Cast & Filmmakers Season Index Awards & Nominations Featurette DVD Technical Information: Language: English, German, French, Spanish Dolby 3.0 Surround; Italian Dolby mono Subtitles: English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish  Much like the novels of Fanny Burney or Jane Austen 200 years before, Sex and the City tackles that perennial female conundrum, how to maintain independence from men (intellectual, sexual, financial) while seeking the ideal life-partner for whom that much-cherished independence can safely be sacrificed. So it is that Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha prowl relentlessly the canyons of Manhattan in search of mates, all of whom fall woefully short of their needs in one crucial way or another. Yet, with biological clocks ticking and suppressed nesting instincts fighting back, the foursome occasionally find themselves dangerously close to despair. The dating game can be deadly serious sometimes. Which is why Sex and the City is not just good TV, it's great TV: for all its refreshingly cynical wit and superficial vivaciousness, the show has at its heart a streak of pathos and painful truth that resonates deeply with its audience. In the show's second season, the scrutiny falls more on the women than their succession of useless dates. Carrie has to learn the painful truth about Big all over again; Miranda has panic attacks about being alone for the rest of her life; Sam is humiliated by the ladies who lunch into confessing that she's a whore; and Charlotte is reduced to trading kinky foot massages for free shoes. Savage love, indeed. On the DVD: Sex and the City, Season 2 has all 18 episodes on three discs. Frustratingly, the menus have no "Play All" facility so you can't just sit back and enjoy--each episode requires navigation from the main menu to an episode list to a redundant preview screen before the play selection is offered. There are mini trailers for each episode and a short (eight-minute) promo featurette. The picture is a little fuzzy in places, doubtless the result of transfer from NTSC format, but is still an improvement over the first season. --Mark Walker From the Back Cover The girls are back in town ... And once again in a second sexily sophisticated series of the hit TV comedy, columnist Carrie Bradshaw and her buddies indulge in a celebration of sass, sensuality and sisterhood. Contains the following 18 Episodes: Take Me Out To The Ballgame The Awful Truth The Freak Show They Shoot Single People Don't They? Four Women And A Funeral The Cheating Curve The Chicken Dance The Man, The Myth, The Viagra Old Dogs, New Dicks The Caste System Evolution La Douleur Exquise! Games People Play The F*** Buddy Shortcomings Was It Good For You Twenty Something Girls Vs Thirty Something Women Ex And The City