Overview

A indicate's teller is sex & love columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker). Her right friends come Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), a traditional & comparatively conservative art gallery conservator; Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), a misanthropic, career-minded lawyer; and Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), a uncivilized-dwelling, fun-caring publiciser world health organization blocks at nothing for a men she wants.

A indicate systematically achieved two critical & popular acclamation. Per 4th year, numbers of elements of a series, like a overall tone & a characters, diverged substantially from either the book. A indicate's girl talk, dating games, & fashion cemented it firmly in modern popular culture. A character Carrie is an oft-referenced fashion icon known for her fancy fabric & shoes (mostly Manolo Blahniks, Patricia Fields, and Jimmy Choos).

Year one of Sex & a City aired in HBO from either June to August 1998. Year ii was broadcast from either June until October 1999. Year tierce aired from either June until October 2000. Year quaternity was broadcast around both area: from either June until August 2001, & then within January and February 2002. Year 5, truncated due to Parker's maternity, airy in HBO in a period of the summertime of 2002. A twenty episodes of the final year, year 6, aired around 2 area: from either June until September 2003 & during January and February 2004.

Within year of these, to each one episode featured the short collage of interviews that Carrie purportedly conducted when testing her column. These continued across year 2, so were phased out.

Characters

Main characters
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) writes a every week sex column highborn "Sex and the City" for the fictitious Up to date York Star. She will bring a indicate's narration, which is structured in her thread when writing a column. Her columns come yet sour into the book, & she is likewise the contributive writer for Vogue beginning at the prevent of year quaternion. Despite her apparently mild income, she universally dons a latest fashions - typically meeting "her credit card limit" within a single shoe looking hike. Her independent addictions come her Manolo Blahnik shoes and cigaret (which she yet gives higher). She sleep around a a single-bedroom, rent-controlled flat in an Upper East Side brownstone, which she in time buys using money lent by Charlotte fallowing estimating that, above the years, she has spent $40,000 in shoes - money which stand been utilized as a down payment for the loan towards her flat. Carrie's mar include with got an abortion when of these-nighttime have (10 years before a indicate's continuity), wearing Confect inside her youth & getting an affair using the married Heavy when you took her relationship by having Aidan. Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) is an art dealer with the Connecticut blue-gentle upbringing. She is the virtually all conservative & traditional of a class actiwithin, the a single world health organization pages the virtually all emphasis on emotional love in a relationship when opposed to sex, & is universally shopping for her "knight in shining armor". She typically scoffs at a lewd intimate remarks of Samantha or even more raunch. She gives higher her successful career when art dealer shortly when her marriage to Dr. Trey MacDougal & lives around the swish Park Avenue flat, she & Trey in time divorcement, & she re-marries her to a lesser degree hone, however skillful hearted, jewish divorce attorney, Harry Goldenblatt. She is likewise the graduate of Smith College. Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) is a career-minded attorney, world health organizatiin populates on the Upper West Side, sustaining super misanthropical views on relationships & men. She is Carrie's right friend, confidante & voice of understanding. In the early seasons, she is portrayed when masculine & mete misandric, but this image softens all over a years. She participated inside an in-again, off-again relationship by owning the barkeep known as Steve Brady, sustaining whom she inadvertently becomes pregnant across the "mercy fuck". When debating contracting an abortion behind Steve's back, she at length decides to st& the binky user, & in the final year, marry Steve and relocate to Brooklyn to trend lines a growing personal. She occurs as graduate of Harvard University. Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), the oldest & virtually all promiscuous of the class action, is an independent publicizer whose relationship pattern can be considered stereotypically masculine. She occurs as seductress world health organization primarily engages within relationships strictly for sex, avoiding emotional involvement in the least costs. Her conquests come completely strictly superficial. To pair sustaining Samantha's promiscuous nature and severity these are revealed that she has got Two abortions, now and again utilized doses, however is a survive away from the 4 to undergo an Helps end line text. She moves to the meatpacking dominion prior to it becomes the fashionable locality. She merely has a handful of yearn lasting relationships throughout the entire series. A series leaves her by with having found & running across coarse of action for breast cancer. She meets a virtually completely unbelievable of all her lovers witharound a young human in his late twenties world health organization turns bent become her 1 admittedly love world health organization stands by her when the series stops.

Recurring characters

Friends

Stanford Blatch (Willie Garson), a gay fashionista, is Carrie's right friend outside a class action & typically attends parties by using her. He occurs as talent professional. He is partnered to Marcus, the Broadway dancer. Anthony Marentino (Mario Cantone) is an event planner who becomes around Charlotte fallowing styling her 1st wedding. He typically endeavors to cheer her higher & encourage her to prove my point dating fallowing her failing marriage. Magda (Lynn Cohen), Miranda's housekeeper that criticizes, but supports Miranda throughout a series & in to the prevent. Her number 1 criticism, when existence introduced, existence that she switched Miranda's vibrator by owning the figurine of the virgin Mary.

Boyfriends

All the beau used following were the focus of a important story arc spanning multiple episodes. around additiin, a quaternary independent characters wholly went on dates or even eff whenever it were lone---typically using male characters (& in Samantha's example, a single female character) world health organization appeared within just of these, deuce, or even at the most iii episodes of the program.

Carrie's boyfriends
Mr. Large (Chris Noth) both excites & eludes Carrie through the do of the indicate, when she universally believes he is the human for her, however numerous days, he's non suspire to fulfill her emotional needs. He occurs as flush moneyman (Samantha calls him "the next Donald Trump" in the first episode) world health organization is many years older than Carrie & world health organization never forgets to joke all about their age difference. Candace Bushnell based him on an ex-boyfriend of hers world health organization was the record company executive. Carrie & Heavy meet in the 1st episode however don't lead off the relationship immediately. Items come off & on by using a two throughout a series and Carrie breaks higher sustaining Heavy at the prevent of year 1 because he refuses to open higher his life to her. Fallowing it reunite, a intensity of their feelings is a equivalent over again, by owning supplementary romance, however yet old system repeat themselves, & possibly whilst it try to resolve the babies, Large however is non ready to give Carrie the rather love that she needs. It decompose once again toward a prevent of year 2 prior to he attend Paris, in which his company has temporarily assigned him. To Carrie's shock, Heavy, world health organization experienced commitment issues by using her, presently fallowing becomes engaged to & marries Natashthe, a beautiful, model-esque woman inside her twenties whom Carrie refers to when "the idiot stick figure with no soul." It experienced the whirlwind romance inside Paris, & she is the "simple" sort of woman he seems to need; it don't own a rather intensity & drama that he & Carrie got. He stays within Carrie's life as the close friend until he understands that he got manufactured a mistake around receiving married, feels that his fresh life is dull, & tells Carrie that he wants to become using her & he loves her. Initially, Carrie is enraged at him however gives into her feelings for him that won't last away. Emotionally torn between him & Aidan, she has the short romance by using Large which she feels unable to prevent- until it is found inside flagrante by Natasha, world health organization dumps Large. Carrie finds herself alone over again. She & Large remain close friends, however Carrie says to him that their love is "a good idea in theory but doesn't work," & he bemusedly agrees. Their feelings linger beneath a surface though, and then it remain coquettish friends whilst you took a days when Carrie is between relationships. Yet, he moves to California, however is restored to Future York for an angioplasty & (perchance under a influence of painful sensation medication) "opens his heart" to her too, however shortly closes his emotions once more. Eventually, at a super prevent of a series, Heavy flew to Paris to tell Carrie she was "the one." Throughout a indicate, Large's title is never utilized, using a girls on to him single when Large or even Mr. Large. These are non until a go episode that his title is revealed to become John. Aidan Shaw (John Corbett) is one of Carrie's few long-semipermanent fellow. He occurs as piece of article of furniture designer, & he met Carrie while Stanford & Carrie attend his furniture store. It decompose when her affair by having Large, however rekindle a relationship. He sooner or late proposes to her, however later, she understands that she is non ready to commit to him on the equivalent level that he needs. She wants to maintain their relationship & says she is ready to marry him eventually, however he terminates it, assuming that she may never obviously marry him. She loves Aidan, however maybe non such as she has universally loved Large – non therein equivalent "big" way. Aidan was a comfort & romance that she required fallowing turbulent days & nurtured; he showed her a gentle, freehanded side of love. After Carrie diarrhethe into Aidan at a beginning of the survive year (Vi), he is married & occurs as father to a little one son, Tate. Jack Berger (Ron Livingston), a writer whom Carrie dates within year captain hicks, is Carrie's noetic counterpart. Ab initio, it seem prefer the hone few, however their relationship come to a screeching prevent whilst Carrie's career heated higher even as Berger's cooled down, something he was never breathe to treat sustaining. He snuck call at the middle of the nighttime & skint higher sustaining her in the Post-it note. Aleksandr Petrovsky (Mikhail Baryshnikov) is a noted Russian creative person world health organization becomes Carrie's lover around year 6. He sweeps her hit of her feet, however yet, she wants the relationship to become deeper than a storybook romance. He too shows little interest when much as her friends & might non assume a second tike, already with a grown-big girl (world health organization is around the equivalent age as Carrie!) Nevertheless, she quashes her doubts just about a relationship & accepts Petrovsky's invitation to move to Paris by having him, when she needs the lasting love around her life & without reasoning fears that past the certain age, love can be protective to buy over again. However when spending a bit of instance there, she understands that he may never reciprocate a level of emotional involvement that she wants because his career might universally came 1st, & she just can't keep her mind hit Mr. Large.

Charlotte's boyfriends

Trey MacDougal (Kyle MacLachlan) fits Charlotte's knight in shining armor original to the tee, & finally, she marries him (when she incidentally proposes to him at dinner, & he says, "all righty"). It st& matrimonial problems from either a beginning, mostly centered abretired his male erecticle dysfunction, and items escalate once Charlotte finds out it would exist as super hard for her to have a little one, which she deeply desires. In time, it separate & divorce. Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler) is Charlotte's divorce attorney. Although he is non potentially in the ballpark of Charlotte's idealistic human around that he is short, bald, hirsute, & typically somewhat unprocessed, it fall gaga. Harry refuses to marry a non-Jew, and then Charlotte, the Episcopalian Princess, converts to Judaism. Fallowing this, it have a rift & decompose. At length, Harry comes back & proposes to Charlotte, & it marry. When that, it adopt the Chinese child girl (when Charlotte becomes pregnant & has the miscarriage).

Miranda's boyfriends

Skipper Johnson (Ben Weber) occurs as geeky, sensitive twentysomething who is a friend of Carrie's, so becomes Miranda's soft on beau around year a single. A relationship doesn't survive because Miranda doesn't need a equivalent level of commitment. Robert Leeds (Blair Underwood), a dr. world health organization get into her building in a period of the year sextuplet, is the ostensibly hone human: successful, sexy, & absolutely devoted to her. Robert & Mirandthe use lots of fun & outstanding chemistry, however after he leaves her a elephantine chocolate chip cookie that says, "I Love You," Miranda panics, devours a entire tool, so strains to skip it. She understands that, despite all the idyllic aspects of her relationship using Robert & all the flaws inside her relationship by owning Steve (beneath), it's Steve whom she loves. She breaks higher sustaining Robert. Steve Brady (David Eigenberg) is the barkeeper (world health organization late opens a bar by having Carrie's ex, Aidan) world health organization Mirandthe meets withwithin the bar & have sex in what appears to exist as a one-night stand after being stood higher by Carrie, world health organization is at Large's page cooking veau (to which she responds, "You ditched me for a piece of politically incorrect meat?"). He lessens for Mirandthe despite her initial trend lines, & a of these-nighttime could have morphs into a relationship. a difference inside income, aspirations, & status between them becomes the good issue, & it decompose twice when you took the series. Inside year iv, he is diagnosed sustaining testicular cancer and must have a single ballock flushed. He & Mirandthe eff within what Samantha calls "a mercy fuck," & Miranda gets pregnant. She gives birth to the son, Brady Hobbs. It decide to raise a tot together, however separated. Inside year 6, it make their way back together, so marry around an little, intimate ceremony. It move to the home around Brooklyn.

Samantha's lovers
Maria (Sonia Braga) is a sensual creative person that Samantha meets at an exhibit when admiring her act. Samantha is drawn to Maria's hard aura however quickly steps back after she understands Maria wants to to a higher degree simply friends. A chemistry is as well heavy, & it international relations and security network't as well yearn prior to Samantha is introducing her sapphic lover to her stunned friends. This is Samantha's foremost step toward commitment, & when she greatly admires & respects Maria, it section ways two or three episodes late because Samantha might't have a monogamousness & misses a 'phallus.' Richard Wright (James Remar) is an extremely wealthy hotel top executive world health organization meets his match inside bed inside Samantha. He seduces her, & it have a there is no-strings-connected intimate relationship. Their relationship yet escalates, & two parties struggle to keep their emotional few feet away. One of these days, two profess their love for both more, & it try to have a monogamous relationship. Samantha's heart is broken once she catches him getting an affair. Smith Jerrod (Jason Lewis) is the immature waiter Samantha seduces within a voguish eating place. She finds retired he is an actor & becomes his publicizer. Her 1st advice is to vary a awkward title "Jerry Jerrod" to "Smith Jerrod." When Samanththe will require control of his publicity & gets him a gig posing nude for an Absolut ad, his career takes off. Ironically, Smith is an soaker & attends AA meetings. After Samantha is diagnosed by using breast cancer, Smith sticks by her side, shaving his signature hanker hair as a sign of solidarity. At a prevent of the series, Samantha & Smith come however together & taken with.

Cameos

When Sex & a City gained popularity, the total of celebrities experienced cameos on the show, a few swimming themselves & a few swimming characters. These include a resulting: Nathan Lane - Bobby Fine, "I Love A Charade" Amy Sedaris - Courteney Masterson, "Cover Girl" etc. Donald Trump - Himself, "The Man, The Myth, The Viagra" Jon Bon Jovi - Seth, "Games People Play" Alanis Morissette - Dawn, "Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl..." Matthew McConaughey - Himself, "Escape from New York" Vince Vaughn - Keith Travers, "Sex and Another City" Sarah Michelle Gellar - Debbie, "Escape from New York" Carrie Fisher - Herself, "Sex and Another City" Hugh Hefner - Himself, "Sex and Another City" Sarah Clarke - Melinda, "Politically Erect" (when Sarah Lively) Margaret Cho - Lynn Cameron, "The Real Me" Alan Cumming - O, "The Real Me" Heidi Klum - Herself, "The Real Me" Ed Koch - Himself, "The Real Me" Molly Shannon - Lily Martin, "Cover Girl" etc. Lucy Liu - Herself, "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" Candice Bergen - Enid Mead, "A 'Vogue' Idea" Heather Graham - Herself, "Critical Condition" Jennifer Coolidge - Victoria, "The Perfect Present" Tatum O'Neal - Kyra, "A Woman's Right to Shoes" David Duchovny - Jeremy, "Boy, Interrupted" Geri Halliwell - Phoebe, "Boy, Interrupted" Carole Bouquet - Juliette, "American Girl In Paris; Part Deux" Valerie Harper - Wallis, "Shortcomings"

Episodes
Season 1 (1998)
! # !! Episode Title !! Director !! Writer !! Original Airdate |- | Single || Sex & a City || Susan Seidelman || Darren Star || June 7, 1998 (HBO) |- | Ii || System & Person || Allison Maclean || Darren Star || June 7, 1998 (HBO) |- | Threesome || Bay of Married Pigs || Nicole Holofcener || Darren Star || June 21, 1998 (HBO) |- | Quadruplet || Vale of the Twenty Something Guys || Allison Maclean || Michael Patrick King || June 28, 1998 (HBO) |- | Quintuplet || A Power of Female Sex || Susan Seidelman || Jenji Kohan || July 5, 1998 (HBO) |- | Half a dozen || Secret Sex || Michael Fields || Darren Star || July 12, 1998 (HBO) |- | Seven || A Monogynist || Darren Star || Darren Star || July 19, 1998(HBO) |- | Octad || 3's The Crowd || Nicole Holofcener || Jenny Bicks || July 26, 1998 (HBO) |- | Nine || A Turtle & a Hare || Michael Fields || Nicole Avril, Sue Kolinsky || August 2, 1998 (HBO) |- | Decade || A Diaper wearing Shower || Susan Seidelman || Terri Minsky || August 9, 1998 (HBO) |- | Eleven || A Drought || Matthew Harrison || Michael Green, Michael Patrick King || August 16, 1998 (HBO) |- | Twelve || Oh Are Completely Ye Faithful || Matthew Harrison || Michael Patrick King || August 23, 1998 (HBO) |}

Season 2 (1999)
! # !! Episode Title !! Director !! Writer !! Original Airdate |- | Unity || Take Maine Bent the Ballgame || Allen Coulter || Michael Patrick King || June 6, 1999 (HBO) |- | Deuce || A Nasty Truth || Allen Coulter || Darren Star || June 13, 1999 (HBO) |- | Terzetto || A Freak Indicate || Allen Coulter || Jenny Bicks || June 20, 1999 (HBO) |- | Foursome || It Shoot Only Population Don't It? || Allen Coulter || Michael Patrick King || June 27, 1999(HBO) |- | Five || 4 Women & the Funeral || Allen Coulter || Jenny Bicks || July 4, 1999 (HBO) |- | Six || A Cheating Curve || John David Coles || Darren Star || July 11, 1999 (HBO) |- | Vii || A Chicken Dance || Victoria Hochberg || Cindy Chupack || July 18, 1999 (HBO) |- | Ogdoad || A Human, A Myth, A Viagra || Victoria Hochberg || Michael Patrick King || July 25, 1999 (HBO) |- | Ennead || Old Dogs, Newly Dicks || Alan Taylor || Jenny Bicks || August 1, 1999 (HBO) |- | Decade || A Caste Formulas || Allison Anders || Darren Star || August 8, 1999 (HBO) |- | Xi || Evolution || Pam Thomas || Cindy Chupack || August 15, 1999 (HBO) |- | Dozen || La Doleur Exquisite! || Allison Anders || Ollie Levy, Michael Patrick King || August 22, 1999 (HBO) |- | Xiii || Games Humans Play || Michael Spiller || Jenny Bicks || August 29, 1999 (HBO) |- | Fourteen || A Nookie Chum || Alan Taylor || Darren Star || September 5, 1999 (HBO) |- | Xv || Defect || Dan Algrant || Terri Minsky || September 12, 1999 (HBO) |- | Xvi || Was It Healthy? || Dan Algrant || Michael Patrick King || September 19, 1999 (HBO) |- | Xvii || Twenty-Something Girls Vs. Thirty-Thirties Women || Darren Star || Darren Star || September 26, 1999 (HBO) |- | Xviii || Ex & a City || Michael Patrick King || Michael Patrick King || October 3, 1999 (HBO) |}

Season 3 (2000)
! # !! Episode Title !! Director !! Writer !! Original Airdate |- | One || In which There's Smoke... || Michael Patrick King || Michael Patrick King || June 4, 2000 (HBO) |- | Ii || Politically Upright || Michael Patrick King || Darren Star || June 11, 2000 (HBO) |- | Trio || Attack of the Pentad'Tenner" Woman || Pam Thomas || Cindy Chupack || June 18, 2000 (HBO) |- | 4 || Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl || Pam Thomas || Jenny Bicks || June 25, 2000 (HBO) |- | 5 || No Ifs, Ands Or Butts || Nicole Holofcener || Michael Patrick King || July 9, 2000 (HBO) |- | 6 || Are We Sluts? || Nicole Holofcener || Cindy Chupack || July 16, 2000 (HBO) |- | 7 || Drama Queens || Allison Anders || Darren Star || July 23, 2000 (HBO) |- | 8 || The Big Time || Allison Anders || Jenny Bicks || July 30, 2000 (HBO) |- | 9 || Easy Come, Easy Go || Charles McDougall || Michael Patrick King || August 6, 2000 (HBO) |- | 10 || All or Nothing || Charles McDougall || Jenny Bicks || August 13, 2000 (HBO) |- | 11 || Running With Scissors || Dennis Erdman || Michael Patrick King || August 20, 2000 (HBO) |- | 12 || Don't Ask, Don't Tell || Dan Algrant || Cindy Chupack || August 27, 2000 (HBO) |- | 13 || Escape from New York || John David Coles || Becky Hartman Edwards, Michael Patrick King || September 10, 2000 (HBO) |- | 14 || Sex and Another City || John David Coles || Jenny Bicks || September 17, 2000 (HBO) |- | 15 || Hot Child in the City || Michael Spiller || Allan Heinberg || September 24, 2000 (HBO) |- | 16 || Frenemies || Michael Spiller || Jenny Bicks || October 1, 2000 (HBO) |- | 17 || What Goes Around Comes Around || Allen Coulter || Darren Star || October 8, 2000 (HBO) |- | 18 || Cock-A-Doodle-Do || Allen Coulter || Michael Patrick King || October 15, 2000 (HBO) |}

Season 4 (2001-2002)
! # !! Episode Title !! Director !! Writer !! Original Airdate |- | 1 || The Agony and the 'Ex'tacy|| Michael Patrick King || Michael Patrick King || June 3, 2001 (HBO) |- | 2 || The Real Me || Michael Patrick King || Michael Patrick King || June 3, 2001 (HBO) |- | 3 || Defining Moments || Allen Coulter || Jenny Bicks || June 10, 2001 (HBO) |- | 4 || What's Sex Got to Do With It? || Allen Coulter || Nicole Avril || June 17, 2001 (HBO) |- | 5 || Ghost Town || Michael Spiller || Allan Heinberg || June 24, 2001 (HBO) |- | 6 || Baby, Talk Is Cheap || Michael Spiller || Cindy Chupack || July 1, 2001 (HBO) |- | 7 || Time and Punishment || Michael Engler || Jessica Bendinger || July 8, 2001 (HBO) |- | 8 || My Motherboard, My Self || Michael Engler || Julie Rottenberg, Eliza Zuritsky || July 15, 2001 (HBO) |- | 9 || Sex and the Country || Michael Spiller || Allan Heinberg || July 22, 2001 (HBO) |- | 10 || Belles of the Balls || Michael Spiller || Michael Patrick King || July 29, 2001 (HBO) |- | 11 || Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda || David Frankel || Jenny Bicks || August 5, 2001 (HBO) |- | 12 || Just Say Yes || David Frankel || Cindy Chupack || August 12, 2001 (HBO) |- | 13 || The Good Fight || Charles McDougall || Michael Patrick King || January 6, 2002 (HBO) |- | 14 || All That Glitters... || Charles McDougall || Cindy Chupack || January 13, 2002 (HBO) |- | 15 || Change of a Dress || Alan Taylor || Julie Rottenberg, Eliza Zuritsky || January 20, 2002 (HBO) |- | 16 || Ring A Ding Ding || Alan Taylor || Amy B. Harris || January 28, 2002 (HBO) |- | 17 || A "Vogue" Idea || Martha Coolidge || Allan Heinberg || February 3, 2002 (HBO) |- | 18 || I Heart NY || Martha Coolidge || Michael Patrick King || February 10, 2002 (HBO) |}

Season 5 (2002)
! # !! Episode Title !! Director !! Writer !! Original Airdate |- | 1 || Anchors Away || Charles McDougall || Michael Patrick King || July 21, 2002 (HBO) |- | 2 || Unoriginal Sin || Charles McDougall || Cindy Chupack || July 28, 2002 (HBO) |- | 3 || Luck Be An Old Lady || John David Coles || Julie Rottenberg, Eliza Zuritsky || August 4, 2002 (HBO) |- | 4 || Cover Girl || John David Coles || Judy Toll, Michael Patrick King || August 11, 2002 (HBO) |- | 5 || Plus One is the Loneliest Number || Michael Patrick King || Cindy Chupack || August 18, 2002 (HBO) |- | 6 || Critical Condition || Michael Patrick King || Alexa Junge || August 25, 2002 (HBO) |- | 7 || The Big Journey || Michael Engler || Michael Patrick King || September 1, 2002 (HBO) |- | 8 || I Love a Charade || Michael Engler || Cindy Chupack, Michael Patrick King || September 8, 2002 (HBO) |}

Season 6 (2003-2004)
! # !! Episode Title !! Director !! Writer !! Original Airdate |- | 1 || To Market, To Market || Michael Patrick King || Michael Patrick King || June 22, 2003 (HBO) |- | 2 || Great Sexpectations || Michael Patrick King || Cindy Chupack || June 29, 2003 (HBO) |- | 3 || The Perfect Present || David Frankel || Jenny Bicks || July 7, 2003 (HBO) |- | 4 || Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little || David Frankel || Julie Rottenberg, Eliza Zuritsky || July 14, 2003 (HBO) |- | 5 || Lights, Camera, Relationship || Michael Engler || Michael Patrick King || July 21, 2003 (HBO) |- | 6 || Hop, Skip and a Week || Michael Engler || Amy B. Harris || July 28, 2003 (HBO) |- | 7 || The Post-It Always Sticks Twice || Alan Taylor || Liz Tucillo || August 4, 2003 (HBO) |- | 8 || The Catch || Alan Taylor || Cindy Chupack || August 11, 2003 (HBO) |- | 9 || A Woman's Right to Shoes || Tim Van Patten || Jenny Bicks || August 18, 2003 (HBO) |- | 10 || Boy, Interrupted || Tim Van Patten || Cindy Chupack || August 25, 2003 (HBO) |- | 11 || The Domino Effect || David Frankel || Julie Rottenberg, Eliza Zuritsky || September 7, 2003 (HBO) |- | 12 || One || David Frankel || Michael Patrick King || September 14, 2003 (HBO) |- | 13 || Let There Be Light || Michael Patrick King || Michael Patrick King || January 4, 2004 (HBO) |- | 14 || The Ick Factor || Wendey Stanzler || Julie Rottenberg, Eliza Zuritsky || January 11, 2004 (HBO) |- | 15 || Catch-38 || Michael Engler || Cindy Chupack || January 18, 2004 (HBO) |- | 16 || Out of the Frying Pan || Michael Engler || Jenny Bicks || January 25, 2004 (HBO) |- | 17 || The Cold War || Julian Farino || Aury Wallington || February 1, 2004 (HBO) |- | 18 || Splat! || Julian Farino || Jenny Bicks, Cindy Chupack || February 8, 2004 (HBO) |- | 19 || An American Girl in Paris, Part Une || Tim Van Patten || Michael Patrick King || February 15, 2004 (HBO) |- | 20 || An American Girl in Paris, Part Deux || Tim Van Patten || Michael Patrick King || February 22, 2004 (HBO) |}

Clip Shows
! # !! Episode Title !! Original Airdate |- | 1 || Sex and the City: A Farewell || February 22, 2004 (HBO) |}

Quotations

The following are quotations from the TV special, Sex And The City: A Farewell, that aired introducing the final episode:

Michael Patrick King, Executive Producer: "Humans thought, ohio it's about sex or even it's about fashion. So slowly all over a years population begin to look at it's really astir love ... & relationships ... & sex ... & fundamentally a battleground of trying to exist as gaga – whether it be by using an additional individual or even by owning yourself."

Sarah Jessica Parker: "What a indicate has to use, & has experienced to stand sequentially to subsist half a dozen years, occurs as soul."

Kim Cattrall: "A indicate occurs as valentine to existence lone."

David Eigenberg: "It were honorable just all about sex, it were honorable about a humor of sex."

Kim Cattrall: "Existence only utilized to mean that cypher wanted busy people, currently it means that you're jolly sexy & smart shoppers're ingesting your systems systems period deciding how else wise shoppers need your life to exist as ... & world health organization smart shoppers obviously spend it by having."

Broadcasters
In the United Kingdom, Channel 4 and its digital sister channel E4 broadcast episodes of "Sex and a City", while older episodes are rerun on Paramount Comedy. In Canada, the show airs on Bravo! Canada and Citytv Toronto, and in Germany it is shown on Pro7. In the Netherlands, the show is aired by NET 5, and in Sweden it is aired by TV3 and ZTV. In Italy the show airs on La7. In Australia it was broadcast on the Nine Network. It is now shown on Ten, on Monday nights, and also features on the pay t.v. channel 'W', on weeknights. In Japan, the show is aired by Lala.tv. In Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, and Pakistan the show airs on HBO Asia (season 1-6). Sex and the City was banned in Singapore until July 2004, when the government allowed the television series to be aired on cable after being censored. In Latvia this serial can be seen on TV3. In Denmark it is currently shown on TV3 as well. In the Philippines, its reruns are being aired by RPN 9.

Criticism

Some commentators have criticized the television show as promoting immorality by encouraging a hedonistic lifestyle and treating women as sexual objects. Additionally, they argued that it is at times mere pornography with a superficial plot. The characters are also wealthy and unabashedly elitist, which raises further questions about the morality of the show.

Others claim in response that Sex and the City is an attempt to realistically – yet artistically – portray sexual behavior in the urban United States. Others have noted that the show tends to portray its main characters as shallow and superficial.

When Sex and the City was run in syndication on TBS, some viewers organized boycotts of the station, arguing that this would put the program within access of young children.

Some commentators criticized Sex and the City's distorted presentation of female sexuality, claiming the sexuality is more akin to that of the allegedly gay, male writers of the show. The frequent obsession with penis size by one character is taken to be atypical of women and more typical of a phallocentric male focus. Others have charged that the ridiculing of men with small penises is wrong, contributing to body issues for men similar to that of young women over their weight or breast size.

DVD Releases

All six seasons of "Sex & a City" have been released commercially on DVD. They have been released officially on Region 1 (USA, Canada) and Region 2 (UK, Europe) formats, but illegal bootleg editions have also surfaced for Region 3 (Korea, Thailand) aswell as Region 0 (Universal) and can even be found on eBay. In addition to their region encoding, releases vary depending on which region they were released in. Region 2 DVD's of "Sex & a City" have been criticised by some fans for having little or no special features, but Region 1 editions have included Director Commentary, Cast Interviews and more.

In addition to standard single season DVD Boxsets of the show, Limited Edition Collectors Editions have also been released that include all 6 seasons in one complete set. Even these vary between Region 1 and 2. While the United Kingdom and Europe got a complete set that came with special "Shoebox" packaging (A reference to Sarah Jessica Parker's characters love for shoes in the show), the USA and Canada version came packaged in a more traditional fold-out suede case and with an additional Bonus DVD including many Special Features.

As well as missing out on some Special Features, many fans in the UK and Europe had trouble with the Region 2 edition of the Season 1 DVD. Unfortunately, the show was not converted into aPAL video signal, and remained in it's original American NTSC format. This caused some compatibility problems with some European television sets and DVD Players. Thankfully, the Season 1 boxset is the only one to suffer from this problem, and all subsequent Region 2 DVD releases of the programme were appropriately transferred to PAL Video. In the UK and Europe, "Sex & a City" boxsets were released through Paramount - who own certain rights to the programme's broadcast aswell. American and Canadian DVD's were released through the programme's original broadcasters, HBO.

Soundtrack Releases

There have been several CD Albums released to accompany the series Sex and the City. These releases span various record labels and some are even unofficial. The two albums from Irma Records are seen to be the best because they contain tracks used in the show's actual soundtrack that are difficult to find elsewhere. The other two releases have little or no tracks that appear on the programme's actual soundtrack.
Sex and the City - Soundtrack [Import]
2001/2002
Sire Records
13 Chart Hits - Including the Main Theme from the Show

Sex and the City - Official Soundtrack
March 1st, 2004
Sony TV
2 Disc Set - 36 Hits.

Irma at Sex and the City - Part 1 - Daylight Session
April 19th, 2004
Irma Records
2 Disc Set - Part of a 2 Part Collection. Ambient and Chilled Sounds from the Show's Soundtrack

Irma at Sex and the City - Part 2 - Nightlife Session
April 19th, 2004
Irma Records
2 Disc Set - Part of a 2 Part Collection. House and Electronica Sounds from the Show's Soundtrack