"Here's to us without men," says Carrie at the start of the episode. The girls, who all find themselves single at the same time, are enjoying themselves at a Salsa club. One more drink turns into a few ...The next morning Carrie has to be photographed for New York Magazine's editorial titled "Single and Fabulous. While going to buy cigarettes, Carrie sees the cover of the magazine which was spinned without her knowledge. An awful photo of her hungover is splashed on the cover reading "Single and Fabulous?" The girls become upset with the obvious fact that they are all single, and begin to whether if they are really fabulous.
While taking a "power walk", the girls bump into a past fling of Miranda's. She admits that they broke up after Miranda, the most honest of the characters, faked orgasms while having sex with him. She begins sleeping (and faking) with him again after the "Single and Fabulous?" fiasco. Samantha meets with William, the Salsa club owner, even though she had initially rejected him because it was just a girl's night. Charlotte begins to become attracted to her friend Tom rather suspiciously after he says he's moving out of town. The women are all extremely effected by the perspectives of outsiders (and the media) and let their fear of being alone momentarily get the best of them. Carrie poses the question in her column, "Is it better to fake it, then be alone?" The episode includes the fear of being alone as thematic parallelism between the four characters.
Carrie stays in hiding while the magazine is on the news stands. When the man at the news stand looks at Carrie with pity, she decided to come out of hiding and that she should not be ashamed of being alone. She meets a new guy and is about to sleep with him but realizes she would only be with him to validate her life. Carrie goes out for a meal with no armour, no man, no friends just to prove to herself she can be content with being alone.
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