24 Shows Like "Gilmore Girls" For When You're Craving a Comfort Watch — or a Bit of Drama

Rory's thing is that she wants to be a writer. A prequel to "Sex and the City," "The Carrie Diaries" follows a young Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) who also aspires to write for a living, as she juggles life as a young woman living in suburban Connecticut. While the original HBO series is more adult, there's a guilelessness in the short-lived prequel show since it's all about Carrie as a teenage writer and student. Carrie will remind you of Rory in her high school and college years — though, admittedly, Carrie's literary adventures do have more gloss and shine than Rory's dive into dusty vintage books at Yale.