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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hadley Freeman

Sex and the City prequel: Meet the teenage Carrie Bradshaw

Annasophia Robb as Carrie Bradshaw in The Carrie Diaries
Tutu much? Annasophia Robb as Carrie Bradshaw in The Carrie Diaries.

At what point does milking a cash cow elide into flogging a dead horse? Behold, readers, here is your answer.

This photo is from The Carrie Diaries, the upcoming prequel to Sex and the City. You remember Sex and the City, right? The TV show that was, initially, very good, then went a little weird in the last two series, and then committed franchise suicide with its unspeakably awful film spin-offs that managed to offend pretty much every demographic in the world.

Now the question that no one asked will be answered: what was Carrie Bradshaw like as a teenager? Judging from this photo, she was exactly the same as when she was as an adult, as actor AnnaSophia Robb appears to have broken into the original show's wardrobe. Even I don't care what Carrie was up to in New York in the 80s, and I not only loved the TV show but lived in New York in the 80s. This poor horse has gone far beyond its death throes.

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