Carrie is gearing up about her first date with Berger, and runs into Aiden. You could say he's moved on, because he has a baby strapped to his belly. Apparently he got married and immediately got his new bride knocked up, so Hooray for Aiden and his super sperm. Charlotte gets Harry to say he will marry her when they are in the throws of passion. Then when she tries to hold him to it later, he calls her out for sneaky and says anything they say in the bedroom is off limits. So she decides to go all Elizabeth Taylor and convert to Judaism. Miranda is mooning over Steve and gets herself a TiVo. On it she has become obsessed with this BBC show called Jules and Mimi. When Magda sits on the remote and breaks the TV, Miranda has an understandable nervous breakdown, but Steve comes to the rescue. He's also dating someone new, so Miranda's all sad because he moved on. Carrie and Berger and getting along fantastic, but they have the most boring sex life ever. They both get really drunk thinking it will take the pressure off, but they get so drunk, they both pass out before anything happens. The next morning, very hungover, they pretend they are having dinner, and somehow it works. Samantha is lusting after this waiter at a raw food restaurant. She gets into a subtle showdown with another woman for who was going to be taking him home. After a quick negotiation and the purchase of the gal's meal, Samantha takes home the prize. She runs into the same waiter at a party he is catering later on and gets him fired because they get caught having sex in a closet or something. So it turns out that Berger is the most insecure writer every because after Carrie points out something small in his book regarding a woman wearing a scrunchie in her hair, he gets all uncomfortable and holds it against her. He also tells Miranda that the guy she is dating is "just not into her" (yes, that's where that horrible phrase got started). Carrie takes offense because she thinks he's insensitive, but Miranda feels liberated because now she doesn't have to fret over the nuances of their date and why he didn't call. Charlotte has completed her conversion to one of the chosen people, and gets in a huge fight with Harry when he wants to watch the game during her first Shabbat dinner. It escalates to her pointing out what people think when they see the two of them together, which really hits below the belt. The she cries out, "Set the date." because she had done all of that just so he would marry her and she was tired of waiting. Harry's feelings are so hurt, and he definitely feels Mantrapped and leaves her. We're all very sad. Meanwhile, things are getting really hot and heavy with Samantha and her waiter who is like half her age. She keeps trying to keep him at a distance, (she won't even learn his name) by playing out these sex fantasies, but as soon as he tells her something real (like he's an alcoholic) she runs off. Finally he pins her down (not literally) and makes her listen about who he is and what he wants to be. His name, turns out, is Jerry Jerrod. She replies, "Your parents named you that. No wonder you drank." Turns out he wants to be an actor and star in all these little artsy plays. Finally she tells him if that's what he really wants to be, then she would help him. The publicity campaign started with the promotion of a play in Brooklyn where he is totally nude. It was a packed house. The next thing he knows, he is half naked on a billboard in Times Square and has drinks named after him. Turns out Berger's agency dropped his book contract, and he holds it against Carrie for having a book that is a success, even if it is only in Europe. He starts acting like a complete ass, and Carrie doesn't want to admit defeat. Finally he tells her he wants take a break, and Carrie doesn't know what the hell that means. He's gone for a week, and when he comes back he brings flowers and tells her he wants it to work out. In the meantime, Charlotte goes to a Jewish Singles mixer on a blind date. After many blind dates from the women at her synagogue, she decides none of them are Harry. She tells the guy its not going to work. Harry is at the mixer, and she tells him that she is sorry in this beautiful speech about how she just wants him to be in her life. She doesn't care in what capacity, just that she wants him to be in her life. We're all very touched and he proposes right there on the spot. It all very sweet and all the other women are jealous. So the next morning, Carrie wakes up after the great make-up with Berger to find him not there. On her laptop is a Post-It that say, "I'm sorry. I can't. Don't hate me." Worst. Break-up. Ever. Post break-up party. On to the wedding. Charlotte, of course, plans another lavish event for her wedding, but everything goes wrong. She spills wine on her dress, Harry can't break the glass at the end of the ceremony, Samantha breaks a pearl bracelet in the middle of the ceremony sending pearls flying, its just a mess. So when she runs off to cry in the bathroom, Carrie breaks it down like this, "Your last wedding was perfect, but your last marriage wasn't. So this wedding is a disaster, most likely the marriage will be a success." Not to ruin it for you, but it is a success. I love Harry and Charlotte. If they do not have a happily ever after in this movie, I will hurt someone. Miranda meets a real hot doctor in her building who also loves Jules and Mimi. They start hooking up, and Steve walks in on them one day. As he is trying to flee the scene he smashes his nose in the door. So Miranda, in her robe, watches her ex-boyfriend get his nose doctored with a tampon by a very hot man who works for the Knicks. Miranda wins! So Big comes back to town because he is having heart surgery. Every time he says the word operation, Carrie breaks out in tears leading all the women at the hospital to think she's his wife. He is healing at the Plaza, and Carrie dresses as a Candy Striper to cheer him up. They are super adorable together, and when he has an attack of sorts in the middle of the night, Carrie actually has to nurse him back to health. He gets all serious and starts talking about getting back together. Carrie doesn't get her hopes up, which is good because the next morning he acts cold and like nothing ever happened. Despite all the bad luck, Charlotte finds out she is pregnant. Right on the eve of Baby Brady's first birthday. But the joy doesn't last because she miscarries very quickly. There is this heart-wrenching scene where Carrie goes to see Charlotte, and you can tell she's been sitting on that couch not showering or brushing her hair for a long time. Despite his own sadness, Harry makes an appearance at Brady's birthday party, and you know he's the sweetest guy ever. After watching a special on Elizabeth Taylor and her perseverance Charlotte drags her ass off the couch and to Brady's party. Samantha finds a gray hair, which isn't that big a deal, but its "down there", and it sends her into a panic. So she dyes her hair, and it turns out Ronald McDonald red. She show Carrie and tells her "I'm Bozo the Bush!" And Miranda blurts out to Steve that she's in love with him. And instead of recognizing the awkwardness of that confession in a laundry-room while their significant others are on the other side of the door, Steve just smiles and tells Miranda, "You're the one. You always have been." Magda catches them in their moment, and just smiles, and we all love Magda. Oh, and Carrie meets a Russian artist. I never liked him. So Miranda and Steve are planning their wedding, and they are very adamant that it will be the opposite of Charlotte's weddings. She tells a wedding dress sales lady, "Nothing lacy, Nothing white, nothing that says virgin. I have a child. The jig is up." They have a lovely simple service in the middle of a community garden in the fall. That day Samantha tells Carrie that she found out that week she has cancer. The rest of the season is everyone dealing with Samantha's cancer, including Jerry (who Sam renamed Smith) who shaves his head in solidarity of her illness. Its very touching. Also Carrie is still dating the Russian, who no one else likes either. Carrie realizes if she stays with him, she won't be having any kids. She also realizes that she is not young anymore, so if she wants kids, she needs to find a new man. Miranda buys a house in Brooklyn, Charlotte gets a show dog, and Samantha makes a sex tape. After the death of a famed party girl, Carrie decides to take the Russian up on a proposal. He asks her to live with him in Paris. Miranda flat out tells Carrie that she doesn't like him and she doesn't want her to go, but they get in a big fight instead. The night before Carrie leaves town, a town car parks in front of her building. She won't even talk to Big. He starts in on his old song and dance, and she tells him no. He's not allowed to swoop in every time she is happy and screw everything up for her. She's not wrong, but I just really don't like the Russian. She leaves Big standing in the street. So she gets on the plane and goes to Paris, and finds out that the Russian didn't allot any time for them to spend together because he's too busy with his light show. Turns out this is why he and his ex-wife divorced. Carrie is sad and miserable, but determined to make it work. Back in New York, the girls take decisive action and invite Big to brunch. Its this fantastic summit of warlike invasions. It was like they invited the enemy into their own camp. Miranda tells him, "Bring our girl home." Its pretty excellent. Also in New York, the chemo treatments have sent Sam into early menopause and has killed her sex drive. But Smith won't give up on her. He sends her a pot of grass with bulb planted in it and tells her that this is just the winter of their relationship and he can't wait for spring. He also leaves the film he's shooting on location early just to be with her. And Samantha tells him he is the most important man she has ever know, and we are all touched because we know that meant more to her than I love you. Miranda helps Steve take care of him mother who recently suffers a stroke. Magda sees Miranda giving her mother in law a bath, and comes in and kisses her on the top of the head in a knowing, "I'm so proud of you." moment. Charlotte, on the other hand, sends out 100 letters to adoption agencies, and finds one who will give them a baby. A little Asian girl. When she sees the picture she cries and tells Harry, "That's our baby. That's out little girl." Things are horrible for Carrie in Paris. Its cold and gloomy and everyone brings their dogs in the restaurants. She meets a fan of her column and her book, and he sets up a party to celebrate her, but when she is getting ready to leave, the Russian has an emotional breakdown and can't go to his own gallery show alone. So Carrie totally blows off her party to be with him. So when the critics are gushing over the Russian and how brilliant he is, well suddenly he doesn't need Carrie anymore, and she's abandoned in the doorway. They get into a huge fight at the hotel, and she's already got her stuff packed for New York. When she reaches for her suitcase, the Russian accidentally backhands her. So she leaves, and is downstairs trying to get her own room in horrible broken French when Big finds her. She's trying to explain about the break-up and he sees her face, and she's calmly trying to explain that it was an honest to God accident, and Big gets all macho all of a sudden and tells her, "I'm going to kick his ass." Seriously? Come on. But he runs up the stairs to seriously kick the Russian's ass, but Carrie trips him on the landing. And they lay on the carpeted floor of this really nice hotel laughing their ass off. They walk out together laughing and he finally tells her that he wants to be with her. Finally after all this time they are going to work it out. It took you two long enough!
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