THE CARRIE DIARIES

I like the new CW show "The Carrie Diaries".

I like the show and I'm 67 and a half years old.

I don't usually watch the young adult shows on CW. I don't relate. I don't always get the humor. I can't understand why the characters are so interested in what they are...young people trying to find true love, vampires, werewolves, etc. I would describe some of them as fantast "soap operas."

I find those shows shallow and the characters immature. The plots are sort of boring for an old chick.

BUT...

The Carrie Diaries characters are believable not just stereotypes. Very new and refreshing for American TV.

Not all the actors are made to look "movie star" pretty. Carrie herself is not silly at 16 and might just be more mature and responsible than I am.

Even though it's set in a high school social level, the stories are much deeper, interesting and quality.

It may have the "same" lead character Carrie Bradshaw as the hit HBO show "Sex and the City" but that's the only similarity between the two shows. They're based on the books of Candace Bushnell who has just opened a new line of Young Adult novels about the young Carrie.

It just goes to show that YA books are for ages as are the TV series based on them.

The Carrie Diaries and the kids in them, are all over the internet and on facebook. So look 'em up.

Watch an episode. (Watch two, actually, since when I recommend watching a show, invariably the one show that's awful. )

It's only moderately continued week to week so once you know all the characters it's easy to follow the story. (Plus there are secondary stores that include Carrie's sister and her Dad. So there's is an attraction for the younger kids as well as adults. Though I'm old enough to be her Dad's mother.)  

I posted a candid photo because the official publicity shots don't really look like the real characters and actors in action.  The show is not full of glamorous, plastic characters.

It's on CW Monday evenings at 8:00 PM Eastern/Pacific time and 7:00 PM Central/Mountain time.