The first season of the American comedy-drama television series The Carrie Diaries premiered on The CW on January 14, 2013, and concluded on April 8, 2013, consisting of 13 episodes.

Carrie Bradshaw comes back to her junior year of high school after her mother's death and meets her best friends Jill "Mouse" Chen, Maggie and Walt Reynolds.

Carrie's father, Tom, informs her that she can have an after-school, once-a-week internship at a law firm in New York City which she relishes as a stepping stone in her quest to leave her small town behind.

Larissa provides her with a fantastic new opportunity to party it up in Manhattan, but Carrie is torn when Mouse calls her to let her know that mysterious Sebastian might take her to the school dance that same night.

Showing up early the next morning, drunk, Dorit gets an earful from Carrie about the hardships of taking their mom's place.