The Carrie Diaries Recap: UpChuck and Di

The Carrie Diaries

By MisRed | Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | 10:40 pm | 5 Comments
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Oh look Halloween in February!!  I guess this really illustrates that this show was supposed to be on in the fall and got pushed back to January.

At school, Carrie is trying to avoid Sebastian, but he is everywhere she goes- that’s the scary thing about High School, it’s so small you can’t avoid anyone and you are trapped there for 8 hours per day. Carrie, some ex-boyfriends are like herpes. They just keep coming back… Walt pokes his head out of the closet and tells her that right now it’s hard, but it will get better.

Sebastian calls Carrie over – he is having a Halloween party, but he is not inviting Carrie- who has other plans anyway- but she still thinks it is weird that Sebastian didn’t invite her. Sebastian counters that he thought it might be awkward. He is, after all, renting out a whole diner and inviting EVERYONE… well except Carrie and her friends.

Girl Talk

At the diner, the girls are having a chat. Walt says he feels bad for Sebastian because Carrie snooped and found out information about Sebastian boning his teacher and then told people. Yeah, I mean why would Sebastian be mad about that?? Mags, for one, is happy Carrie has other plans for Halloween!! Carrie will be attending a party in Manhattan, at Larissa’s, with Walt.

Carrie is excited, not only is she going to a party, but she, for the first time, doesn’t have to watch The Dorrit. She and Walt are dressed like Prince Charles and Diana at their wedding. And Walt is dressed as the groom… under duress.

Their love is about as authentic as Chuck & Di’s

Carrie’s Dad is going to stay home to give out candy. The Dorrit proclaims “Halloween is stupid, I’ll be in my room.” She stomps upstairs. Carrie advises Dad that she recognizes the look on The Dorrit’s face and she is definitely going to sneak out and he should check the closets for contraband.

Foiled again

Cut to Dad finding a duffle bag that could have belonged to the Unibomber- filled with mischievous Halloween items- silly string, eggs, shaving cream, a switchblade, anthrax, napalm, toilet paper. Oh, and he also tells The Dorrit he has removed the ladder form beneath her window. Touché.

Carrie and Walt arrive at Larissa’s party- it’s a REAL downtown NY party.

The sea of extras from Eyes Wide Shut part to reveal… Princess Charming

Carrie immediately spies a cute boy- his name is Bennett Wilcox and he is a columnist for Interview magazine. She asks where Larissa is- and on cue, Larissa is carried in on a litter. 

This is how I roll…

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5 Comments

  1. 1
    ellemenop
    Posted February 6, 2013 at 5:20 am

    man, carrie is such an annoying sister. she’s like my sister, except i’m older. she always ratted on me for everyone and it made me want to shove her out a window. why does carrie care that dorrit wants to go tp houses? i remember when my youngest sister (aka NOT the rat) was about 15, my mom asked her if she would be tp’ing any houses on halloween, and my sister said no, to which my mom responded, “why not? loser!”

    i wonder if walt will EVER come out before the show gets cancelled. i think it’s cute, and i’m not even a fan of all things ’80s, as i don’t remember the ’80s at all (i was 5 in 1990, so for good reason), but if anything, i almost feel like sex and the city fans must not like it as much due to all the alleged inconsistencies? i have no idea because i refused to watch sex and the city, mostly because it seemed annoying and all the annoying girls i didn’t like watched it. i also never watched 90210 (i think i was definitely too young for that one, since it started when i was watching the disney channel and pbs cartoons), so i’m also not aware of the rip-offs while i watch. i wonder if it’s because they’re lazy, or because they’re actually expecting teenagers to watch this? to me, it seems like it would be more aimed at people who grew up in the ’80s. i mean, i would watch a show about high school in the late ’90s for sure.

    i love your recaps, so for the sake of continuing to read them, i hope they don’t can this show just yet.

  2. 2
    labowner
    Posted February 6, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    They should have never aired this piece of crap. My gawd a grown woman living in NYC only has a 16 year old for a friend to take care of her at her own party? Please

    I do love your recaps MisRed.

    Dorrit is a stoner extraordinaire. Why hasn’t Carrie ratted her out about that? I had a lot of crap on my sister growing up, no way would she ever narc on me to my parents like that.

  3. 3
    TurtleGirl93 TurtleGirl93
    Posted February 6, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    I think the expectations were too high for this show. It would be hard to follow in SatC’s footsteps, just as it would be hard if NBC tried to make a “Friends” spin-off about Ross, Monica and Rachel in high school.
    SatC the tv show had very little relationship to SatC the book. Candace Bushnell did a great job in retconning the Carrie Bradshaw character in the Diaries books and introducing Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte slowly. The writers of this series are trying to stick with CB’s books and maintain a cohesiveness with the tv show. Not an easy job IMO. I’m still mad that the Bradshaws live in Connecticutt and not the midwest. I kept picturing young Sarah Jessica Parker as Rusty from “Footloose” when I read the first book. :)

    I’m just going to say that I disliked Freyma Aygeman(sp?) since she appeared on Doctor Who. It does not surprise me that Martha Jones is a shoplifting druggie. JK

  4. 4
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted February 10, 2013 at 7:36 pm

    This show is super silly. One week Carrie’s dad is like, “I don’t know if I can trust you.” And the next week, he’s all, “Have fun at that Halloween party in New York City!”

    But I love it.

  5. 5
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted February 10, 2013 at 7:37 pm

    Also, I think 16 year-old Carrie is a much better friend than 30/40 year-old Carrie. I wonder what happened to make her so self-involved . . .

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