The Carrie Diaries : Season 1 Finale & Recap

Like the The Walking Dead, another favorite series of mine ended last week. Ended it's first season to be exact, I'm not quite sure if I enjoyed the final episode that much though ~mainly because: 1. most of the characters were all in trouble and unhappy 2. lots of  unresolved issues and 3. too many cliffhangers -for a season  finale. But on the other hand, it was a good sign that the second season is possible~yay! I'm talking about The Carrie Diaries here guys. If you're following me on facebook, twitter and here on my blog you probably know how much I'm in-love with Sebastian Kydd and how much I'm obsess with little Carrie Bradshaw's fashion and outfits (who doesn't anyways?). Well, I am a self-proclaimed GG (Gossip Girl) and SATC (Sex and the City) addict so its a no brainer that I'm a huge fan of TCD. Ok, it's mostly because, they have one thing in common that I really, really like~their fab and famous signature style! And besides, it is the best show (for me)  on the CW's now that Gossip Girl's gone~I mean, come'on guys, bringing back the fun memories, songs, dance craze and colorful outfits from the 80's really fascinating. Also, beyond the story itself, the characters and the morals make the show more interesting especially for someone their age, the 'teens' (and even not, that includes me). That coming of age, puberty blues, identity crisis, sex and everything in between were fairly discussed in the show and given all those stuff that people of all ages (except the little ones of course) can relate to (cause obviously, we've all been through with that phase of life) make The Carrie Diaries worth watching. And so, with all that being said, the second season has to be granted~must be granted!

Anyway guys, the main purpose of this post is actually the recap (sorry for the long introduction). So like what I usually do~I'll give you the run down on The Carrie Diaries first season. Here you go!

According to Wiki:

  

The Carrie Diaries is an American teen drama television series on The CW. It is a prequel to the HBO television series Sex and the City and based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell. The first season of the show focuses on Carrie Bradshaw during her junior year of high school in 1984, and she explores life in New York while interning at a law office. On May 11, 2012, the pilot was picked up by The CW to series and premiered on January 14, 2013.

Season 1 Episodes List:

"Pilot"

Castlebury, Connecticut, 1984. Carrie Bradshaw comes back to her junior year of high school after her mother's death and meets her best friends Jill 'Mouse' Chen, Maggie and Walt Reynolds. During her time back in school, Carrie is showing her feelings to Sebastian Kydd, a new senior and transfer student who was kicked out of his former school. Carrie's father, Tom, informs her that she can have an after-school, once-a-week internship at a law firm in New York City which she relishes as a stepping stone to her quest to leave her small town behind. During her first day in New York, Carrie meets Larissa Loughlin, an editor at Interview magazine. Maggie and Walt are having a hard time as Walt thinks he's gay, while at the same time, Maggie is cheating on him with a cop, one of her father's employees. Mouse is trying to call her crush (whom she had sex with during the summer) but is left all alone in tears. 

 

"Lie with Me"

Carrie and her sister, Dorrit are finally getting along after their mother's death. Larissa asked Carrie to do a photo-shoot of her bag (that she got from her mother). Meanwhile, Walt is breaking up with Maggie as he once again struggles with his sexual orientation. Carrie finally gets closer with Sebastian as the two finally kiss in the pool, but Carrie's sister Dorrit tells their dad about the two and he comes in to take Carrie home. Tom then tries to protect Carrie by telling her that she should not be dating Sebastian any more.

"Read Before Use"

As Carrie tries to convince her dad to let her go out on a date with Sebastian, she finds out he represented Sebastian when he got kicked out of his old school. She snoops though her dad's legal files, and discovers that he had an affair with one of his teachers, which she tells her friends about. Which causes her to doubt her feelings after she and Sebastian share a kiss. Meanwhile, Maggie tries to get over the fact that she and Walt are not getting back together by throwing away all the mementos from their relationship. Mouse finally goes on a date with her boyfriend, Seth and he finally reveals his feelings for her. When Carrie informs Sebastian that she knows about him and his affair with his former teacher, he decides that they should not see each other anymore.

"Fright Night"

Carrie is invited to a Halloween party in the city by Larissa, she decides to invite Walt to go with her to keep her company. Carrie is also forced to babysit Larissa, who has clearly taken too many drugs. Walt finds himself in an uncomfortable position after a male party guest kisses him. Elsewhere, Maggie convinces Mouse to go with her to Sebastian's Halloween party at the diner to help keep tabs on him. Mouse and Sebastian end up bonding and smoking marijuana, but almost get in trouble when the cop Maggie's been seeing shows up at the party. After Dorrit's attempt to sneak out of the house is thwarted, she discovers hanging out with her father isn't so bad. Walt, in an act of confusion about his sexuality, loses his virginity to Maggie.

"Dangerous Territory"

Carrie runs into an old friend, named George Silver (Richard Kohnke), at her internship and gets invited to his mother’s dinner soiree in Manhattan, but her lingering feelings for Sebastian get in her way, until she see him with another girl... whom happens to be her arch-rival Donna. Mouse is excited about getting back together with Seth, but her worries about being bad at sex drive her to ask Walt for help. In order to hang on to a favorite booth at the diner, Maggie takes on the cynical and vain Donna LaDonna and her friends. Elsewhere, Tom loses his wedding ring, which makes him realize that Harlan might be right about starting to date again. 

"Endgame"    

On Thanksgiving, Carrie gets in way over her head when she tries to cook the perfect dinner for her family, as well as make a positive impression on her new boyfriend George and his father Harlan when they show up at the house. Overwhelmed by the cooking, Carrie enlists Mouse to help her set and prepare the turkey. With Tom oblivious to the chaos going on in the kitchen, the misanthropic Dorrit finds a new way to emotionally torture Carrie. Meanwhile, Maggie is excited to have Thanksgiving dinner with Walt’s family, but when the topic of college comes up she realizes that she hasn’t put much thought into her future. Elsewhere, Sebastian learns that his neglectful and divorced mother has decided to fly out of town with her much younger boyfriend, leaving him to fend for himself on Thanksgiving with nothing but a bottle of Wild Turkey whiskey. 

"Caught"  

Carrie continues to be torn between her new-found romantic feelings for George and her lingering feelings for Sebastian whom is still dating Donna. When Larissa (still unaware that Carrie is a 16-year-old high school junior) offers her a job working at Interview magazine, Carrie must make a decision that will satisfy her own interests. Later, Carrie accompanies George to her school's Winter Wonderland themed dance where she tries to make Sebastian jealous by dancing and flaunting her new-found romance with her new beau. Meanwhile, Mouse feels that her romance with Seth is interfering with her school grades when she gets her very first 'B' on a term paper in which she asks her teacher to take on an extra credit work to gain an 'A', but she cannot meet the deadline in order to accompany Seth to the Winter Wonderland dance. Maggie is forced to attend the dance solo with Walt being sick, which leads her to seek company with her secret lover Deputy Simon Byrnes. When Donna catches Maggie with Simon, she blackmails Maggie by forcing her to be her spy against Carrie. Elsewhere, Tom accompanies Dorrit to a local production of The Nutcracker in a further attempt to bond with her despite his lack of interest in the arts.

"Hush Hush"     

When she receives an invitation by Larissa to a hip party in New York City, Carrie decides to take advantage of her school's annual senior-junior shut-in to sneak out to the city to have some fun. After Sebastian ends with Donna, he seeks Mouse's advice to help him seek out Carrie to tell her about what he really feels. Meanwhile, Maggie refuses to cave into Donna's blackmail and decides to tell Walt about her unfaithfulness before he learns it from Donna, but she keeps chickening out on telling him. Elsewhere, Tom accompanies Harlan on a double date in the city with their respective dates and everything comes to a head when Tom and Carrie finally run into each other at the club which brings Carrie's secret world crashing down.

"The Great Unknown" 

With Carrie forbidden from going to New York City ever again, she is told to look after Dorrit for the evening. When Dorrit goes missing, Carrie seeks out (as well as lashes out at) Sebastian, the one person who can help her find Dorrit before their father comes home. Meanwhile, the overachieving Mouse butts heads with West (guest star R.J. Brown), a popular jock who took her spot as number one student in the class. Donna now focuses her sights on Walt to dig her venomous claws into him as her latest boy-toy, but Walt ends up surprising himself by refusing her advances and ends up confiding in Donna about his confused sexual interests. Elsewhere, Tom finds himself in uncharted territory when it comes to women and turns to Larissa for advice.

"The Long and Winding Road Not Taken"

As Carrie's 17th birthday draws near, she is torn between spending the day with her friends (and a possible chance to lose her viginity with Sebastian) or an opportunity to mingle with New York's literati at a party with Larissa. Meanwhile, Mouse's continuing conflict with West brings out an uncharactistic vindictive side to her as she sets out to try to impress a visiting Harvard alumnus in order to land a scholarship that West also wants. Donna attempts to bully Carrie into giving her a stylish new purse that Interview magazine advertises. Maggie attempts to romanticaly get back together with Walt who accepts her apology for being unfaithful, but refuses claiming that he just wants to be friends where Maggie misinterprets it as a sign that Walt does not love her anymore. Carrie decides to attend Larissa's party but after Sebastian drops out, she takes Walt along with her instead. Carrie sees Walt interacting and becoming more friendly with Bennett (the guy who kissed Walt on Halloween), but keeps it to herself. Dorrit goes to a video store to buy a record for Carrie's birthday. She is caught shoplifting cassets. The teenage store clerk lets her off with a warning. An angered Dorrit leaves without taking her record. In the evening, their father catches her trying to pass off one of their mothers records as a gift. He forces her to go back to the record store to get a gift. At the record store she and the clerk chat, and Dorrit gets her first kiss. With Carrie, Sebastian crashes the party and gets drunk in which Carrie is forced to drive him home in order to avoid causing a scene and she finally gets to see the mansion where Sebastian lives and sees first-hand his unhappy home life when Carrie gets to meet his vain and selfish mother.

"Identity Crisis"    

It is Spring Break and Carrie uses the entire week to work at Interview to please Larissa and secure her summer job at the magazine with pay. She answers Larissa's phone and takes a message to pick up a package for Andy Warhol. Two hours pass and Larissa still hasn't returned so Carrie places matters into her own hands so she won't lose her job in Manhattan. Mouse is doing her best to be a productive manager for the basketball team, but accidentally causes a fight between two of the players. Carrie pretends to be Larissa and is almost attacked by the deliverer of the package's girlfriend, whom Larissa is sleeping with. Sebastian and Maggie see Carrie's dad making out with a woman he met at a yoga class. Walt, Bennet and Carrie go to deliver the package to Andy, and find he is in an underground secret club that changes location every week Mouse hatches an Idea from Donna to get herself fired and be the common enemy of the basketball players for them to make up and stop the fight. West says he will miss Mouse and she realized that they are not just academic enemies after all. Carrie gave the package that contained Andy Warhol's wig to his assistant and was praised for getting the package really early. Sebastian and Maggie agree not to tell Carrie about what they saw and Mr. Bradshaw realizes that he is ready to date.

"A First Time for Everything"

When Carrie inadvertently complicates things with Sebastian, she tries to fix it by taking him to Madonna’s “The Virgin Tour” launch party – but in her quest for the perfect night, only makes things worse. Despite Mouse’s best efforts to avoid West, she can’t seem to deny the romantic sparks flying between them. Dorrit turns to Donna LaDonna for advice about her budding love life. Meanwhile, Tom has an awkward encounter when he spends the night somewhere new.

"Kiss Yesterday Goodbye"

all photos from CW's website

Carrie is happy going to her junior prom, but when hidden secrets are revealed plans begin to change. Dorrit is determined to take her relationship with Miller to the next level, but things hit a bump along the way. For the first time in her life, Mouse decides to defy her parents to date whom she wants. Tom begins to struggle with sneaking around, especially when he thinks someone might be on to him. Elsewhere, Larissa makes Carrie and Walt an enticing offer.

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See? I was right when I told you that the season finale had way too many cliffhangers for it to serve as a possible series finale~which was good anyway. Like what I said above~it only means CW still has plan to renew TCD for a second season. Anyhoo, it has been a fun, light, colorful and successful season. Great show, all the characters were awesome~you kept us entertained! Till the next season!

Hats off y'all!

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For more episodes info and photos about Season 1~ you can check my previous post here and CW's website here. And can I just say this one more time: CW, renew TDC for a second season and more~more seasons PLEASE! (keeping my fingers crossed).

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