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"The Carrie Diaries is really almost over, now (and, by the way, I&amp;#039;m not sure how I&amp;#039;m going to be able to handle that), so it&amp;#039;s probably fair to make assumptions when you see an episode title like &amp;#039;A First Time For Everything&amp;#039;. We&amp;#039;ve been teased about Carrie losing her virginity for a while, and it seems like a pretty safe bet that she&amp;#039;s going to be well on the way to the Sex bit of, well, Sex and the City when Sebastian says that he loves her and she burbles: &amp;quot;I wanna have sex with you.&amp;quot; I mean, this opening is brilliant in so many ways, from the fact that they&amp;#039;re playing Trivial Pursuit to yet more of Carrie&amp;#039;s trademark awkwardness to what it promises for the episode to the use of &amp;#039;Like A Virgin&amp;#039;.  Naturally, it ends up that Carrie&amp;#039;s cherry is still obstinately unpopped by the end of the episode, but while The Carrie Diaries might have teased us, I&amp;#039;m completely willing to forgive it given the brilliant way her relationship with Sebastian slowly broke down over the course of the hour. Forcing a split between Bradshaw and Kydd because the season finale is next week would be easy enough, and I suppose it&amp;#039;s predictable that things didn&amp;#039;t work out for the pair right away. But the show kept things so in character, and so natural, that it made perfect sense (this certainly seems to be something the series excels at.) So Carrie - with all of her romantic ideals - imagines a perfect night for her and Sebastian, complete with a Madonna party and a night at a hotel.  In the same vein, she&amp;#039;s waiting to reciprocate that whole: &amp;quot;I love you&amp;quot; to make sure that she gets it just right. Everything about Carrie to this point has screamed perfectionist and idealist, so none of this is a surprise - but it&amp;#039;s horribly familiar to see the way that very perfectionism actually ends up completely ruining everything for her. So when she wants to tell him she loves him, she&amp;#039;s interrupted by a ticket collector. When Sebastian&amp;#039;s shut out of the VIP area at the party, she goes on a quest to get him in - leaving him alone in the process. And when Bennett offers her a byline if she gets a quote from &amp;#039;Like A Virgin&amp;#039;s lyricist, she abandons Sebastian yet again. By the same token, Sebastian isn&amp;#039;t entirely blameless; asked repeatedly by Carrie if he&amp;#039;s okay and if he minds her shooting off or getting things wrong, he insists that everything&amp;#039;s fine (even when he&amp;#039;s getting visibly more irritated as the evening wears on.) So it&amp;#039;s no surprise when the resentment felt by both eventually explodes when they leave the building. Carrie&amp;#039;s all excited about her future career, completely forgetting that the evening was supposed to be about her and Sebastian, though it soon becomes clear that she&amp;#039;s been worrying about him at the same time.  It&amp;#039;s easy to find yourself in a difficult position, and that&amp;#039;s what Carrie has discovered here. Her argument with Sebastian is heartbreakingly realistic, as she accuses him of keeping his feelings to himself and he points out that she&amp;#039;s hardly been explicit about her feelings for him. He accuses her of being a perfectionist, which Carrie denies... only to say that she &amp;quot;wanted the moment to be perfect&amp;quot;. Oh, the logic of love. But it&amp;#039;s awful just seeing the row unfold, until eventually Carrie experiences her own version of Mean Girls&amp;#039; word vomit and blurts out that maybe they should just break up. It&amp;#039;s that awful moment when she wishes she could take it back and is inwardly begging Sebastian to say no, but instead he&amp;#039;s hurt and angry and replies: &amp;quot;If that&amp;#039;s what you want, fine.&amp;quot; There is nothing overly dramatic about the split - no screaming or things being thrown - and yet it&amp;#039;s so sad. And it does seem to make sense, given what we know about both Carrie and Sebastian.  But while I enjoyed this storyline - as far as you can enjoy something that makes you feel so blue - I was less interested in everything else going on in the episode. It feels like we&amp;#039;ve been treading the same ground with Mouse and West for a couple of weeks now, though at least they finally kissed this week and West proved that he could actually help her with college instead of hindering her. They&amp;#039;re pretty cute together, but I just find myself getting irritated by Mouse&amp;#039;s zeal - which seems to have turned up a notch lately - and the fact that it&amp;#039;s taken so long to move this forward. Similarly, I don&amp;#039;t really have any interest in Tom&amp;#039;s life unless it impacts on Carrie, and so far it&amp;#039;s only affected Deb&amp;#039;s poor son, who should never have had to see Tom in the altogether in the middle of the night. In the same vein, I didn&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;d have any interest whatsoever in Dorrit&amp;#039;s fledgling relationship with Miller, but it surprised me by having a couple of interesting twists to the tale.  I don&amp;#039;t know how I felt about Dorrit dropping her grungy clothes to go for something a little, um, neater - was this Miller manipulating her into becoming the kind of girl he wanted, or was he genuinely offering her a different viewpoint when he talked about the real meaning of rebellion? Carrie&amp;#039;s there to offer the &amp;#039;sensible&amp;#039; advice of not changing to please boys, though she&amp;#039;s pretty quickly dismissed for offering trite clich\u00E9s. On the other hand, Dorrit has a surprising conversation with Donna, who points out that sex does not equal love - it&amp;#039;s just something fun. I really don&amp;#039;t know what kind of message The Carrie Diaries is trying to get at with these little moments - it&amp;#039;s certainly not the approach teen drama tends to take, and perhaps that&amp;#039;s why it was so surprising. I don&amp;#039;t really know how I&amp;#039;m supposed to feel about it - certainly, it doesn&amp;#039;t seem like the morals young girls should be absorbing, but who knows? I suppose there&amp;#039;s the question of what The Carrie Diaries is for: is it there for pure entertainment, or should it be careful about what it&amp;#039;s telling its viewers?  Still, I can&amp;#039;t help but love watching this show - I had a huge grin before the title sequence had even popped up - and I&amp;#039;m seriously going to be missing it after next week&amp;#039;s season finale (which is promising drama.) Go on, The CW - order another season... just for me? Carrie On   As if Carrie and Sebastian weren&amp;#039;t already the cutest, they go and play Trivial Pursuit together. Oh guys, does this have to end?  So much Madonna in this episode, which is no bad thing. Loved the cover of &amp;#039;Like A Virgin&amp;#039; at the end of the hour.  I can&amp;#039;t get over how awesome Carrie&amp;#039;s: &amp;quot;I wanna have sex with you&amp;quot; was. The giggle! The awkwardness!  I know it was meant to be cute when Tom completely turned Deb&amp;#039;s joke around on her at the end of the episode, but honestly, it kind of felt like he was a stalker who logged all of their conversations.  By the way, I&amp;#039;m really not a fan of Deb. She&amp;#039;s just so irritating. I&amp;#039;m sure Tom can do better.  The fact that this episode was all about virginity made me think there was innuendo at play every time someone said the word &amp;quot;area&amp;quot;. Example one: &amp;quot;This is supposed to be a special night.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is. Getting into the area doesn&amp;#039;t change that.&amp;quot;  Example two: &amp;quot;While I let Sebastian into the VIP area...&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re so cute with your morals!&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Funny name. You can carry it, though.&amp;quot; I kind of like Dorrit and Donna together.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sorry.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve told me a hundred times.&amp;quot; Eugh, that hurt.  What did you think of the episode? Let us know below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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