The episode opens with a montage of a perfect lady named Brooke having the time of her life with various eligible bachelors. Well, isn't it a surprise to Carrie Bradshaw when Brooke ends up marrying some super boring dude? Apparently, as much as they are judging Brooke, Carrie and friends are also having a blast … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 9: The Turtle and the Hare
Season 1, Episode 8: Three’s A Crowd
We open the episode with another Charlotte is falling in love too fast story. This time, it is with a man named Jack. One night, after they've fucked, he asks her about her fantasies. She asumes this is a question about her career/future, but he corrects her by saying he meant what are her FUCKING … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 8: Three’s A Crowd
Season 1, Episode 7: The Monogamists
The intro drops us right in to Carrie Bradshaw is the Worst-ville. Reasons being: #1 - Carrie is blissful with Big. She feels that the entire island of Manhattan has been reduced to two people: Big and Carrie. Because it seems to her that they are the only two people in NYC, she has no … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 7: The Monogamists
Season 1, Episode 6: Secret Sex
Ah, the episode with the basically see-through dress. Carrie wears it on her first official date with Big and shock of shocks she immediately sleeps with him. Before dinner. Which, to be clear, doesn’t make her awful. There was no way she wasn’t sleeping with him. But this is the first episode where she starts … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 6: Secret Sex
Season 1, Episode 5: The Power of Female Sex
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. … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 5: The Power of Female Sex
Season 1, Episode 4: Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys
In our episode intro/voice-over, we see Carrie and Big continuously bumping into each other at various social events. At some point they decide to meet for drinks at 10:30pm on a Saturday night. It just happens to be the hottest new restaurant that Samantha's PR firm is handling. Miranda, Carrie, and Charlotte meet up outside. … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 4: Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys
Season 1, Episode 3: Bay of Married Pigs
Carrie is invited to the Hamptons house of her friends Patience and Peter. She explains in her voiceover that Hamptons' guests have to sing for their supper, so at dinner, she tells some raunchy date story to the delight of her hosts. So, why is Carrie the worst in this episode? I'm glad you asked. … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 3: Bay of Married Pigs
Season 1, Episode 2: Models and Mortals
This episode opens with Miranda "so obviously not a model" Hobbes at a dinner party with Nick the Modelizer. It turns out Nick's friends told him to stop bringing models to dinner parties because they don't eat and are no fun. The friends are thrilled with Miranda because she has a personality. Miranda takes this as an … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 2: Models and Mortals
Season 1, Episode 1: Sex and the City
Welcome to Carrie Bradshaw is the Worst! The beginning of the series has less material for me to work with. I don't think Carrie becomes truly insufferable until she starts dating Big, but I committed to this as an every-episode type thing, so here we go! The series opens with Elizabeth, an English journalist, moving … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 1: Sex and the City
Intro
We have HBOGo at home and I've recently been cherry picking some of my favorite Sex and the City episodes. Over the past MANY MANY years, I have had access to the show in one form or another (HBO, DVDs, etc) and even way back in 2007/2008, I knew Carrie Bradshaw was a piece of shit. … Continue reading Intro