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Sex and the City · S5 · E1

Anchors Away

  • TV-MA
  • Jul 21, 2002
  • 28 min
  • 5.5

Carrie realizes her relationship with New York City is as dysfunctional as is her relationship with men. Charlotte decides she needs to distance herself from her former life as "Mrs. MacDougal". Miranda tries to adjust to her new life with her baby, Brady Hobbes. Samantha gets phone calls from Richard begging her to take him back.

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Carrie realizes her relationship with New York City is as dysfunctional as is her relationship with men. Charlotte decides she needs to distance herself from her former life as "Mrs. MacDougal". Miranda tries to adjust to her new life with her baby, Brady Hobbes. Samantha gets phone calls from Richard begging her to take him back.

Season 5

8 episodes
  1. 1Anchors Away

    28 minJul 21, 2002★ 5.5Now viewing

    Carrie realizes her relationship with New York City is as dysfunctional as is her relationship with men. Charlotte decides she needs to distance herself from her former life as "Mrs. MacDougal". Miranda tries to adjust to her new life with her baby, Brady Hobbes. Samantha gets phone calls from Richard begging her to take him back.

  2. 2Unoriginal Sin

    28 minJul 28, 2002★ 6.4

    Carrie gets an offer from a publisher who wants to make a book out of her column. Charlotte takes a self-help seminar and takes affirmations to try to find love again. Miranda agrees to have Brady baptized, and chooses Carrie as the godmother. Samantha takes Richard back, despite the girls advising against it.

  3. 3Luck Be an Old Lady

    28 minAug 4, 2002★ 6.6

    Carrie desperately tries to get everyone together for Charlotte's "thirty-faux" birthday. Charlotte doesn't want to turn 36 because she feels she's getting old. Miranda goes to Atlantic City with the girls, feeling self-conscious about her weight. Samantha is paranoid that Richard is cheating with the entire female hotel staff.

  4. 4Cover Girl

    27 minAug 11, 2002★ 6.2

    Carrie works with publicist Samantha to try to get the perfect look for her book cover. Charlotte starts reading self-help books. Miranda goes to Weight Watchers to lose her baby weight. Samantha gets upset when she feels the girls are judging her outrageous sex life.

  5. 5Plus One Is the Loneliest Number

    28 minAug 18, 2002★ 6.3

    Carrie invites Jack Berger to her book opening party, which turns out to be a huge event. Charlotte butts heads with Bunny MacDougal. Miranda's single life and her life with Brady conflict. Samantha gets an impulse-buy chemical peel that goes awry.

  6. 6Critical Condition

    28 minAug 25, 2002★ 6.6

    Carrie deals with her past with Aidan when she runs into Nina Katz, who had dated Aidan after he and Carrie split up. Charlotte gets a tough lawyer to go up against Bunny in a fight to keep her apartment. Miranda has no one to turn to when she needs help taking care of Brady. Samantha tries to return a spent vibrator, then spends some of her free time on Miranda.

  7. 7The Big Journey

    28 minSep 1, 2002★ 6.4

    Carrie goes to San Francisco to promote her book and visit Big. Charlotte sleeps with her unappealing (to her) divorce lawyer, Harry Goldenblatt. Samantha accompanies Carrie to California, looking for a good time.

  8. 8I Love a Charade

    28 minSep 8, 2002★ 6.7

    The girls attend the Hamptons wedding of an over-the-hill socialite and a lounge singer whom they all thought was gay. Carrie encounters Jack Berger again. Charlotte goes public with her relationship with Harry. Miranda gets more comfortable with the baby and with her role as a mother. Samantha throws a huge party at Richard Wright's Hamptons house.

Guest stars

Lynn CohenMagda
Mario CantoneAnthony Marantino
David EigenbergSteve Brady
James RemarRichard Wright
Daniel SunjataLouis Leroy, USN
Sylvia MilesJoan
Jamie GustisPaul Watkins, USN
Diego LópezBill Hope, USN
Seth GabelSweet Young Sailor
Mark DeklinShip Officer Matt Cook, USN
Michael HollickDickie Sailor
Chandra WilsonPolice Officer
Vincenetta GunnLina
Philip LevyDeli Manager
Chris TschuppCute Rain Guy
Tom MylerJoseph