> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fug the Show: The Carrie Diaries, episode 2-9 and 2-10 recaps - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-the-carrie-diaries-episodes-2-9-and-2-10/ - Published: 2014-01-19T02:00:19.000Z - Updated: 2014-02-17T02:25:59.000Z - Author: Heather - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:37 ## The Coat Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0028-1024x576.xml) At least this show isn't pretending that climates aren't a thing. Instead, Carrie gets a ton of coats. This one appears to be disastrous with whatever she has on under it, but I do at least believe a sixteen-year old girl would wear it anyway. Let's focus instead on how she's rebounded from losing the "Carrie" purse with a whole stable of new ones. Do you think Dadshaw wonders where this is all coming from? Dadshaw seems like the kind of dude who would notice his kid never wears anything twice. ## The Corded Phone Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0043-1024x576.xml) Carrie, looking cute in this more business-y ensemble, is trying to coordinate on the phone with Sebastian. They keep missing each other, because he's in Laguna and she's in Connecticut. I'm sure she couldn't help but wonder something profound about what this might mean. ## The Payphone Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0045-1024x576.xml) At school, she finally gets him. But she spent so much time trying to manage the Cosby explosion happening on her body that she forgot to pack enough change for the conversation to last more than a minute. Kids today don't understand. Actually, they might, if their parents buy them a set number of minutes. A quarter can't save you if you burn though THOSE. Victory for the oldies! ## The Donna Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0129-1024x576.xml) Donna La Donna continues to be awesome. Here, she is in the worst, most appropriate Canadian tuxedo, watching Dorrit as she flirts with a total doucheface bad boy stud. Dorrit's shirt, which you can't see, says REBEL. Which feels too obvious for an actual rebel, but then again, I guess we've already established that Dorrit is only half-hearted at this whole thing. ## The Engagement Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0193-1024x576.xml) Larissa and Harlan are engaged, and she's wearing a rock on her hand that would make Henry VIII's fingers look delicate. I have an important question, though: Wasn't the whole point of saying Carrie got a new hairdo, in the premiere, that they could make her hair look better if they wanted to? Did they decide it was too much work to use her actual hair, or do they just not WANT her to look that good? Because that's either Wig back on the job, or somebody gave a note that Carrie's hair needs to look like a hot mess occasionally. Anyway, Larissa and Harlan make Dadshaw spend the weekend mediating their pre-nip, which is hilariously easy -- right down to all their oddball demands -- until Harlan talks about them moving in together, when Larissa balks, blah blah blah she doesn't want to lose herself, Dadshaw fixes it, it takes all weekend, it conveniently keeps him out of the house. ## The Innocent Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0278-1024x576.xml) Not that these two angels would EVER have a house party. Also, I love Carrie's sweater. ## The New Boy Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0683-1024x576.xml) This is the friend of Dorrit's douche-crush, and suffice to say he's darling and normal and totally into her and they're going to end up together. But first she has to sniff around after the asshat and try him on and figure out that her head is the wrong size for him. ## The Sweater Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0894-1024x576.xml) I ALSO like this sweater. Carrie, on the other hand, is not happy: Dorrit's house party ruined her stolen weekend with Sebastian, and worse, he claims he's moving back and Carrie has decided this is entirely because of her and that she's too young to handle that kind of pressure. AND their neighbor shows up to bust the party, and eats a pot brownie and becomes fun. So she's got a lot happening in her house right now, and per usual, she's unable to enjoy any of it because she's so angsty. ## The Mama Kydd Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0960-1024x576.xml) Mama Kydd shows up and doesn't even care about the raging party, because she just wants to tell Sebastian that he has to go back to Laguna because she doesn't want him to live with her and her tennis pro. Sebastian doesn't WANT to go back because, it turns out, his father pulled his old inattentive antics, and not simply because he wants to lose himself in Wig every night. So apparently they only had him move there because they had a midseason break and wanted a cliffhanger. Fair enough. I feel like that first writers' meeting back was like, "Ugh, why did we do that? BORING. Get him back to New York." ## The Snuggle Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_1280-1024x576.xml) Donna and Mouse bonded at the party over beer pong. It seems Mouse is bored now that she's accepted to Harvard and doesn't have to overachieve anymore, and Donna is bored because she's dated everyone in town. So they got hyper-competitive at beer pong and passed out with each other. I really wish this would end in a torrid lesbian affair between the two of them, but unfortunately, I think it's just platonic -- although it DOES mean there is now one more person in town who doesn't mind having Donna around, so maybe we'll see more of her now. A girl can dream. I don't even care if they have a reason to put her in scenes and can't think of any lines; I just need her around to give us some reaction shots. Just put her everywhere. Cut her into scenes about Dadshaw and Harlan talking about the law. It will change everything for the better. ## The Parrot Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_1379-1024x576.xml) The happy ending: Dadshaw doesn't find out about the party, Carrie doesn't have a clingy boyfriend Dorrit isn't going to date a douche, and the parrots on Carrie's sweater are not secretly dead and nailed to the perch. I wish there were more cause to marry Monty Python with Carrie Bradshaw. ## The Apartment Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_1416-1024x576.xml) Larissa is getting a sweet new pad in Harlan's building, to be her escape valve, so Sebastian moves into her old place, and Carrie looks like a pack of highlighters. Don't sniff her, Sebastian. You'll get so dizzy. ## The Blazer Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_1451-1024x576.xml) And then somehow Carrie finishes the episode in a hideous, shapeless green blazer that seems more appropriate to the time period, and yet, is something she would never have removed from her mother's closet, much less paid for it at a store. But at least the hair department is finally having fun giving her some crazy frontal volume. It's about time. ## The Skater Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2454-1024x577.xml) Next up: Sebastian has redecorated with a bunch of skate memorabilia. It seems he met a dude in California named Tony who is a real up-and-comer in the skateboard world -- and it's Tony Hawk, obviously -- and Sebastian got the idea for personal, artsy boards and skater gear. Carrie's job is to advance the requisite "skateboarding will never catch on and this Tony Eagle dude is clearly a fly-by-night" viewpoint that is the hallmark of when this show's comedy gets lazy. It's really gotten fond of that har-har stuff lately, but it comes off so clumsy. ## The Future Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2457-1024x577.xml) Mouse's hideous pink blazer is really excited that Maggie got into Central Connecticut State University, or some such, but Maggie feels like it's a loser school for losers who will lose at everything. Even losing. She makes no mention of having already lost a Fallopian tube, because why carry any subplots over from episode to episode? Emotions are dull. ## The Army Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2458-1024x577.xml) Donna La Donna is the best AGAIN. It's Army Recruitment Day at their school, and so of course she dresses up like the kind of Private Benjamin who earns benjamins with her privates (okay, not really -- it's just a tight dress -- but I couldn't resist the hackitude of that joke) and walks around bending over in front of the soldiers, who seem quite delighted at this. One of them lures in Maggie with talk about how you can travel and figure out what you want to do, AND get free schooling, and she's totally stoked and enlists on the spot. ## The Interview Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2461-1024x577.xml) Larissa is trying to finish off an issue of Interview, I think, and Samantha is just hanging out. They still needle each other, but I guess the healing power of each other's vaginas made their relationship less contentious. Do you think Carrie ever asked them why they suddenly stopped hating each other? Can we all stop acting like that never happened? Anyway, NOW it is decided that everyone except Carrie will be spending Valentine's Day at a gay bar named "Boy" that has a huge leather bash with drag queens. Walt is a little freaked out because he just wanted a quietly romantic night, but Bennett talks him into it. ## The Argument Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2466-1024x577.xml) Sebastian cancels dinner with Carrie because he wants to romance Tony Hawk on Valentine's Day, and convince him that their skater clothes and gear will change the world. Carrie is hurt and angry, and while it IS irritating that he canceled their plans to do this, she also gets resentful about how much he's talking about skateboarding in a way that's totally unfair given how she's CONSTANTLY talking to him about her problems and even made him take her to a party he didn't want to go to, just so she could find the Bongo Jeans guy and do an interview. Carrie is not very good at sitting back and being unselfish for a while. ## The Hair Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2467-1024x577.xml) Carrie also gets herself into another terrible hairdo. Poor Wig. Will it ever win? It's Ziggy. Wiggy. ## The Drama Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2479-1024x577.xml) And THEN, while in a cocktail dress that belongs on someone at least a decade older, Carrie overhears Sebastian tell Tony Hawk that he could totally move back and start this business in Laguna if he has to, and so she freaks out and starts dissing skateboarding -- she will regret that one day when she turns on Yo Gabba Gabba and there is Tony Hawk telling children that skateboarding is super easy and forcing parents to explain to their twin boys that THEY CANNOT HAVE SKATEBOARDS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY WILL BREAK THEIR FACES -- and then trips and falls on one, and bruises her coccyx. For all the trouble of folding that word into the episode, there are surprisingly NO hilarious coccyx jokes, especially at the gay bar. Maybe there were, and The CW cut them all out, because they don't think teenagers need coccyx puns. But doesn't EVERYONE? ## The Cleavage Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2482-1024x577.xml) When Mouse learns Maggie joined the Army, she points out all the reasons this is not suited to her, like: early wake ups, short hair, and it being the Army and Maggie being Maggie. Maggie comes from a whole family of law enforcement professionals. I don't believe for a second she'd be so wide-eyed and drippy about what the Army entails. But, she freaks, so Mouse hatches a plan wherein Donna and her breasts help sneak them onto the base, and then they find the officer who took Maggie's paperwork and convince him to shred it. Mouse is way too smart for such a dumb plan. And Donna didn't even unzip her corset to try and flirt with the gate guard. That zipper never got to fulfill its true purpose. ## The Movie Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2488-1024x577.xml) These two are going to hook up. But they are just friends right now; Dadshaw gets to know the kid and realizes he's awesome, and a lot like Dadshaw. And during an awesome conversation with Walt, who remains the greatest ever, Dadshaw realizes that if he wants to scare away a loser he can just pretend to like him. And here, Dadshaw realizes it will work the other way. So he gets to work telling Dorrit that this poor adorable lad is DANGEROUS and THE WORST KIND OF BOY and so Dorrit immediately wants to jump him. ## The Godiva Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2489-1024x577.xml) Samantha's new job is to be Lady Godiva, on a horse, at this bar. Larissa is terribly jealous because all the hot gay boys are paying more attention to Samantha than to her, which leads to her ripping off Samantha's wig. This does not go as well as it did on Melrose Place. It merely makes Samantha totally naked, which the boys adore, and gets Larissa kicked out by the bouncer. Score one for Miss Jones. ## The Officer Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2491-1024x577.xml) Once on base, the girls are totally busted, because their plan is terrible. But Maggie gets a date out of it with this guy, who is cuter than he looks in this picture -- he's kind of a cross between Harry and Wills, actually -- so that's nice for her. AND she can just write a letter to get out of her Army enlistment. Mouse will probably have to make her DO that, because that sounds a lot like homework, but still. ## The Sad Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2492-1024x577.xml) So, Walt doesn't really like this club, because he's not ready to plunge into the gay community and all the activism and self-identity and whatnot that it represents. He IS only 17 or 18\. And THEN they find out at this party that Bennett's ex is dying of AIDS, and it's too much for Walt. He can't even really console Bennett because he's freaking out that he needs to take a test, and ends up wanting to distance himself from the whole thing, so he runs away. Poor Walt. He's always running away from people, and his gayness, outside bars. I wish this hadn't been quite so shoehorned into this episode, because it's a great storyline -- this idea that this kid from Connecticut is struggling with being gay, and only now is adjusting to what that means and the fact that there's a community he's part of now, and whether he's ready for that. And you know I will follow Walt to the ends of the Earth, so I just want more MORE. But AIDS is a heavy storyline for a teen show so I'm also not surprised they didn't go further with it. ## The Weepy Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2494-1024x577.xml) Sebastian finds Carrie crying, and assures her he's not moving to Laguna, and they hug it out and then she sniffles about Walt. POOR WALT. And poor Bennett. I hope somewhere, somebody is sniffling for Bennett. ## The Lonely Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2495-1024x577.xml) Carrie finds Walt on her couch, and hugs him while he cries. This got heavy. Walt absorbs everything Bennett has said about what they can't have -- the white picket fence, and the kids, and marriage, and whatnot -- and why it's important to celebrate as a community and embrace what they DO have. And he realizes that he still wants all those things, and isn't ready to be gay if being gay means giving all that up. It's actually a very human reaction and a wonderful snapshot of how different it was, and how far we've come. So poor Walt tells Bennett he loves him -- they both, by the way, passed their blood tests -- and then backs back into the closet and slams the door. Ugh, it's so sad for both of them. But I think probably quite realistic. Walt's easy acceptance of being out did feel very rosy and temporary, and for a guy like Walt who always wants to believe the best in things, you knew the other shoe was going to drop. I complain about the way the show handles some things, but i think, as you know, that Walt is its greatest asset and its most unsung one. ## The Forgiveness Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2497-1024x577.xml) And Carrie learns what a McTwist is, so she and Sebastian are fine now. And mercifully, she did NOT say, "Just as long as nobody ever tries skateboarding on SNOW, because THAT will never happen." Sigh. Thank God it was (I think) too early for anyone to be talking about some lady named Mrs. White who just had a baby named Shaun. ## The Triumph Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2500-1024x577.xml) And Dadshaw celebrates that his reverse psychology ended up getting Dorrit on a date with her adorable suitor. I love you, Dadshaw. Man, Dadshaw and Walt... the way they've written him with Walt has been wonderful. I want the two of them to have their own show. ## The Drinking Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2502-1024x577.xml) And poor Bennett goes back to Boy and drowns his sorrows. I'm very nervous this is going to end in some sex and disease, but hopefully Carrie Diaries won't do that to Bennett with only two or three episodes left and probably no season three. He doesn't even NOTICE that Samantha and Larissa have now joined forces and are BOTH naked be-wigged Lady Godivas. ## The Sniffle Diaries ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cdimg_2503-1024x577.xml) And then Walt calls his mother and begs to come home. DON'T GO WALT. YOU BELONG TO DADSHAW NOW. [Fug the Show: The Carrie Diaries, episode 2-9 and 2-10 recapsUgh, awards season and travel got me behind -- there was another new one last night that isn't covered here. Has anyone discovered human cloning yet? HOWEVER: Amid all the clothes, the show very bravely tackles the spectre of AIDS in the '80s, and while it's not super expansively done (how can it be, on a teen soap on The CW?), I think it's fantastic that they didn't just pretend that wasn't happening. Besides, Walt is the greatest, and also so emotionally complicated, so anything they give him to do works no matter what it is.![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the_carrie_diaries_s02e09_720p_kissthemgoodbye_net_0028-1024x576.xml)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-the-carrie-diaries-episodes-2-9-and-2-10-01-2014/)