Also in SATC she says that her Dad left, but in the Carrie diaries her Mum's dead and her Dad raises her??
- Status
New to Tattle Life? Click "Order Thread by Most Liked Posts" button below to get an idea of what the site is about:
Was the Carrie diaries even written/produced by the same team as SATC? It just seemed like a really crap kiddies tv show loosely using the characters?
‘And Just Like That… we understood why Kim said thanks, but no thanks’
I'm sure I remember hearing that in the abandoned film script there was a storyline where Brady started sexting Samantha, and that Kim Catrall objected. She really did us all a favour refusing to film that...
Yes but she says that when she first moved to NY she bought Vogue instead of food, which implies she was broke at that point. I think she was a normal girl who made it but spectacularly failed to keep it real. (as we said in the 90s.)
Well Candace Bushnell was an exec producer and the original author so one can only assume it was meant to be authentic.
I
I think The Carrie Diaries is quite similar to Candace Bushnell's childhood and early adult experiences, but it doesn't tie with what we are told about Carrie in the show.
Candice has style and when you have style, you can make things work on any budget. Sorry, I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove.
I'm not trying to prove anything. I just think that Carrie is not supposed to be from a privileged background. I always thought that Miranda and Charlotte were born wealthy, and Carrie and Samantha were self made women. I was just pointing to the parts of the script that led me to that conclusion.
Oh. Darren Star said in many ways she’s a Jewish character. He didn’t say her dad was minted. They’re all independent but with varying levels of success. Carrie has name recognition but is never affluent. Charlotte has money from her family which is how a lot of girls like her end up pursuing Art History degrees and working for Sotheby’s. Miranda always seemed to be truly self made — she went to Harvard law and works long hours.
There are lots of problems with continuity in the show, like the fact that they are all from different places but in that baby shower rep don’t they mention charlotte made them promise not to use the name when they were very young?
"Sam was a working class girl. She was a foil to Carrie."
I think it was this that I was originally responding to. I took it as you meaning that Carrie was from a wealthy background, which is just how I have never perceived the character.
To me, Carrie doesn’t have the attitude of someone who came from money. She likes bling too much, for starters.
What a load of bollocks, sorry but unless you’ve shown she’s Jewish then she’s not a Jewish character and it’s not representation is it, it’s like when JKR tried to shoehorn in diversity into the books by pretending Dumbledore was gay - they never discussed his (or any teacher’s!) personal life so how could you ever have picked that up?! It’s fanfic!
Carrie was skint the entire series right up until she gets her book published.
Sam came from a blue collar background. A person from a Jewish family might be similarly situated financially but won’t identify with blue collar values.
Isn’t this basically saying you can’t be working class & Jewish?
- Status