Black In The City

We finally made it to the end of season one! The season finale was full of drama. Carrie and Miranda ambush Big and his mother at church. Samantha accepts that she just needs a big d**k and ends things with James. Charlotte consults a psychic for insight into her relationship future. Miranda dates the Catholic guy. The finale had us wondering, does a person's religion play a role in dating? Do...

Everybody’s doing IT. Or at least they should be according to Carrie in the penultimate episode of season one, The Drought. Each of our girls finds themselves in a situation where they’re faced with determining just how much or how little sex means to them and their romantic relationships. Carrie farts in front of Big for the first time and spirals out after a week of no sex. Samantha tries on cel...

Baby showers, stolen baby names, pregnancy scares -- OH MY! This episode the girls head to Connecticut for Crazy Laney's baby shower, a woman who was once considered wilder than Samantha. Coincidentally, Carrie's period is 7 days late and is unsure if motherhood is for her. Samantha celebrates her single, childless freedom and Charlotte is forced to come to terms with not having the life s...

Is it truly better to marry someone that loves you more than you love them? This unsolicited piece of advice from Brooke, a friend of the girls whose wedding they attend, sets the tone of the episode with each character navigating rejection and the trash dating pool in their own ways. With this, we couldn't help but wonder, if a loving and happy marriage is the end goal why are so many people...

"Are threesomes the new frontier and the new relationships of the future?" Carrie ponders this as she's presented with new information in her relationship with Big: he was previously married and they had wild sex. Samantha is propositioned for a threesome by the wife of the man she's sleeping with, Charlotte's new man is already asking for one and none of the girls chose Mira...

Is monogamy too much to ask for? How soon is too soon to discuss exclusivity? Is a man *coughs* physically suggesting oral sex acceptable today? Is head a dealbreaker? Is Manhattan so small that you might actually run into someone you're dating on another date? So many questions and only 30 minutes. This episode we're talking about The Monogamists, the seventh episode of season one of Sex...

Imagine you meet the man of your dreams. He's hot. He's got money and you two have wild sexual chemistry and banter. But then you get the sneaky suspicion that he's hiding you. Or imagine you find out that a new love interest has *coughs* an acquired taste in porn. Carrie and Miranda find themselves faced with the complicated nature of sex with a new partner this episode and it begs th...

“Sweetheart, men give. Women receive” - a Samantha proverb. This episode we watch Carrie and Charlotte struggle to come to terms with using their sex as a means to an end. Charlotte gives Neville the painter permission to paint her vulva. While Carrie reconciles with the $1000 cash bonus after a whirlwind 24 hours with a French businessman. Samantha feels that women should use whatever means neces...

Do women in their 30s have a better shot at finding love if they date younger? This week our girls Carrie and Samantha have two very different experiences with their 20-something men, however, they both come to the same conclusion: age ain't nothing but a number.

"Is there a secret cold war between marrieds and singles? Are we enemies?" is the question of the episode as the girls' grapple with their singleness in their respective ways. Carrie's kicked out of her friend's summer home, Miranda pretends to be a lesbian to rub elbows with the partners, Samantha is confronted with her sexual past and Charlotte is googly eyes at the prospect of marriage. Join Ca...

Miranda finds herself unknowingly on a date with a "modelizer" and it brings up all sorts of insecurities for the women... except for Samantha, of course. It begs the question: What's more important, the piece of arm candy that's gonna have you feeling like the (wo)man when you walk through? Or is it really all about the person that makes you laugh? This episode we discuss beauty...

Join two girls, Cam and Mel, as they talk about one of the most iconic shows of all time from the millennial Black woman's perspective. Filmed in 1997 and aired in 1998, the pilot episode of Sex and City introduced 4 single and fabulous women to the masses. They were fashionable, bold, daring and still making questionable decisions in their 30s. They're carrying condoms in their purses, ha...