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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The next morning, The Dorrit comes through the door. Carrie really lays into her. The Dorrit is all like “You aren’t MOM!!” Carrie yells at her that she doesn’t want to have to worry about The Dorrit, she just wants to be The Dorrit’s sister! Carrie storms off to her room.

Dad goes to Carrie’s room to talk her off the ledge. Dad says “I saw a lot of our Mom in you today.” Mom was tough, and she wanted her girls to be the same way, she wanted them to be accountable and to become good people. Dad realized he needs to take on that role now and he needs to finally admit she is gone. So… his first tough move? He grounds Carrie for two weeks. That’s totally bogus.

The next day, Mouse comes over. She thinks Seth is breaking up with her because he hasn’t called in two days. She called him a bunch of times. Carrie says “Oh Mouse. How many times?” Mouse admits- too many. Mouse wonders how he could have sex with her and then treat her like this? Hello, Mouse? It’s the life of a teenage slut- get with the program.

In a voice over Carrie says “Love is something we wait for. We imagine our first kiss, our first love, our first sex, but we never imagine our our first heartbreak. The pain of love truly changes us.”

Later that day, Dad brings Carrie and The Dorrit into Mom’s closet. Dad hands the Mom’s green sundress to Carrie. Carrie thinks The Dorrit should have it.

Besides, that dress is SO 1982

Together, the three of them clean out Mom’s closet, erasing all evidence of her existence.

Continuing the voiceover, Carrie reflects on her friends and what they have lost, and says “Loss of love makes us who we are. Loss of love, loss of a parent, loss of virginity, loss of who you think you might be, the loss of innocence.”  

Loss of Love

Loss of who you think you might be…

Oh, and apparently Maggs is doing the tube-steak boogie with a Cop.  

I was a teenage Samantha…

Carrie goes to the swim club. She looks up and Sebastian is there. He jumps in the pool and he and Carrie splash around and play, somewhat, innocently. All the while, “The Jens” watch them saying “Donna is going to be pissed.” Oh crap. 

Just wait until The Heathers find out…

Continuing to clean out Mom’s closet, Carrie finds some blank journals. Her Mom used to keep a journal and always had some spare books. Carrie sets up her desk in front of the window, just like SATC, pulls her hair into a ponytail, just like SATC, and she starts to write, just like SATC.

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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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