When did Sex and the City jump the shark?

I haven't watched it since back in the day, but I remember getting sick of it when Samantha's sluttiness became cartoonish. In an early season they showed her getting rejected sometimes, by the late seasons it seemed like every hot young thing was dying to sleep with a 50-something woman.

After Sarah got jealous that Kim was getting more attention

When SJP stopped being the DUFF (designated ugly funny friend) and started being the femme fatale starlet all the hot men were fighting over.

When Big started cheating on his wife with Carrie. SJP started out looking cute but by the third season she had started to look like a 53-year-old toothless hooker who had been servicing johns for 48 hours straight, hadn't showered in a week and was offering $2 blowjobs in return for booze and crack.

I believe it was about 15 seconds into the opening credits.

[Quote] It started to turn in Season 3, Episode 5 when she dates that Aidan guy who doesn’t like smoking, so she quits. Watching it now, you just know the PC Police were pushing that agenda.

Um that’s a pretty typical NY story

R1, not only that, but in the earlier episodes Samantha would date the men she was sleeping with. Her sexuality was more of refusing to be shamed for having and enjoying sex, in the same way stereotypically thought of as "like a man".

By the later seasons she came across as someone suffering from hyper-sexuality who could potentially need some help. It's a wonder she got anything else done.

On a recent rewatch of seasons 3 and 4, it seems to me that season 4 was when it really jumped the shark. Everything was much more cutesy and all about fashion and Carrie trying to convince us she wrote about love, not sex.