We open with Carrie talking about how the most powerful woman in New York is the hostess at Balzac, which I can only assume is a made up restaurant because when I Googled it, nothing came up. Anyway. Samantha can’t charm the hostess to get a table for her and Carrie so they just leave. After Carrie and Samantha part ways, Carrie decides to go shoe shopping, and launches us in to the reasons that she is the worst.
#1 – Her credit card gets declined at Dolce & Gabbana when she is trying to buy hideous shoes.
But then! Carrie’s friend Amalita swoops in out of nowhere to buy them for her with her rich boyfriend’s credit card. Even though Carrie keeps saying she couldn’t accept the gesture, it doesn’t take much for her to relent and let a random stranger buy her shoes she very clearly can’t afford.
#2 – When she gets home, she explains in her voiceover that all she has in her mail is bills, but of course handles it like a mature adult.
#3 – Next voiceover while writing her column, Carrie says she envies Amalita for being a kept woman by rich men. And I quote:
I envied Amalita. Her life was a blur of rich men, designer clothes and glamorous resorts. She didn’t actually work for a living, yet possessed a dazzling sexual power that she exploited to her full advantage. Which presented a certain conundrum. Where’s the line between professional girlfriend and just plain professional?
#4 – Carrie hosts a poker night at her place, specifically to save money. So yeah, what a great idea to try and buy shoes she couldn’t afford.
Let’s check in on her friends and their thoughts:
- Samantha thinks women have every right to use whatver they can to acheive power.
- Miranda says this should exclude them having to sleep their way to the top. Samantha disagrees,
- Carrie asks if women should be allowed to use their sexual power but men can’t take advantage of it.
- Charlotte wants to know what to do if someone is giving her a professional advantage because they find her charming. (Some famous painter came to her gallery and decided to invite her to his estate in CT.)
SIDEBAR POOR SKIPPER: He picks Miranda up an hour early at Carrie’s apartment and gets an earful as a result.
#5 – So much for a night in! Amalita calls and forces Carrie out of bed to come meet her, her rich boyfriend, and a French architect, with the promise of paying for everything. They are at Balzac, where the same hostess gives Carrie attitude but Carrie smugly tells her that her friends are already ther. Amalita appears at just the right time to confirm this story.
#6 – Gil, the French architecht, is all about Ms. Bradshaw. As they are walking to wherever, he tells her she should come with him to Brazil and then move with him to Paris. She says that she’s so broke she might take him up on that.
Gil asks her to spend the next day showing him around and she readily agrees.
SIDEBAR POOR SKIPPER PART 2: He shows up at Carrie’s apartment as she’s getting ready for her day date with Gil to talk about how much he is addicted to Miranda.
#7 – Carrie proceeds to have an amazaing day with Gil –
Which translates to them spending the night together. Gil wakes her up and tells her that he has to catch a plane and she should order room service. He also tells Carrie he will call her but she realizes pretty quickly that he does not have her phone number and she does not have his. She finds an envelope with her name on it that contains $1,000 in cash.
#8 – Natrually she invites Miranda and Samantha to the suite to enjoy the room service. Carrie rationalizes that she has to keep the money because she has no way to return it.
SIDEBAR CHARLOTTE GOES TO CONNECTICUT: The famous painter from earlier wants to paint her lady business and she lets him.
#9 – Carrie gets to be the hero at Balzac, which is annoying because anytime her ego is inflated for something stupid I get upset. The hostess denies Carrie and Samantha a table, even though Sam has a reservation. Carrie tells Sam she’s going to the bathroom. On her way, Amalita summons her to introduce her to yet another dude who wants to hit it and quit it in Venice. Carrie decides she is not for sale and while she is in the bathroom conveniently has a tampon the hostess needs. Of course after this, she and Samantha are immediately seated.
SIDEBAR CHARLOTTE’S LADY BIZ: The gals go to Charlotte’s gallery opening with the vagina paintings and try to guess which one is hers.
Carrie Bradshaw is the Worst 