If you ever wished Stephen King's Carrie was actually a story about a telekinetic teenager getting whisked away from the violence and isolation of her sheltered small-town life to join a secret society of fellow psychic outcasts, then the ending of Prime Video's new eight-episode Carrie series may appeal to you. But if you were hoping for an adaptation that more meaningfully captures the tragic finality of King's 1974 novel, showrunner Mike Flanagan's open-ended take on the horror classic may leave you feeling a bit frustrated.
However, Flanagan apparently had reservations about putting his own spin on a property as well-trodden as Carrie, especially considering how beloved Brian de Palma's 1976 Sissy Spacek-led film remains to this day. "It initially started as a conversation that Amazon initiated, and they said, 'Hey, would you have any interest in Carrie?,'" he told MovieWeb in 2024. "And I had to think about it, because my first instinct is always—why? It's been done perfectly by De Palma. It's then been done three other times after the fact. Why do it again?"
The girls of Ewen High School torment Carrie in Carrie. —Prime
To that extent, the series achieves what it set out to do. Following an open sequence in which we learn Carrie's conspiracy-theorist father Ralph White (Tahmoh Penikett) was killed in a bizarre accident while at work on a construction site, Carrie (Summer H. Howell) is introduced as a naive yet overly good-natured bookworm who has lived out the first 16 years of her life sequestered at home under the care and tutelage of her overbearing religious mother Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). Carrie is ignorant to the realities of teenage life, including the workings of social media, the threat of school shootings, and, as a young woman coming of age, the concept of getting a period. Once she begins her court-ordered attendance at local public high school Ewen High, Carrie gets acquainted with resident popular girls Sue Snell (Siena Agudong) and Chris Hargensen (Alison Thornton). Chris soon launches a targeted cyberbullying campaign against Carrie to take out her frustration and rage over her own family woes and fracturing home life.
After Carrie is finally pushed to her breaking point by her prom humiliation, she uses her telekinetic powers to yank down the scaffolding where Chris and her partner-in-crime Billy Nolan (Arthur Conti) were hiding with their buckets of blood, accidentally bludgeoning and killing her date, Tommy (Joel Oulette), in the process. Horrified by what she's done, Carrie then allows astral projector Emaline (Thalia Dudek) to take over from inside her mind and use her abilities to wreak havoc and destruction on Ewen High and the surrounding town of Chamberlain. In King's book, Carrie executes her vengeance all on her own, never encountering another psychic.
Samantha Sloyan as Margaret White and Summer H. Howell as Carrie White in Carrie. —Liane Hentscher—PrimeThis ending leaves Carrie's future entirely up in the air, opening the door for Flanagan to take her story in a variety of new directions. And considering he made sure to have Adelaide mention the existence of "the shine," a reference to the psychic ability young Danny Torrance possesses in The Shining that allows him to see ghosts, communicate telepathically, and demonstrate clairvoyance, it seems as though the show might be setting up some future King universe crossovers. While Prime has yet to officially renew Carrie, Flanagan has said his "dream scenario" is for the story to play out over three seasons. "I think Carrie has a wonderful three-step arc," he told Collider. "It’s a trilogy, really."
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