Twenty-five years ago, HBO introduced four great friends flirting in an iconic city. Sex and the City It ran for six seasons from 1998 to 2004, making Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) audience’s best friends and fashion inspirations. brought.
“The whole journey Sex and the City one surprise after another,” Davis told PEOPLE in 2016. “We never thought we would really be a hit. We didn’t think we’d win an Emmy, we didn’t think we could make a movie, let’s drop another movie.”
The show went on to build a sequel, And Just So…The second season will air on Max on June 22. But for the 25th anniversary of the original show’s premiere, we’re breaking down the numbers that were built. Sex and the City.
94
Sex and the City episodes over six seasons
$100,000
How much did HBO pay Candace Bushnell to select the real-life “Sex and the City” newspaper columns?
92
HBO/Everett
Total number of questions Carrie asked in her columns
7
Vince Bucci/Getty
Emmys the show has won (out of 54 nominations)
0
nude scenes that Parker accepted during the show, whose contract prohibits nudity
15
HBO/Everett
The age at which Charlotte began searching for Mr. Right
4 dollars
How much is Carrie paid per word to write? demand
26
HBO/Everett
Longest-running relationship by episode count between Charlotte and Trey (Kyle Maclachlan)
4
HBO/Everett
the number of ingredients in the ladies’ favorite cocktail, the Cosmopolitan — vodka, cranberry juice, lime juice, and Cointreau —
2
HBO/Everett
The number of great loves that Charlotte thinks come into each person’s life
30
magnolia oven
Seconds of Magnolia Bakery appearing in a season 3 episode – after that, the bakery started selling $40,000 a week of cupcakes and in 2007 it launched the Carrie cupcake (pictured)
$2,500
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The cost of the chair that Aiden (John Corbett) sold Carrie in season 3
$40,000
Estimated amount Carrie spent on shoes up until season 4
2,560
HBO
Carrie and Samantha traveled to San Francisco by train in season 5.
5
HBO/Everett
Episodes in season 5, which wrapped up early as Parker was pregnant with her son (and first child) James
485 dollars
HBO/Everett
The cost of Manolo Blahnik shoes that Carrie registered after hers was stolen at a baby shower in season 6
74
Number of episodes Carrie and Charlotte spend dating, most of the four women
$80,000
HBO/Everett
The cost of Carrie’s most expensive outfit, the Atelier Versace dress she wore in the 2004 two-part finale
10.6 million
HBO/Everett
Estimated number of people watching the series finale