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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Carrie decides to make the purse her own by going Jackson Pollack on it with a bunch of bottle of nail polish. Dooney and/or Burke is rolling over in their respective graves and I’m sure Jackson Pollack ain’t thrilled with being a part of this monstrosity either.

When bad things happen to good leather

The next day Carrie is ready to go into Manhattan.  Like Manhattan, her mom’s purse had seen better days, but Carrie wouldn’t change it for the world.

Carrie’s dad drops her off at the law office and confirms that Carrie will take the train home at 6pm, and will then go to the school dance, but will definitely be home by curfew.

This is the beginning of her “Manhattan Love Story.”  

I’ve never seen a skyscraper before…

Carrie looks around and up at the TALL buildings, like a hillbilly tourist from the holler, and some random dude runs into her, knocking her down., causing a run in her stocking.

Once inside the law office, Carrie’s no-nonsense boss, Crabby McCrabberson, shows Carrie to her post…in the basement.  Carrie will be filing old case files.  Crabby McCrabberson instructs her that there are to be NO PERSONAL CALLS, and suggests she use her ½ hour lunch hour to get some new stockings at “Century 21.”  (For those that don’t know- Century 21 is a Department Store in lower Manhattan, very near the World Trade Center site.  It has a mishmash of designer clothing at discounted prices.)

The Mothership

At lunch, Carrie goes to Century 21 and is in AWE.  At Century 21, you can walk in one person and walk out another.  Carrie spies a cocktail dress when a random lady comes up and grabs Carrie’s purse.  

Don’t jack my bag, bitch!

Carrie is about to throw down with this chick because she thinks her purse is being stolen.  “Oh no!  I don’t want to steal it, I want to shoot it!!”  The random lady, named Larissa, is a stylist for Interview Magazine and absolutely loves Carrie’s nail polish damaged purse!!

You Connecticut white girls are so clueless

Carrie is dumbfounded!  Larrissa is, like, totally awesome!  Of course, 3 seconds later Carrie is the a dressing room with Larissa, a total stranger, while she tries on lingerie.  Totally probable.  Larissa wants Carrie to help her because Carrie has such amazing style.  All of this BS has taken WAY more than Carrie’s 30 minute lunch!  As Carrie leaves the store, the alarm goes off.  The guard checks Carrie’s bag, and sees she has paid for her stockings and lets her go.

Gurrrrrrrl, I just, totally, stole this outfit and was ready to let you take the fall.  Wanna be my new BFF????

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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.

  6. 6
    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.

  7. 7
    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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