Yet her triumph comes not when she eventually gets up and completes her walk, but later, back at home. When she finally hits the runway, Carrie eats it and becomes “fashion roadkill” as models walk around her. The episode’s main plot, in my opinion, is the perfect portrait of Carrie as a flawed, multi-dimensional character – an independent, self-assured 30-something who can figure out how to build a successful, cosmopolitan life as a writer, but not how to tackle stage fright. There’s also a great mix of A/B plots that explore self-image: Charlotte has a “sad vagina”, Samantha is heavily invested in nude portraiture, Miranda wonders why a guy at her gym finds her pretty, and Stanford and Anthony provide a comedic glimpse into how toxic the queer dating landscape can be. This episode, in which she has been tapped for a charity fashion show and is doubting her model cred at every single turn, more than fits the bill.

Some of my favourite SATC episodes are the ones where Carrie is happily single (allegedly) and focusing on the other rich parts of her life. I love this episode because stoned Carrie is always funny, but mostly because it does capture that specific way that summer feels in New York City, especially when you’re young! It’s sticky, expansive and it’s always, always a good time. But after his mom busts them and Carrie flees – with the pot in tow – the episode ends with her, Miranda and Samantha smoking and laughing together. They go on dates to the arcade, smoke doobies, and eat fried chicken on the terrace of the UES apartment where he lives (with his parents). (It’s a rare moment in which Sam is written with real, human emotions, rather than as sexual comic relief.) Carrie, meanwhile, starts dating Wade, a dude who owns a comic book store (played by Cane Peterson, who used to be a VJ on VH1, a sentence that no one has uttered in decades, probably). Samantha gets hired by a super-rich 13-year-old who needs PR for her bat mitzvah, and Samantha spends the whole episode jealous of her until she realises that she had something the teen girl doesn’t – a real childhood.

horniness (that would be Trey, caught jerking off to Juggs magazine by a very shocked Charlotte).

This is a perfect (almost) bottle episode about the core feelings of youth: freedom, embarrassment, jealousy, and.

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