Season 1, Episode 4: Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys

Carrie and Big bump into each other a lot at various social events and then decide to meet for drinks at 10:30pm on a Saturday night. At a bar that all her friends are going to also be at. (To help her obsess later? Most likely.) After he’s late, she checks her answering machine messages … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 4: Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys →

Season 1, Episode 3: Bay of Married Pigs

When Carrie's friend Peter exposes himself to her in the hallway of the Hamptons house he shares with his wife, Prudence (also Carrie's friend), we can't really blame her for that. But Prudence does, and ships her straight back to Manhattan. Thus ensues a conversation about singles vs. marrieds where Carrie manages to slip in … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 3: Bay of Married Pigs →

Season 1, Episode 2: Models and Mortals

This episode didn't have much for me to work with. It opens with Miranda "so obviously not a model" Hobbes at a dinner party with Nick the Modelizer. It moves on to the concept of men who only date and/or sleep with models. Because the episode focuses on other stories and other people, like Barkley the … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 2: Models and Mortals →

Season 1, Episode 1: Sex and the City

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 with some background, etc, We open with an English journalist moving to NYC. Elizabeth meets Tim, … Continue reading Season 1, Episode 1: Sex and the City →