Carrie: Stephen King’s Missing Piece Changes the Whole Story

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Mike Flanagan’s Carrie is doing something previous adaptations largely avoided: embracing the unusual structure of Stephen King’s original novel while opening the door to a much larger Kingverse. Rather than simply retelling Carrie White’s familiar story, the Prime Video series incorporates multiple perspectives through emergency calls, interviews, investigations, and accounts from people surrounding Carrie. It’s an approach that brings the adaptation closer to the structure of King’s 1974 novel while allowing Flanagan to explore how an entire community responds to Carrie and her abilities. But that’s only the beginning. Flanagan has also discussed Carrie’s telekinesis in relation to psychic abilities seen throughout King’s other stories, including The Shining, Doctor Sleep, and The Institute. The series further expands the idea that Carrie belongs to a larger group of extraordinarily gifted women across history. Could those connections eventually stretch all the way to The Dark Tow

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