How the Twin Towers Disappeared from ‘The Carrie Diares’ and ‘Sex and the City’
(ESTHER ZUCKERMAN) In this week’s series premiere of The Carrie Diaries, the new Sex and the City prequel that takes place in the 1980s, a teenaged Carrie Bradshaw is seen working and shopping in Lower Manhattan, presumably right near the World Trade Center, but there is no reference to the Twin Towers. Turns out that was a conscious decision, and one that echoes how the franchise has approached the iconic buildings since September 11, 2001. In a phone interview today with The Atlantic Wire, Carrie Diaries executive producer/showrunner Amy B. Harris, who also worked on Sex and the City, said that the creative team “talked about it for quite some time,” adding that “from a sensitivity standpoint it was the right decision” to leave the Twin Towers out of any shots of downtown New York.
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