THE CARRIE DIARIES
CW, 8:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation, but this new CW series is too interesting a concept, as prequels go, not to mention. Flashing all the way back to 1984, this series is like a superhero origin story – except it’s all about Carrie Bradshaw, the heroine of Sex and the City, and how she got that way. AnnaSophia Robb plays the younger Carrie, and the pilot explains how she got her first fancy purse, met her first true fashionista (Freeman Agyeman of Doctor Who and Law & Order: UK), got to New York, and faced other formative experiences. “So,” she asks her two high school girl friends after summer break, “I’m the last virgin?” Unfortunately, everything in this prequel series is hammered home so obviously, it’s too, too precious. But it’s also tutu precious, and that may be all it needs to reach and please its target audience.