Pilot (The Carrie Diaries)

The Pilot aired on January 14th, 2013 at 9/8c.

Summary
IN THIS “SEX AND THE CITY” PREQUEL, A YOUNG CARRIE BRADSHAW DEALS WITH HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA WHILE MEETING MANHATTAN FOR THE FIRST TIME — Recently, life hasn’t been smooth sailing for 16-year-old Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) – her mother just passed away, her rebellious younger sister Dorritt (Stefania Owen) is acting out, and their father Tom (Matt Letscher) is struggling to raise two teenage daughters alone.

Plot
 SPOILERS AHEAD!    In the series premiere episode, we find out that Carrie’s mother has recently died. Carrie has a rivalry with and devotion to her younger sister, Dorrit (Stefania Owen), and a concerned father (Matt Letscher) who sets her up with an awesome internship in New York City at a law firm.

It’s Carrie’s mother’s death that serves as the backbone to the relationship Carrie, Dorrit and their father have throughout the first episode. Dorrit feels as though Carrie got to experience a deep relationship with their mother before her passing, while Dorrit was too young to bond with her mother in the same way. It’s because of this that Dorrit acts out, sports a rather rebellious look (did you see that dark eyeliner?!), and runs away from home and doesn’t think it’s a big deal.

On Carrie’s first day at her internship( at a Manhattan law firm), she is “picked up” during her lunch break by fashion editor Larissa (Freema Agyeman), who likes her purse, and takes her out for a night out on the town, where Carrie gets an idea of the world she’ll soon takeover in a different series on HBO. (Sidenote: Larissa has no idea that Carrie is a high school student. She thinks Carrie is an adult.)

Mouse (Ellen Wong), Maggie (Katie Findlay) and Walt (Brendan Dooling) serve as Carrie’s best friends, while Sebastian (Austin Butler) is the troublesome new kid who will most likely serve as Carrie’s love interest throughout the first season. (If you’ve read the book like me, you know where this is heading. And how cute was their scene in the pool together? More shirtless scenes, please!)

Mouse seems like the one Carrie will be able to count on the most, Maggie is cute but appears to have a secret side to her, while Walt may be the most entertaining character to watch, aside from Carrie, of course.

While Carrie doesn’t actually sleep with anyone in this episode, during her episode-ending narration, she admits that she lost her virginity. She says that she may have just lost her innocence, her virginity, but not to the guy she had hoped but rather, Manhattan.

Starring

 * AnnaSophia Robb as Carrie Bradshaw
 * Austin Butler as Sebastian Kydd
 * Ellen Wong as Jill "The Mouse" Chen
 * Katie Findlay as Maggie
 * Stefania LaVie Owen as Dorrit Bradshaw
 * Brendan Dooling as Walt Reynolds
 * Chloe Bridges as Donna LaDonna
 * Freema Agyeman as Larissa Loughton
 * Matt Letscher as Tom Bradshaw

Guest Starring

 * Josh Salatin as Simon Byrnes
 * Waris Alhuwalia as Friend of Larissa
 * Kate Nowlin as Bitchy Barbara

Co-Starring

 * Theodore Feldman as High School Jock
 * Jabari Gray as Security Guard
 * Nicole Lockhart as Student
 * Alexandra Miller as Jen #2
 * Olan Montgomery as Lap Swimmer 2012
 * Gil O'Brien as Businessman
 * Dan Puck as Actor
 * Natalie Savage as Century 21 Shopper
 * Gilbert Soto as Bike Messenger
 * Whitney Vance as Jen #1

Quotes

 * Carrie: I knew I wasn't searching for somebody or something here. I was searching for me.


 * Larissa: I collect people.


 * Sebastian: Poor little rich kid whose mom left for the tennis instructor? I'm just a cliché.


 * Carrie: While I had spent my summer grieving and letting go of my childhood, my friends were falling in love and entering adulthood.


 * Mouse: It's weird, I feel more confident because I like know stuff, but I'm scared because there's something to lose.


 * Mouse: It was like putting a hot dog in a keyhole.


 * Carrie: It's always the same dream. I'm in the city and I belong. Manhattan is mine. But then I always wake up. The same old Carrie Bradshaw in Castlebury Connecticut.