TV Rewind | The Carrie Diaries: The Sex and the City prequel that attempted and failed
4 min read Earlier this week, we heard about And Just Like That, one other sequel within the Sex and The City (SATC) universe that we didn’t know we would have liked. SATC had a full life with six seasons and two films, and the lesser-known prequel sequence, The Carrie Diaries.
Starring AnnaSophia Robb within the lead function of Carrie Bradshaw, which was famously performed by Sarah Jessica Parker within the HBO sequence, The Carrie Diaries lasted for 2 seasons (2013-2014) and left the viewers and critics fairly confused. While The Carrie Diaries was a candy present independently, it had completely no reference to the world of SATC. In my opinion, the present would have completed significantly better if that they had simply eliminated all of the SATC references.
With And Just Like That including itself into the SATC universe, that is the fitting time to replicate on The Carrie Diaries.
What is The Carrie Diaries all about?
The Carrie Diaries units itself up because the prequel to Sex and the City and tries to disclose ‘What made Carrie the way she is’, however in a PG vogue. Here, we see Carrie residing a easy suburban life together with her father and sister because the household is coping with the tragic lack of the matriarch. There’s a powerful Mean Girls kind-of monitor occurring at her faculty, a boy who is sort of a junior Mr Big and the obsession with New York and vogue remains to be in its preliminary levels.
Carrie is a 16-year-old woman who remains to be discovering her love for vogue however is aware of that she needs to be a author. Her good friend group is kind of numerous, however by some means, it feels just like the present is simply making an attempt to overcompensate for the intense Caucasian-ness of the HBO sequence. Even her household life feels fairly manufactured because the spin-off simply throws out all of the backstory that we learnt in SATC.
The Carrie Diaries’ try at inclusivity felt half-hearted. (Photo: The CW)
The characters on The Carrie Diaries
The central character, performed by AnnaSophia Robb, was completely solid but it surely was the writing of the character that made the sequence fairly alien for the loyalists. While making a spin-off, it’s anticipated that the present shall be in comparison with its unique, however on this case, the 2 have been set in several worlds altogether. One lived a not-so-censored life on HBO within the 90s, whereas the opposite was residing a protected teenage life on The CW (recognized for Gossip Girl) within the mid-2010s. So even the viewers who had as soon as recognized with Carrie and her gang was left dumbfounded after they noticed this vanilla model.
Carrie’s sister Dorrit, performed by Stefania LaVie Owen, is a jaded 14-year-old in her makeup-wearing goth section and her father Tom, performed by Matt Letscher, is making an attempt to regulate two youngsters whereas nonetheless reeling in grief. In all honesty, this whole home-life monitor for Carrie felt prefer it may have been every other teen present, and the identical is true for her faculty monitor as properly. Carrie is proven to have a bunch of greatest associates who simply exist to tick-off cliches from an inventory.
The Carrie Diaries tries to kick into the following gear because the protagonist involves New York to start out an internship at a regulation agency, which she quits for a job at a vogue journal. Here, we meet the present’s most fascinating character Larissa, performed by Freema Agyeman, who introduces Carrie to the world of events and vogue. In every other present, we’d have gone gaga over her, however right here, she seems to be a lite-version of Samantha, and that doesn’t match proper in a present the place we expect a young-Samantha to pop in any second.
What didn’t work for The Carries Diaries?
The Carrie Diaries’ worst enemy was its legacy. The present was burdened with the success of SATC and the movies that adopted. The present was based mostly on writer Candace Bushnell’s e-book of the identical identify. Candance’s e-book Sex and The City was the supply materials for the HBO sequence, however all of that background didn’t assist The Carrie Diaries in taking off.
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While the present was making an attempt to relate the backstory of Carrie, it by no means felt true to the character as we had already seen her in her 30s and 40s. Carrie had a famously flawed character, however her teenage-version was simply one other teen residing within the Nineteen Eighties.
