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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As it turns out Larissa, the kleptomaniac, has stolen an entire outfit and wants Carrie to meet her that evening, so Carrie can meet Larissa’s friends.  Larissa will meet Carrie at 7 at Indochine.  BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SCHOOL DANCE!?!?!?  Whatever will Carrie choose????

Back at the Law Office, Carrie immediately gets on the phone to call Mouse- she’s really taking this whole “no personal calls” thing seriously.  

F*CK!!! Why hasn’t the cellphone been invented yet?!?!?!

Mouse informs Carrie that Sebastian called Mouse to get Carrie’s number so he could ask her to the dance.  The dance is THAT night.  Nice job waiting until the last possible second, Sebastian.  Not to mention that no man has ever used a phone book, much less called some friend of a girl (who he doesn’t even know) to get some other girls phone number!!    Men, simply aren’t that resourceful.   More likely:  “I didn’t have your phone number.”

LOOK! Mouse talking on a Mouse!

Mouse has given Carrie’s phone number to Sebastian.  Carrie calls home to check the machine- trying to intercept the message.  But The Dorrit, that little scamp, has taken the phone off the hook and is seen sneaking out of the house.

Crabby McCrabberson brings Carrie a poofy pink dress and says “This came for you.  I see you could buy a dress but not stockings.”  That’s way harsh, Crabby.  

This came for you…I think it’s from Ducky Dale

Carrie looks at the note- the dress is from Klepto Larissa:

 

Carrie tells Crabby that the dress is from her father- and it’s for a school dance.  Crabby says “It looks like a dress that singer would wear- the one that takes the Lord’s name in vain!!”  Hahaha, good one Crabby, you should see her now.  Crabby explains that she has to go pick up her rotten kids so Carrie is going to have to take a cab to the train station.  Convenient, plot point.

Isn’t that convEEEEEnient??

Carrie takes a cab alright… but not to the train station.  

Catching a cab to my future…

Instead Carrie heads to Indochine to meet the Klepto.

Total Awesomeness here I come!!

At Indochine, Larissa introduces Carrie to “everyone” including most of the cast of Growing Pains.  

These are my buddies, Mike Seaver and Boner

No more yankie my wankie… 

Carrie can’t help but notice, they are all artists and this is such a stark contrast to her life.  Duh.  They are also, like, 15 years older than you.

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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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