Posts tagged: “The Carrie Diaries”

View the gallery In which Dorrit washes all that stuff off her pretty face, two out of three Bradshaws have sex, the most interesting character (Walt) gets sidelined with only one episode to go (sigh), and Larissa gets about three lines before all the requisite jokes behind her back about

View the gallery The ratings have not been kind to this show, which is too bad, because despite its issues -- which this week include some unappealingly glib treatment of women's sexual liberation --I'd love to see it come back next season and really ramp things up.

View the gallery What I've wanted to happen with this show is finally happening: The Carrie Bradshaw hook, despite winking references here and there, has stopped mattering because the characters are starting to work in their own rights. (And, I can't say it enough, AnnaSophia Robb

View the gallery Remember how nice George seemed? Well, don't get too attached.

View the gallery Thanksgiving at the Bradshaw house reveals more things about the show that I don't believe, but DOES include a scene about giblets that pretty much mirrors how I still treat them. Which is, with GREAT DISTASTE.

View the gallery I know we said we'd be off today, but I have to stay ahead of the new episodes, right? Even if it's only by a few hours. This one had a mostly predictable Carrie plot that did at least end up someplace I

View the gallery In which we're treated to the obligatory "Prince Charles and Princess Diana are FOR REAL!" jokes. Props to AnnaSophia Robb for making it through an entire episode in her Lady Di wig, and looking more credible in it than Naomi Watts has in

View the gallery The major plotlines this week involved... a hamster, and a vagina. Not together. But still. It will be nice when this show finds its footing a bit better; there's something lovely about how innocent it is that the main conflicts involve upsetting your dad or

View the gallery The first one after the pilot is always tough. There is still real warmth and potential here, and the soundtrack is of course nostalgic and great, but it's weird when Carrie's handbag is more of a character than her sister. And it REALLY

View the gallery There's a lot to like about this show -- AnnaSophia Robb is very natural, and looks fantastic with her Carrie Bradshaw hair; her friends are all good; the clothing is aptly hilarious in parts and nicely restrained at others; and Austin Butler, who is this decade&