Carrie Earns Worst Rotten Tomatoes Score for Any Mike Flanagan TV Show Yet, But There’s a Catch
- On October 7, 2026, Amazon Prime Video releases Mike Flanagan's eight-episode adaptation of Carrie, reimagining Stephen King's 1974 novel for contemporary audiences with Summer H. Howell starring as the telekinetic teenager.
- Flanagan shifts the narrative to a modern environment where cyberbullying via Instagram replaces 1970s-era torment, following Carrie as a sheltered teenager forced to attend public school after her father's death.
- Howell embodies a believable awkwardness as the lead, while Samantha Sloyan portrays Margaret White as a complex fundamentalist figure and Matthew Lillard adds depth to the supporting cast.
- Critics note the expanded runtime allows character exploration, causing the series to resemble the first season of 13 Reasons Why, though some viewers argue it loses the original story's terrifying impact.
- This ambitious project reflects Flanagan's signature authorial choices, blending psychological drama with supernatural elements, ultimately offering a defensible update even if it fails to replicate the raw horror of King's original work.
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Carrie Earns Worst Rotten Tomatoes Score for Any Mike Flanagan TV Show Yet, But There’s a Catch
Photo Credit: Prime Video Mike Flanagan’s highly anticipated TV show Carrie may not be his best project yet. Early reviews for the reimagining of the classic Stephen King horror story are now out. At the time of this article’s publication, Carrie has an 84% Rotten Tomatoes score from 39 reviews. As a result, the TV miniseries currently has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score of any Mike Flanagan show. For reference, Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill …
Long Live the Prom Queen: Carrie Is Back and Mike Flanagan Has Successfully Made the Case for Why Her Story Needed to Be Retold
Review: With smart story accommodations for the social media age and a pair of stellar performances from Summer H. Howell and Samantha Sloyan, Mike Flanagan and his team have successfully made the case for why Carrie’s story needed to be retold.
‘Carrie’ Review: Mike Flanagan’s Series Modernizes Stephen King’s Classic With Mixed Results
Despite technological and cultural shifts over the decades, the hells of being a teen remain largely unchanged by time. That begs the obvious question preceding the fourth adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie (five if we’re counting The Rage: Carrie 2): why? Series creator, writer, and showrunner Mike Flanagan answers that question with a reimagining that not only brings the telekinetic teen into the digital world, but gives the entire town compl…
‘Carrie’ Review: Mike Flanagan’s Compassionate Reimagining Makes Stephen King’s Horror Feel New Again
Being a teenager is hard, and nothing about that has changed in fifty, one hundred, or even a thousand years. The reasons for these difficulties may have evolved and mutated over time, but the central reality has remained the same across cultures and epochs. “Carrie” works as well as it does in this newest incarnation because it holds space for the painful connective tissue that binds the turbulence of adolescence across generations, while retai…
Carrie review | Mike Flanagan’s bold interpretation of Stephen King’s debut isn’t always on fire
Mike Flanagan’s take on Carrie is a bold take on one of King’s best-known stories, but it doesn’t stick the landing. Here’s our Carrie review: To make Stephen King’s 1974 novel – which was less than 300 pages long – into a TV series is a bold undertaking. Yet that’s exactly what showrunner Mike Flanagan ... Carrie review | Mike Flanagan’s bold interpretation of Stephen King’s debut isn’t always on fire
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