So, Carrie had a huge wedding and -- not one family member there? When she was left at the altar, where was her mother? Or a sister? Brother? Aunt? Cousin? Anyone?! Very odd how it's just never explained why she seems to have absolutely no family to speak of.
I found that odd in the TV show too. Especially when it was Carrie's birthday. Not one mention of her family. Someone said that the focus wasn't on their respected families, but that the girls were each others families. Even when Charlotte gets married to Trey, an older gentlemen is seen walking her down the aisle but it was never mentioned if that was her father or not.
shareYeah, it seems very odd that if he was her father, he showed absolutely no reaction to her panicking to Carrie. A father would have rushed over to see what the problem was but he just stood there with no reaction.
shareOdd in general how their family was rarely mentioned on the show until it seemed relevant. Miranda was only reunited with her family when her mother died, Charlottes brother came to the show once when his marriage was over, Carrie and Samantha only mentioned their parents once. Were they all orphans or something? Why wouldn't you tell your own parents when you were getting married or had a child or was fighting cancer?
According to the original Carrie Diary books, carrie's mom died when she was young. She only had a dad and one sister. Early in and early episode her dad and sister were mentioned.
shareThe Carrie Diaries is basically a separate show, not a real history of SATC. Carrie mentioned once on SATC that her father had left her and her mother when she was little. Then she never mentioned her mother again.
shareWhile watching the show I got the impression that she had no family at all. Her father left Carrie and her mother when Carrie was young and most likely both parents were deceased when the show began. Both parents might also have been the *only child* in their respective families so Carrie had no relatives or just did not keep in contact with any far flung cousins or 2nd cousins.
shareThe death of her mother was never mentioned, though. When Miranda's mother died, it seemed all the women were dealing for the first time with someone close who had lost a parent.
shareMaybe her mom died when Carrie was a child and she was raised by an aging grandmother who passed when Carrie was 18 or so. I always thought Carrie seemed to act like she was all alone in the world which is why she gravitated so strongly to her friends.
The theme of the show was the tight friendship and lack of any real family (although, for some reason, I felt that Char was the only one to have a closeness with her family, even though it is not mentioned on the show, IIRC.)
There is one episode where Charlotte's brother visits her (and sleeps with Samantha). Then we never see him again, not even at her wedding.
I know the main point of the show is the friendships (and the men), but a little backstory always helps flesh out any character on a long-running series. To make almost no mention of family -- even to SAY you are an orphan now or what have you -- makes a character just a little less of a complete person, fiction or no.