The Carrie Diaries
2013
Original language: English
- drama
- comedy
The story
Before she was a fashion icon, before her column in the New York Star, before Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw was an innocent 16-year-old girl living in suburban Connecticut.
What it’s like
Bright, saturated 1980s palette: pastel prom dresses, hot-pink and turquoise bedrooms, big teased hair, and a Manhattan that shifts between sunlit Upper East Side brownstones and gritty, neon-tinged street corners. The camera moves with easy, handheld energy, often cutting to Carrie's voiceover and sketchbook-style inserts, and the sound leans on synth-pop and new wave hits that bounce under the dialogue. Its vibe is bubbly and wistful, a kind of nostalgic optimism with a little teenage ache underneath. It suits a lazy weekend afternoon, a comfort rewatch, or a playlist-on-the-couch evening. The pacing is brisk, with episodes built around crushes, school politics, first jobs, and friendships that wobble and mend, while Carrie slowly grows from a dreamy, earnest girl into someone who trusts her own voice. Intensity is low: some teen drinking, sexual talk and kissing, and emotional family conflict, but no real violence or gore. It is for viewers who want a glossy, romantic coming-of-age story with fashion, New York texture, and warm humour.
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