Just finished up the new Carrie series on Prime Video, really enjoyed it until the final episode. They had some nice expanded lore moments (which they would obviously have to do if they wanted to stretch Stephen King’s book out into a miniseries) involving social media and whatnot throughout the show. Without going too deep into spoilers, they expanded on Chris’ character in a way that makes you feel like she’s more of a monster than what either of the movies showed while also giving you context for why she’s the way she is that was absent from either film adaptation, same with Margaret (Carrie’s mom). Then in the final episode, it just kind of… ends. It didn’t help that they completely undercut her tragic downfall in the final episode, which I also won’t spoil specifics of.
The prom scene (which is what we’re all here for) also felt kinda rushed after being built up well and the documentary storytelling somewhat hurt its tension and pacing.
Apparently Mike Flanagan is trying to get at least one more season (he said it could go on as much as 3 seasons) and the ending may well be a cliffhanger for a potential S2, which could really expand on Carrie’s fallout from the Chamberlain/prom massacre (S1 could be Fuck Around for Carrie and S2 her Finding Out), but it’s unfortunately also climatic enough that Amazon could end the series on that if they really wanted to (if they don’t renew). I hope it gets renewed because S1 was great outside of that obvious ending hook and they could really expand on Carrie’s character and also Emaline, maybe a potential legal battle (it would be interesting to see how they’d plan to prosecute 200 telekinetic murders and if a jury would really believe a HS prom queen did all that). They also left breadcrumbs for more potential seasons (that I also won’t spoil), so here’s hoping.
PSA:
SONY:
If 💳 ≠ OWNING
,THEN
🏴☠️ ≠ STEALING
