Sex and the City
Ex and the City
TV Flash files “Ex and the City” as a desk essential hour — Sex and the City (1998–2004) on HBO, season 2, episode 18, aired 1999-10-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E18: listed hour 30 of 94 in the Sex and the City guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 1999-10-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women” (S02E17). Next is “Where's There's Smoke...” (S03E01).
Essential hour: “Ex and the City”. A season closer that treats a name like a billboard. Romance as public branding.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Can you be friends with an ex? Big tells Carrie he and Natasha are engaged; Miranda gets back with Steve; Samantha meets Mr. Too Big; Charlotte gets reacquainted with an equine friend.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ex and the City sit in the Sex and the City guide?
S02E18 is listed hour 30 of 94 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 18.
When did Sex and the City S02E18 air?
Ex and the City aired 1999-10-03 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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