The series opens in a 1984 setting. Carrie is strolling the streets of NYC. Then she wakes up. Turns out, she has been dreaming of being in New York since her teen years in Castlebury, Connecticut.
Since childhood, she has already been dreaming of being a writer. She lives in CT with her dad and sister, and just lost her mom to cancer. Just like the usual kids, she deals with sibling fights with Dorrit, and teenage what-nots.
It has just been three months since matriarch Bradshaw died and everyone in the family is dealing with her loss. Carrie couldn't decide on anything to wear for school as she is distraught with the fact that it was her thing with her mother--shopping for back-to-school outfits. She talks to her dad about it and he offers to take her shopping instead. Carrie declines and just wants her mom's purse. Just a piece of her to get her by in school. In life. His dad then opens Carrie's mother's closet and finds it untouched since the day she died. She narrates that everyone has been forbidden to enter... til now--er that day in 1984. You get what I mean! Haha! So she goes through her mom's stuff, and wears her mom's sunnies in exchange for the purse.
In school, everyone seems to be staring at her like the new freak. She sees Donna LaDonna and The Jens, the school's "it" girls. Donna thinks that being sensitive and trying to be super nice to people who just had tragedy in their lives would gain her some cred at school.
Carrie then walks over to her real friends, Jill, Walt and Maggie, who hugs her to comfort her from Donna's BS. They talk about the new kid in school--Sebastian Kidd. The stares for Carrie easily moved to Sebastian. Yep, I think the whole world can sense that he's gonna be one of the popular kids. Carrie's love interest too, maybe?
So he walks towards them and suddenly, he speaks to Carrie. He. Knows. Her! He gives his condolences to Carrie for her mom's loss and tells her, "See you around". Oh man, you gotta see the look on Donna LaDonna's face!
Later at the library, Carrie, Maggie and Jill talk about how she knew Sebastian. She tells them about Sebastian and her hanging out over the summer of '83 at the swim club. Jill gushes about a new guy in her life, Seth Glassman, as well as Walt and Maggie's relationship. Jill confides about losing her v-card to the guy, who is by the way, a freshman in college at DC. Speaking of sex, Maggie then confides to the ladies, in secrecy, about her and Walt. Making Carrie the only virgin now in the gang. Seems like Carrie's feeling the pressure now. Jill suggests that they go on a triple date--Maggie and Walt, Jill and Seth, and Carrie and Sebastian.
As she walks alone, she contemplates on her being a virgin. She then goes toward Sebastian, whose sitting on a bench at the school courtyard. She and Sebastian had a talk about her mother's passing, what's going on in Carrie's head, and Sebastian's mom leaving him and his dad for her tennis instructor.
A flashback of Carrie and Sebastian at the swimming pool is shown. The two of them were talking and hanging out when Sebastian almost kissed her. Nervous, Carrie pushed him to the pool, evading the kiss. But yea, the kiss still happened. Carrie's first kiss. Can't fight the chemistry right? Unfortunately, Sebastian will not be hanging at the swim club anymore. His parents had built a pool in their home, which means the end of what seems to be their perfect summer.
Back at school, Sebastian and Carrie walks to class and talks about swimming. She was about to ask Sebastian out when she sees her father in the school halls. Carrie faints and Sebastian catches her fall as her dad rushes toward her.
You see, last time Carrie's dad was at her school, he broke her the news about her mom's fate. Thinking it's gonna be another bad news, she fainted. Her father tells her that he's not there for some bad news, but rather to talk to their school's guidance counselor about bringing Carrie to New York. To take her mind off everything, she will start as an intern in Manhattan once a week for extra school credit. Of course, Carrie says YES! That's New York, for Pete's sake.
Back at home, she asks Dorrit for her mom's purse back and sees her mom's purse in a stuffed bear. It was accidentally smudged with white nail polish, along with some other stuff inside the toy. Turns out Dorrit wants it for herself. To have something of their mom's as well. Like Carrie, Dorrit was trying to cope with their mother's passing. But unlike Carrie, she had nothing. Carrie had her sixteenth birthday and is now in high school with an NYC internship, while Dorrit's got nothing. Carrie realized that she's way luckier than Dorrit, what with the extra two years she had with their mother (she's two years older than her sister) that her younger sister would never have, now that she's gone. Carrie tries to comfort her sister, but Dorrit suddenly snaps at her and leaves.
That night, Carrie takes the now-ruined purse and tries to fix it by using her nail polish to glam it up, making the smudged white polish that Dorrit had on the purse seem like a part of it all. The next day, Carrie leaves with her dad for the city, on her first day as an intern.
Carrie and her dad arrives at Manhattan and heads to Wall Street for her internship. Before her dad leaves, she declines of her father's offer to fetch her at work. She wants to take the six o' clock train back to Connecticut, go straight to the school dance and be home before curfew. She then bids her dad goodbye.
As she marvels and takes in Manhattan, someone accidentally bumps into her, ruining her stockings. She then had to go to work with no stockings on. You have no idea how bad that means in the 80s! LOL. Carrie gets acquainted with her new job and the lady who is orienting her notices that she doesn't have a pair of stocking and adviced her to get a new pair at lunch.
On her way to get a pair of new stockings at Century 21, she sees how awesome the place is. A style editor spots her at the department store after seeing her newly glammed up purse. Thinking that she would be stealing her purse, she pushes the lady away. The lady then introduces herself and well, a mortified Carrie apologizes and quickly becomes friends with her. The name: Larissa Loughlin of Interview Magazine.
Carrie hangs with Larissa for the rest of her lunch time and becomes an enabler for Larissa, as she steals clothes at the mall. SHOPLIFTER!!! Carrie thinks that Larissa must need some money, thus the shoplifting. But Larissa tells her that she's been doing that since she was a teenager just because of the thrill.
Larissa invites her for a night out, not knowing Carrie is still in high school. Carrie lies about her age. She calls Jill from work and tells her about her first day in New York. Jill then excitedly tells Carrie that Sebastian called Jill to ask for Carrie's number. Thinking that Sebastian might call her at home, she dials her home phone, but Dorrit drops the call.
Lucky for Carrie, her supervisor at the office came in her area. Since she is not allowed to make personal calls, she gets off the hook since no calls were made. Well, none on her supervisor's watch, that is. Anyhoos, her supervisor comes in and brings Carrie a dress with a note from Larissa. Carrie tells her supervisor that it's from her dad, so she could wear it on her school dance that night. Her supervisor has to leave early and that she would not be able to take Carrie to the train station, but gives her instructions to take a cab to the station, rather than taking the subway.
As she leave work, wearing the dress Larissa sent her, Carrie hails a cab. When she was asked "where to?", she is torn with a decision between the school dance or a night out with Larissa. Miss Goody-two-shoes Bradshaw picked Indo-chine with Larissa and hangs out with her for the night.
Larissa introduces Carrie to a group of people she's with and Carrie is instantly fascinated with Larissa's world. And since Carrie ditches her high school dance, Sebastian is taken by Donna LaDonna instead. Carrie loses track of time and realizes it's almost midnight so she rushes home, leaving Larissa and everyone else at Indo-chine.
Back at Castlebury, Carrie is picked up by Walt. They see Sebastian at the parking lot of the train station with Donna. He sees Carrie and offers her and Walt a ride, but she declines. Boo-hoo!
Walking home, Walt confides to Carrie about his relationship with Maggie. How Walt wants to wait before he does the deed with someone. She then realizes that it wasn't Walt that she lost her virginity with, or that she may just be lying about sleeping with Walt in the first place.
As they arrive to Carrie's, they find cops outside their home. They thought her dad called the cops because she missed curfew, but it turns out that Dorrit's missing. Dun-dun-duuuun!
The next morning, Dorrit comes home to an anxious father and sister. They notice she's wasted and yells at her sister. Dorrit snaps at her saying, "Or what? You're gonna ground me? You're not my mom!"
Carrie breaks down in tears and lashes out on her sister about her being the mature one and how broken she is after losing their mother, trying to be her sister and all. She then walks out. Her father then follows her to her room and talks to her about losing her mom. How he sees a lot of her mother in her that time she yelled at Dorrit. How he dreads his new job of being the disciplinarian to them, since their mom used to be the one doing it. He also grounds Carrie for missing curfew the night before.
Later that day, Mouse (Jill) comes over to Carrie's. She tells Carrie that she feels that Seth may be breaking up with her soon. That she has called him a lot of times the night before and cries.
Afterwards, having the realization that their mother is never really coming back anymore, Carrie, Dorrit and their father opens their mom's closet to pack up her stuff. Daddy Bradshaw hands Carrie her favorite dress of her mom's, but she passes it to Dorrit instead. They then box up their mother's things.
It is also revealed that Walt is gay, reason why he never had sex with Maggie. Maggie is seeing a cop, two-timing Walt, and sleeping with the guy. At the swim club, Sebastian comes to see Carrie and is spotted by the Jens, Donna's minions.
At the end of the episode, Carrie's dad gives her her mother's blank diaries, to write her future journey with.
Cast and characters:
Anna Sophia Robb - Carrie Bradshaw
Austin Butler - Sebastian Kidd
Ellen Wong - Jill "The Mouse" Thompson
Katie Findlay - Maggie
Stefania Owen - Dorrit Bradshaw
Brendan Dooling - Walt Reynolds
Chloe Bridges - Donna LaDonna
Freema Agyeman - Larissa Loughlin
Matt Letscher - Tom Bradshaw
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