Three: Can I Buy You A Cosmopolitan?
February 10th 2008 18:33
The third season of Sex and the City was the season of conflict, transgression but ultimately, realisation. As the fabulous four moved into the millennium, they made many mistakes, gained insight into themselves, and of course, had a hell of a lot of laughs.
Episode Thirty-One: ‘Where There’s Smoke’
Director: Michael Patrick King. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: The four women consider the fairytale notion of being rescued by a white knight after attending the NYC Fire Department Calendar Contest. Charlotte decides she will marry within the year, and to that end, begins dating a seemingly chivalrous man; Miranda learns that it’s alright to depend on someone else now and then; Samantha’s firehouse fetish goes up in smoke; and Carrie, with some reluctance, opens herself up to a new relationship with city politician Bill Kelley.
Guest Starring: David Eigenberg, John Slattery, Mark Grapey.
Episode Thirty-Two: ‘Politically Erect’
Director: Michael Patrick King. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie goes all Jackie O as she supports Bill Kelley on the campaign trail – until he reveals his desire for her to be a different kind of golden girl. Charlotte holds a party for friends and their exes in a bid to find a husband, where Samantha tries to fob off a man she believes is too short for her.
Guest Starring: David Eigenberg, Willie Garson, John Slattery, Anthony Alessandro.
Episode Thirty-Three: ‘Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman’
Director: Pam Thomas. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Miranda hires a Ukrainian cleaning lady, Magda, who takes it upon herself to clean up more than just Miranda’s apartment; Charlotte overcomes her body issues at a spa, where Samantha creates some issues of her own; and Carrie attempts to deal with her insecurities involving Big’s new wife, Natasha.
Guest Starring: Bridget Moynahan, Lynn Cohen.
Episode Thirty-Four: ‘Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl’
Director: Pam Thomas. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie can’t get her head around the fact that the guy she is seeing is pansexual; Charlotte finds her balls when she dresses as a man for a shoot by a famous photographer; Miranda asks Steve to move in after she is forced to face her relationship anxieties; Samantha has sex with her assistant after firing him for undermining her.
Guest Starring: Willie Garson, David Eigenberg, Donovan Leitch, Alanis Morisette.
Episode Thirty-Five: ‘No Ifs, Ands or Butts’
Director: Nicole Holofcener. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Samantha dates a man whose sister is against race-mixing; Charlotte dates a man who is a really bad kisser; Miranda realises she needs to support Steve more; Carrie tries to quit smoking for the sake of her new boyfriend, Aidan.
Guest Starring: David Eigenberg, Willie Garson, John Corbett, Asio Highsmith, Sundra Oakley.
Episode Thirty-Six: ‘Are We Sluts?’
Director: Nicole Holofcener. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie realises how jaded she is about sex when Aidan has to explain to her that he wants to get to know her a bit first; Charlotte sleeps with a man who has unconscious outbursts at inopportune moments; Samantha has to move after one of her late night visitors accidentally lets in a robber; Miranda faces the embarrassment of contacting all her sexual partners after she finds out she has Chlamydia.
Guest Starring: David Eigenberg, John Corbett, David Lansbury.
Episode Thirty-Seven: ‘Drama Queens’
Director: Allison Anders. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie gets all agitated over the calm state of her relationship with Aidan, but after seeing Big with Natasha at the opera, realises she appreciates knowing where she stands. Miranda is alternately comfortable and uncomfortable with living with Steve, Samantha experiments with Viagra, and Charlotte meets Trey, her perfect man, after running out of a bad date and falling in the street.
Guest Starring: David Eigenberg, Chris Noth, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Kyle MacLachlan, Ethan Sandler, Luvada Harrison.
Episode Thirty Eight: ‘The Big Time’
Director: Allison Anders. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie is upset when Big confesses that he can’t stop thinking about her; Samantha fears that she is going through menopause; Charlotte is blissfully happy with Trey; Miranda and Steve disagree about having a baby and end up breaking up.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, John Corbett, Kyle MacLachlan.
Episode Thirty-Nine: ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’
Director: Charles McDougall. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Charlotte becomes engaged to Trey, though is disappointed at how it comes about; Samantha’s finds that her relationship with Adam, a film trailer producer, is in bad taste; Miranda is annoyed that Steve appears to have moved on before moving out; Big tells Carrie he is leaving his wife, and they end up sleeping with each other at a hotel while Aidan works on the floors in Carrie’s apartment.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, John Corbett, Kyle MacLachlan, Bridget Moynahan, Frances Sternhagen.
Episode Forty: ‘All or Nothing’
Director: Charles McDougall. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Miranda starts having phone sex with a guy who lives out of town, until she finds out he’s two-timing her on the second line. Charlotte is distressed when Trey gives her a prenuptial agreement to sign, and even more so when she sees how much she’s worth. Samantha tells Carrie she wishes she was married while feverish from the ’flu. Carrie’s guilt over her affair with Big is compounded when Aidan tells her he loves her.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Kyle MacLachlan, John Corbett, Josh Hamilton, Frances Sternhagen.
Episode Forty-One: ‘Running With Scissors’
Director: Dennis Erdman. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Miranda is attracted to a man dressed as a sandwich; Sam must face an AIDS test before she can sleep with ‘The Male Samantha’ Tom Reymi; Charlotte is engrossed with wedding preparations, then enraged when she discovers that Big and Carrie are having an affair. Worse, Natasha comes home early to find Carrie in her apartment. She chases her down the stairs, falls, and loses a tooth. Carrie takes her to the hospital, where she finally breaks it off with Big.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Kyle MacLachlan, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Mario Cantone, Sam Robards.
Episode Forty-Two: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Director: Dan Algrant. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Charlotte marries Trey, despite last minute doubts about his virility; Samantha finds out what’s under the kilt of Trey’s groomsman; Miranda pretends to be a stewardess to get a date for the reception; Carrie tells Aidan about Big, and they break up.
Guest Starring: Willie Garson, John Corbett, Kyle MacLachlan, Frances Sternahgen.
Episode Forty-Three: ‘Escape From New York’
Director: John David Coles. Writers: Becky Hartman Edwards, Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie takes Miranda and Samantha with her to LA, where she has a meeting with Matthew McConaughey, who wants to discuss making her columns into a film. Whilst there, Samantha meets a dildo model/poet, and Miranda loses her inhibitions on a mechanical bull. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Trey have had an unsatisfying honeymoon.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew McConaughey, James MacDonald.
Episode Forty-Four: ‘Sex and Another City’
Director: John David Coles. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: A frustrated Charlotte flies to LA to join the girls. Carrie and Samantha are refused entry to a premiere party, but are then let in by Keith Travers, supposedly an agent but actually a house-sitter to the stars, whom Carrie has a fling with. Samantha meets Hugh Hefner and gets invited to the Playboy mansion. Miranda tries not to be so cynical after meeting up with a former New York friend who appears to be happy in LA.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Carrie Fisher, Hugh Hefner, Vince Vaughn, Sam Seder, Amanda Bentley, Sandra Bentley, Amber Collins.
Episode Forty-Five: ‘Hot Child in the City’
Director: Michael Spiller. Writer: Allan Heinberg.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie starts dating Wade Adams, a comic store owner who still lives at home; Charlotte searches for a solution to Trey’s penile problems on the internet; Miranda gets braces, but ends up having them removed; Samantha takes on the PR of an oversexed thirteen-year-old girl’s Bat Mitzvah.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Cane Peterson, Kat Dennings, Anita Gillette.
Episode Forty-Six: ‘Frenemies’
Director: Michael Spiller. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie is shown up by a horde of women when she is asked to give a series of seminars on how to meet men; Charlotte and Samantha clash over their ideas of sex, but end up discovering they have more in common than they realise; Miranda agrees to go out with a man she meets at a date’s wake, despite Carrie’s warnings about him.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Jane Summerhays, Sherri Parker Lee, Vivienne Benesch, Rebecca Wisocky, Dominic Fumusa.
Episode Forty-Seven: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie is snubbed by Natasha at a restaurant, then mugged in the street. Later she goes to a party with Samantha and falls down the stairs, making her believe she is experiencing karmic retribution for her affair with Big. With that in mind, she ambushes Natasha at lunch in order to apologise. Meanwhile, Miranda hits it off with the police officer investigating Carrie’s robbery, but winds up feeling insecure about how attractive he is; Samantha sleeps with a virgin named ‘Sam Jones’ who then believes himself desperately in love with her; and Charlotte is caught kissing the gardener at the MacDougall’s Connecticut estate, leading to her separation from Trey.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Bridget Moynahan, Frances Sternhagen, Timothy Gibbs, Jacob Pitts.
Episode Forty-Eight: ‘Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie and Miranda get into an argument when Carrie admits she’s going to lunch with Big. Miranda runs into Steve and questions him about her part in their break-up. Trey visits Charlotte and they finally manage to properly consummate their marriage even though they are now separated. Samantha has a run-in with the transsexuals in her neighbourhood.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Kyle MacLachlan, David Eigenberg, John Corbett.
What will your favourite be, of Season Three?
Michaelie Clark
'Sex and the City' Season Three - Image courtesy of glitteratigossip.com
Director: Michael Patrick King. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: The four women consider the fairytale notion of being rescued by a white knight after attending the NYC Fire Department Calendar Contest. Charlotte decides she will marry within the year, and to that end, begins dating a seemingly chivalrous man; Miranda learns that it’s alright to depend on someone else now and then; Samantha’s firehouse fetish goes up in smoke; and Carrie, with some reluctance, opens herself up to a new relationship with city politician Bill Kelley.
Guest Starring: David Eigenberg, John Slattery, Mark Grapey.
Episode Thirty-Two: ‘Politically Erect’
Director: Michael Patrick King. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie goes all Jackie O as she supports Bill Kelley on the campaign trail – until he reveals his desire for her to be a different kind of golden girl. Charlotte holds a party for friends and their exes in a bid to find a husband, where Samantha tries to fob off a man she believes is too short for her.
Episode Thirty-Three: ‘Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman’
Director: Pam Thomas. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Miranda hires a Ukrainian cleaning lady, Magda, who takes it upon herself to clean up more than just Miranda’s apartment; Charlotte overcomes her body issues at a spa, where Samantha creates some issues of her own; and Carrie attempts to deal with her insecurities involving Big’s new wife, Natasha.
Guest Starring: Bridget Moynahan, Lynn Cohen.
Lynn Cohen plays Magda - Image courtesy of flycollar.com
Episode Thirty-Four: ‘Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl’
Director: Pam Thomas. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie can’t get her head around the fact that the guy she is seeing is pansexual; Charlotte finds her balls when she dresses as a man for a shoot by a famous photographer; Miranda asks Steve to move in after she is forced to face her relationship anxieties; Samantha has sex with her assistant after firing him for undermining her.
Guest Starring: Willie Garson, David Eigenberg, Donovan Leitch, Alanis Morisette.
Episode Thirty-Five: ‘No Ifs, Ands or Butts’
Director: Nicole Holofcener. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Samantha dates a man whose sister is against race-mixing; Charlotte dates a man who is a really bad kisser; Miranda realises she needs to support Steve more; Carrie tries to quit smoking for the sake of her new boyfriend, Aidan.
Guest Starring: David Eigenberg, Willie Garson, John Corbett, Asio Highsmith, Sundra Oakley.
Episode Thirty-Six: ‘Are We Sluts?’
Director: Nicole Holofcener. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie realises how jaded she is about sex when Aidan has to explain to her that he wants to get to know her a bit first; Charlotte sleeps with a man who has unconscious outbursts at inopportune moments; Samantha has to move after one of her late night visitors accidentally lets in a robber; Miranda faces the embarrassment of contacting all her sexual partners after she finds out she has Chlamydia.
Guest Starring: David Eigenberg, John Corbett, David Lansbury.
Samantha moves to the meat-packing district - Image courtesy of hbo.com
Episode Thirty-Seven: ‘Drama Queens’
Director: Allison Anders. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie gets all agitated over the calm state of her relationship with Aidan, but after seeing Big with Natasha at the opera, realises she appreciates knowing where she stands. Miranda is alternately comfortable and uncomfortable with living with Steve, Samantha experiments with Viagra, and Charlotte meets Trey, her perfect man, after running out of a bad date and falling in the street.
Guest Starring: David Eigenberg, Chris Noth, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Kyle MacLachlan, Ethan Sandler, Luvada Harrison.
Episode Thirty Eight: ‘The Big Time’
Director: Allison Anders. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie is upset when Big confesses that he can’t stop thinking about her; Samantha fears that she is going through menopause; Charlotte is blissfully happy with Trey; Miranda and Steve disagree about having a baby and end up breaking up.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, John Corbett, Kyle MacLachlan.
Episode Thirty-Nine: ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’
Director: Charles McDougall. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Charlotte becomes engaged to Trey, though is disappointed at how it comes about; Samantha’s finds that her relationship with Adam, a film trailer producer, is in bad taste; Miranda is annoyed that Steve appears to have moved on before moving out; Big tells Carrie he is leaving his wife, and they end up sleeping with each other at a hotel while Aidan works on the floors in Carrie’s apartment.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, David Eigenberg, John Corbett, Kyle MacLachlan, Bridget Moynahan, Frances Sternhagen.
Carrie runs into Big and Natasha - Image courtesy of wordpress.com
Episode Forty: ‘All or Nothing’
Director: Charles McDougall. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Miranda starts having phone sex with a guy who lives out of town, until she finds out he’s two-timing her on the second line. Charlotte is distressed when Trey gives her a prenuptial agreement to sign, and even more so when she sees how much she’s worth. Samantha tells Carrie she wishes she was married while feverish from the ’flu. Carrie’s guilt over her affair with Big is compounded when Aidan tells her he loves her.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Kyle MacLachlan, John Corbett, Josh Hamilton, Frances Sternhagen.
Episode Forty-One: ‘Running With Scissors’
Director: Dennis Erdman. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Miranda is attracted to a man dressed as a sandwich; Sam must face an AIDS test before she can sleep with ‘The Male Samantha’ Tom Reymi; Charlotte is engrossed with wedding preparations, then enraged when she discovers that Big and Carrie are having an affair. Worse, Natasha comes home early to find Carrie in her apartment. She chases her down the stairs, falls, and loses a tooth. Carrie takes her to the hospital, where she finally breaks it off with Big.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Kyle MacLachlan, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Mario Cantone, Sam Robards.
Comedian Mario Cantone plays gay stylist Anthony Marentino - Image courtesy of buddytv.com
Episode Forty-Two: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Director: Dan Algrant. Writer: Cindy Chupak.
What/Who Went Down: Charlotte marries Trey, despite last minute doubts about his virility; Samantha finds out what’s under the kilt of Trey’s groomsman; Miranda pretends to be a stewardess to get a date for the reception; Carrie tells Aidan about Big, and they break up.
Guest Starring: Willie Garson, John Corbett, Kyle MacLachlan, Frances Sternahgen.
Episode Forty-Three: ‘Escape From New York’
Director: John David Coles. Writers: Becky Hartman Edwards, Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie takes Miranda and Samantha with her to LA, where she has a meeting with Matthew McConaughey, who wants to discuss making her columns into a film. Whilst there, Samantha meets a dildo model/poet, and Miranda loses her inhibitions on a mechanical bull. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Trey have had an unsatisfying honeymoon.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew McConaughey, James MacDonald.
Miranda, Carrie and Samantha in LA - Image courtesy of hbo.com
Episode Forty-Four: ‘Sex and Another City’
Director: John David Coles. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: A frustrated Charlotte flies to LA to join the girls. Carrie and Samantha are refused entry to a premiere party, but are then let in by Keith Travers, supposedly an agent but actually a house-sitter to the stars, whom Carrie has a fling with. Samantha meets Hugh Hefner and gets invited to the Playboy mansion. Miranda tries not to be so cynical after meeting up with a former New York friend who appears to be happy in LA.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Carrie Fisher, Hugh Hefner, Vince Vaughn, Sam Seder, Amanda Bentley, Sandra Bentley, Amber Collins.
Episode Forty-Five: ‘Hot Child in the City’
Director: Michael Spiller. Writer: Allan Heinberg.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie starts dating Wade Adams, a comic store owner who still lives at home; Charlotte searches for a solution to Trey’s penile problems on the internet; Miranda gets braces, but ends up having them removed; Samantha takes on the PR of an oversexed thirteen-year-old girl’s Bat Mitzvah.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Cane Peterson, Kat Dennings, Anita Gillette.
'Dear Mr Cutie Cute...' Image courtesy of carriesdiary.com
Episode Forty-Six: ‘Frenemies’
Director: Michael Spiller. Writer: Jenny Bicks.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie is shown up by a horde of women when she is asked to give a series of seminars on how to meet men; Charlotte and Samantha clash over their ideas of sex, but end up discovering they have more in common than they realise; Miranda agrees to go out with a man she meets at a date’s wake, despite Carrie’s warnings about him.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Jane Summerhays, Sherri Parker Lee, Vivienne Benesch, Rebecca Wisocky, Dominic Fumusa.
Episode Forty-Seven: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Darren Star.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie is snubbed by Natasha at a restaurant, then mugged in the street. Later she goes to a party with Samantha and falls down the stairs, making her believe she is experiencing karmic retribution for her affair with Big. With that in mind, she ambushes Natasha at lunch in order to apologise. Meanwhile, Miranda hits it off with the police officer investigating Carrie’s robbery, but winds up feeling insecure about how attractive he is; Samantha sleeps with a virgin named ‘Sam Jones’ who then believes himself desperately in love with her; and Charlotte is caught kissing the gardener at the MacDougall’s Connecticut estate, leading to her separation from Trey.
Guest Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Bridget Moynahan, Frances Sternhagen, Timothy Gibbs, Jacob Pitts.
Carrie's lost her shoes, Miranda's got a date - Image courtesy of hbo.com
Episode Forty-Eight: ‘Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!’
Director: Allen Coulter. Writer: Michael Patrick King.
What/Who Went Down: Carrie and Miranda get into an argument when Carrie admits she’s going to lunch with Big. Miranda runs into Steve and questions him about her part in their break-up. Trey visits Charlotte and they finally manage to properly consummate their marriage even though they are now separated. Samantha has a run-in with the transsexuals in her neighbourhood.
Guest Starring: Chris Noth, Kyle MacLachlan, David Eigenberg, John Corbett.
What will your favourite be, of Season Three?
Michaelie Clark
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