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Get Ready To Meet 16-Yr-Old Carrie Bradshaw This Fall
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Jen Chung
Published May 14, 2012
Modified May 14, 2012
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OMG, Shoshanna Shapiro, are you ready for this? The CW has picked up—TV industry speak for "agreed to order"—The Carrie Diaries, the glamorous teen years of everyone's favorite Sex and The City character who writes for a living and invests all her money in designer shoes. America deserves role models like this and now there's a description of the show!
It’s 1984, and life isn’t easy for 16-year-old Carrie Bradshaw. Since their mother passed away, Carrie’s younger sister Dorritt is more rebellious than ever, and their father Tom is overwhelmed with the responsibility of suddenly having to care for two teenage girls on his own. Carrie’s friends - sweet, geeky Mouse, sarcastic and self-assured Maggie and sensitive Walt - make life bearable, but a suburban life in Connecticut isn’t doing much to take her mind off her troubles. And even though the arrival of a sexy new transfer student named Sebastian brings some excitement to Carrie’s world, she is struggling to move on from her grief.
So when Tom offers Carrie the chance to intern at a law firm in Manhattan, she leaps at the chance. Carrie’s eyes are opened wide at the glamour and grit of New York City—and when she meets Larissa, the style editor for Interview magazine, she’s inspired by the club culture and unique individuals that make up Larissa’s world. Carrie’s friends and family may have a big place in her heart, but she’s fallen in love for the first time with the most important man in her life - Manhattan.
Connecticut! An Asian (Mouse, who was "Roberta Castelis" in the book is being played by Ellen Wong)! Punny log line "She’s fallen in love for the first time with the most important man in her life - Manhattan."
The young Carrie is played by AnnaSophia Robb, who told US she got an encouraging letter from Sarah Jessica Parker. She added, "I know everyone's going to compare it to Sex and the City, but we're never going to be that. The show is more for my generation, but it's set in the '80s, so it's fun." Yeah, the 1980s are totally for Generation Z.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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