The Carrie Diaries

The Carrie Diaries was a CW network teen\period comedy-drama series and prequel to the HBO TV series "Sex and the City" (and also based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell).

The show premiered on January 14, 2013. Four months into the first season, the CW renewed it for a second season which premiered in October 2013. The final episode aired on January 31, 2014 and in May 2014, The CW cancelled the series after two seasons & 26 episodes.

Plot
The first season of the series focuses on Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) during her junior year of high school in 1984 as she explores life in New York City while interning at a fashion magazine.

The second season of the series focuses more on Carrie's expanding life in the city as well as the lives of her friends.

Cast
Main Cast Recurring Cast
 * AnnaSophia Robb as Carrie Bradshaw
 * Austin Butler as Sebastian Kydd
 * Ellen Wong as Jill "Mouse" Chen
 * Katie Findlay as Maggie Landers
 * Stefania LaVie Owen as Dorrit Bradshaw
 * Brendan Dooling as Walter "Walt" Reynolds
 * Chloe Bridges as Donna LaDonna
 * Freema Agyeman as Larissa Loughlin
 * Matt Letscher as Tom Bradshaw
 * Lindsey Gort as Samantha Jones
 * Josh Salatin as Simon Byrnes
 * Jake Robinson as Bennet Wilcox
 * Scott Cohen as Harlan Silver
 * Nadia Dajani as Deb
 * R.J. Brown as Thomas West
 * Whitney Vance and Alexandra Miller as the Jens
 * Evan Crooks as Miller
 * Chris Wood as Adam Weaver (4 episodes)
 * Giullian Yao Gioiello as Scott

Reception
The show has received mixed reviews.

Metacritic gave the first season a score of 57% based on 23 reviews (indicating "mixed or average reviews") based on 23 critics.

Rotten Tomatoes gave season 1 a score of 63% based on reviews from 30 critics.

Gail Pennington of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said, "The CW's attempt to capture the magic of Sex and the City in a prequel, set in 1984, could have gone very wrong. But The Carrie Diaries is surprisingly right."

Marisa LaScala of PopMatters says, "The rest of the show goes on to prize sweetness over superficiality."

Alan Sepinwall of Hitfix describes "The new series succeeds on its own nostalgic terms."

The second season opened with generally more favorable reviews.

Rotten Tomatoes gave it score 100%, based on 5 reviews and praised the introduction of Lindsey Gort as the iconic Sex and the City character, Samantha Jones.