Sex and the City
To Market, To Market
TV Flash files “To Market, To Market” as the first listed hour of season 6 — Sex and the City (1998–2004) on HBO, season 6, episode 1, aired 2003-06-22, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E01: listed hour 75 of 94 in the Sex and the City guide, first listed hour of season 6. It aired 2003-06-22 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “I Love a Charade” (S05E08). Next is “Great Sexpectations” (S06E02).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Carrie goes out on a hot date with her new flame; Miranda faces her true feelings about Steve; Harry refuses to marry someone who is not Jewish, to Charlotte's dismay.
Viewer FAQ
Where does To Market, To Market sit in the Sex and the City guide?
S06E01 is listed hour 75 of 94 — first listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 1.
When did Sex and the City S06E01 air?
To Market, To Market aired 2003-06-22 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…
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