Let's talk about CARRIE because Prime Video just dropped the darkest version of this girl we've ever seen and she's NUMBER 1 in the world right now. 1.26 BILLION minutes watched. This is not the Carrie you watched in 1976. This Carrie (Summer H. Howell) has been locked inside her house her entire life. No phone. No computer. She makes her own clothes. Her mother Margaret never let her outside. Homeschooled, hidden, told the outside world is evil. Then her father dies in an accident. Social services comes to the house, opens the cupboard, and finds them hiding inside. Now they say Carrie MUST go to public high school. By law. Imagine this girl. First day - she has to learn about metal detectors and school shooting drills. She has never seen social media in her life. And on her first week, she gets her period in the locker room shower and the girls don't just laugh... they film it. They post it. They make a page called "carriered" and it goes viral in the whole school. That's when the lights explode. That's when she discovers she can move things with her mind. But the real monster in this series is not Carrie. It's Margaret White (Samantha Sloyan). You will hate her, but Mike Flanagan makes you understand her. She is not just religious crazy. She is a woman who was abused herself, who thinks she is protecting her daughter from a world that destroyed her. And the bullies? Chris Hargensen (Alison Thornton) - Flanagan gives her a backstory that will make you actually feel sorry for her, even when she's doing evil. This is what Mike Flanagan does best. He stretched 200 pages into 8 episodes, not to waste time, but to show you how small cruelties become prom night. And spoiler that is NOT a spoiler - in this version, Carrie SURVIVES prom. She runs. And Prime Video just renewed it for Season 2 last week, so her story is far from finished. There are other girls like her out there. Stephen King himself watched it and said it's "brilliant" and "shocking and true" about social media. If you haven't seen it, all 8 episodes are on Prime Video now. Watch episode 5 - that's when it stops being a teen drama and becomes pure horror.