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Carrie Red 🩸

Or my unofficial review of Mike Flanagan's take on a modern Carrie that highlights the horror of social media bullying 🩸 it's super ironic because the bully uses Instagram to create her "Carrie Red" account 😅

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Admittedly, I never read Stephen King's original novel but I love Brian De Palma's 1976 film. There's an interview with King, when the mini series was pitched to him, where he basically said, "leave Carrie alone." I tend to agree since the first film did a great job portraying Carrie as a victim of both her mom and her peers who loses control 1 night 👏🏾 I only tuned into the mini series when I saw that Mike Flanagan was at the helm. I was confident that he'd do Carrie justice given how character driven Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass were... so my thoughts on the miniseries... it's OK. A solid 7/10 😅

I really wanted to love it more than I did but there's some outlandish things that really tested my suspension of disbelief (mostly at the school).
I enjoyed how Mike Flanagan fleshed out Chris Hargensen - Carrie's bully. She's also a lonely girl with neglectful parents instead of a stereotypical school bully. He gives Chris plenty of reasons to personally hate Carrie. Her plight also highlights the theme that hate breeds more hate.
I also liked the changes in Tommy's arc and how he ends up asking Carrie to the prom. Their friendship is bittersweet given how it ends 💔

What I didn't like are Margaret White and to a lesser extent Carrie White 🫣🤫 Margaret White is Carrie's biggest abuser yet there are times in the miniseries where I'm actively rooting for her 😅 I also don't buy into her religious fanaticism. Ironically enough, I have a coworker who is into government conspiracies and speaks about people being light and dark seeds so seeing that play out in the miniseries doesn't hit as hard as it should. It felt like having Margaret say 1 or 2 lines about that was sufficient enough 🙄
Also, spoiler alert, Margaret picked up on technology far too quickly for a newbie 😅

As for Carrie, Summer Howell's portrayal is great! I