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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Cut to the next scene- Carrie spies Sebastian sitting alone on a bench.  Carrie sits next to him.  They talk briefly, and Sebastian thinks it’s cool Carrie has been through stuff.  He tells her that his mom ran off with the Tennis Instructor- jeez that’s so 80’s!  Carrie replies “no one is better off without a Mom.”

Carrie has a flashback of sitting on the edge of the pool at the “swim club,” where she and Sebastian are talking about different video games and their various attributes.  Sebastian leans in to kiss Carrie and she pushes him into the pool.  

Back-off, Spicoli

Soon enough they are kissing passionately… in the pool.  It is Carrie’s first kiss.  She’s 16 years old and cute as a button.  This is her first kiss.  Sheesh, what is she Amish?  Crap I better not say THAT too loud with Merlin and Levi lurking around…

So they make out and then Sebastian tells her he won’t see her at the pool anymore, as they are installing a pool at his house.  SNAP.  Carrie knows she’ll never see him again.

Back to the now, she is about to ask Sebastian out when she sees her Dad… in school!  OMIGOD  The last time her dad was in school it was to tell her that her mother was dying. Naturally, she faints.  

Woe is me…

Upon waking, her dad wants to take her home, and she’s all like “You should have warned me you were coming!!!”   Dad was in school to talk to Carrie’s guidance counselor.  He thinks Carrie could use a change of scenery.  He has, magically, secured her an internship at a law firm in Manhattan.  It would be one day per week, naturally for course credit.  Carrie thinks the idea is totally tubular.

Ok, this is where this show has gone off the rails a little.  What High School JUNIOR gets an internship at a law firm in NYC, sight unseen, and it doesn’t seem like the Dad works there.  And don’t say people from Connecticut because I grew up and live in Connecticut and it doesn’t happen.  I’m sorry, it just doesn’t!!!

Back to the Chronicles of The Dorrit… Carrie comes in and DEMANDS her mother’s purse.  She needs it for her internship.  Dorrit, of course, ignores her.  She’s listening to J Giels Band on her Walkman, oh wait, no, that’s me.  The Dorrit is probably listening to The Dead Kennedys.  Carrie, again, looks around The Dorrit’s room and notices something strange with The Dorrit’s giant Teddy Bear- as most goth teens have Teddy Bears with false bottoms.  Sure enough, the purse is inside of Ted.  Carrie pulls it out and finds it covered in Nail Polish.  Carrie is pissed, and Dorrit is all “it was an accident!!! Plus you got EVERYTHING!!”  Carrie thinks about it.  She DID get two extra years with her mom.  Dorrit continues to tell Carrie that she “can’t boss me around” and she’s “such a goodie goodie!”

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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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