Two: Giving The Come Hither
January 31st 2008 18:33
The second season of Sex and the City was the season of technical change. It was during this time that Carrie’s interviews with other characters were phased out, she stopped speaking directly to the camera, and the series moved to 35mm film rather than the original 16mm.
In terms of the story, the four ladies are learning a lot about themselves. Carrie and Big’s tumultuous relationship continues on and off, but in the end Carrie discovers some things about her self-worth – she grows up a bit and recognises what she really wants; Miranda learns to ease her boundaries a bit under the influence of Steve; Charlotte gains a bit of confidence and flouts a few conventions; and Samantha realises sex isn’t everything – but it’s still very important!
Episode Thirteen: ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie tries to distract herself from her Big break-up by going out with the ‘New Yankee’; Miranda becomes exasperated by the girls always talking about men; Samantha laments the size of James’ penis; Charlotte goes out with man with an unsavoury habit.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Larry Doby Jr, James Goodwin, Mark Devine.
Episode Fourteen: ‘The Awful Truth’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie feels responsible when her friend Susan Sharon decides to leave her husband; Miranda goes a bit too far after becoming comfortable with talking dirty; Charlotte buys a dog, Henry, when she can’t find the perfect man, only to find that Henry isn’t up to her standards either; Samantha tries therapy with James but the relationship ends when she blurts out her real problem.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Willie Garson, Molly Price, James Goodwin.
Episode Fifteen: ‘The Freak Show’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: After dates with several freaks, Carrie becomes obsessed with finding ‘something freaky’ about the guy she is seeing… only to become a bit of a freak herself; Miranda starts dating a man who is contemptuous of any place outside of Manhattan; Charlotte tries to build a relationship with ‘Mr Pussy’; Samantha decides to have the fat from her derriere injected into her face.
Episode Sixteen: ‘They Shoot Single People Don’t They?’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie appears on the cover of New York Magazine in a horrid photo with the title ‘Single and Fabulous?’ This prompts the girls to compromise on men, so that Charlotte starts dating her handy man, Miranda calls a guy she once faked orgasms with, and Samantha dates an insincere club owner.
Guest Starring: Willie Garson.
Episode Seventeen: ‘Four Women and a Funeral’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: After the funeral of Javier, a designer and friend, Carrie calls Big and ‘resuscitates’ their relationship; Charlotte starts seeing a man she meets at his wife’s grave; Miranda buys her own apartment; and Samantha is socially outcast after being caught with a powerful woman’s husband, but her ranking is reinstated by Leonardo DiCaprio (originally JFK Jr, but changed after his death).
Guest Starring: Chris Noth.
Episode Eighteen: ‘The Cheating Curve’
Director: John David Coles. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie feels that she is ‘cheating’ on her friends by seeing Big again behind their backs; Miranda dates a man who insists on watching porn every time he’s with her; Charlotte starts socialising with the ‘power lesbians’ after her date cheats on her; Samantha is ‘branded’ by her gym instructor, only to find out in the steam room that she’s not the only one he left his mark on.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Tamara Tunie.
Episode Nineteen: ‘The Chicken Dance’
Director: Victoria Hochberg. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie starts to feel that Big still isn’t focused on her, especially after he takes a call while she is reading a poem at a acquaintance’s wedding. That acquaintance is Charlotte’s friend and Miranda’s interior decorator. Miranda inadvertently set her up with her friend, Jeremy. Charlotte has a whirlwind romance of a few hours with Jeremy’s friend, which ends after his father feels her up. Samantha sleeps with a guy at the engagement party who she then realises she had already had sex with.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Carrie Preston, Stephen Baker Turner.
Episode Twenty: ‘The Man, The Myth, The Viagra’
Director: Victoria Hochberg. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Miranda meets a bartender called Steve after being stood up by Carrie. She takes him home but later refuses to believe he wants more than just sex. Samantha meets a very wealthy man in his seventies but finds that while dating him offers many perks, they can’t make up for his saggy bum. Big lets Carrie down when he breaks plans to go out with her friends, however, when he unexpectedly turns up Carrie’s faith is restored and Miranda starts to let herself believe in a relationship with Steve.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, Bill McHugh, Donald Trump.
Episode Twenty-One: ‘Old Dogs, New Dicks’
Director: Alan Taylor. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie begins to be irritated by Big’s detachment; Samantha is reacquainted with an old boyfriend who now dresses as a blonde woman called ‘Samantha’; Charlotte dates an uncircumcised man who gets rid of his foreskin, then gets rid of Charlotte; Miranda is worn out by trying to have a relationship with Steve when he schedule is so different to her own.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg.
Episode Twenty-Two: ‘The Caste System’
Director: Allison Anders. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie tells Big she loves him. He ignores the sentiment, and after an argument at a Park Avenue party, Carrie goes out drinking with another guy. The next morning Big calls to admit he loves her too. Meanwhile, Charlotte becomes groupie to a movie star, Samantha dates a man with a hostile servant, and Miranda and Steve break up over the disparity in their career success and income.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, Samuel Ball, Brian Van Holt.
Episode Twenty-Three: ‘Evolution’
Director: Pam Thomas. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie tries to leave her stuff at Big’s, only to have it ‘kicked out of the nest’; Samantha tries to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend but finds she’s not unfeeling enough; Charlotte dates a man she thought was gay; Miranda finds out she has a lazy ovary.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Willie Garson, John Shea, Dan Futterman.
Episode Twenty-Four: ‘La Douleur Exquise!’
Director: Allison Anders. Writers: Ollie Levy, Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Charlotte receives free shoes from a shop assistant with a foot fetish, Samantha does the PR for a new S&M restaurant, and Carrie and Big break up when Big announces he is moving to Paris for a while without any concern for their relationship.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Willie Garson, Will Arnett.
Episode Twenty-Five: ‘Games People Play’
Director: Michael Spiller. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie starts seeing a shrink when the girls tell her she is obsessing too much about Big. Dr Green tells her she is choosing the wrong men, but it’s not until she sleeps with a man she meets outside Dr G’s office that she realises the shrink was right after all. Samantha dates a man who will only sleep with her if his sporting teams win, while Miranda plays peek-a-boob with the man across the air shaft.
Guest Starring: Willie Garson, Jon Bon Jovi, John Dossett, Anne Lange.
Episode Twenty-Six: ‘The F*ck Buddy’
Director: Alan Taylor. Writers: Darren Star, Merrill Markoe.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie tries to create a relationship with her f*ck buddy; Samantha gets in on the action next door; Charlotte gets into strife when she double books dates; Miranda finds her positive side when she goes out with an angry, pessimistic lawyer.
Guest Starring: Ben Weber, Dean Winters.
Episode Twenty-Seven: ‘Shortcomings’
Director: Dan Algrant. Writer: Terri Minsky.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie starts seeing a writer with a great family, but realises her attachment, among other things, may be premature; Miranda dates a man with a child – rather unsuccessfully; Charlotte has her newly divorced brother stay with her, who Samantha sleeps with, which enrages Charlotte until she realises it was just what her brother needed.
Guest Starring: Justin Theroux, Valerie Harper.
Episode Twenty-Eight: ‘Was It Good for You?’
Director: Dan Algrant. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie dates an alcoholic who hasn’t finished completing the steps; Samantha agrees to have sex with a gay male couple, then becomes insecure when they back out; Charlotte is upset when the man she is seeing falls asleep during sex, and so enrols herself and the girls in a tantric sex workshop, where Miranda has a disconcerting experience.
Guest Starring: Richard Joseph Paul.
Episode Twenty-Nine: ‘Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women’
Director: Darren Star. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: The girls go to the Hampton’s where Carrie meets a young virgin who worships her. Charlotte lies about her age to a younger guy, who gives her crabs. Samantha serves her just desserts to her young assistant, Nina, who has stolen her rolodex to run her the PR for the Hampton’s Hoedown. At the same time, Carrie becomes overwrought when she runs into Big and his new, much younger girlfriend, Natasha.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Bridget Moynahan, Marisa Ryan, Rachel Miner.
Episode Thirty: ‘Ex and the City’
Director: Michael Patrick King. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie asks Big to lunch in an effort to remain friends, but changes her mind when he tells her that he and Natasha are engaged. Charlotte attempts to overcome her fear of horses; Samantha resorts to friendship with a man when she finds she can’t handle him in bed; Miranda becomes friends – and lovers – with Steve again after running away from him in the street.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, Bridget Moynahan, John Enos III.
Which episode did it for you in Season Two?
Michaelie Clark
In terms of the story, the four ladies are learning a lot about themselves. Carrie and Big’s tumultuous relationship continues on and off, but in the end Carrie discovers some things about her self-worth – she grows up a bit and recognises what she really wants; Miranda learns to ease her boundaries a bit under the influence of Steve; Charlotte gains a bit of confidence and flouts a few conventions; and Samantha realises sex isn’t everything – but it’s still very important!
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Episode Thirteen: ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie tries to distract herself from her Big break-up by going out with the ‘New Yankee’; Miranda becomes exasperated by the girls always talking about men; Samantha laments the size of James’ penis; Charlotte goes out with man with an unsavoury habit.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Larry Doby Jr, James Goodwin, Mark Devine.
Episode Fourteen: ‘The Awful Truth’
What/Who Went Down: Carrie feels responsible when her friend Susan Sharon decides to leave her husband; Miranda goes a bit too far after becoming comfortable with talking dirty; Charlotte buys a dog, Henry, when she can’t find the perfect man, only to find that Henry isn’t up to her standards either; Samantha tries therapy with James but the relationship ends when she blurts out her real problem.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Willie Garson, Molly Price, James Goodwin.
Episode Fifteen: ‘The Freak Show’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: After dates with several freaks, Carrie becomes obsessed with finding ‘something freaky’ about the guy she is seeing… only to become a bit of a freak herself; Miranda starts dating a man who is contemptuous of any place outside of Manhattan; Charlotte tries to build a relationship with ‘Mr Pussy’; Samantha decides to have the fat from her derriere injected into her face.
The surgeon leaves his mark on Sam - Image courtesy of answers.com
Episode Sixteen: ‘They Shoot Single People Don’t They?’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie appears on the cover of New York Magazine in a horrid photo with the title ‘Single and Fabulous?’ This prompts the girls to compromise on men, so that Charlotte starts dating her handy man, Miranda calls a guy she once faked orgasms with, and Samantha dates an insincere club owner.
Guest Starring: Willie Garson.
Episode Seventeen: ‘Four Women and a Funeral’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: After the funeral of Javier, a designer and friend, Carrie calls Big and ‘resuscitates’ their relationship; Charlotte starts seeing a man she meets at his wife’s grave; Miranda buys her own apartment; and Samantha is socially outcast after being caught with a powerful woman’s husband, but her ranking is reinstated by Leonardo DiCaprio (originally JFK Jr, but changed after his death).
Guest Starring: Chris Noth.
Episode Eighteen: ‘The Cheating Curve’
Director: John David Coles. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie feels that she is ‘cheating’ on her friends by seeing Big again behind their backs; Miranda dates a man who insists on watching porn every time he’s with her; Charlotte starts socialising with the ‘power lesbians’ after her date cheats on her; Samantha is ‘branded’ by her gym instructor, only to find out in the steam room that she’s not the only one he left his mark on.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Tamara Tunie.
Carrie and Big - on again. Image courtesy of insidesocal.com
Episode Nineteen: ‘The Chicken Dance’
Director: Victoria Hochberg. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie starts to feel that Big still isn’t focused on her, especially after he takes a call while she is reading a poem at a acquaintance’s wedding. That acquaintance is Charlotte’s friend and Miranda’s interior decorator. Miranda inadvertently set her up with her friend, Jeremy. Charlotte has a whirlwind romance of a few hours with Jeremy’s friend, which ends after his father feels her up. Samantha sleeps with a guy at the engagement party who she then realises she had already had sex with.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Carrie Preston, Stephen Baker Turner.
Episode Twenty: ‘The Man, The Myth, The Viagra’
Director: Victoria Hochberg. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Miranda meets a bartender called Steve after being stood up by Carrie. She takes him home but later refuses to believe he wants more than just sex. Samantha meets a very wealthy man in his seventies but finds that while dating him offers many perks, they can’t make up for his saggy bum. Big lets Carrie down when he breaks plans to go out with her friends, however, when he unexpectedly turns up Carrie’s faith is restored and Miranda starts to let herself believe in a relationship with Steve.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, Bill McHugh, Donald Trump.
Episode Twenty-One: ‘Old Dogs, New Dicks’
Director: Alan Taylor. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie begins to be irritated by Big’s detachment; Samantha is reacquainted with an old boyfriend who now dresses as a blonde woman called ‘Samantha’; Charlotte dates an uncircumcised man who gets rid of his foreskin, then gets rid of Charlotte; Miranda is worn out by trying to have a relationship with Steve when he schedule is so different to her own.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg.
David Eigenberg plays Steve Brady - Image courtesy of tenzor.cz
Episode Twenty-Two: ‘The Caste System’
Director: Allison Anders. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie tells Big she loves him. He ignores the sentiment, and after an argument at a Park Avenue party, Carrie goes out drinking with another guy. The next morning Big calls to admit he loves her too. Meanwhile, Charlotte becomes groupie to a movie star, Samantha dates a man with a hostile servant, and Miranda and Steve break up over the disparity in their career success and income.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, Samuel Ball, Brian Van Holt.
Episode Twenty-Three: ‘Evolution’
Director: Pam Thomas. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie tries to leave her stuff at Big’s, only to have it ‘kicked out of the nest’; Samantha tries to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend but finds she’s not unfeeling enough; Charlotte dates a man she thought was gay; Miranda finds out she has a lazy ovary.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Willie Garson, John Shea, Dan Futterman.
Episode Twenty-Four: ‘La Douleur Exquise!’
Director: Allison Anders. Writers: Ollie Levy, Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Charlotte receives free shoes from a shop assistant with a foot fetish, Samantha does the PR for a new S&M restaurant, and Carrie and Big break up when Big announces he is moving to Paris for a while without any concern for their relationship.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Willie Garson, Will Arnett.
Partaking in a little S&M - Image courtesy of photobucket.com
Episode Twenty-Five: ‘Games People Play’
Director: Michael Spiller. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie starts seeing a shrink when the girls tell her she is obsessing too much about Big. Dr Green tells her she is choosing the wrong men, but it’s not until she sleeps with a man she meets outside Dr G’s office that she realises the shrink was right after all. Samantha dates a man who will only sleep with her if his sporting teams win, while Miranda plays peek-a-boob with the man across the air shaft.
Guest Starring: Willie Garson, Jon Bon Jovi, John Dossett, Anne Lange.
Episode Twenty-Six: ‘The F*ck Buddy’
Director: Alan Taylor. Writers: Darren Star, Merrill Markoe.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie tries to create a relationship with her f*ck buddy; Samantha gets in on the action next door; Charlotte gets into strife when she double books dates; Miranda finds her positive side when she goes out with an angry, pessimistic lawyer.
Guest Starring: Ben Weber, Dean Winters.
Episode Twenty-Seven: ‘Shortcomings’
Director: Dan Algrant. Writer: Terri Minsky.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie starts seeing a writer with a great family, but realises her attachment, among other things, may be premature; Miranda dates a man with a child – rather unsuccessfully; Charlotte has her newly divorced brother stay with her, who Samantha sleeps with, which enrages Charlotte until she realises it was just what her brother needed.
Guest Starring: Justin Theroux, Valerie Harper.
Episode Twenty-Eight: ‘Was It Good for You?’
Director: Dan Algrant. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie dates an alcoholic who hasn’t finished completing the steps; Samantha agrees to have sex with a gay male couple, then becomes insecure when they back out; Charlotte is upset when the man she is seeing falls asleep during sex, and so enrols herself and the girls in a tantric sex workshop, where Miranda has a disconcerting experience.
Guest Starring: Richard Joseph Paul.
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Episode Twenty-Nine: ‘Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women’
Director: Darren Star. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: The girls go to the Hampton’s where Carrie meets a young virgin who worships her. Charlotte lies about her age to a younger guy, who gives her crabs. Samantha serves her just desserts to her young assistant, Nina, who has stolen her rolodex to run her the PR for the Hampton’s Hoedown. At the same time, Carrie becomes overwrought when she runs into Big and his new, much younger girlfriend, Natasha.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Bridget Moynahan, Marisa Ryan, Rachel Miner.
Episode Thirty: ‘Ex and the City’
Director: Michael Patrick King. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie asks Big to lunch in an effort to remain friends, but changes her mind when he tells her that he and Natasha are engaged. Charlotte attempts to overcome her fear of horses; Samantha resorts to friendship with a man when she finds she can’t handle him in bed; Miranda becomes friends – and lovers – with Steve again after running away from him in the street.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, Bridget Moynahan, John Enos III.
Which episode did it for you in Season Two?
Michaelie Clark
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