One (14 Sep. 2003)

When Carrie follows Charlotte to a performance by a woman in Chelsea who speaks nor eats, she meets there famous painter and sculptor Aleksandr Petrovsky, who is interested by her cavalier ... See full summary »

Director:

David Frankel

Writers:

Darren Star (creator), Michael Patrick King,

Stars:

Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Sarah Jessica Parker	...	Carrie Bradshaw
Kim Cattrall	...	Samantha Jones
Kristin Davis	...	Charlotte York
Cynthia Nixon	...	Miranda Hobbes
David Eigenberg	...	Steve Brady
Evan Handler	...	Harry Goldenblatt
Mikhail Baryshnikov	...	Aleksandr Petrovsky
Jason Lewis	...	Jerry 'Smith' Jerrod
Lynn Cohen	...	Magda
Eleni Fuaixis	...	Debbie
Anne Meara	...	Mary Brady
Blair Underwood	...	Dr. Robert Leeds
Beth Lapides	...	Performance Artist
Andrew Stewart-Jones	...	Jules
Vicky Cunningham	...	Mimi (as Victoria Valero)

Storyline

When Carrie follows Charlotte to a performance by a woman in Chelsea who speaks nor eats, she meets there famous painter and sculptor Aleksandr Petrovsky, who is interested by her cavalier attitude. Samantha, who bravely announces she gets glasses and is 45, tells he was the hottest dater in Studio 54, and tries to rejuvenate herself by an intimate hair-coloring after finding gray down there, which proves disastrous. Charlotte has the biggest news: she's just got pregnant, but later gets a miscarriage and a depression- till she finds inspiration in a TV documentary on Liz Taylor. After Robert declared his love on a cookie, Miranda gives Brady's first birthday party, breaks her promise to Carrie not to have a ('scary') clown and finds herself declaring her love to daddy Steve, who reciprocates.

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Plot Keywords:

merkin wig | fake female frontal nudity | self narration

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 September 2003 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

At Brady's birthday party, Samantha is wearing pantyhose. Yet when she lifts up her dress in the bathroom she is bare-legged.

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Quotes

Carrie: I have a bit of an art question. As you know, Alexander...
Aleksandr Petrovsky: Aleksandr.
Carrie: Oh.
Aleksandr Petrovsky: Aleksandr.
Carrie: Alexander.
Aleksandr Petrovsky: Say "Alek".
Carrie: Alek.
Aleksandr Petrovsky: Aleksandr.
Carrie: Alexander.
Aleksandr Petrovsky: Call me Bob.

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Soundtracks

"D.N.A."
(uncredited)
Written by Steve Cobby and David McSherry
Performed by Fila Brazillia
Courtesy of Twentythree Records Ltd

User Reviews

The dreaded Russian

I know some people are going to dislike this opinion, but of all the boyfriend's Carrie has had during the show's run, (and there's been some stinkers!!) I think the Russian artist was the absolute worst. Did Mikhail badly need a job? There was absolutely no chemistry with this man, so why did the writers or whomever is responsible for him coming on the scene make this happen to her? Totally useless story line, but I guess it helped Carrie see that Big was the guy for her.

For me the last season was partially the worse of the lot for Carrie's personal life, plus Chris Noth had lost some of what had made him so attractively handsome in the first place...just my opinion, speaking in the physical sense only. Still a great show, though. I could watch some of the reruns for days....