The Best Episodes of Sex and the City Season 5

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.3/10(857 votes)

   #1 - Anchors Away

   S5:E17/21/2002

   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.

   Director:Charles McDougall

   Writer:Michael Patrick King

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   Director:Charles McDougall

   Writer:Michael Patrick King
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   7.3/10(797 votes)

   #2 - Unoriginal Sin

   S5:E27/28/2002

   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.

   Director:Charles McDougall

   Writer:Cindy Chupack

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   Director:Charles McDougall

   Writer:Cindy Chupack
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   7.6/10(830 votes)

   #3 - Luck Be an Old Lady

   S5:E38/4/2002

   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.

   Director:John David Coles

   Writers:Julie Rottenberg, Elisa Zuritsky

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   Director:John David Coles

   Writers:Julie Rottenberg, Elisa Zuritsky
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   7.3/10(813 votes)

   #4 - Cover Girl

   S5:E48/11/2002

   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.

   Director:John David Coles

   Writers:Judy Toll, Michael Patrick King

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   Director:John David Coles

   Writers:Judy Toll, Michael Patrick King
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   7.4/10(805 votes)

   #5 - Plus One Is the Loneliest Number

   S5:E58/18/2002

   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.

   Director:Michael Patrick King

   Writer:Cindy Chupack

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   Director:Michael Patrick King

   Writer:Cindy Chupack
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   7.5/10(758 votes)

   #6 - Critical Condition

   S5:E68/25/2002

   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.

   Director:Michael Patrick King

   Writer:Alexa Junge

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   Director:Michael Patrick King

   Writer:Alexa Junge
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   7.3/10(757 votes)

   #7 - The Big Journey

   S5:E79/1/2002

   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.

   Director:Michael Engler

   Writer:Michael Patrick King

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   Director:Michael Engler

   Writer:Michael Patrick King
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   7.7/10(802 votes)

   #8 - I Love a Charade

   S5:E89/8/2002

   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.

   Director:Michael Engler

   Writers:Michael Patrick King, Cindy Chupack

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   Director:Michael Engler

   Writers:Michael Patrick King, Cindy Chupack