Live Blog | Sex and the City Marathon S6E3 through S6E4

(note: I do not condone any of the immorality in the show, nor any immorality in general.)

Sex and the City, S6E3, "The Perfect Present":

I'm surprised at how much I'm actually really getting into this show. Charlotte is taking Jewish classes and must learn about the history and tradition. She got excited over saying "Oi!" for the first time. Samantha gets caught "shagging" the waiter again, but at so-and-so's purse party. Steve is still seeing his new girl, "Debbie", and Miranda is still in denial of her feelings. Carrie is woken up by a phone call from "Big" who wants to talk about her red Gucci dress.. And they end up having phone sex, even though she's dating Berger. Miranda finds a ton of condoms in her baby bag and realizes they belong to Steve. Carrie questions how much past relationships can change your future idea of perfect. Carrie visits Berger's apartment, and overhears a phone message for Berger, and sees him overreact and exclaim "Screw you!" to the answering machine while simultaneously flipping it off. I think I actually really enjoy the parts of the show where Carrie's blogging and talking about her philosophy about relationships. (Also, a question: has anyone reading this seen the movies?! I haven't, but now I really want to! I probably will today!) Steve shows up (on time, for once) and Miranda lets him have it, and argues with him about how he always needs to have his attention on the baby, she doesn't want him slacking as a father, so to say; she confronts him about the condoms. Charlotte sacrifices pieces of her past. She decorates a Christmas tree in July, and is very sentimental about it being her 'last Christmas tree', although Harry insists she can keep Christmas, and that a lot of Jews have Christmas trees. But she insists on doing it right, and uses the metaphor: "I'm not going to be a meat-eating vegetarian." Which completely makes sense. They mutually decide that they will keep her Grandmother York's vintage ornament though, as it's a special family heirloom. Samantha hooks up with the waiter, Jerry, again, and discovers that he's also an actor, which turns out to have it's benefits. Carrie talks to Berger about that Lauren girl, who happens to be his ex, and Carrie finds out Lauren keeps bugging him because she wants to meet him at lunch for closure; even though SHE was the one that cheated, forcing him to break up with her! She gives him a new sleep sounds machine because the sound of frogs at night was keeping her awake. Charlotte is baptized.

S6E4, Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little:

Samantha is bragging about her "sex life", now that she's been role-playing with the waiter/actor, where he shouts "shut the hell up" a LOT. Miranda talks about her date with someone, who didn't come up to her room but said he'd call, and Berger elaborates on how that meant he's just not that into her. "If we're into you, we're coming upstairs. We're booking that second date. There's no mixed messages." Jack Berger and Carrie confess that they love each other! Berger gifts her with his book. More hook-ups between Samantha and waiter Jerry Smith. Moving on. Carrie finishes Berger's book in two days, and they talk about it. They have a mock argument about him having his leading lady wearing a 'scrunchie' all over town. No self-respecting New Yorker woman who works at W magazine would go out wearing a scrunchie, she exclaims, and she offends Berger with this comment about his novel. Carrie questions how nitpicking and criticism can ruin a relationship on her blog. Miranda and Carrie are trying to help Charlotte cook a traditional Jewish Shabbat meal together. Samantha is losing interest in Jerry, and doesn't like knowing more about him because it "ruins the fantasy", but they end up "playing themselves" and just having a real conversation over dinner, without any strain or tension, surprisingly. Berger points out a woman wearing a scrunchie, and Carrie points out that she's not from New York. Harry and Charlotte get into a big fight, after she made a huge special Shabbat dinner for him, and he is watching baseball on mute during the dinner; when she noticed, she tells him to turn it off. "I gave up Christ for you, can't you give up the Metz for me?!" And it all gets blown out of proportion when she yells at him to set the date, to which he tells her she's acting crazy. She mentions how lucky she is to have him, and asks if he knows what people think when they see them together, and he says he does, he just didn't think she was one of them, to which he leaves and says "To think I bought a ring." Berger refuses to go up with Carrie to her apartment and says he'll call her tomorrow (remember earlier how he said that means a guy's not into someone?!) they argue a bit, but then they kiss and make up, and go back up to her apartment. Charlotte and Harry seem to be breaking up, because he hasn't talked to her in 2 days except to say he's sending someone to pick up his TV.