Can We Just Leave Carrie Alone Yet?

September 13, 2011 7:00 pm     Posted in Entertainment, News  Jessica Zaleski g+ page

Not even Carrie herself wants to go back!

Carrie Bradshaw is an icon. Her lifestyle is completely unattainable (you show me a columnist for a New York paper who has a closet full of Manolos, and I’ll shave my eyebrows). She’s the most fashionable woman in New York, and she’s not even real. Don’t tell me you have never looked at a wacky dress and thought, “That’s SO Carrie.”


By Jessica Zaleski

She’s an aspiration. You know you’ll never have her closet or her men or her friends who always seem to always have time to grab lunch with her despite their real jobs. She’s pure fiction, but I still love her. And let me be clear, I know she’s self-centered. I know she only talks about herself when Miranda’s mom dies or when Charlotte learns that she can’t get pregnant, but her whole aura is still fabulous.

And now she’s going to be ruined.

The CW is as close to closing a deal to create The Carrie Diaries as Carrie was to marrying Aiden. The Carrie Diaries is Candace Bushnell’s prequel to Sex and the City and follows Carrie through her senior year of high school.

Being a huge Sex and the City fan, I read The Carrie Diaires when it came out, and it made Carrie a normal high school girl saving her virginity for the right man. WHAT? I don’t want to see Carrie on the small screen as a NORMAL, VIRGINAL girl. I want fabulous Carrie. Flawless Carrie, who seems like she never had an awkward phase. Glamorous Carrie who simply shot out of the womb wearing Manolos!

I don’t want to see her with pimples on her face wearing a Hollister hoodie. That makes her just like me. Just like everyone else. The Carrie that we know is a sexpert, not a high school senior wondering why everyone else is having sex but her. I don’t want her living in a town that isn’t New York City. It was bad enough when she went to Paris (I don’t even want to talk about Abu Dhabi).

How am I supposed to want to change lives with Carrie when she’s cramming for a Bio test? I don’t want that. I want my Fendi-toting, Big-dating, sex-writing Carrie; the one I’ll never be.

What do you guys think? Would you potentially tune in to see Carrie as a teen, or do you want to preserve the truly great Carrie HBO gave us so long ago?

11 Comments on "Can We Just Leave Carrie Alone Yet?"

  1. jacqueline says:
    Tue, 13th Sep 20118:10 pm 

    carrie as a teen would be weird but at the same time the cw does a good job with those shows like gossip girl and 90210. even though they are in high school they dont seem like they are in high school. i can see carrie being like this fantastic above all people awesome high school girl….sorta

  2. Sophia says:
    Tue, 13th Sep 20118:44 pm 

    I agree, but at the same time if they do go through with it I hope they get a "nobody" because I will not watch if Blake Lively plays her like the rumours keep suggesting!

  3. marlee says:
    Wed, 14th Sep 201112:50 am 

    jess… i TOTALLY agree. one of the other great things that go with carrie are her friends. you're not gonna see miranda, samantha, or charlotte. no matter what, her friends just won't be as amazing. those 4 women are the ideals that EVERY woman wants to be… i know i've always wanted to be charlotte :)

  4. Olivia says:
    Sun, 18th Sep 20116:06 pm 

    NOOOO Blake Lively would do a great job! She's a wonderful actress!

  5. Reyhan says:
    Mon, 12th Mar 201212:04 pm 

    11.05.10 at 6:22 amBengals2012@Daniel-Blind Side- So keeping in mind that bngeigg her to take me back and doing the “I can change” routine will not work (not really sure what I am supposed to change when she never came to me with problems), I mailed her a snail letter. I know it feels wrong right now, but cut her loose. My advice on the Meds is everyone is different. If you feel it is working, stay with it, otherwise, talk to your doctor in the same direct manner This isn’t working for me. Tiptoe around nothing. In the words of Chili Palmer, I say what I mean, and I mean what I say. This is your life bro, own it and take control. You will end up in a bigger pool before it is all over and you will snicker at this point in your life. At least I did I grew up in a small midwest town and had my heart torn out moved down south and went to college and it all came together. I regret nothing, I feel lucky to have survived the (unstable GF experience) and look at her FB page now after 15 years with glee as I have executed my path well and her not so much Everything happens for a reason. You sound like a smart guy. My advice is to find a warmer and more beautiful climate. Head south my friend and expand your horizons. Stay positive and know this time will make you much wiser as a friend, boyfriend, husband, etc. going forward. One day you might sound like CC and hand out the same sound advice and comments he has handed down. Just remember, it is not your fault, cut ties, and stay classy. You won t regret it.

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