Carrie is coming, and she’s pissed. Well, in the first teaser for Carrie, the titular teen seems less angry than just deeply disappointed. All the dialogue here is Carrie (Summer H. Howell) speaking, presumably to the classmate who has wronged her (or one of them, anyway): “I want to know why. All I ever wanted was to go to school. I never did anything to you.”
One assumes that all the chaos in the trailer comes after she fails to get a satisfactory response.
This new version of Stephen King’s Carrie comes from Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass), who serves as showrunner, creator, and, for four episodes, director. It seems as if it will be somewhat different than the iconic 1976 film; for one thing, he’s more sympathetic to Carrie’s mother (Samantha Sloyan) than you might expect. “I went into this determined not to hate Margaret White,” Flanagan told Entertainment Weekly. “I wanted to understand her. And part of the importance of that is Margaret’s not entirely wrong. There’s a lot she has to say in the show that I agree with, and that makes it even more complicated.”
This concept is snagging the Carrie fans in the Reactor office.
Here’s how Prime Video describes the new series:
Misfit high‑schooler Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) 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 over eight propulsive episodes, the series expands King’s cultural landmark — deepening its characters and tensions, and 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.
Whatever quirks the show may have, it also has a typical standout Flanagan cast that includes Siena Agudong (Resident Evil) as Sue Snell, Alison Thornton (Fire Country) as Chris Hargensen, Joel Oulette (My Life with the Walter Boys) as Tommy Ross, Josie Totah (The Buccaneers) as Tina, Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) as Billy, Thalia Dudek (The Running Man) as Emaline, Amber Midthunder (Prey) as Miss Desjardin, and Matthew Lillard (Scream) as Principal Grayle.
The list of guest stars is possibly even more exciting. It includes Flanagan regulars Crystal Balint (Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Midnight Club); Danielle Klaudt (The Fall of the House of Usher); Katee Sackhoff (Oculus); Kate Siegel (most Flanagan projects); Michael Trucco (Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Life of Chuck); and Rahul Kohli (Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Fall of the House of Usher) and Flanagan newcomers Tim Bagley (Somebody Somewhere), Rowan Danielle, Heather Graham (Boogie Nights), Delainey Hayles (Interview with the Vampire), Mapuana Makia (Doogie Kamealoha M.D.), Cassandra Naud (See), Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica), and Naika Toussaint (Under the Bridge).
The 10-episode first season of Carrie begins on Prime Video on October 7.
