Do we need another adaptation of Carrie? Maybe/maybe not, but the horrific bullying faced by the teen protagonist of Stephen King's first book is not even the tiniest bit less relevant now than it was way back in 1974, and Mike Flanagan has proven himself King's most adept modern-day translator—and that's before taking his other work into consideration. So we'll happily give it a shot before diving into these other shows to remind ourselves that growing up is hell.
The Glory (2022)
There are at least a couple of different levels to The Glory, a justifiably well-received South Korean import, rather remarkably holding together despite some wild shifts in tone. Most obviously, it's a revenge drama, with a relatively simple set-up: Song Hye-kyo plays Moon Dong-eun, an elementary school homeroom teacher who's playing a very long game: Her school bullies are grown up now, and their kids (some of them, anyway) are now in Dong-eun's care. Right where she wants them. Smartly, the show makes clear the extent of the past violence faced by Dong-eun (much of it hard to watch), and the resulting post-traumatic stress that's consumed her life. The parents of her tormentors were all far too wealthy for the girls to face any consequences for their actions, so Dong-eun feels like she has no choice. It could have been a revenge fantasy, or a straight horror show about a woman carrying out a questionable revenge, but instead it's a more nuanced tale of high school bullying, with a victim whose revenge takes a much colder path than Carrie's. Stream The Glory on Netflix.
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Sophia Lillis, straight from playing Beverly Marsh in the It movies (if you wanted a Stephen King connection), stars as Sydney Novak, a 17-year-old living in a small town with her mother and sister. Her father recently died by suicide; she has a crush on her best friend; and all she and her mother do is argue. In the middle of all of that, she discovers that she has powers triggered by her emotions, both of which she'll need to learn to control if she wants to get her life in order. As the lead, Lillis sells the hell out of this offbeat coming-of-age story—the tone is more dark comedy than horror, but Sophia definitely has some Carrie moments of her own before it's over. Stream I Am Not Okay With This on Netflix.
I Am Not Okay With This (2020) at Netflix Learn More Learn More at NetflixThe Wilds (2020–2022)
Situated between flashbacks and flash-forwards (think Lost or Yellowjackets), mystery/thriller The Wilds sees an airplane full of teenage girls crash on the way to an empowerment program in Hawaii. It quickly becomes clear that the accident was engineered and that the whole thing is some sort of social experiment, and the survivors are forced to compete against each other if they want to live. The show understands the ways in which young women are exploited and expected to compete against each other in the real world, mirroring the horrors of the high school social hierarchy that dominate Carrie's life. Stream The Wilds on Prime Video.
The Wilds (2020 – 2022) at Prime Video Learn More Learn More at Prime VideoThe Midnight Club (2022)
Likely the least buzzy of Mike Flanagan's Netflix offerings, coming, as it did, near the end of his contract with the streamer, is every bit as good as the others. Based on the YA novel by Christopher Pike, it follows a group of eight terminally ill young patients at a bucolic hospice home run by a secretive and mysterious doctor (A Nightmare on Elm Street's Heather Langenkamp). Each night, the kids meet secretly to share scary stories, with each also promising to return from beyond the grave when the time comes. Spooky, funny, and impressively moving as a coming-of-age story about kids who know they'll never come of age, the show was planned as more than a miniseries, but the ending is still pretty satisfying. Stream The Midnight Club on Netflix.
The Midnight Club (2022) at Netflix Learn More Learn More at NetflixThe Society (2019)
Kathryn Newton heads this surprisingly smart William Golding/Lord of the Flies riff about a group of teenagers forced to create their own community after all the adults disappear and a dense new forest crops up around their small enclave, cutting them off from everything and everyone else. This one's about coming of age in a world where the usual rules are no longer in effect, and about how we're quick to reestablish an oppressive social order even when outside forces are no longer at work. Stream The Society on Netflix.
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A cloistered, repressive upbringing for a young woman with dramatic telekinetic powers? The stories of Carrie and Eleven play out very differently, but that's largely because they're in different kinds of stories—one's a more introspective high school drama, while the other is a retro government conspiracy adventure involving demons and parallel universes. Still! You kinda feel like Carrie and El would recognize each other's trials, with hope that the bullied kids of Hawkins would welcome them both. You're probably familiar with Stranger Things by now, but just in case: An ensemble cast of mostly kids uncover dark deeds in their small Indiana town after a mysterious girl (Millie Bobby Brown) turns up displaying impressive, if alarming, abilities. Stream Stranger Things on Netflix.
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The big link here is, of course, Stephen King, who's not just great at situating horror in small towns, but in conveying the unique trauma of being a kid trapped in a small town—Carrie and It being two of his best in that vein. Set in the 1960s, this It prequel dives into the backstory of Derry and Pennywise the clown through the eyes of children who met him during his previous visit to the town. By the end of the first episode, it's clear that even the most adorable children aren't safe, and this is a show that will, if nothing else, go hard—and that's before Bill Skarsgård's memorably creepy Pennywise even shows up, and before we dig deeper into the secrets and lies of the adults of Derry. As in the book and earlier adaptations, each kid here has their own specific family and social issues, and Pennywise is very good at exploiting those dynamics to make the kids feel isolated and afraid. Stream It: Welcome to Derry on HBO Max.
It: Welcome to Derry (2025 – ) at HBO Max Learn More Learn More at HBO MaxTeach You a Lesson (2026– )
Hang in there, Carrie! Help is on the way! Well, OK...maybe if you lived in South Korea and in the very specific world of this webtoon adaptation. Following a rise in bullying, violence, and generally shitty behavior in high schools, including the murder of a teacher, the government establishes the Educational Rights Protection Bureau (ERPB)—tasked with reforming the school system BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. The team's first assignment takes them to a school where a bullied student has recently died by suicide, strongly related to the actions of the son of a prominent politician. What else to do but expose dad's secrets, knocking the bully down a few pegs and leaving him vulnerable to the consequences of his own actions. It's a little less Carrie and a little more Avengers: High School, but it's a fun fantasy for anyone who had a rough time back then. Stream Teach You a Lesson on Netflix.
Teach You a Lesson (2026 – ) at Netflix Learn More Learn More at NetflixAlRawabi School for Girls (2021–2024)
Mariam (Andria Tayeh) is brutally bullied by the cool clique at her private school in this Jordanian import, a high school drama that's both universal and distinctly Muslim in character. Fed up, Mariam convinces a couple of similarly outcast friends to join forces with her in a revenge plot that quickly gets out of hand. The show deals with Jordanian-style patriarchy head-on, without drawing any easy conclusions about its characters—Mariam catfishes one of her bullies and convinces her to send a revealing picture, one that she immediately posts, exploiting the very same repressive cultural elements that she claims to deplore. It's a smart and compelling drama with soapy elements (as well as a surprise hit for Netflix), and few if any clear heroes or villains. Stream AlRawabi School for Girls on Netflix.
AlRawabi School for Girls (2021 – 2024) at Netflix Learn More Learn More at NetflixChucky (2021–2024)
One of our most reliable horror franchises went the series route with impressively smart results. Zackary Arthur is Jake Wheeler, a queer teen subject to relentless bullying at school and abuse at home from his homophobic father. Jake picks up America's favorite serial-killing doll at a garage sale school art project. Before long, Jake's tormentors are facing consequences rather a bit beyond what Jake would have hoped for, and he's torn between fighting Chucky or leaning into the chaos. The tone is very different, of course, but Chucky's violence plays out very much like an externalized (and quippier) manifestation of Carrie's abilities—both teens dealing with forces that they have little control over. Stream Chucky on Peacock and Prime Video.
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