These are the best (and worst) Sex and the City episodes

My Motherboard, My Self (S4 E8)

This episode is a deep-dive into Carrie and Miranda’s friendship, during which Miranda’s mother dies and Carrie’s computer crashes. It’s also the episode where Charlotte becomes the ‘Martha Stewart of death’ and Samantha goes looking for her ‘missing orgasm’.

…And the worst

Cover Girl (S5 E4)

Miranda is obsessed with losing her pregnancy weight. In a bookstore, she jokes that she’s looking for a book on ‘How To Lose That Baby Fat by Sitting On Your Ass’. She goes to Weight Watchers. She has literally just grown and birthed an entire baby human and all she can talk or think about is her weight.

Give me STRENGTH.

The Cheating Curve (S2 E6)

Yeah, if you weren’t straight or cis, Sex and the City wasn’t very kind to you. Actually, it was bloody offensive (remember Samantha shouting at the trans sex workers outside her flat?) In ‘The Cheating Curve’, Charlotte makes some new friends whom she deems ‘power lesbians’. Enough said.

Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman (S3 E3)

While this episode contains the hilarious scene where Magda replaces Miranda’s vibrator with a Virgin Mary statue, it’s the highly problematic exchange where Samantha gets massage therapist Kevin fired after grabbing his crotch that has landed this in our ‘worst’ category’. Not her finest moment.

Boy Girl Boy Girl (S3 E4)

Leading on nicely from the above, remember when Carrie Bradshaw, the sex columnist, didn’t believe in bisexuality? In this episode, we meet her new boyfriend Sean, who is openly bisexual (this is obviously a major inconvenience for poor old bigoted Carrie). Then she says this…

“I’m not even sure bisexuality exists. I think it’s just a layover on the way to Gaytown”.

The Power of Female Sex (S1 E5)

This one raises all kind of eyebrows… Occurring in the first ever season of SATC, it’s the episode where Carrie bumps into her pal international party girl Amalita, who charges Carrie’s shoes to her rich new boyfriend’s credit card. Carrie then sleeps with friend of rich new boyfriend, waking up to find him departed but $1,000 in cash on the pillow next to her.

Ring A Ding Ding (S4 E16)

This is the episode where Carrie has to choose between buying or losing her apartment, AKA the episode that universally pisses everyone off.

She attempts some half-hearted cracks at adult responsibility – you know, not spending $40,000 on shoes, getting the bus (which she does once) instead of taking taxis everywhere, and even trying to get a bank loan (shockingly, she has no assets).

Eventually, Miranda and Samantha both volunteer to lend Carrie some money (Carrie does not deserve this), but Charlotte does not. You know, Charlotte who is going through a divorce and doesn’t have a paying job. So, Carrie throws a tantrum, after which Charlotte gives her the engagement ring from Trey (presumably so Carrie can pawn it and get the cash).

Guys, we know it’s a great show, but Carrie Bradshaw sucks.