<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"The Carrie Diaries struggled a little in last week&amp;#039;s Thanksgiving episode, but I was pleased to see it bounce back with a solid instalment this time around. Everything is right there in the title - &amp;#039;Caught&amp;#039; - and you can never really accuse the show of being subtle about it&amp;#039;s themes, but it&amp;#039;s forgivable when it places its characters in a series of difficult, relevant, interesting decisions. Carrie is obviously at the centre of this, but she&amp;#039;s caught in so many ways. Obviously, there&amp;#039;s boy drama, but I love the way The Carrie Diaries deals with this - Carrie knows that she&amp;#039;s still got a thing for Sebastian, as their adorable oop-oop-side-step shows, but as he&amp;#039;s with Donna she decides to commit to her romance with boring George.  Mind you, it takes her ages before she actually invites him to her school&amp;#039;s winter dance, which is surely a sign about her real feelings towards him. And when he does arrive, he&amp;#039;s basically a doll to flaunt in front of Sebastian (although I do love Carrie storming up to Sebastian to tell him to stop staring at them dancing.) It&amp;#039;s basically in protest that she takes George out for a makeout session in his car, too - a proper f**k you to Sebastian, who&amp;#039;s brooding on the dancefloor about his lost love (much to evil Donna&amp;#039;s consternation.) I&amp;#039;m glad that this episode marked Carrie&amp;#039;s break up from George, because I&amp;#039;ve never really clicked with him - perhaps because Carrie hasn&amp;#039;t, either. He is a complete douche in the car, pressuring Carrie into sex, and I love that he tries to be cool about her virginity by saying: &amp;quot;Maybe you can just deal with me?&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s hilarious and brilliant when Carrie rolls out her awesome facial expressions to end it with him, though it&amp;#039;s a little annoying that George suddenly became horrible when it became convenient for the show to end the romance (I guess you could argue that his wealthy upbringing and horrible friends we&amp;#039;ve seen before hinted at his feelings of entitlement, but still.)  So bye, George, I won&amp;#039;t really miss you. And I am intrigued to see what happens with Sebastian next - he&amp;#039;s ostensibly still with Donna, but now that she&amp;#039;s seen him staring at Carrie I have a feeling that romance won&amp;#039;t be in dreamland for much longer. But Carrie&amp;#039;s not just got boy troubles to worry about; she&amp;#039;s also forced right into a dilemma when Larissa - impressed with her creativity - offers her an internship with Interview. This pushes Carrie into a corner - not only is she still pretending to be a fully fledged adult, but in order to agree to the position (which she really, really wants to do) she will have to leave her place at the law firm.  Her friends are typically supremely unhelpful - I know they&amp;#039;re wonderful, but Mouse telling her to talk to her dad and Maggie advising her to just take the job is not really particularly useful. Actually, the moment when Carrie does try to speak to Tom about the situation is really wrenching, as she discovers just how much work went into getting her the law firm placement and can&amp;#039;t quite bring herself to tell him about the Interview offer. We&amp;#039;ve all been there, right? It&amp;#039;s just relatable in the most uncomfortable way. Ultimately, after a talk with Maggie, Carrie realises that she can&amp;#039;t go through life protecting her father&amp;#039;s feelings - she has to do what is best for her, and in this case it&amp;#039;s taking the job at Interview. Of course her father will find out about this at some point and of course there&amp;#039;s going to be a big blowout, but that&amp;#039;s all forgotten in the minute she walks into the Interview offices. It&amp;#039;s a stunning scene - a real punch-the-air moment - and I&amp;#039;m excited about what&amp;#039;s to come here.  Carrie&amp;#039;s not the only one being torn in this instalment - let&amp;#039;s talk about poor Maggie, who&amp;#039;s still fabulous and still utterly lost. She goes to the dance by herself because Walt is sick, but while it&amp;#039;s awesome seeing her tearing up the dancefloor by herself, she gets utterly disconsolate when a slow song comes on and she has no-one to dance with. So it&amp;#039;s no real surprise when she leaves and goes straight into the arms of that disgusting cop, who&amp;#039;s waiting right outside. But things are complicated in a brilliant way when Donna - fuming at Sebastian&amp;#039;s obsession with Carrie - comes outside to see Maggie climbing out of the cop&amp;#039;s back seat looking decidedly ruffled. Donna&amp;#039;s a really great high school villain, so it&amp;#039;s fun to see her turn this situation to her advantage by basically blackmailing Maggie - if she keeps Carrie away from Sebastian, she won&amp;#039;t tell everyone about her affair with the police officer.  This is a good plan, though it seems like it won&amp;#039;t actually be put into action - during their heart to heart on the floor (which I love in and of itself), Maggie confesses her indiscretions to Carrie, who urges her to tell Walt the truth. It&amp;#039;s a sad moment as Maggie explains that she does love Walt, but something&amp;#039;s missing (and she thinks it&amp;#039;s to do with her - little does she know.) I&amp;#039;m eagerly anticipating the fallout, but I&amp;#039;m also kind of dreading it because it&amp;#039;s going to be devastating, isn&amp;#039;t it? Much less successful is Mouse&amp;#039;s storyline with Seth - she&amp;#039;s horrified when her grade drops from A+ to B+, realises that it&amp;#039;s because of Seth, desperately tries to complete an extra credit assignment on the night of the dance and, finally, decides to split from Seth because he&amp;#039;s affecting her schoolwork. This is all really annoying, not least because Seth will no longer be on my screen. I mean, she really could have figured out a way to stay with him while making time for her studies. I just found the whole thing a bit frustrating.  On the other hand, I was really surprised with how well the show handled annoying-as-hell Dorrit this time around. I was all ready to hate her again - her mom used to take her to The Nutcracker every year, and she moans about everything when Tom takes her instead. I mean, she&amp;#039;s just so whiney. But all is forgiven when they have a brutally honest argument during intermission - Dorrit&amp;#039;s shocked to hear Tom&amp;#039;s been working extra hard just so he could accompany her, while Tom&amp;#039;s devastated when Dorrit admits that she doesn&amp;#039;t know how to talk to him (Carrie was always with Tom, but Dorrit was her mom&amp;#039;s girl, and so now she has no-one.) Yes, it&amp;#039;s all wrapped up a little too neatly when Tom buys Dorrit her favourite almonds and she annoys everyone by chomping her way through them. But that one scene is absolutely awful in the best way, and surely elicited a fair few tears from viewers. I hope their relationship isn&amp;#039;t miraculously solved and they have more things to work through - hopefully Dorrit will be less annoying in future, too.  So overall this was another strong episode of The Carrie Diaries which moves things on brilliantly - Carrie&amp;#039;s single again, and working at Interview, and Maggie&amp;#039;s going to have to come clean to Walt. Bring it on! Carrie On   There was a hell of a lot of foreshadowing in this episode. Not just Carrie getting her first writing job, but also her scorn at anyone single and talking about boys at the age of 30. Oops.  I continue to love just how frigging awkward Carrie is at every opportunity - mainly in front of Sebastian. The cringey side step, her trips, her basic inability to put words together (&amp;quot;SEND IN THE CLOWNS,&amp;quot; she shrieks wildly.)  The continuous use of the word &amp;quot;straddling&amp;quot; at the diner was fun.  &amp;quot;Carrie, Maggie... Carrie and Maggie&amp;#039;s smart friend.&amp;quot;  Sebastian and Carrie continue to have great chemistry - that &amp;quot;comrade, mind if I fall in?&amp;quot; bit was so cute.  I loved all the winter dance fashion and hair.  Music moment of the week? Definitely Talk Talk&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s My Life&amp;#039;.  &amp;quot;You seem like a lovely couple. The size difference is positively charming.&amp;quot;  I love Carrie and know why she was doing it, but her glare at Sebastian when she left the dance with George was just plain mean.  What did you think of the episode? Let us know below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/the-carrie-diaries/review/a461627/the-carrie-diaries-caught-recap/>