lap and kisses really well, five hours long, and again while she helps him pick a shirt. Samantha eagerly reports on a night of sex with … -
5. The Power of Female Sex
DescriptionWhile shoe-shopping, Carrie meets Amalita and her new rich boyfriend. Amalita's life is full of vacations, holidays, and shopping with very rich men. Over dinner, she introduces a young, handsome architect to Carrie. Her evening ends at his luxurious hotel. Waking up, she finds that the man has left her a considerable sum. Appalled, she calls up her friends and they discuss the power of sex. Meanwhile, Charlotte is asked to model for an artist who is doing a series of paintings of vagina. -
6. Secret Sex
DescriptionCarrie put asides her misgivings about a photo session for a promotional picture for her columns, to go on buses, because she was allowed to keep the sexy dress, which she wears on her first ‘official’ dinner date with Big, and has sex against Charlotte's Victorian restraint rules. Her friend Mike Singer found an ideal sex-partner in sales clerk Libby Biyalick, but prefers to keep the affair discrete as she wouldn't do as life-partner; Carrie realizes and resents being Big's, till she confronts him. Miranda meets 32-year old sports doctor Ted Baker by punching him in … -
7. The Monogamists
DescriptionWhen she discovers that Big is dating other women, Carrie realizes that she desires a monogamous relationship with him. In the meantime, Samantha is having trouble being monogamous with her realtors. Charlotte dislikes the sexual desires of her new boyfriend, and Miranda confronts jealousy when she runs into Skipper with his new girlfriend from Vogue. -
8. Three's a Crowd
DescriptionArchitect and amazing lover Jack, an ideal catch for princess Charlotte, whom she met at many disease benefits, strongly suggest a trio with another woman- the friends are divided if or how. Samantha does it with married 37-year old wine importer Ken Shear; when he tells his wife Ruth, she insists Sam participates in his fantasy, a threesome, to save her marriage. Carrie is surprised nearly everybody has trios, and startled Mr. Big is divorced, from publisher Barbara, who proves a great lady and even interested professionally in Carrie's on the spot invented novel … -
9. The Turtle and the Hare
DescriptionCarrie is presented to Stanford Blatch's adored, classy grandmother, but comes to the conclusion his being gay cancels all his qualities on her bottom line and probably in her last will. Miranda is losing her self-respect after many rejections, but turns to blind dating - just to walk out on the first man who's still willing to give it a go when they meet. Samantha tries everything to turn Bernie Turtletaub, a Wall street guru but society laughing stock with viciously bad breath the girls met at the “singles” table at a posh wedding, into a fashionable date, but can … -
10. The Baby Shower
DescriptionAs neither of the four friends has a solid prospect of engagement, they hate feeling obliged to attend a formerly bizarre socialite's baby shower - when it turns out she even ‘stole’ Charlotte's years ago made-up unique baby-name Shayla, they march out ‘scandalized’. The worrying worsens as Carrie's period is really late, and she doesn't even know yet how she would feel about a pregnancy. -
11. The Drought
DescriptionAfter weeks sharing a bed, Carrie feels comfortable actually sleeping with M. Big, yet mortified when she farts in bed, but really worried when he stops to want sex every night. It really hits her when he prefers to watch a boxing match to kissing, so she paints her apartment. Miranda tells Carrie to be herself and feels she's worse off not having had anyone for three months, but how often is normal? Samantha is horny for her hunky yoga instructor Siddharta, who claims to practice Bhramacharya, Tantric celibacy, since three years, yet still gets hard-ons. Charlotte … -
12. Oh Come All Ye Faithful
DescriptionMiranda dates rising playwright Thomas John Andersen, whose only flaw is he needs to shower immediately after sex, which he blames on nun teachers; her uttering sex is not sinful gets her thrown out forever. Carrie observes churches draw classy dressers- as her Mr. Big, an atheist who takes his Presbyterian mother every Sunday and won't invite Carrie along. Samantha startles telling she's in love with jazz-loving lawyer James, without having had sex; when they finally do, she can't even feel his tiny cock, she's shattered and hates herself for it. Charlotte consults …
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1. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
DescriptionAfter Carrie's break-up with Mr. Big, despite Charlotte's rule it takes half the duration of a relationship to get over it, she lets true fan Miranda take her and Sam to the Yankees stadium, where she accidentally catches a ball and thus meets and invites, to everyone's surprise with success, charming baseball star Joe Starr to a party but bumps into Big there. Samantha is still miserable and tries to physically coach her James in bed, to no avail. Charlotte finds a lover with only one drawback, instinctive reaching for his balls, and buys him boxer shorts - which he … -
2. The Awful Truth
DescriptionThree of the girls wrestle with the delicate question what to tell or discretely left unmentioned with loved ones. For Miranda this means overcoming her aversion from explicit encouragement and dirty talk in bed; Carrie's blabbermouth causes a friend to divorce and invites Mr. Big to her birthday party; Samantha finally tells her sweet lover -after he talked her into couple counseling, which she hates- she finds her dick too small. Meanwhile Charlotte tries a pedigree dog as temporary substitute for the unfindable perfect fiancé. All find out the downsides of their … -
3. The Freak Show
DescriptionCarrie ponders the theory that all Manhattan men are freaks. After Samantha found out an eligible lawyer has a masochistic closet, she decides too cheer up herself by scheduling having her fanny's fat injected in her facial cheeks. When Carrie meets charming journalist Ben, she doubled-dates with his mate Luke and Miranda - a total misfit because she abhors his position that nothing outside is worth leaving Manhattan even for a holiday. Charlotte meets the legendary Mitch(ell) ‘pussy’ and experiences he never disappoints in bed, but can she really be satisfied without… -
4. They Shoot Single People, Don't They?
DescriptionNow none of the girls has a relationship, the quartet hits a salsa bar all night, so Carrie is late for a photo-shoot for Stanford's boyfriend Nevin's magazine; the result is worse then she ever feared. Only Samantha is absent from the power-walking, where Miranda bumps into an ex, hunky ophthalmologist Josh, who just didn't give her orgasms; history repeats itself, and she still fakes coming; once she tells him, his confidence is shaken, so he gets her to coach him- now sex feels like an exam subject. Charlotte enjoys the handy jobs done by and kissing with … -
5. Four Women and a Funeral
DescriptionCarrie and Charlotte reproach Sam for wearing bright clothes to designer Javier's funeral, but it turns out their black clothing sticks out instead. Having solicited clients for her PR business there, Sam jumps the bones of the ‘right’ man, but when his all-too-influential wife walks in on them, her vital social acceptability is endangered. Charlotte meets hunky young widower Ned and enjoys helping him overcome his grieving in bed, until she discovers she isn't the only one. Miranda's pride when she buys her first apartment is short-lived, as the paperwork seems to … -
6. The Cheating Curve
DescriptionWhile Charlotte has a great sell in the gallery, especially to ‘power lesbians’, Samantha spots her hunky gym instructor Thor, and soon has him showering with her and enjoys his creative shaving of her pubic hair, but is this really original? Carrie sneaks out to her date with Mr. Big without her friends noticing. Miranda dates a pretentious documentary movie buff, but is less and less comfortable with his insistence to ‘get in the mood’ by watching porn while they make love. Charlotte, who found her current boyfriend kissing another in the gallery, decides to go out … -
7. The Chicken Dance
DescriptionWhen Miranda's friend Jeremy Fields, a reporter in London who is often flirtatious in their e-emails, visits New York Miranda is happy to put him up - however he proves more flirtatious with a local friend of hers who just decorated her apartment, and at the farewell party she throws for him even announces their upcoming wedding! The friends have mixed feelings being invited, three of them rather commandeered in various capacities. Miranda feels the invisible woman, ‘in charge’ of the self-explicative guest-book; Sam feels her Manhattan life is ending when she … -
8. The Man, the Myth, the Viagra
DescriptionAfter walking out on her date who turned out to be still married despite his claim to be divorced, Miranda is happy to be picked up by cocky barman Steve, who soon wants more then their one-night stand. Carrie believes her rekindled relationship with Mr. Big is good enough to get him to know her friends a little better. Samantha has an atypical lover, even for a man-eater like her: Donald Trump's single friend Ed is past 70, so will his old-fashioned wooing and lavish gifts outweigh his physical decay? -
9. Old Dogs, New Dicks
DescriptionThe girls wrestle with the question how and if partners can/want to change for each-other. For Miranda this means fitting her busy schedule to lover Steves late hours as barman and cuddling appetite when she wants to start the working day. Carrie wants to stop Big ogling other women and other ‘little’ things. When Charlotte decides her uncircumcised lover, restaurant critic Mike, looks like a sharpei below the belt, he decides to everyones surprise to get cut, but the psychological side-effect of his ‘second virginity’ makes her regret his move. Samantha is happy … -
10. The Caste System
DescriptionThe girls wrestle with social inequalities. When Samantha dates super-rich Harvey, she enjoys the perks she claims not to crave for, but finds his relationship with female servant Sum is not as one-sided as it seems. Charlottes date with celebrity actor Wylie Ford starts as a luxury dream, but she soon finds she's expected to become more of an abjectly servile fan then a self-respecting lover. Miranda takes Steve shopping for his wardrobe but has a taste he cannot afford and yet won't allow her to pick up the bill, even if that breaks hem up. Carrie is insecure again … -
11. Evolution
DescriptionThe girls worry about long-term change. Miranda hears from her gynecologist that one of her ovaries is ‘lazy’, and worries therefore is she can still take her time being picky with men before going for motherhood. Charlotte hits on well with charming pastry chef Stephan, but consults the girls and guy friend Stanford if he is gay, or at least ‘half’. Carrie worries if Big is serious about them since he seems too ‘territorial’ to allow any of her stuff permanently in his apartment. When Samantha sees publisher Dominic, the one man who broke her heart for a model, she … -
12. La Douleur Exquise!
DescriptionBig tells Carrie that he's moving to Paris for six months; Samantha introduces the girls to the hottest new S&M restaurant; Charlotte's shoe fetish is counterbalanced by a shoe store foot fetishist; Miranda meets a guy who likes to “do it” only when he thinks he might get caught. -
13. Games People Play
DescriptionWhen even her friends are sick and tired of Carrie's raving after the break-up with Mr.Big, she takes Stanford's advice to go in therapy, as everybody does in Manhattan, and gets a surprise bonus: in the waiting room she meets Seth, who proves a substitutive therapy in the flesh. Samantha picks up a man in a sports bar, but will even she ever get his full and undivided attention for nonathletic practice? Miranda finally feels really flattered when a gorgeous man in the adjacent building goes from flirting to stripping at the window, but when she meets him learns his … -
14. The Fuck Buddy
DescriptionCarrie meets Miranda's ex Skipper, a sweet guy who's getting desperate as all women seem to turn him down in favor of jerks - like the bossy colleague Kevin Miranda is dating right then; when she confesses to the friends this contradiction bugs her too, Sam declares monogamy fits none of them, as its high expectations are never met. To everyone's surprise, Charlotte takes that advice to the extreme, double-dating two fine men - till they find out and walk out on her together. After a few lonely weeks without Big, Carrie invites John, her dependable rebound-lover … -
15. Shortcomings
DescriptionMiranda considered Sunday a nightmare because children swarm everywhere, there is even a family hour at her gym, but it did allow her to meet hunky Simon Cobb, indulgent divorced father of rascal Simon, who loves to push the elevator's buttons, and his; when Simon surprises her naked in the lo after a hot night, that signs her marching-orders. Carrie met fiction writer Vaughn Wysel at a lunch; he presents her to mother Wallis, her partner Duncan, a teacher, and sisters Franny and Zoe, who all insist she stays for a seafood feast; six hours later he can finally jump … -
16. Was It Good for You?
DescriptionCharlotte panics about her ‘bed-manner’ when her lover Dr. Bram Walker dozes off in bed once after a grueling day of surgery, so she takes a tantric class - signing up all four girls; it's given by hands-on demonstration by a couple of psychologists. Sam not only proclaims the dawn of pan-sexuality, but actually accepts to have a trio with gay couple David&David, flattered they call her probably the best in bed, but they walk out just when she was running hot. By coincidence Carrie bumps into (the cigarette off) very cute film composer Patrick Casey, but is puzzled … -
17. Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women
DescriptionThe girls wrestle with the possible threat of twenties-girls when they are invited to a beach party in the Hamptons. Charlotte suffers a nasty punishment for passively lying about her age: her even younger toy-boy Greg gives her crabs. Sam finds her former assistant Nina, which she once sacked, now got to host a party with people even she couldn't get- but can't control the party-guests. Carrie has a sheepish young writing admirer Laurel, and came with doctor Bradley Meego, but even her fun is over when she finds Mr. Big there, back from Paris, and dating girl of … -
18. Ex and the City
DescriptionThree of the girls deal with loved ones from their past. For Carrie it's trying to become just good friends again with Mr. Big, who now is with Natasha and even tells her they are already engaged. For Charlotte it means the pony Taddy which threw her off as a child, or a substitute horse. For Miranda it's becoming friends again with barman Steve, but then they get physical again… Samantha however finds by chance a new, huge hunky man who seems about as cocky as she is, and proves he has a cock of matching (record) size which even she may not be able to handle.
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1. Where There's Smoke...
DescriptionThe Manhattan quartet takes the ferry to Staten Island when Carrie is on the jury for the New York Fire Department's annual male calendar finalists selection, together with a politician who's rather interested in her. Sam gets the hottest fireman in her opinion in her bed, but her fantasy of doing it in the fire station proves less romantic then she hoped. Charlotte's next dream prince suddenly turns out too macho. Miranda insists on proving her independence by refusing the practical assistance Steve volunteers when she's scheduled for laser eye-surgery. -
2. Politically Erect
DescriptionCarrie shares her bed and his campaign for city treasurer with Bill Kelley for weeks and Sam has a short lover. -
3. Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman
DescriptionCharlotte gets depressed just by reading all women in the New York Times Sunday edition wedding announcements are younger then our quartet, but stumbles on Carrie's nightmare: Mr.Big's marriage to Natasha - her answer is to spend a fortune in order to outshine the bride to be. Miranda's new cleaning lady, Magda, makes her feel guilty not to be more of a housewife and for having sex toys. While Charlotte feels nasty just being naked in an all-female health spa, Samanatha books an extra massage when told Kevin also gets intimate, but ends up being thrown out for taking … -
4. Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl...
DescriptionCharlotte's gallery scores a big hit with the works of the artist Baird Johnson, rare even for New Yorkers' almost un-shockable standards: drag kings, women completely dressed-up as men; Baird, himself a gentleman, even gets conservative WASP lady Charlotte to pose for him, his way. Samantha was looking for an assistant, but one look on sexy stud Matt decided her mind in his favor; his professionally unacceptable arrogant attitude to her PR clients still gets him fired, but both are immediately eager to start jumping each-other's bones now are they no longer ethically… -
5. No Ifs, Ands or Butts
DescriptionCarrie is attracted to a furniture maker named Aidan and starts dating but he can't date a smoker. She must decide on Aidan or smoking. Charlotte attempts to coach a bad kisser while Miranda finds difficulty in supporting Steve's pipe dream of making a half court shot at the Knick's game. Samantha begins dating an African-American record executive who has a strong-willed sister who runs a new restaurant. -
6. Are We Sluts?
DescriptionCarrie feels horrible that it didn't even cross her mind that Aidan, her best date since long, doesn't go for sex for the excellent old-fashioned reason he is still romantic- are modern Manhattan girls like her then just sluts, and is he serious, or, as Samantha suggests, becoming just a friend? Charlotte has a great lover, a gentle gentleman, with one flaw: without knowing it, he calls her bitch and whore during sex; when she tells the poor boy, he's as horrified as she, and as if God-struck impotent. Miranda discovers she has the VD chlamydia, so she calls all her … -
7. Drama Queens
DescriptionMiranda and Steve are finally feeling comfortable together, until she watches the laundry. Samantha has hot nights with a doctor, and decides to follow his example taking Viagra purely for recreational purposes. Charlotte is inspired by a book to start looking for a fiancé more methodically, and commandeers a wedded friend of hers, allegedly the ideal ally, to tell his friend Phil he is supposed to become her dream date - when he stands up the all too eager would be-bride at the opera, she goes with Carrie, who was just getting comfortable with Aidan but suddenly … -
8. The Big Time
DescriptionCharlotte is completely besotted with Trey, who she just met by accident but already considers her groom. At a chic boat party Charlotte presents him to Carry, who is already tired of the meeting by fate story and bumps into Mr. Big there, without Natasha- despite her living with Aidan they clearly miss each-other. Samantha, who just moved to the call girl district, is invited by a much older new neighbor, Les; discovering her period is five days late, she gets drunk and accepts to go all the way, but then nature steps in. To Miranda's utter and sarcastically uttered … -
9. Easy Come, Easy Go
DescriptionNow that Miranda and Steve have fallen out of love over parenthood, they painstakingly live apart in the same flat… At Aidan Shaws's design fair, Carrie bumps into Mr. and Mrs. Big. Later, a drunken Big blurts out to Carrie that he not only wants a divorce but also wants her back. Then, when Aidan generously starts improving her apartment, the noise drives her to a hotel… Charlotte is convinced Trey is ready to propose and is presented to his mother Bunny MacDougal. She seems to control him masterfully. Later, Charlotte uses Bunny's sleeve rubbing trick and makes … -
10. All or Nothing
DescriptionCarrie feels guilty like hell about sleeping with Big behind Aidan's back, but re-offends when he's out of state; while Big announces he wants to leave his wife for her, she looses Aidan's dog Pete. Charlotte's engagement-bliss whithers when Trey's family's ‘standard’ prenuptial appears. Just after boasting how much better life is without a steady man, Sam experiences it's no fun being single with the flu. Miranda is very happy with a young new colleague, having a one nightstand followed by long-term phone-love as he returns to Chicago- till she finds out… -
11. Running with Scissors
DescriptionCharlotte's wedding planning panic is easily solved when Sam refers her to gay stylist Anthony Marantino, ‘the Italian mother she never had’. Paranoid Miranda worries about a ‘scary’ man in a restaurant's sandwich-suit saying “eat me” in a ‘woman-unfriendly way’. When Samantha finally meets her male sexual counterpart Tom Reymi, eagerness to ‘do it’ in his swing makes her overcome an old pathological fear for aids-tests. Carrie is torn between sweet Aidan and exciting adulterous Big who wants to come out, but when Natasha returns early… -
12. Don't Ask, Don't Tell
DescriptionWhen Miranda tries multi-dating, she quickly finds nobody wants a lawyer, while her same physique appeals as ‘stewardess’- but then her date the doctor… At Charlotte's rehearsal dinner, Samantha hooks up with Trey's cousin Caleb, even if she can't understand his Edinburgh accent. Carrie is touched that Aidan created a love-seat as a wedding gift for her friend Charlotte; finally she gathers the courage to confess her infidelity with adulterer Big… Sleeping with Trey for the first time, Charlotte has a sleepless night before her wedding discovering he's barely … -
13. Escape from New York
DescriptionCharlotte is getting sexually desperate after a ‘dry’ honeymoon in the Bermudas, so she literally measures Treys unknowing nocturnal erection. Meanwhile Carrie, one of whose columns got the interest of a small Hollywood production company, takes the other girls along to LA, which appeals to them as an escape from their New York sorrows. Yet Miranda finds that men there also prefer more direct women, Sam picks up a ‘perfect girth’ dildo-model and Carrie can't get over loosing Aidan. -
14. Sex and Another City
DescriptionIn L.A., Carrie feels naked after a reputed wax beautician shaved her intimately even worse then the ‘Brazilian’ by the famous but unintelligible Alicia, which Sam finds refreshing. Miranda meets with her former nerdy friend, script writer Lew, who seems to be happy after turning Californian, including health food she despises. At a premiere, Sam and Carrie are refused onto the red carpet, but Carrie gets picked up by Matt Damon's hunky agent Keith Travers, who impresses her with a fancy villa sold by Lorenzo Lamas. Samantha finds consolation in the sale of good fakes… -
15. Hot Child in the City
Description34-year old Miranda feels a teenage girl again when her dentist gives her braces. Samantha is jealous of a 13-year old, super-rich client, who seems to have skipped the teen years altogether. Carrie's gorgeous younger boyfriend Wade “Superboy” Adams is a comics-shop-clerk who makes her feel young again, as they do teen- and tween-things together, or perhaps too young: he still lives with his devoted parents… Meanwhile Charlotte resorts to heavy medical therapy for Trey's sexual non-performance, and gets surprising results. -
16. Frenemies
DescriptionMiranda thinks she's stood up, but when she calls him hears he's dead and accepts to go to the wake. When Charlotte tells Trey is now sexually interested in her but still can't perform, Sam convinces her it's a classical Madonna-whore-complex; after a meeting with her sorority sisters convinces her she's becoming truly sexually adult, she is determined to transcend her Madonna-limitations. Samantha is not only humping Sebastian but finds her true equal, or is that actually a degree more nymphomaniac? Carrie realizes only accepting to give a class on dating that she … -
17. What Goes Around Comes Around
DescriptionCompletely upset by the hateful glance of Natasha who accidentally saw the quartet in a restaurant, Carrie looses her way and gets robbed, not just valuables but, far worse, her favorite designer sandals. When she gets it investigated, the NYPD detective and Miranda immediately fall for each-other. Now Charlotte has lost all hope in Trey's potency, her lust wanders off to the McDougal's hunky bare-chested gardener; when her lips follow, the family accepts it, even Trey, but she can't handle this emotional neglect. When Samantha gets calls for another Sam Jones who … -
18. Cock-a-Doodle-Do
DescriptionCarrie is angry to be woken up early by crowing cocks outdoor, from the neighboring animal clinic. Samantha has another cocky problem: gross transsexual whores in front of her window. Miranda is depressed even her Chinese order is boringly predictable, her only house-mate the cat; she and Carrie bump into Aidan and his dog Pete, Steve and their current girlfriends Susan and Jessica. They're as jealous as Charlotte feels undesirable, being just divorced at 34. Carrie accepts a lunch date with Big now Natasha is history, Miranda warns bitchy not to come running to her …
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1. The Agony and the Ex-tacy
DescriptionWhen the quartet is invited to an engagement party, Carrie and Miranda feel like outcasts - singles without marriage prospects. Samantha picks up a TV agent, but soon switches her attentions to a physically attractive Franciscan, and offers her charitable PR services in a vain attempt to seduce him. When Charlotte goes ask Trey if they still have a marital future, he gets sexual but this time premature. Carrie has a birthday party from hell as nobody gets their, but is pleasantly surprised afterward. -
2. The Real Me
DescriptionWhile Carrie and Stanford hang out at the bar of Brasserie 8 1/2 in midtown Manhattan, they run into Lynn Cameron, an old friend, who is producing a NY fashion show featuring real models and famous New Yorkers as models. She insists Carrie model in the show for her. Meanwhile, Miranda can't believe it when hunky guy at her gym asks her out on a date, telling her he thinks she's sexy. Samantha is trying to get ready to pose for nude photos, sticking to a healthy, organic diet. She says she wants to remember her body as it is before everything goes south. Charlotte has … -
3. Defining Moments
DescriptionMiranda is dating Doug, a respected professional, but just can't get comfortable with his loose sense of toilet intimacy. On a ‘non-date’ with Mr. Big Carrie meets and gets attracted to Jazz musician Ray King, who turns out to own two clubs and is interested in her too. Trey is finally hot enough for Charlotte, but now she finds him too demonstrative in word and deed. Samantha hits on with Maria, a Brazilian painter she meets in Charlotte's gallery, who turns out to be lesbian. -
4. What's Sex Got to Do with It?
DescriptionCarrie has another date with Ray King at his place, and confesses she doesn't really like jazz, because it makes no sense; she tells the girls she had the most intense orgasm in her life. Miranda claims to have sworn of sex indefinitely; her alternatives are sweets and TV, rapidly becoming a chocoholic. Samantha declares she has a relationship- with Maria! She tries to be passionate as always, but is told to make love, not porn scenes- and is quit happy learning about lesbian-style lust in a relationship. Charlotte and Trey get active in bed again, and then in other … -
5. Ghost Town
DescriptionWhile Miranda has the feeling there is a ghost in her apartment, Carrie feels haunted when she gets an invitation for the new bar opened by Steve Brady and her own ex Aiden Shaw, but considers he must go as a step to becoming friends again. Samantha gets fed up with Maria's raving about relationships and just misses mens dicks. Charlotte feels it was bad enough Bunny dominated the interior-decoration of their apartment, but then she dictates what type of bed they should get and when he catches a cold even moves in to nurse her ‘little boy’ exactly as she always did. -
6. Baby, Talk Is Cheap
DescriptionSamantha's lover Warren is great in bed, but addicted to something the quartet hates: baby-talk. Miranda finds an attractive man while training for the marathon whom she welcomes in her bed, but is in doubt about his tongue's interest in her rear. Trey and Charlotte feel ready to get children, but a dinner visit by a couple with young kids shakes that confidence. Carrie's first e-mails aim to arrange double date -with Miranda and Steve- so she can get back to Aidan, who however still seems reticent. -
7. Time and Punishment
DescriptionCarrie is happy back with Aidan but gets a call from Big. Now she has opted for motherhood and society life, Charlotte wants to quit her gallery job and interviews potential successors. Samantha reviles taxi-thieves but still lands in bed with Brad; he's cocky enough to declare she needs another intimate waxing, but accepts reciprocity. When Miranda strains her neck badly wearing only a bath towel she calls Carrie, who can't cancel her appointment, so Aidan comes to the rescue; the therapy is her first week off in ages. Carrie feels justly punished but too much when … -
8. My Motherboard, My Self
DescriptionCarrie finally gives her house key to Aidan, but he still feels kept out of her life when she refuses to accept a new laptop from him after hers broke down mysteriously, while she didn't even know the concept of backups, let alone zip drives. Samantha is delighted to try out the similarities between sex positions and the wrestling holds her new boyfriend teaches as a coach. When Miranda's mother dies unexpectedly, so it takes a while for the grief to kick in, Charlotte is determined to contribute to a classy ceremony. Samantha mourns the last thing anyone ever … -
9. Sex and the Country
DescriptionWhen Miranda learns Steve has testicular cancer, she gives him a ‘kick in the balls’ about taking it serious and then feels guilty, but he ends up thanking her for making him get the best possible care. Samantha can have orgasms again but freaks out every time a date asks about her plans for the weekend, so she accepts when Carrie begs her to come to Aidan's wood cabin up state where city girls feel stranded; Sam quickly focuses on hunky farmer Luke, Carrie crashes in front of Aidan. Charlotte is in the McDougals posh Connecticut country house where mother in law … -
10. Belles of the Balls
DescriptionSince Steve's testicular amputation, balls are a sensitive subject; he even wants a prosthesis, however supportive Miranda insists they don't matter to women. Now his movie star- girlfriend has dumped him, Carrie must receive hart-broken Mr. Big at pissed-off Aiden's cabin. Trey reacts offended when Charlotte insists to have his sperm quality tested and needs personal encouragement once he's in the boot. Samantha wants a job from hotel tycoon Richard Wright, but fears he refuses to hire a woman. -
11. Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
DescriptionTo her horror, Miranda is pregnant after one single night with Steve. After she told the girls including her intention to abort, Charlotte walks out envious and disgusted; Carrie tells Aidan after making him swear not to tell, so he must sit by how his buddy Steve may loose his baby without even knowing, and goes see waiter Chad, the ignorant father of her aborted child years ago. Charlotte gets a fertility test which confirms her chances are only 15%. Meanwhile Samantha longs for a Birkin, the ultimate status handbag, and abuses her star-client Lucy Liu's name to … -
12. Just Say Yes
DescriptionWhen Carrie's apartment is going coop, Aidan proposes to buy it together. She finds a ring in his things, and accidentally insults Miranda who helped pick it out. Trey's MD tries to control Charlotte's reproductive zeal in light of the tough statistics of in vitro fertilization, but at the annual Highland Fling Bunny's objection to a ‘mandarin granddaughter’ causes a marital row. Samantha finds out Richard Wright is a though boss but into quick sexy without commitment, such as a flight to Rio. Miranda tells Steve he becomes a father but she doesn't expect his help. -
13. The Good Fight
DescriptionCarrie finds living together with Aidan cramps their space, literally as well as figuratively in secret singular behavior. Samantha is hot enough on Richard to give him a blow job, even in his glass wall-office, but resists any romance. Trey is ready to get on with life without a baby, but Charlotte is offended by any alternative and throws a ladies night which ends quickly as they witness a livid marital row. Miranda has a last hot sex partner, Walker Lewis, before her pregnancy is too far advanced. -
14. All That Glitters
DescriptionThe girls spend a hot night at the gay club Trade, dancing in a sea of bare-chest good-looking men. Carrie meets sexy, Australian shoe importer -wow!- Oliver Spencer, to Stanford's envy. Samantha gets so high on beefcake, XTC and naked dicks in the gents (no girls there) that she tells Richard during hot sex she loves him, but gets no response. Charlotte is presented in the club to Anthony's boyfriend Gordon, who works for ‘House and Garden’ magazine, and arranges for it to take pictures at her place, the house of a ‘perfect couple’ - but Trey's lack of interest for … -
15. Change of a Dress
DescriptionIn order to get over her divorce, Charlotte takes up tap-dancing, but it doesn't solve her emotional state. Richard has enough confidence to admit doing it with Bebe and invite Samantha to join him in the luxury shower in one breath; she obliges, but still is vexed enough to have a quickie just to spite Richard, who doesn't bother. Aidan joins his fiancée Carrie in their smaller shower. Miranda learns from her gynecologist the baby is a boy, and is terrified not to be flooded by maternal feelings. The two brides go wedding shopping together, but Carrie chokes in a … -
16. Ring a Ding Ding
DescriptionCarrie has an opportunity to buy her apartment since it's going coop, but without her ex-fiancé Aidan can't get enough capital together, so she must consider a cheaper lifestyle; Miranda calculates she wasted some $40,000 on her shoe obsession. Samantha takes a Chanel bag and other luxury gifts from Richard as a declaration of love, till she realizes how impersonal the cards are. Charlotte wanted to get her wedding ring converted to a necklace, but the words ‘melt it down’ make her realize she's not that ready yet. Realizing her financial misery after seeing … -
17. A 'Vogue' Idea
DescriptionCarrie presents her first free-lance article to the Vogue editors, who react completely different: Enid barks it's ‘her column’, so ‘not Vogue’, but Julian takes to her- perhaps even too much. When Richard says he doesn't want to celebrate his birthday but Samantha insists he picks a gift, it is - a threesome with a younger waitress. When Miranda complains about getting things for her future baby, Charlotte -who is mourning her own motherhood ambition- offers to throw her a baby-shower but is instructed to keep it low-key, almost businesslike, without storks etcetera. -
18. I Heart NY
DescriptionCharlotte feels ready to date properly again, and has a lovely evening with divorced Eric, till he sees her (well, Trey's) apartment ‘of the rich’ and instantly considers them incompatible. Samantha sees Richard at lunch time with another woman, apologizes when he's coolly insulted by her insinuations, but still follows him, breaks in a hotel room and actually catches them for what he can just call ‘only sex’. As Mr. Big is leaving New York indefinitely for a job in Napa, the Californian wine country, Carrie plans a glorious last day, gets ideal new shoes and has a …
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1. Anchors Away
DescriptionMiranda is determined not to become a mental full-time-mother, but the reality of breastfeeding is inescapable. Charlotte blurts out to believe the theory everyone only gets two great loves. Carrie is alone but determined to enjoy the countless forms of entertainment in New York, even claiming she's in love with the unpredictable city. After three weeks of calls from Richard, Samantha is out for revenge, and in public. Fortunately it's fleet week, when the city swarms with USNavy boys, who invite the non-moms to a hot party. -
2. Unoriginal Sin
DescriptionSamantha's announcement she's giving Richard another chance after his unfaithfulness, as nobody's perfect and it was ‘only sex’, is such a bomb-shell that even Charlotte makes an obscene gesture. Although Miranda is atheist, she can't deny Steve's entire Catholic family having the baby baptized. Just when Carrie felt down having to write about relationships without having one herself, she gets invited by a publisher to select some of her columns as a book. Eternally positive Charlotte drags Carrie along to the Fountain of Faith, but stands up to say faith didn't … -
3. Luck Be an Old Lady
DescriptionCarrie is bored as if there was no entertainment anywhere in New York, so she insists on celebrating Charlotte's 36th birthday together; Samantha had promised Ricard to join him to Atlantic City, but when she tells him he invites the whole quartet to the Taj Mahal casino. Miranda and Carrie, who came to get here, miss his private jet because Steve is really afraid to take care of Brady for more then two hours, till Magda offers to help. Once there Charlotte lives up and Miranda switches between in to gambling and ready for bed, but Samantha can't handle the fact … -
4. Cover Girl
DescriptionWhen Carrie is shown the all too naked cover her publishers planned for her columns book, she's shocked, it just screams hooker, so she turns to Samantha who accepts to do her PR for peanuts. Charlotte swallows her pride to seek hope in another advice book. Miranda goes to Weight Watchers where she hooks up with a dieting man, but sugar and fat are aphrodisiacs, sex works up more appetite… Carrie walks in just when Sam is given her hunky courier a blow job, and is judged implicitly too judgmental about it. Stanford present her his hunky new lover Marcus Adante, a … -
5. Plus One Is the Loneliest Number
DescriptionSamantha supervises Anthony at the preparations for Carrie's book presentation party. At her publishers, she meets another author, Jack Berger; they hit it off and have a lovely day. However, only when she invites him to the book party does he decline because he reveals that his girlfriend's family is visiting then. Miranda tells her hot lover Walker Lewis about her baby at the party, then they have sex, but Bradys crying sets him running. Charlotte is finally ready for a real relationship again, and has another perfect suitor: Justin Anderson III. However, when they … -
6. Critical Condition
DescriptionMiranda feels a double failure as motherhood nor professional life can get her full attention, and people give her looks. Samantha feels her own problems, such as a broken down vibrator, are no less important, and demonstrates her expertise on the subject in the shop, and most surprisingly when she suddenly offers to babysit Brady while Miranda goes to her hairdresser. When Charlotte feels uncomfortable talking tough with her attractive lawyer about Bunnys divorce terms for Trey, so she switches to his bald partner Harry Goldenblatt. -
7. The Big Journey
DescriptionSince Samantha is bored with the city enough to rename it “Same York”, Carrie invites her along to her book-signing, a long train journey to San Francisco- alas it's less of the Oriental Express then the New York Sub: tiny ‘de luxe’ quarters and men who are faithful to their wives. Charlotte and her lawyer who dropped off the last divorce papers at her hard-kept place, which she now considers selling, end up having sex in his apartment. In Frisco, Carrie is mortified to be the opening act for a canine TV puppet, but finally finds a sex partner: Mr. Big, who came to … -
8. I Love a Charade
DescriptionThe girls have a all with entertainer Bobby Fine, but are baffled when the ever presumed homo announces his marriage to society lady Bitsy von Muffling. Charlotte announces her improbable relationship with her all but classy Jewish lawyer ‘hairy’ Harry, with the best sex ever, and decides to go to the wedding with him. First Samantha invites the girls and many guests to Richard's villa in the Hamptons, but finds her host-skills more challenged then expected, notably by some young girls who claim Richards standing invitation to use his pool. At the marriage just about …
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1. To Market, to Market
DescriptionCarrie has overslept and rushes like crazy trough bogged down traffic, for she has the honor to open Wall Street by ringing the bell, and has her first ‘official’ date with Jack Berger, but takes the girls' advice to date simultaneously, notably graphic designer Applegate, a disaster. Miranda finally admits being in love with Steve, baby Brady's father. Charlotte tests Harry's determination not to marry a non-Jew, but even sex fails. Samantha is happy in her sexy neighborhood, where a Pottery Barn looks more out of place then SM leather, and notices the incredibly … -
2. Great Sexpectations
DescriptionCarrie is taken with her romantic Berger, except when it comes to taking her in bed, and admits it to the other girls in the vegan restaurant where the cooking is so light it deserves the name Raw (but restaurant?)- where Samantha dragged them just because the waiter is too hot to miss out on. Charlotte announces her unshakable intention to convert to Judaism in order to become eligible to marry Harry, but finds the rabbi most reticent. Miranda stakes her substitute love life on a state of the art video recorder, but technology can break down, especially when her … -
3. The Perfect Present
DescriptionCarrie finally sees Berger's apartment, and likes it but hears it's the work of his ex Lauren, just as his sleeping sounds machine. Big suddenly phones her from California. Charlotte aces her Judaism classes, but is shocked that she must abandon all Christian traditions, even Christmas trinkets. Miranda's Steve has a new girlfriend, Debbie, so she accuses him of neglecting his paternal duties. Samantha has sex with the Raw waiter at a crazy would-be designers handbag party, which gets him fired. When she offers to compensate him financially, he's insulted. While she … -
4. Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little
DescriptionCharlotte is shocked and Berger slightly embarrassed when Samantha enthusiastically explains how she enjoys role-plays with her sexy actor Jerry “Smith” Jerrod, including fake rape. Miranda is relieved when he says a man not calling her back just means not interested, as men don't send sexual double messages. When Carrie can't help herself and criticizes a futile detail in Berger's book, even though she loves it, he shuts down; Samantha cuts of Jerry when he confesses being in AA; both couples soon make up. Charlotte makes her first sabbath a grand production- her … -
5. Lights, Camera, Relationship
DescriptionCarrie drags Berger along shopping, as with Prada, and brags with a check from her publisher for success in Europe, but learns then her publisher dumped both her supervisor Courtney and Berger; when he takes her on a rather wild bike ride, she freaks out. Miranda still wrestles with her feelings for Steve; Charlotte feels a basket-case after Harry dumped her. When Samantha learns Jerry has dropped his waiter job to do a terribly bad paying play outside Manhattan he can only lure her to by promising hot sex afterward, she decides to help him by doing its PR, based on … -
6. Hop, Skip, and a Week
DescriptionCarrie finds being an ‘irreplacable’ freelance writer is not an excuse to dodge jury duty. After her break-up with Harry, Charlotte keeps going to synagogue alone, where Jewish ladies swarm to match her to their eligible sons, but she dishes neither till Harry reappears. Berger is fed-up with disloyal Carrie and the girls' attitude men are always wrong, so he decides to take a break from her in the Hamptons. Miranda is made to understand at the law firm her maternal distraction won't be pardoned; at home Brady seems to feel neglected too. Samantha launches Smith's … -
7. The Post-it Always Sticks Twice
DescriptionThe quartets morning meeting hears counterbalancing news: Charlotte is elated to show her engagement ring from Harry while Carrie, infuriatingly pissed off, is determined not to make the day ‘the day she got broke up with a post-it’, as Berger chose this excessively succinct medium to beat her to the dumping line. Samantha takes the girls to a new club called ‘Bed’ where Miranda, who just discovered because of being too busy to eat she can fit into her skinny jeans once again, meets a nice man, Peter, and after Carrie drags everyone out having lectured Bergers friends… -
8. The Catch
DescriptionVogue sends Carrie to report on the latest ultimate buzz, trapeze ‘flying’, and she's hooked. Charlotte and Harry prepare for her second perfect wedding, helped by Anthony. His funny friend Howie gets on with Carrie, but in bed drills like a rabbit. Steve wants his girlfriend Debbie to meet Mirada, who is even hostile to her aroma candle gift and therefore hides under Brady's bed. Charlotte's big day seems ruled by Murphy's - rather then rabbinic law: her picture in the paper and her dress in synagogue are stained, Samantha's diamond bracelet falls to pieces… -
9. A Woman's Right to Shoes
DescriptionCarrie has no luck at a baby-shower: Stanford snatched the last good gift from the list, and host Kyra makes everybody take off their shoes, worse- her Manolos get lost; when she finally get offered financial compensation, she's told $485 is irresponsible waste, so she gets $200; while she grumbles singles don't get any gifts after graduation, Samantha learns even her bravado is helpless when it comes to children. Miranda meets and instantly falls for rich new upstairs neighbor Dr. Robert Leeds. While Harry moves in, Charlotte obsesses about his habit of leaving … -
10. Boy, Interrupted
DescriptionCarrie goes to a reunion to see how here high-school crush -whom she dumped- is, and finds Jeremy got even more attractive. Back in hot Manhattan Samantha can't get trough the waiting list for Soho House club which has a pool with service, but picks up some Annabelle Bronstein's forgotten pass. When Stanford has paraded his hunk Marcus in front of Charlotte and Anthony, the latter proves with a photo in Honcho magazine that the stud used to work as gay escort Paul, Charlotte shows it to Mirada at the Knicks game in Madison Square Gardens where they admire her flame, … -
11. The Domino Effect
DescriptionCarrie hears Big is in New York to get a ‘routine’ heart operation and fears for his life; sharing his convalescence makes them close again, but not for long. Miranda is getting on with her neighbor & boyfriend Dr. Robert Leeds, enough to take her first true day off work ever to spend in bed with him- just then Steven burst in and is so surprised by the doc's butt that he butts himself a bloody nose, which gets under control the Knicks way: with a tampon. Now Smith is back, Samantha instructs him sexy manipulations, but can't handle holding hands. Charlotte is seeing … -
12. One
DescriptionWhen Carrie follows Charlotte to a performance by a woman in Chelsea who speaks nor eats, she meets there famous painter and sculptor Aleksandr Petrovsky, who is interested by her cavalier attitude. Samantha, who bravely announces she gets glasses and is 45, tells he was the hottest dater in Studio 54, and tries to rejuvenate herself by an intimate hair-coloring after finding gray down there, which proves disastrous. Charlotte has the biggest news: she's just got pregnant, but later gets a miscarriage and a depression- till she finds inspiration in a TV documentary on… -
13. Let There Be Light
DescriptionAfter three weeks, Carrie gets a written invitation from Aleksandr; they start flirting and end up in bed. Charlotte looks for a new perfume and a volunteer career while waiting for another pregnancy. Miranda would be happy back with Steve, but keeps bumping into unforgiving yesterday's perfect man Robert. Samantha didn't feel like accompanying Smith to a Teen Girl party- till she reads it's hosted by her ex Richard Wright; she tells Smith they should each play with their own friends, but is greatly relieved to find him waiting for her anyway. -
14. The Ick Factor
DescriptionMiranda and Steven exchange good intentions and she proposes to him, instantly sealed with a kiss; the girls wonder what to buy her, not too domestic etcetera. Carrie admires Aleksander's piano playing and poetry reading but isn't really comfortable with such old-fashioned romancing; however a dress from his personal friend Oscar de la Renta sets her glowing. Charlotte and Harry enjoy a romantic French restaurant, but the digestion proves a waking nightmare. Samantha feels, after seeing her photos in a magazine report on Smith, she may need bigger, but still tasteful … -
15. Catch-38
DescriptionCarrie feels extremely welcome with her Russian when he spontaneously gives her keys and even the alarm code- which she can't remember. When the girls hear Miranda and Steve are going on a trip, the first after their marriage, so their honeymoon -according to Sam, ‘sex with room service’- they offer to babysit Brady, and decide for the first watch on Carrie, who thus finds out Aleksandr has had a 22-year daughter in Paris and neither wants nor can sire another; Charlotte has him next, and panics when the baby sees her intimate with Harry. When Samanthas male … -
16. Out of the Frying Pan
DescriptionAfter restaurants of various exotic nationalities, her Russian decides to cook in Carries apartment- where he sees and kills a mouse; what she really cannot handle is his insistence to be open about death, even by breast cancer while she insists on avoiding the subject. The girls try to make visit time in Samanthas hospital room resemble cocktail hour. Ever competitive Charlotte learns none of her eggs is good, again, but meets king Charles show dog Dandyridge who fails because of a shorter leg and decides imperfection is no reason to give up on someone. Now Brady has… -
17. The Cold War
DescriptionCarrie is embarrassed to be presented to Aleksander's artistic friends now he's getting another Paris exposition and enjoys four cold days in his apartment. Miranda is grumpy during their move to Brooklyn, but Steve delivers in every respect. Samantha and Smith Jerrod invite Stanford and Marcus Adant- the Tattle Tale concludes Smith is gay; Sam won't have that undo her rep, so she makes and launches a saucy video with Jerry on the web. Big is calling Carrie again but she deletes his messages. Charlotte is enamored with her puppy, and decides to enter her for a dog … -
18. Splat!
DescriptionCarrie finally has a chance to present everybody to Aleksander at a dinner, but he's rather aloof and drops the bombshell: he expects her to move with him to Paris for good. Samantha and Charlotte act supportive after some questions, but Miranda doesn't hide she's dead against the idea. Enid invites Carrie to a party, and asks to bring Petrovsky and a friend of his for her- she rejects graying food critic Martin Grable as an elderly ‘hobbit’, sort of dumps him on Carrie and argues the fishing pond for her age group is so small Carries relationship with the Russian is … -
19. An American Girl in Paris: Part Une
DescriptionJust when Carrie is almost ready to leave for Paris for good, Mr. Big calls and turns up in his limousine- yet she walks out for her last dinner with the girls, where Charlotte cries and Miranda makes up. Samantha has her personal input, from nature and experience, concerning a cancer benefit. Once in Paris, Carrie loves the city but less sharing Petrovsky's love with his bratty daughter Chloe and his time with an artists obligations. After a disastrous day shopping, her confidence is down like her credit-card credit and she looses her Carrie necklace- another reason … -
20. An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux
DescriptionCarrie has lunch with Petrovsky's ex Juliette B. who tells her he always gives priority to his art above his partner- she finds that true and has a generally bad time. Charlotte prepares with Anthony to receive her promised adoption baby's birth parents, but those changed their mind; ultimately she and Harry get another baby girl from China. Steve's ma Mary suffers memory loss after a heart attack, and Miranda offers to take her in, which their maid Magda calls love. Samantha finally admits that Smith means enough to her, unlike any other man, to be jealous. Mr. Big …