Season 2 - Sex recap

After a long break, we reconnect with the girls at the ball field. To help get Carrie over her break-up with Mr. Big, Miranda and the girls drag Carrie to the ballpark to meet the new Yankee. She gets his autograph and he asks her out. Samantha is trying to make her tiny penis relationship work, but as she explains to her couples counselor, "I need a big dick" the counselor agrees, "Tell me about it honey". There are some filler episodes where Carrie gets in the middle of a friend's divorce, Charlotte gets a dog, and Samantha considers plastic surgery. Stanford hooks Carrie up to be on the cover of a magazine, but typical Carrie stays out the night before the big photo shoot drinking with the girls. She shows up at the shoot way hungover, and thinks they are just taking test shots. She was wrong. She looks like a train-wreck on the cover and is criticized for her swinging single lifestyle. This leads to Carrie's first attempt to quit smoking. It lasts about a week. In the meantime, Miranda buys an apartment, Charlotte dates a widow, and Samantha is thrown out of the "It" social circle because she slept with the wrong man's husband. After attending a friend's funeral, Carrie calls Big to reconnect - and reconnect they do. The only problem, her friends FLIP OUT when they find out about the Big/Carrie reunion. They get over it. Miranda hires an interior designer to impress her new house guest, this old friend she has been talking to through e-mail. She thinks she's going to get laid, but the interior designer makes her move and BAM- Miranda is suddenly helping people sign a guest book at their wedding. She hates them. Carrie, for some reason, is asked to write a poem about love for the wedding. Big says he can't wait to hear Carrie read every word that rhymes with Love at this wedding. But he takes a phone call on his cell while she is reading her poem and gets pretty pissed.
Miranda has a one night stand with the bartender, Steve, and he won't go away. He's sweet and charming, and Miranda just wants him to quit being so cute and considerate and respectful of her, because "You can't turn a one-night stand into a relationship." This and other urban relationship myths are challenged, including one where Samantha meets a gazillionaire who she really into, but he is like 70+. She thinks lights out and Viagra will make their relationship work, but it doesn't. Miranda also challenges Carrie and Big's reunion because "you cannot get back together with a ex." Miranda's attitude changes when Big pulls through for Carrie when she needed him, leading Miranda to run after Steve in the rain. This best kiss scene on television, and the best episode of the show.
However, Steve and Miranda soon break up because she makes more money than him, and he is too proud to let her buy things for him. He tells her they live worlds apart, and we're all a little sad.
And just when you think Carrie and Big are going to get it all worked out, he tells her he is going to Paris on business, for like six months. Maybe longer. She freaks out, and Miranda tries not to say "I told you so."
To recover from the break-up this time, Carrie goes into therapy, and sleeps with Bon Jovi. The show coins the phrase "fuck buddy", and Miranda dates a truly horrible guy who has a really horrible kid.
The girls escape the city for the Hamptons that summer, and Carrie runs into Big at a party with his new lady, a 20-something ex-model named Natasha. Ouch. She throws up on the beach. Well it turns out Natasha is actually Big's fiancee. What? So much for being friends. Carrie says goodbye to Big in front of The Plaza in this great homage to "The Way We Were."