The Carrie Diaries Recap: Kleptmaniacs, Curfews and The Dorrit

The Carrie Diaries

By MisRed | Tuesday, January 15, 2013 | 8:33 pm | 7 Comments
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Obviously, the creators of this show have stolen my ipod.

MisRed is baaaaaaaaaack.  When I was assigned the Carrie Diaries, I was a little afraid.  I, as a 43 year old woman, had just weaned myself off of 90210 (the new version), deeming myself too old to follow a teenager show.  Trust me, I’m completely immature, but I’m making an effort to act my age.  Or at least act HALF my age. Then I got the Carrie Diaries and I was like… Oh no.  Here we go again!!

But being a fan of SATC, I figured it might be nice to revisit Carrie Bradshaw.

Where is a mud-splashing bus when you need one?

Episode one opens with Modern English singing “I melt with you.”  Okay, they had me at “Moving forward…”  We see a young Carrie Bradshaw walking down the street, looking around, she gets bumped- just like the opening of SATC!!  It’s a dream.  Young Carrie is dreaming the opening of SATC when her alarm goes off. 

Yeah!!! My favorite decade, the 80′s!!!!

It’s 1984, Carrie is starting her junior year of High School in Castlebury, Connecticut.  Carrie’s mother has passed away a few months earlier, and this will be Carrie’s first First Day of School without her Mom.  As Carrie starts to get ready, she looks for her Mom’s purse.  It is one of Carrie’s most prized possessions and she can’t find it.  That Louise chick probably put it up on Bag, Borrow or Steal.  Oh wait, that’s the SATC Movie.  Sorry… I’m old and getting confused.

Carrie storms into her little sister’s room.  The little sister’s name is Dorrit and she is a little goth rebel.  

Introducing: The Dorrit

WTF kind of name is Dorrit???  No wonder she’s a rebel.  Carrie looks around Dorrit’s room- trying to find the purse.  She doesn’t find the purse, but she finds some pot in The Dorrit’s top drawer.  Seriously, Dorrit?!  That’s the first place they look.  Can I get an ounce of creativity?
Carrie and Dorrit fight about the purse, The Dorrit bites Carrie and then their Dad comes in and breaks them up.  (Didn’t Carrie’s Dad abandon Carrie’s mom when Carrie was small?  That’s what SJP said.  But I guess we really couldn’t have this be “Little Orphan Carrie.” Plus, we probably wouldn’t have The orrit to kick around.)

Anyway, Dad breaks up the fight and scolds Carrie.  She is the older one and her Mother would expect she and The Dorrit to get along.  That’s nice Dad, throw the dead Mom in her face.  As if she probably doesn’t feel crappy enough about it.  Carrie complains she can’t go to school without the purse.  She has nothing to wear- her father replies “Your floor says otherwise.”  (Nice one- clean up that room, Carrie!!)  Carrie’s Mom always took her back to school shopping and she always had a first day of school outfit.  Carrie desperately needs that purse.  She needs a piece of her Mom.

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7 Comments

  1. 1
    ellemenop
    Posted January 16, 2013 at 8:20 am

    i never watched sex and the city because the concept annoyed me, but i watched this for some reason. nice advertising job with century 21 there — i live a few blocks away and damned if i didn’t have an itch to go buy some off-price designer brands. slick.

    i’m with you on this “dorrit” name — wtf?! is dorritos also a sponsor?

  2. 2
    ellemenop
    Posted January 16, 2013 at 8:25 am

    oh, and the hotdog being pushed into the keyhole? i would imagine that would be MUCH more painful for the hotdog than the keyhole.

  3. 3
    labowner
    Posted January 16, 2013 at 9:56 am

    Why isn’t SJP doing the voice over? The girls voice annoys me to no end.

    Was Carrie interested in law ever? Oh and no law firm would let her wear that god awful shiny silver dress into their offices.

  4. 4
    crankymom
    Posted January 16, 2013 at 11:06 am

    The name Dorrit comes from a Charles Dickens novel… But it’s a last name. Definitely a weird choice here.

  5. 5
    Clair Clair
    Posted January 16, 2013 at 1:46 pm

    Thanks for recapping this show (which I probably won’t watch). Yes, Carrie said her dad left when she was young. I think it was on the episode where she starts working for Vogue. I was thinking maaaaybe he came back when the mom died but after reading the entire recap, it seems he was there all along. Apparently the writers went to the Desperate Housewives School of Continuity.

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    TurtleGirl93 TurtleGirl93
    Posted January 16, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    Okay, I’ve actually read Candace Bushnell’s books that this series is based on (yes, I even read the original SatC which inspired that show). TCD is trying to stay true(ish) to the books in that Carrie’s mom did die before the book began, but in the first book, Carrie was totally a Midwesterner and a senior in high school. I think this show is going to try to mesh the book-universe with the TV-universe. So far the characters seem pretty true to their literary counterparts, minus the cornfields and such.

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    MisRed MisRed
    Posted January 16, 2013 at 3:43 pm

    Thanks for the comments, guys! And thanks for the good insight. I think The Carrie Diaries were written after SATC so maybe Candace Bushnell wanted to give Carrie more of a fleshed out background. Although Carrie in SATC certainly seemed to have some Daddy issues, but maybe that was convenient for the direction of the series, and obviously, SATC nor The Carrie Diaries are not a page by page recreation of the books.

    Thanks Crankymom for the info on the possible origin of “Dorrit.” Although I’m glad Dickens wasn’t the inspiration for both Bradshaw daughters, otherwise we might be reading “The Chuzzlewit Diaries.” Clearly I should have spent more time reading the classics and less time hanging with those groovy Bradys!!!

    At any rate, thanks for reading and thanks for taking the time to comment.

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