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"Amy B. Harris&amp;amp;#8212;who created the CW&amp;#x27;s wonderful The Carrie Diaries&amp;amp;#8212;is serious about audiences experiencing the full-circle Carrie Bradshaw effect. How serious? She recently direct-tweeted a viewer who expressed that they didn&amp;#x27;t get a winking SATC reference. To save her thumbs from further one-on-one explanations, we had her walk us through the season&amp;#x27;s many magical Easter-egg moments. You were a writer and producer on Sex and the City&amp;amp;#8212;so to connect the teenage Carrie Bradshaw to the grown-up one we all know must be so special. For me, giving the audience these Easter-egg clues is such a fun thing. When I get the opportunities to layer in those moments where the Sex and the City audience can go &amp;quot;aha! I got it!&amp;quot;&amp;amp;#8212;those are the things that really excite me. One of my favorites so far this year was when we learn why Carrie loves flowers on her lapel&amp;amp;#8212;she learns from an old family friend that her mother did too. The flower on the lapel was something that her mom had done&amp;amp;#8212;and what I was even more excited about was her being given the info that her mom loved Manhattan. Which would obviously shape the biggest decision of her life. And I loved when, after talking with her boss, she says that someone should shoot her if she&amp;#x27;s still talking about guys and dating in her thirties. Aah! I knew that after her interactions with bitchy Barbara, she&amp;#x27;s going to look at that woman and think, You&amp;#x27;re so old&amp;amp;#8212;how can you still be talking about guys? I just remember thinking things like that about my mom&amp;#x27;s friends when I was 17; I remember thinking about one of them, who was about 42 at the time, that she wore her hair so inappropriately for how &amp;quot;old&amp;quot; she was. Now I know that she was so young and pretty! And I was horrible. It&amp;#x27;s such a universal karmic moment; I can hear myself at 15 being like, &amp;quot;Well, when I&amp;#x27;m 23 I&amp;#x27;ll probably be married with three kids&amp;quot;&amp;amp;#133; and of course on Sex and the City all that is already well out the window. Right. I saw a woman on Twitter write after that episode something like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m so depressed&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;#x27;m still talking about guys in my thirties!&amp;quot; And I was like, I bet she didn&amp;#x27;t watch Sex and the City. I direct-tweeted her to say, &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s a joke&amp;amp;#8212;I don&amp;#x27;t really want you to think that!&amp;quot; I also felt shades of future Carrie at the dance, when she has an awkward run-in with Sebastian as George is on her arm. It felt like a Big-Aiden-style triangle was cemented and reminded me a little of that furniture-show scene in SATC. I unintentionally hired two giant men against AnnaSophia, who&amp;#x27;s such a petite woman&amp;amp;#8212;and it did suddenly have that Aiden-Big vibe in a way I wasn&amp;#x27;t even expecting. Of course, if we&amp;#x27;re talking about George as the nice Aiden-ish guy, that&amp;#x27;s pretty much shattered after he pressures Carrie in the backseat. I actually had a conversation with the head of the network about that&amp;amp;#8212;the blowjob thing. I spent a lot of my high school years trying to get my head out of a hand that was pushing it down. We started this season at the age of innocence, and now we&amp;#x27;re moving into the loss of innocence. Outside of boy-romance, we&amp;#x27;ve got two of Carrie&amp;#x27;s great, great loves being introduced in tonight&amp;#x27;s episode, which is so fun. She&amp;#x27;s introduced to both Manolos and Cosmos. We talked a lot about when she should get her first pair of fabulous Manolos. AnnaSophia has these tiny feet&amp;amp;#8212;and initially we said maybe she [gets some and] they&amp;#x27;re too big. The idea being that she couldn&amp;#x27;t fill them yet. But then I started to think about: Sometimes the shoe fits but you&amp;#x27;re still not comfortable. The first time I wore a pair of heels somewhere, I was 16 and practically weeping at somebody&amp;#x27;s wedding. It takes growing pains to get there. And she mispronounces the name at first&amp;amp;#8212;how&amp;#x27;d you come up with that idea? My dad. He says &amp;quot;Manunu Blue-nik.&amp;quot; I think it&amp;#x27;s so funny. As for the Cosmo, let&amp;#x27;s take a look ahead of tonight&amp;#x27;s huge episode! Amazing. I love that it got such a long, lingering close-up coming into the show. Whose idea was that? Amy Heckerling [of Clueless fame] is our director, and she was like: &amp;quot;I want to build that moment. That&amp;#x27;s a moment I really want to sell.&amp;quot; We&amp;#x27;ve also had some really direct references&amp;amp;#8212;Carrie swearing to use her oven for storage after Thanksgiving goes awry... Yes, we decided she would have a horrible experience with cooking and that would be the end. And then the other thing we all really loved was: Her boss, Barbara, thinks she&amp;#x27;s wearing too many accessories [when she&amp;#x27;s dressed for the Jewels party]. But that&amp;#x27;s Carrie&amp;amp;#8212;adding one too many things but somehow making it work. For all the fabulous and creative accuracy, you guys have taken a lot of flak for giving Carrie a central dad relationship (the way the book does), when SATC the show so famously didn&amp;#x27;t talk family and actually called out that Carrie&amp;#x27;s dad had abandoned her. What was the thought process behind that bold decision? [I remember when] we were trying to develop that Sex and the City episode where Carrie says her dad left her when she was 5. We had always made that choice to avoid talking about people&amp;#x27;s histories&amp;amp;#8212;that the show was about the family you create in your thirties in New York, and whatever else is out there, we don&amp;#x27;t need to worry about it. So after we made that choice, I think we all to some degree had regrets. I never really bought it [as an explanation for Carrie&amp;#x27;s dating troubles]. I&amp;#x27;m close to my dad, and I&amp;#x27;m a complete freak in relationships. I guess when your dad leaves when you&amp;#x27;re young, you can have bad relationships, but Carrie is very nurturing and wants stability. It wasn&amp;#x27;t exactly a match for me. I&amp;#x27;ve been friends with Candace Bushnell forever&amp;amp;#8212;we live on the same block in Manhattan. When she dropped off the Carrie Diaries galleys for me, I thought her take on it was brilliant. It completely told why Carrie was Carrie. Lose a mother as the older sibling and you become this nurturing figure for other people. I knew there would be some disappointment from audience members who were like, that&amp;#x27;s not true. And what I say is, if you feel like you can&amp;#x27;t buy into it, I understand&amp;amp;#8212;but if you like the stories, and you can jump on board, I hope you&amp;#x27;ll enjoy the ride. Amy is so brilliant. CD fans, What&amp;#x27;s been your favorite SATC nod on the show so far? And what did you think of Carrie&amp;#x27;s Cosmo moment? Photo: CW"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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