The Carrie Diaries Recap: The Dorrit is going to need some weed for this…

10 Comments

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   TurtleGirl93
   Posted January 23, 2013 at 10:43 am

   Thanks for the recap–it’s better than the show!

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   labowner
   Posted January 23, 2013 at 11:02 am

   Turtle – I saw the recap and said “shit I forgot to watch”, but then remembered I did.

   This version of Carrie is way too mature for the version I saw in SATC.

   MisRed do we dare ask what one did to be grounded for so long or did it feel that long? Thanks for the recap.

   Who thought that we would care to see Carrie growing up? I would rather watch Samantha or a show about of all of them growing up. Just Carrie is too boring.

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   Clair
   Posted January 23, 2013 at 1:25 pm

   @labowner – a show of the four of them growing up would have been awesome.

   I tried to watch the show – caught a snippet of the first episode. Twas quite lame.

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   Gypsy
   Posted January 23, 2013 at 1:54 pm

   Is this real life?

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   TurtleGirl93
   Posted January 23, 2013 at 2:07 pm

   @Labowner, Bwahahahaha!

   I’m also curious about the grounding of MisRed. My father tried to ground me for a semester after one of his buddies caught me drinking at a country club dance, but Daddy couldn’t withstand The Power of My Tears(TM) and I successfully cried (and possibly hyperventilated) my way out of it.

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   MisRed
   Posted January 23, 2013 at 2:55 pm

   That grounding record may be *somewhat* exaggerated. Although, I assure you, it FELT like that long. And honestly if you string together all of my groundings, it probably was that long.

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   ellemenop
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 5:21 am

   does “seth glassman” make anyone else think of the brady bunch, when jan makes up her boyfriend, “george, george tropicana … i mean … george … glass”?!

   i find larissa really annoying. also, why is she chasing around this random kid? it doesn’t make any sense. even assuming she doesn’t know carrie is some high school kid, why would she be so desperate to hang out with this random person just because she thinks she has a cool purse? am i the only one who finds this storyline really weird???

   actually, i think a show about dorrit WOULD be much more interesting. when can they make THAT spinoff? i, too, vote for the dorrit diaries.

   misred, now i, too, want to know what you did to become such an impressive (even if exaggerated) title holder. my parents never grounded me. they just took away my internet privileges, but that’s because i had no friends.

   now, on this “you can’t date sebastian because i know about him and his family” thing, c’mon, dad, it’s not fair to not at least explain WHY you refuse to let your daughter date him. if my dad had told me that in high school with no actual explanation (although it would have been about my imaginary boyfriend), i would have had no issue going behind his back. at least englighten her (us)!

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   MisRed
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 6:04 am

   @Ellemenop Firstly, I was a teenager LONG before the internet was something to be used as a parental weapon. haha, but trust me, I’m sure if I had been a teen in the internet age, I would have had my ussage stopped regularly.

   The time period of this show is exactly when I was a teenager. AND I lived in Connecticut. And my mother was in the process of dying. I AM CARRIE BRADSHAW… not. And there were multiple Donna LaDonnas in my High School, one of which terrified me, but is one of my good friends now, ironically.

   Some stunts that got me grounded: missing curfew, lying about where I was, going to a forbidden movie theater (in a dangerous part of a nearby town) repeatedly, missing curfew, underage drinking, sneaking into a swim club, going out with someone my parents didn’t like, not being as perfect as my sister, bad grades, missing curfew, fighting with my Mom, getting annoyed by my Grandma for being mean to my mom, missing curfew, throwing a phone at my sister, missing curfew, wanting to hang out with my friends too much after my best friend was killed in a car accident, scarcasm, back-chat, missing curfew, rolling my eyes and getting thrown out of Chemistry class with my friend Patrick, missing curfew.

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   RTVfan
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 6:18 am

   I’m still not sure about this show. I’ll give it a few more episodes, but I’m having a hard time watching because I keep comparing teenaged Carrie to SJP Carrie. For now it’s a mindless little high school show and harmless enough.

   Misred we must be the same age because this show is my teenage era also. Which makes it fun to watch. I do have one particular fashion issue…it seems these kids are wearing skinny jeans and that was not the style in the 80′s. Straight leg jeans, yes, but no way skinny jeans, there’s a big difference actually. And misred we had parallel groundings and I believe I can challenge your title for longest! I was grounded for many of your reasons, especially missing curfew, and add to that much underage partying. Biggest offender was always missing curfew + stumbling in drunk. Oh, and many incidents of sneaking out late at night. I was grounded straight through sophomore year into junior year. I finally declared my grounding over spring break of junior year by moving out, because I saw no end in sight.

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    labowner
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    As I am listening to the Plimsouls – Million Miles Away – one of the only reasons I will continue to watch is for the music. Never know when you will hear one of those gems you forgot existed. Waiting for the brooding Morrisey to make his debut.