Girls Rewatch: Sex and the City

An unexpected wedding sends Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha into four very different romantic spirals in Sex and the City: Season 2, Episode 7, "The Chicken Dance." The timing couldn't be better. Coming off the heels of Taylor Swift's Manhattan wedding, one of our favorite girls in town and bride-to-be, Cat Cohen, returns to the podcast to break it all down. Cat brings her dog Romeo to jo...

Carrie’s stuck diaphragm. Charlotte’s flirtation with the lesbian community. Samatha’s lightning puss. We’re back on the couch to talk the textbook episode of SATC S2E6: “The Cheating Curve.”  With the heart of a lesbian and mind of a straight girl, Charlotte gets in too deep with the sapphic mafia, Samantha gets branded by her gym trainer, Miranda is upstaged by porn, and Carrie keeps her fo...

Stand-up Carolina Montesquieu is cracking open her notebook to help us eulogize SATC S2E5, “Four Women and a Funeral.”  Charlotte picks up a widower at a graveyard, single Miranda is persecuted by the housing market and faces the horror of dying alone with her cat, Samantha experiences social suicide and has to be saved by “Leonardo DiCaprio,” and Carrie resurrects her relationship with Big....

Saidah, aka Carrie Bradshaw is she was alive during Instagram reels, joins two of the other bravest singles in New York to discuss SATC S2E4, “They Shoot Single People, Don’t They?” After an all-night salsa dancing bender, Carrie shows up late to her New York Magazine photoshoot (looking kind of beautiful?) but gets dragged in print all over the city, Miranda attempts to teach an optometrist how t...

Nick Smith of the I Never Liked You podcast has joined the circus of Girls Rewatch to help us dissect SATC S2E3, “The Freak Show.”  Samantha gets a reverse BBL after a leather freak accurately clocks her age, Charlotte hoards Mr. Pussy and orgasms so much she forgets how to date, Carrie goes on a rapid-fire string of dates only to end up with the biggest weirdo of all (a rec league soccer player,)...

Jamie Lee, executive producer and writer on Ted Lasso, writer/ star of Crashing, and Lisa Vanderpump of Gowanas is in the studio to chat SATC S2E2 “The Awful Truth.” Charlotte adopts a Jack Russell Terrorist, Samantha finds allyship with her therapist and breaks up with her tiny penis boyfriend, Miranda experiments with dirty talk, The Girls get messy over mezze when Big shows up to Carrie’s birth...

Batters up! Marty Miller and Missy McIntosh are stepping up to the plate to discuss SATC S2E1 “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”  Post-Big breakup, Carrie is click-clacking around the city looking DUMPED and rebounds with The New Yankee, Miranda is not beating the lesbian allegations in those overalls and is pissed no one wants to talk about her new PalmPilot, Samantha tries to coach James and his ti...

Kay Poyer, the potential Fran Lebowitz of 20-something trans girls, communes with us to discuss SATC S1E12 “Oh Come All Ye Faithful.” It’s a pun once again! Miranda dates a playwright who must cleanse himself with holy water after sinning (immediate shower after sex,) Charlotte is persecuted by the psychics of Manhattan, Carrie goes undercover in a big ol’ hat to try and meet Big’s mom at church,...

Brooke Averick, co-host of Brooke and Connor Make a Podcast and author of upcoming romance novel Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It joins us to discuss SATC S1E11, “The Drought.”  Carrie lets and ootsie tootsie slip in front of Big and has an existential crisis, Miranda deals with a 3-month dry spell and cat-calls outside Blockbuster, Samantha does no-nut November for a yogi, and Charlotte encounters t...

Vegas, hello! Despite a royal visit from Charles & Camilla, Girls Rewatch sits down with Mark Indelicato to discuss Hacks and more. First, Amelia and Evan review how the holy marriage of fashion and comedy is potentially back with The Devil Wears Prada 2, dote on women in STEM that are surely getting into millennial heaven (Denver, CO) and have a Socratic seminar on if “twink” is gender neutral. T...

The world has been blessed with another Lena Dunham memoir, and we’re here to discuss! Famesick adds a whole new dimension to the idea of Girls Rewatch as Lena reveals how her life was falling apart behind the scenes of Girls. We chat about the validation of a diagnosis, the paradox of keeping together on-screen friendships while having no time for friends of your own, and the mental toll of becom...

Girls Rewatch Podcast is taking a trip to Pittsburgh this week to discuss season 2 of The Pitt.  We take a look at the season as a whole, discussing the mental health journeys of the characters, how the ER is a mirror of America, and equally as important, Ogilvie’s gay undertones. We also discuss the pure joy of seeing Santos rip out Mel’s braid during karaoke, Dr. Robby’s abandonment issues, Whit...

Dana Donnelly of Midnight Milkshake Podcast and writer/ director of The Prospect puts on her anthropologist hat to discuss SATC S1E10, “The Baby Shower.” Our four ladies take a road trip to suburban Connecticut for ex-party girl Laney’s baby shower and bravely confront the idea of motherhood.  Samantha heats up her old slut rivalry with Laney and delivers her most iconic line (“you bitch!”) Charlo...

Dylan Carlino of spiritual sister podcast Feelin’ Girly joins us to discuss SATC S1E9, “The Turtle and the Hare.”  Samantha has a full trauma-response to being rejected and Queer Eyes a baldie with bad breath, Charlotte enters vibrator psychosis and orgasms for probably the first time in her life, Miranda stages a Rabbit intervention, and Carrie considers a lavender marriage to Stanford. We discus...

Claire Parker from the Vox Media podcast Good Noticings and stand-up special 32, returns to the pod to discuss SATC S1E8, “Three’s a Crowd.” Big is having a blast playing games with Carrie about his book publisher ex-wife, Charlotte flirts with the idea of a threesome IRL and in her dreams, Samantha sleeps with a married man while still being a girl’s girl, and Miranda laments how her friends won’...

Jo Firestone (of Broad City guest-star fame and author of upcoming sequel Sex on Murder Island) joins us to discuss SATC S1E7, “The Monogamists.”  Carrie discovers she isn’t exclusive with Mr. Big and taunts him with Justin Theroux (pt. i,) Charlotte does her best to avoid giving head, Miranda and Skipper hook up in a black box theater sans-sheets, and Samantha is secretly poly in the real estate...

We’re keeping it in the family for this monumental episode of SATC S1E6 “Secret Sex,” an allegory for the gay experience.  Carrie goes on her date with Mr. Big in the tits-on-toast dress, Miranda does the ‘90s equivalent of going through your date's search history and finds a spanking fetish, Charlotte is, of course, being waspy and divulges about screwing a Hasidic folk artist, and Samantha is co...

Charlie Flynn is back for a third time to discuss Carrie’s unexpected $1000 pay-day, Miranda & Samantha’s debate on sex and power, and Charlotte’s nude modeling to seal an art deal in SATC Season 1 Episode 5, “The Power of Female Sex.” How has apple pay led to gay guy job erasure? Does shopping, in fact, release the creative spirit? Are all gallery girls secret freaks (Marnie, we’re looking at you...

Charlie Bardey and Natalie Rotter-Laitman from Exploration: LIVE! join us to compare and contrast the ladies of Girls and Sex and the City. Whether earnest or satirical, showing great friendships or ones that you should run away from, these shows captured certain truths for ladies everywhere. Natalie can’t believe the amount of good sex Samantha is having, Charlie reminds her to view the women as...

Ryan O’Connell, creator and star of the Netflix show SPECIAL whose third book (INSPIRATION PORN) releases this spring, joins us to discuss SATC Season 1, Episode 4 “Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys.” We discuss how Ryan could simply never relate to the notion of dating younger as Carrie and Samantha attempt in this episode, Charlotte’s true-to-form fear of becoming the “up the butt girl,” and t...

​Sydnee Washington from the hit Big Money Player's iHeart Podcast, Mess, returns to Girls Rewatch Podcast for their new Sex and the City era. We discuss SATC Season 1, Episode 3 "Bay of Married Pigs", the episode where Carrie is invited to stay with a married friend and her husband, Peter, at their beach house. Her trip is unexpectedly cut short when she walks in on Peter who is Winnie-The-Pooh-in...

Tessa Belle returns to Girls Rewatch for a chaotic, thoughtful, and extremely necessary conversation about whether models should, in fact, be treated as people. We’re diving into Sex and the City Season 1, Episode 2, “Models and Mortals,” the show’s early takedown of the beauty industrial complex. Evan, Amelia, and Tessa unpack why SATC is somehow wildly woke and deeply problematic at the exact sa...

In the Sex and the City pilot (1998), Carrie Bradshaw dives headfirst into the question: can women really have sex like men? She navigates the NYC dating scene with her friends Samantha (always sex-positive), Charlotte (hopelessly romantic), and Miranda (delightfully cynical). This episode has it all — Carrie experimenting with “no-strings” sex with a guy named Kurt, the first of her fourth-wall-b...

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