Earlier this week, we heard about And Just Like That, another sequel in the Sex and The City (SATC) universe that we didn’t know we needed. SATC had a full life with six seasons and two films, and the lesser known prequel series, The Carrie Diaries.
Starring AnnaSophia Robb in the lead role of Carrie Bradshaw, best played by Sarah Jessica Parker in the HBO series, The Carrie Diaries lasted for two seasons (2013-2014) and left the audience and critics very upset. While the Carrie Diaries was an independent sweet show, it had nothing to do with the SATC world. In my opinion, the display would have been made much better if they had removed all the SATC references.
With And Just So Adding itself to the SATC universe, this is the right time to reflect on Carrie ‘s Diary.
What are the Carrie Diaries about?
The Carrie Diaries establish themselves as the prelude to Sex and the City and try to tell ‘What Carrie did the way she is’, but in PG fashion. Here, we see Carrie living a simple suburban life with her father and sister as the family deals with the matriarch’s terrible loss. Such a strong Mean Girls path is going on in her school, a boy who resembles a young Mr. Big and the obsession with New York and fashion is still at an early stage.
Carrie is a 16-year-old girl who is still discovering her love for fashion but knows she wants to be a writer. His group of friends is quite diverse, but somehow he feels that the show is just trying to do too much for the true Caucasian-ness of the HBO series. Even her family’s life feels very busy as the spin-off just throws out the backgrounds we learned in SATC.
Carrie Diaries ’attempt at inclusion felt half-hearted. (Image: The CW)
The characters on The Carrie Diaries
The main character, played by AnnaSophia Robb, was perfectly cast but it was the writing of the character that made the series very alien to the loyalists. While making another product, the show is expected to be compared to its original one, but in this case, the two were set in a completely different world. One was living a less censored life on HBO in the 90s, and the other was living the life of a protected teenager on the CW (famous for Gossip Girl) in the mid-2010s. So even the audience that had once connected with Carrie and her gang was left speechless when they saw this vanilla version.
Carrie’s sister, Dorrit, is played by 14-year-old Stefania LaVie Owen in her goth stage and her father Tom, played by Matt Letscher, tries to take control of two teenagers while they still reel in gloom. In all honesty, this whole home life track for Carrie felt like it could be any other teen show, and the same is true for her school track as well. . Carrie is shown to have a handful of best friends who are just there to remove clicks from a list.
The Carrie Diaries will try to kick into the next gear while the keynote speaker comes to New York to start an internship at a law firm, which she retires for a job at a fashion magazine. Here, we meet Larissa’s most intriguing character, played by Freema Agyeman, who introduces Carrie to the world of parties and fashion. In any other show, we would have gone overboard with it, but here, it seems to be a lite version of Samantha, and that doesn’t fit right in a show where we’re expect young Samantha to pop in a second. .
What didn’t work for the Carries Diaries?
Carrie Diaries’ worst enemy was the enemy. The show was burdened by the success of SATC and the films that followed. The show was based on the book by author Candace Bushnell of the same name. The book Candance Sex and The City was the original material for the HBO series, but all that background didn’t help the Carrie Diaries take off.
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While the show tried to narrate Carrie ‘s backing, it was never true to the character as we have already seen her in her 30s and 40s. Carrie had a famous personality, but her teenage version was just like another teenager living in the 1980s.