1Sex and the City
Columnist 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; meanwhile gay talent agent Stanford Blatch provides a twisted mirror image. Carrie enjoys using hunk Kurt just for her sexual gratification for a change, then the quartet jumps on the dating game carousel, which never stops in the series.
2Models and Mortals
Miranda 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 superior non-model, and even insists to be taped. Stanford introduces Carrie to his friend and best client, gorgeous underwear-model Derek 'The Bone', who actually asks to stay the night with her and is even more shy and lonely then mortals who crave models, wanting to become a cop in his Iowa home town.
3Bay of Married Pigs
Carrie enjoys a weekend at the beach house in the Hamptons of an ideal couple, her friend Paige and her husband Peter, but in the morning he greets her in nothing but a revealingly short T-shirt. The girls feel married people either consider singles competitors for their spouses or pity them. Stanford adds it's getting the same with gay couples; his friends Joe and Lou ask Carrie to become their egg-donor. At her law firm's softball game, Miranda is teamed up with Syd, a single dike, and they play good enough for both to be invited at senior partner Chip's house party: apparently even a presumed lesbian couple is more acceptable then singles- indeed the truth puts her out again. Even Carrie's marrying kind friend businessman Sean's housewarming party is twos only, to her, Sam's (who fucked half of the men) and Charlotte's horror, but their China styles make him unfit for Charlotte. Even drunk, Sam gets up in underwear to seduce Charlotte's lonely young doorman Tommy.
4Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys
7The Monogamists
When 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.
8Three's a Crowd
Architect 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 theme -intolerable, as if she were in bed with her and Big- and tells he was the cheater! Irritated to be the only one not asked for a trio by a friend, Miranda answers a couple's threesome ad.
12Oh Come All Ye Faithful
3Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman
11Running with Scissors
Charlotte'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...
12Don't Ask, Don't Tell
When 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 interested in sex and semi-impotent...
13Escape from New York
Charlotte 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.
14Sex and Another City
In 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 of luxury bags in the Valley, yet Carrie decides against it at the last moment. Charlotte is tired of Trey's sexual non-performance and joins the girls in L.A. Carrie in Miranda are really disappointed by what they find out about Keith and Lew, but Samantha gets them into her ultimate idol Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion, where Charlotte picks up Ian, but Sam's fake Fendi gets fatally confused with a Bunny girl's real one...
15Hot Child in the City
34-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.
16Frenemies
Miranda 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 really doesn't know so much.
17What Goes Around Comes Around
Completely 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 gives a mega-party, she takes Carrie there to finds its a virgin boy-student who lusts for her at first sight...
18Cock-a-Doodle-Do
Carrie 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 after another disappointment by him, judgmental enough for their first big fight, but not long; the date falls trough with a splash, the relationship is revived, Miranda finds Steve at the Chinese restaurant. Trey turns up at Charlotte's hot-cocked and delivers. Sam needs to try different approaches, even if one failure scares her naked stud of the moment away, to deal with the she-man whores.
1The Agony and the Ex-tacy
4What's Sex Got to Do with It?
7Time and Punishment
Carrie 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 Aidan spends time with Steve's foxy bar maid Shayna.
9Sex and the Country
When 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 Bunny nurses orchids and sits at Trey's bath planning her still hypothetical grandchild's future, just when Charlotte's meticulous fertility planning dictates using Trey's saved up seed...
10Belles of the Balls
Since 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.
11Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
To 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 jump the five years waiting list...
12Just Say Yes
When 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.
1To Market, to Market
Carrie 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 attractive Wall Street yuppie Chip Kil-Kinney moving in at her building; when she welcomes him with a kinky gift basket, he accepts her dare to drop his towel to take it; they have hot sex and he gives her a hot stock tip. Alas when she has him handcuffed the next day...
2Great Sexpectations
Carrie 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 housekeeper Magda sits on it. Samantha sits out an inedible marathon to be the last customer at Raw and sit on the yummy waiter and vice versa.
3The Perfect Present
Carrie 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 tries to make it up to him, he tells her he's an actor named Jerry.
4Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little
Charlotte 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 pride and nitpicking don't make Harry set a wedding date as she desperately wanted but even walk out altogether.
5Lights, Camera, Relationship
Carrie 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 the fact he drops trou full-frontal in it, and aces its premiere.
6Hop, Skip, and a Week
Carrie 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 image as a practically naked perfume poster model 'Abolute Hunk' but he has no confidence even though gays already drool over him.
7The Post-it Always Sticks Twice
The 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 about imaginary break-up etiquette manages to get street kids sell them pot; when now high Samantha hears Smith on TV putting on the 'I'm still looking' act she advised him, things go wrong...
8The Catch
Vogue 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...
9A Woman's Right to Shoes
Carrie 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 dripping teabags around the apartment; the next day she learns he walks around stark naked in the morning.
10Boy, Interrupted
Carrie 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, doctor Robert Leeds, who treats the team but seems interested in a cheer-leader. When Jeremy stays at Carries, he tells her he's in intensive mental therapy in an excellent facility. Just when she invited the other girls and Stanford, who got to see the Honcho photo, Samanatha is found out not to be Annabella -who's British- and thrown out. Stanford his broken up with Marcus and asks Carrie to a gay prom ball- they even make king and queen; Marcus turns up...
11The Domino Effect
Carrie 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 the Chinese doctor Mao, but must first learn to concentrate on the acupuncture amidst the city noise.
12One
When 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 Liz Taylor. After Robert declared his love on a cookie, Miranda gives Brady's first birthday party, breaks her promise to Carrie not to have a ('scary') clown and finds herself declaring her love to daddy Steve, who reciprocates.
13Let There Be Light
After 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.
14The Ick Factor
Miranda 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 breasts; alas the plastic surgeon discovers a lump which proves to be a cancer tumor.
15Catch-38
Carrie 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 gynecologist sort of suggests her childlessness contributed to her cancer-risk, she walks out indignant, but finds his best-reputed female colleague is booked for months, no matter who she knows, so she keeps waiting with another patient who happens to be a nun- until the receptionist sees in a magazine that Jared Smith is her boyfriend.
16Out of the Frying Pan
After 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 taken over their bedroom, Steve insists Miranda and he consider moving to a larger home- in Brooklyn! When Samantha looses pubic hair in bed with Smith, they both freak a little; unable to find a satisfactory whig, she decides to shave her head- Smith does the same.
17The Cold War
Carrie 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 show, with Anthony as groomer and inviting the girls plus Stannie- the mutt has her period but still wins. Carrie unexpectedly brings the girls to visit the Russian, but he tells them to keep out of the atelier as he's working.
18Splat!
Carrie 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 unfair. Charlotte's king Charles joins the list of pregnant females to be jealous of, annoyingly after doing it with eight pedigree-less mutts, but when the puppies come so does 'mamie' Charlotte's maternal instinct. After ample consideration Carrie chucks in her job and announces, symbolically at the funeral of Lexi Featherston, the party scandal queen of the 1980, she accepts to move to Paris...
19An American Girl in Paris: Part Une
Just 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 to call Miranda, homesick for New York and thinking about Big, who turns to the girls there.
20An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux
Carrie 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 has finally realized that he cannot be happy without Carrie and sets out to bring her back to New York, just when she was considering to break up with the Russian anyhow.
