Take some time because Wednesday 7 October Prime Video decided to release all together the 8 episodes of Carrie, miniseries (but are we sure they don’t want to continue? ) inspired by Stephen King’s cult novel. The release in binge watching is always negative because it involves fatigue, effort, inability to enjoy the story for the need to finish it before someone can ruin the vision, but in this case it is also true that the weekly distribution perhaps would dilute too much the story of a series that struggles a little especially in the central points.
So take some time and look at Carrie, because several times Mike Flanagan said about his previous work (Hill House for example) how King was without being King. And this time he’s flirting with King but trying to be as much as possible. Without betraying King’s background message but immersing that story into the present and broadening it for the needs related to serial language. There is not only Carrie in the miniseries of Prime Video, there are parents, other boys, teachers and all a world that revolves around the protagonist.
Mike Flanagan had to answer a few questions about the relationship with Eleven of Stranger Things, for the power of Carrie’s character, social curiosity because at most it would be more Eleven than he took from Carrie. Just a little to understand that they are different worlds, as well as this miniseries is far from the patinated and romantic universes that Prime Video proposes. It has nothing of those teen dramas, somehow it is the other face, a sort of nemesis of that world of fake teens. Here are the schools with metal detectors, the boys who vanish, the excess of alcohol, the dreams really broken and without consolation, the nightmare of social as a public gogna without possibility of appeal.
It is not a horror series that focuses on the construction of fear, on the anxiety of the unthinkable, but it is a reflection on the daily horror, on the fear that everyone should have people who think they have power in their hands using the smartphone. Fear is that of boys and girls looking for their place in the world even at the expense of others. Because behind a bully there is a boy or girl who is experiencing difficulties and finds in the aggression and humiliation of the other the only way (wrong) to vent their frustrations. This is why Carrie’s story is universal and can always be adapted to the time that you are living.
Mike Flanagan does something different than the past. He seeks a more inclusive approach, not to deprive himself of a part of the public, he does not too shake hands on the teen aspect or the horror aspect. It gives ample space to the perspective of adults and in particular of Carrie’s mother, who from home religious fanatic pushes himself to become almost a social saint, able to spread through the web platform his own message, distorting reality in his own favor. As everyone does in the story. As they all do, unfortunately, also in reality, making a civil and rational confrontation increasingly impossible, always letting emotionality and instinct prevail.
The article Carrie, the review: Mike Flanagan brings on Prime Video the nemesis of teen drama comes from Dituttounpop.it.
