When I got home that night, I couldn't get Charlotte's words out of my head. We spent our childhoods playing games. Were they all just primers for the games we played as adults? Were relationships just a big chess match: strategy moves, countermoves...all designed to keep your opponent off balance until you win? Was there such a thing as an honest relationship? Or was it true? Do you have to play games to make a relationship work?
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— Carrie
"Games People Play" is the thirteenth episode of the second season of Sex and the City, which aired on August 29, 1999.
Carrie starts going to therapy after obsessing about Big for too long. Miranda flashes her across the shaft neighbor. Charlotte joins a bridge club to meet a "nice boy". Samantha dates a sports fanatic whose mood depends on who won the game that night.
• Pilot • Lie with Me • Read Before Use • Fright Night • Dangerous Territory • Endgame • Caught • Hush Hush • The Great Unknown • The Long and Winding Road Not Taken • Identity Crisis • A First Time for Everything • Kiss Yesterday Goodbye •
• Win Some, Lose Some • Express Yourself • Strings Attached • Borderline • Too Close for Comfort • The Safety Dance • I Heard a Rumor • The Second Time Around • Under Pressure • Date Expectations • Hungry Like the Wolf • This Is the Time • Run to You •