Ever since Stephen King released Carrie in 1974, her story has been told in multiple ways on the big and small screens. Today, it is being brought into the modern day in the Prime Video series Carrie.
I have to admit that I never read the book because I don’t read. However, I have seen all the on-screen adaptations. We don’t know much about Carrie White’s (Summer H. Howell) dad from any of them. However, in the first episode, we learn a little more about him and why she is forced to go to school for the first time so late in her life.
Howell’s character is naive, unlike the past versions, and she is happy to go to school. Her mom (Samantha Sloyan) would love to have her daughter locked up and hidden from the world, but the law won’t allow her to do that anymore.
Since Carrie has been sheltered her whole life, she does not know how to prepare for school or a normal teenage life. Whatever she knows is what her mother tells her. And that is very limited.
So the kids in her school are going to use that against her. On her first day at school, she meets Sue (Siena Agudong), Chris (Alison Thornton), and Tina (Josie Totah). Sue sincerely wants to be her friend, but the other two see her as their new target to torment. And they do.
One of the ways the producers bring her story into 2026 is that they have Chris use social media to torture Carrie. Her happiness starts to subside as she becomes the target of their bullying.
One day, Carrie meets another student, Emaline (Thalia Dudek). She used to be the new girl. As happy as she is that someone else is the target, she befriends Carrie. With that, Carrie is not alone. But is their friendship a good thing?
Along with becoming a woman, Carrie is starting to experience her powers. However, she does not know how to use or control her telekinesis. But she starts to realize it comes out when she is angry. And she has a lot of reasons to be angry. And we know what happens at the prom…
Since Carrie’s story, in the past, has been told in less than two hours, we never got to see what made her who she is. Not only that, we didn’t truly understand how domineering her mom was to her. And what about the girls who plotted to destroy her big night?
All of that can be told in this 8-episode miniseries dreamed up by Mike Flanagan. We go into their homes and see their lives in and out of school. We learn how their home lives shape the mean girls they are. Are they the victims too?
Since they updated the classic story, modern-day elements play into it all. I am not going to lie, some of it works and makes the horror even more horrific. But some of it feels like filler that hurts the story more than it helps.
Like the 1976 movie, the show does not go heavy on special effects. But when they do in the final episode- not a spoiler because we know what happened- they are brilliant. I am not a fan of CGI, but I approve of how they used it here.
Since I couldn’t even get past the first episode of It: Welcome to Derry, I was afraid this reimagining would make me want to go all Carrie. Instead, I found myself binging it all in a day because I needed to know what happened next.
Is it perfect? Nothing is. But I was sincerely impressed by how they took Carrie into the new millennium and made her series one you don’t want to hit the stop button on.
All eight episodes are streaming on Prime Video. Only watch it in the dark if you dare.
Ever since 1974, we have been infuriated by Stephen King’s Carrie. The story of a tortured teenage girl who uses her telekinetic powers to get revenge on all of the people who hurt her.
The novel only tells a little part of her story, and we have wanted to know more about her, her religious, abusive mother, and her high school bullies. We will get more of her story in the 8-part series, Carrie.
Based on Stephen King’s iconic debut novel, Carrie is a bold, timely, and surprising reinvention of the classic coming-of-age story, adapted as a television series for the first time by visionary showrunner Mike Flanagan. The series follows misfit high schooler Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) who has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). After her father’s sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.
Told across eight propulsive episodes, the series expands King’s cultural landmark, deepening its characters and tensions while following the small, everyday choices that build toward a single, shattering night in a gripping, deeply human story about kindness versus cruelty – and whether we’re witnessing the making of a hero, a monster, or something far more complicated.
You are invited to watch the full first season on Prime Video on October 8th.
Prime Video announced today during their upfronts that Jury Duty will be returning for a third season. And that is all they said. Because what else can they say without ruining the surprise for the individual who will unknowingly take part in a television show?
The first season dealt with an unsuspecting juror serving the weirdest Jury Duty, hence the name. The follow-up saw a temp go on the wackiest Company Retreat. What will happen next? We will have to wait to find out. Hopefully, we won’t have to wait three years again.
Jack Quaid went out on a jog, and he saw someone who looked very familiar to him. Who was it? It was himself on a billboard promoting his series The Boys.
What did Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid’s son do when he saw it? He stopped, took a photo, and gave it the finger! Because anyone who has watched the Superhero comedy will tell you, that is the only way to pose with anything promoting the Prime Video series. It is not a bad thing, but instead, we are showing our adoration for the show!
Whether you are like me and have seen every episode, or you have not seen any, you want to make sure to watch the latest episode if you need to laugh so hard it hurts! I seriously think of that scene and burst into laughter. Sadly, for Quaid, he was not part of that moment! But several actors you know and love or hate are in it!
The Boys is in the middle of its final season. And today, we found its second spinoff, Gen V, will not be back for a third season.
So what does that mean for the student Supes? “While we wish we could keep the party going another season at Godolkin, we’re committed to continuing the Gen V characters’ stories in The Boys Season 5 and other VCU projects on the horizon,” said Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg, executive producers of the Vought Cinematic Universe, in a statement to Deadline. “You’ll see them again.”
Where? They will be featured alongside Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles, who deserves an Emmy for his acting in The Boys) in Vought Rising next year. The Boys: Mexico is still in the works.
I am OK with the cancellation because I stopped watching season 2 after a few episodes and never looked back.
