Season 1, Episode 10

The Baby Shower

5.7/ 10August 9, 199822 min

The four women attend a baby shower for their one-time wild-child friend Laney in her new buttoned-down Connecticut-suburb environs. Carrie is forced to think about motherhood by her late period. Miranda regards the other guests as part of the cult of The Motherhood. Still-single Charlotte fears her dreams of being a wife and mother are slipping away. Samantha throws a "no-baby shower" in response to the one the four women attended.

Directed by
Susan Seidelman
Written by
Terri Minsky, Nicole Avril, Sue Kolinsky

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