Sex and the City
La Douleur Exquise!
TV Flash files “La Douleur Exquise!” as hour 24 of 94 in the TV Flash guide — Sex and the City (1998–2004) on HBO, season 2, episode 12, aired 1999-08-22, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E12: listed hour 24 of 94 in the Sex and the City guide, hour 12 of 18 in season 2. It aired 1999-08-22 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Evolution” (S02E11). Next is “Games People Play” (S02E13).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When it comes to relationships, how do you know when enough is enough? Big tells Carrie that he's moving to Paris for six months; Samantha introduces the girls to the hottest new S&M restaurant; Charlotte's shoe fetish is counterbalanced by a shoe store foot fetishist; Miranda meets a guy who likes to "do it" only when he thinks he might get caught.
Viewer FAQ
Where does La Douleur Exquise! sit in the Sex and the City guide?
S02E12 is listed hour 24 of 94 — hour 12 of 18 in season 2, season 2 episode 12.
When did Sex and the City S02E12 air?
La Douleur Exquise! aired 1999-08-22 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Season 1, episode 1. The voiceover and the four-silhouette contract are the whole machine.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it as the original big-city look book: four women, a voiceover, and shoes that did more character work than half the boyfriends. Manhattan is a lighting setup. The reboot noise is later; this run is the template every brunch-core series still copies.
The first thing you see is a woman on a street that is really a runway. Carrie Bradshaw’s voiceover is a fashion dispatch with dating as the alibi. HBO at the end of the 1990s did not accidentally invent the look book as comedy-drama. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon made Manhattan photograph as a weekly fitting: four silhouettes, four theories of sex, one city that never dressed casual unless the casual cost more. Style is the plot. The shoe is not a punchline. The shoe is a…
Filed against
- Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw
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- Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones
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- Kristin Davis as Charlotte York
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- Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes
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- Chris Noth as Mr. Big
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