Sex And The City: 10 Episodes To Watch If You Miss Charlotte & Harry

Fans know Sex and the City‘s Charlotte York as the sometimes uptight (but, just as often, very fun) and marriage-minded gal in Carrie’s trio of best friends. She has aspirations for life with a successful husband and adorable children but struggles to fulfill these desires, with roadblocks coming up for the idealistic art dealer, season after season.

Even though they meet late in the series, her relationship with her divorce attorney, Harry Goldenblatt – at first a hard sell for Charlotte – turns out to be the perfect fit, and the couple ends the series on a joyous high. For fans of what is quite possibly Sex and the City‘s most heartwarming couple, certain episodes are simply required viewing.

10 “Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little” (Season 6, Episode 4)

In the only really heartbreaking episode for the couple, Charlotte is desperate for Harry to propose, but he doesn’t seem aware. When she prepares a lavish Shabbat dinner for him and he brushes it off, she chides him for not being more appreciative of what he has – but comes off as cold and callous.

Although a devastating episode for Charlotte, as she temporarily loses the man she loves, it marks an important step in Charlotte’s process of overcoming the superficial trappings she can sometimes get caught up in.

9 “The Perfect Present” (Season 6, Episode 3)

As her conversion classes near completion, Charlotte and Harry discuss which traditions from her past she should bring into their new life together.

It’s a lightweight episode for the couple (and one of Sex and the City‘s only holiday-themed episodes, despite actually taking place in July) that mainly concerns Charlotte’s love of Christmas, but it features plenty of sweet displays of affection and commitment that Charlotte and Harry fans will love. In the end, Charlotte decides on her own to put away her tree for good, recognizing that the only gift she needs is one she already has.

8 “Critical Condition” (Season 5, Episode 6)

Charlotte meets Harry – who first-time viewers might assume is just a minor character – under less than flattering circumstances in this episode. Struggling to get through her divorce with Trey (and his mother), she finds herself uncomfortable trash-talking the pair in front of her handsome lawyer.

But when his bald and uncouth colleague enters the room and promptly spits out his bagel into his hand, Charlotte thinks he may be a better fit. For fans of the couple, the unconventional meet-cute is all the more satisfying knowing how truly perfect the fit will be.

7 “I Love A Charade” (Season 5, Episode 8)

Charlotte upgrades her relationship with Harry from sex and takeout to a night in the Hamptons in this out-of-the-city episode. The girls’ acquaintance, Bitsy von Muffling, is having a summer wedding, and Charlotte wants Harry to wax his back before being seen poolside.

In the charming fifth-season finale, Harry is forgiving and irreverent in the face of Charlotte’s superficial qualms, and Charlotte learns that she can’t pick and choose which parts of her boyfriend to love. It’s an important lesson for the sometimes superficial bride-to-be.

6 “A Woman’s Right To Shoes” (Season 6, Episode 9)

Harry, recently moved into Charlotte’s apartment after their messy but happy wedding, is leaving used teabags everywhere. Even more alarmingly for Charlotte, he’s running around the house and sitting on her furniture in the nude. Although she’s over the moon and married to the love of her life, Charlotte wishes their habits were a bit more in line.

Besides recalling several episodes across the series where the girls adjust to the eccentricities of new partners, it’s a charming, funny, and absolutely classic bit for the newlyweds.

5 “To Market, To Market” (Season 6, Episode 1)

In the season six premiere, Charlotte and Harry’s relationship has grown since viewers last saw them. Harry reveals he wants to marry a woman who shares his faith, and while Charlotte finds herself contemplating converting to Judaism, she’s concerned that she won’t be able to conceive children with her love.

But when she reveals her previous fertility issues to Harry, she discovers it’s no big deal to the optimistic divorce lawyer. Charlotte fans will find the episode perfectly illustrates the stark differences between her previous troubled marriage and her deepening current relationship.

4 “The Big Journey” (Season 5, Episode 7)

After her divorce papers are delivered, Charlotte is bewildered by Harry’s passionate announcement of his desire for her – and even more bewildered by her own impulsive choice to sleep with him then and there.

Although it’s not the first time they meet, this episode marks the beginning of Charlotte and Harry’s non-professional relationship (and, in Charlotte’s own words, the best sex of her life). It boasts not only the intense scene of Harry’s confession with rock music blaring, but also Anthony Marantino’s iconic pronouncement that “ugly sex is hot.”

3 “An American Girl In Paris (Part Deux)” (Season 6, Episode 18)

In the series finale, Charlotte and Harry have tried IVF, they even have a litter of puppies, and they are finally set to adopt a child. They host a couple whose baby they intend to adopt, but they reveal they just wanted the free trip from North Carolina.

Refreshingly, by the show’s end, Charlotte has learned to have faith that she will achieve what she wants as long as she keeps an open mind – and the couple is paired with an adoptee baby by the end of the episode. It’s a triumphant, hopeful, and joyous conclusion to Charlotte and Harry’s whirlwind romance.

2 “Hop, Skip, And A Week” (Season 6, Episode 6)

Devastated after a rude comment incited her and Harry’s breakup, Charlotte allows women at her synagogue to set her up with their sons. The pairings are disastrous, but the unhappily single divorcée runs into Harry at a mixer. Thankfully, for fans of the couple, their brief split ends when Charlotte pours her heart out to Harry and he, in turn, proposes.

It’s the perfect ending to the storyline from a few episodes earlier, when Charlotte’s desperation for a proposal actually pushed her boyfriend away.

1 “The Catch” (Season 6, Episode 7)

Charlotte and Harry’s wedding goes off the rails in every possible way, with drunk and belligerent toasts, a stained wedding gown, and a bride tripping down the aisle, but Carrie reminds her she already had a perfect ceremony – and it marked the beginning of her very imperfect first marriage.

What Charlotte most wants for the show’s first few seasons is a perfect wedding – but in this episode, she’s reminded that even if things don’t look perfect, it’s how they feel that matters.

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