Grading Carrie

Now that we're well into the second season of the prequel/spin off of Sex and the City's the Carrie Diaries; how do fans feel about it?

There finally seems to be some elements of what fans loved from the original SATC coming to the characters and storylines of the show. Too bad, it's come so late in the game.
I've gone on record saying that although I loved the two books Carrie Diaries and Summer in the City, which this particular show is based on, I did like the second offering better.

I'm not crazy about the Mouse/Maggie/Doritt characters or their storylines at all. Much prefer Carrie in New York with Walt, Bennett, Larisa and Samantha segments.

Fans were electric this season when Samantha was added to the mix. But, as much as I'm loving Walt and Bennett, they do not a Stanford make.

The use of 1980's songs and movies as the episode titles are a cute way to help remind people that this is set early on in the career of the lead characters. And the nostalgia of wall phones, large vcrs, shoulder pads and plastic earrings helps to anchor it in a time that was far away but not so long ago.
The fact that we're in an unknown year in the middle of the 1980's, has both helped and confused the plots. (Believe it's now suppose to be in the middle of 1986? The show having mentioned New Year's twice since the first episode of season one.)

If indeed the show gets a season 3, will it grow into something that resembles more of what fans loved about the original, or will it fall off it's high heels?

And given all that, will this show see a Blu-ray/Dvd release at any point?  Should it?  I think fans would be better with a SATC 3 movie then another round of these cocktails.