Top 10 Carrie Bradshaw Moments That We Hate Watch

“My Motherboard, My Self”
After Carrie’s laptop suddenly stops working, causing her to lose all the work she’s never saved, she blames the whole mess on Aidan, because… he was kissing her when it broke. Aidan is nothing but patient and helpful in this episode, but Carrie’s anxiety over her lost work causes her to take out all her frustration on her boyfriend constantly berating him after everything he tries to say or do. When he generously buys her a new laptop, she refuses to take it, saying she just wants her old laptop back. This could be true, but it also seems like a metaphor for their relationship: Carrie doesn’t seem to want a perfectly good new boyfriend; she wants her old one - Mr. Big - back.

“The Man, The Myth, The Viagra”
Carrie made a lot of questionable choices when it came to Big, but it bothered us the most when her poor taste started affecting her friends. In this season two episode, Miranda and Carrie had plans to meet for dinner, but Carrie bails so Big can make her veal. Carrie’s only attempt to let Miranda know she’s not coming is to leave a message on Miranda’s answering machine at home, which of course Miranda never gets because she’s already left to meet Carrie. Silver lining though: Miranda being left all by her lonesome at the bar gives her the opportunity to meet Steve, who goes on to become a regular on the show and a fan favorite character in the series.

“Oh Come All Ye Faithful”
After discovering by chance that Big takes his mother to church every Sunday, Carrie desperately wants to join so she can meet Big’s mother. Big declines, wanting to keep his Sunday tradition a private thing between himself and his mother. Despite his clear wishes, Carrie shows up at their church anyway and draws significant attention to herself after accidentally dropping a bible. So Carrie gets her introduction to Big’s mom in the end, though she’s offended he introduces her as just a friend. Maybe you shouldn’t try to force relationship milestones before your partner is ready, that is, if you want things to go the way you’d like them to, Carrie.

“Games People Play”
At Miranda’s suggestion, Carrie agrees to go to therapy to talk through her break up with Big, but not before getting in a few offensive digs at Miranda’s expense. When she finally does go, she doesn’t get much out of it after feeling insulted by her therapist’s analysis of her taste in men. Just when she’s about to swear off therapy, Carrie meets a cute boy in the waiting room, played by Jon Bon Jovi. So she keeps going for sessions with the mental health professional, but only to see this guy. When things don’t work out between the two of them, Carrie immediately stops going to see Dr. G. At least in the end, she finally admits that she goes after the wrong guys… although you’d think that would’ve been a reason for her to continue getting help.

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Carrie Bradshaw is a bad friend, period. Throughout the series, we see Carrie acting incredibly selfishly towards her friends and failing to show up for them countless times. When Miranda, fresh out of the shower, throws out her neck and calls Carrie for help, what does she do? Send her saint of a boyfriend Aidan to help out her friend because she has a meeting to go to. Later in the series, Samantha accompanies the aerophobic Carrie on a harrowing cross-country train journey to San Francisco. However, just when Samantha has a moment to relax in their hotel room, Carrie kicks her out to make room for Big. It’s unbelievable that Carrie was ever able to keep a group of such good friends after being such a bad one herself.

“The Post-It Always Sticks Twice”
The way Berger broke up with Carrie via post-it note was inconsiderate, yes, but Carrie handled the break-up in the most obnoxious way possible. Right off the bat, she squashes any further conversation about Charlotte’s exciting engagement news to announce her break-up to her friends, and it only gets worse from there. Carrie continues to use the post-it as ammo to guilt her friends into going to a club with her, she throws it in Berger’s friends faces to make him look bad, and even uses the post-it as a literal get out of jail free card. We get it Carrie, he was insensitive, but she was planning on breaking things off with him anyways! She had no reason to act so over the top because a guy she didn’t want to be with broke up with her.

“Ring a Ding Ding”
When Aidan and Carrie break up, Aiden gives her the option to buy her apartment from him so she can continue living there. But Carrie has no money to her name because she’s spent it all on shoes. Unable to secure a loan, she turns to Big and her friends for help, all of whom offer her loans - except for Charlotte. To get where Charlotte is coming from, remember that at this point in the series she’s still recovering from her split with Trey, and clearly Carrie has demonstrated that she won’t be able to pay back any loan she receives. Still, Carrie confronts Charlotte and asks why she didn’t offer her a loan, essentially wearing Charlotte down until she offers her engagement ring from Trey for Carrie’s down payment. Carrie doesn’t deserve you, Charlotte!

“Boy Girl Boy Girl”
This plotline is one that definitely wouldn’t fly today. When Carrie finds out her latest boyfriend is bisexual, she totally freaks out. She laments about the news to her friends and continuously makes offensive jokes about bisexuality, even questioning its existence in the first place. It’s a total dealbreaker for Carrie, who ends things with him shortly after. Carrie doesn’t appear to develop at all in this belief either, because in the next season we hear similar dated comments about sexuality from her after Samantha begins a relationship with a woman. (xref) It’s plotlines like these that make us miss the 90s a lot less.

“Belles of the Balls”
In a relationship full of selfish moments on Carrie’s part, this was close to her worst offense. During a romantic getaway to Aidan’s country cabin, Carrie gets a call from Big, who’s distraught over his girlfriend breaking up with him. For some reason, Carrie thinks it’s a good idea to invite Big to the cabin, even though Aidan has made it very clear their friendship bothers him. Aidan is as patient as he possibly can be in this incredibly uncomfortable situation, but it inevitably ends with the two men wrestling in the mud and Carrie having to break them up. No one is having a good time in this episode, least of all the audience.

“Easy Come, Easy Go”
We’ve reached not only the worst thing Carrie did to Aidan, but also probably the worst thing she did - period. Carrie’s dating Aidan, Big is married to Natasha, yet when their paths cross at a furniture show and Big starts to weasel his way back into her life, Carrie gives in and sleeps with him. The two start an affair behind their partners’ backs, though they’re eventually found out, of course. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Carrie’s guilt drives her to force an apology onto Natasha, who clearly wants nothing to do with Carrie. It’s by far the messiest storyline in the whole series, and we still can’t believe Aidan forgave her after everything she put him through.



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