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Episode Date: October 11, 2026

THE BLACK PROM IS HERE AND CARRIE’S STORY EXPLODES! Roxy Striar & John Humphrey finish Carrie Season 1 with Episodes 7–8, “Romantic Literature” and “AP Physics,” in this Prime Video finale reaction and review! Mike Flanagan’s reimagining of Stephen King’s horror classic reaches its devastating conclusion as Carrie White attends prom and the town of Chamberlain faces the full force of her telekinetic powers. Roxy & John react to the pig’s-blood humiliation, the Black Prom massacre, Tommy Ross’ fate, Carrie’s confrontation with Margaret White, and the shocking ending! Carrie Season 1 Episodes 7–8 Full Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Created by Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass), Carrie stars Summer H. Howell as Carrie White (Curse of Chucky, Hunter Hunter), Samantha Sloyan as Margaret White (Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher), Siena Agudong as Sue Snell (Resident Evil, No Good Nick), Joel Oulette as Tommy Ross (Trickster, My Life with the Walter Boys), Alison Thornton as Chris Hargensen (Dare Me, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce), and Amber Midthunder as Rita Desjardin (Prey, Legion). Roxy & John discuss the Black Prom, Summer H. Howell and Samantha Sloyan’s performances, the destruction of Chamberlain, the finale’s biggest emotional moments, and how Mike Flanagan’s ending compares with Stephen King’s novel and Brian De Palma’s 1976 movie. Follow Roxy Striar YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhirlGirls Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxystriar/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/roxystriar Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Citizens of the Reject Nation. I hope that you have carried enough about our reactions to make it this far into the penultimate. The penultimate. We love that word. And. And. Yes and. Yes.

And. Man, it has been a wild ride. I feel very anxious and stress going into this. Yeah. It's Ron Joxy. It's John. It's Droppy Moist. It's dripping moist.

It's the vamp checks. And Tara is we're praying. Because we were praying for her. Yeah, Tara's still in recovery mode. But I'm sure she'll watch these. She's in the closet, praying it off. That's what Tara's doing. We stuck her there.

We stuck her in the closet. I knew that. I knew that. She's kneeling our ruler right now. Yeah, because she must repent. And things are about to change around here. Hear me, Margaret. Okay, shall we watch?

Shall we get into the final, at least season one of Mike Flanagan's carry? Eight seasons and a movie. Yeah, yeah. Okay, community. Let's go on. All right, this is the Reject Nation. Damn, we just watched all of Carrie Season 1, the eight episodes. And if you did that with us, then I'm hoping at this point you would like to like, comment, subscribe, be Tara.

Ring the bell, ring the bell. Exactly, except it's your world, John. I don't mean enter Tara's world. It's your world. It's your world. It's not Tara's world. It's your world. Where do you want to go? I want to go to where the bell is so I can ring it.

So that went season two and three come out, Carrie. Holy shit. And Tara's back finally. That we'll all be ready for it and you guys will know. Immediately will be the first to know. Let's hope she's healthy by then. Her sicknesses tend to last a very long time. Tara, you know, you never know.

And that's part of the fun. That's part of the suspense. If you are already a patron, thank you so much. if you would like to consider patreon.com slash derail rejects where you can sing up with their own copy. That's where John and Greg cover stuff exclusively. It's where you get discounts on our sweet merch. RejectNation shop.com like this sweet horror horror shirt.

Hey. Or this, I got the classic ticks. I'm in perp. I'm in perp. I'm in bloody red for care. Bloody red for care. See?

And then I got some white, you know, with death on it. Is the white for Margaret or is the white for care? You know me, man. Always riding for my girl Peggy out here. Margaret's my girl Justice for Margaret

Season 2 Margaret spin-off That's where she didn't actually kill her She just put her into like a mind loop And that's the season two Well I was like oh wow Margaret's really coming into season two with us And then I was like never mind I bet people are going to have feelings about that

Yeah But people are going to have feelings about some of these choices Here at the end A lot of feelings and I want to know what yours are Okay so let's let's do first episode seven and eight and then let's talk Carrie's season one.

Sure. So we just watched these last two episodes the penultimate and the finale I feel like it's a big thing in the last 10 years where the biggest episode of a show is the penultimate leading into the finale. People love to get to say that word. I know I overuse it all the time.

Me too. It's fun. It's not like if something's a pilot, a penultimate, or a finale, you know what to call it. Otherwise it's like episode six. I'm gonna call yeah and you have to say it like that and it's just a trip. Amazon 5. So how did you feel about seven and eight?

The penultimate and the ultimate. And the ultimate. Yeah. I like these two. Generally, I mean, I know that the last time we spoke very long ago about episodes four, five, and six.

I know we were both kind of like, who was a lifetime ago. This is dour. This is heavy. I feel like crap. It's good work, but I'm feeling awful watching it. And it didn't lose that.

I mean, this is a feel bad story. I feel like, you know, carry is not fun. A lot of Stephen Kings actually are like kind of a ringer in terms of just like the amount of anguish you're going to experience. Yep. You know, and this certainly lived up to that.

I mean, I thought that, um, yeah, the lead into the prom. Like these, yeah, brought me back to like I was able to get more caught up in not the fun, but like I was able to enjoy myself a little more. The whimsy. Yeah, the whimsy. The fites of fancy. as she uses her magic powers. No, but I guess it wasn't like the last block struck me with the whole, like, again,

it's a hard show to binge. Oh, man, oh, man. And this didn't, these two back to back, I wasn't feeling quite as weighed down by that feeling. And I thought that, yeah, I mean, the way that they... Yeah, the middle chunk really took us. The four, five, six was like, especially because four, I mean, everything was just like, and the years start coming, they don't stop coming. Yeah, bent to the rules

You hit the ground running. Holy shit, it felt like things were flying at our face. Didn't make sense not to live for prom, you know? Yeah. Your brain gets smart, but your head gets stabbed through with a knitting needle. Pig blood. Pig blood. Yeah, I thought the lead into the prom was, you know,

I like the way they handled leading into the prom, and I like the debate surrounding should we do the prom or not. And then... Although, are there like... Do you guys, let me know in the comments, because this is just not how my public school handled things. Are there town all meetings with the kids and the teachers and the parents? Like, we were not allowed to make any of those choices.

It was interesting the way they decided that. This does seem like a unique thing to have happen. And I would buy that it just it's a thing they came up with in universe because at a certain point. Yeah, they're just like, this situation is for everybody. It's not in school only anymore. So my nitpick on that is more like, is this all the students and parents at this school? I feel like there should be like way more people.

Because if it's, it can't be just seniors because Carrie's here. Right, right. But she's here because she's invited the prom or she's here. Or something, yeah. Okay, wait. So just as a quick recap for us going into the next season, if there is one, but just by the end of prom. So of the teachers, Matthew Lillard got hit in the head pretty hard. It looked like he died, the principal.

He, yeah, I mean, he got. Rita definitely died when Carrie threw him. her across the room. The guidance counselor quit, so he wasn't there. He's safe. Raul Coley, obviously unalive. Yep. Prior to prom.

And the other, those were the only teachers that were really part of the part of our world much. Then of the other adults, Carrie's mom, Margaret, we know what happened to her. It seemed like Sue's mom wasn't there, so

I think she's okay. It seems like... They're all at home, I think. It seems like... Chris's mom and dad. Still alive. Yeah. But Chris and Billy.

Donzo. Tina? Tina. Tina's dead. No, no, no. We saw. We saw. We saw.

That's right. Tina and Sue. I get confused at times when she's like, they all... Everyone was dead. Yeah, yeah. And Tommy died. But, Tina. So it seems like the only people that made it out are Carrie, Tina, Sue, and the guidance counselor,

and the parents counselor and the parents. parents. Did Katie Sackoff's character? She must have made it out, right? I think most likely. We probably, but we didn't see. I would have to imagine that that's part of the show carry over in the season two. Okay.

Carry. And now we have a couple, we had those three strangers that were there with the dark hair. Yeah. Plus Claudia from interview with the vampire plus Kate Siegel. Yeah. Okay. And the next season we'll meet Kelly and 11. Yeah.

And also Xavier. Yeah. Like Professor X. Yeah, Gene Gray. Yeah, yeah, they're all going to be there. Big crossover event. It's going to be great. The Flannivers, finally.

Honestly, I would be stoked and also so confused. All right. So that's where we're at going into it. I just need to quick recap who we still had. Yeah, yeah. I liked the lead up to the prom. And that's the point in the show where you don't get like a huge respite, but you get something of a break from the fever of just like,

oh, my God, it's so. sorted and ugly. In ways that they intend, when I say these things, I don't mean that they're not doing what they're trying to do, and I don't think this story should be like, yeah, again, super, like, bouncy or anything.

And then, yeah, the actual prom is heartbreaking, and I like the way that they structurally play with you. They go back to the interviews, and then you're still... They know that we know that the whole thing is leading to prom. So I like the way that they kind of tease that out at the top And then yeah, like, you know, there's a lot going on.

This is expanded. So in some ways, I'm still chewing on the proportionality. Like much of the last episode is prom night is the big major thing that we all kind of remember. Which is interesting because A, it's the thing we all remember if you watch the movie and I'm assuming if you read the book. But B, also it's what was introduced in the pilot. So like even if you, even if this is your introduction to carry, you're just a television fan. or you're younger or you just missed it or you just like Amazon shows

or you are a big Mike Flanagan fan but you never saw Carrie. You're a fanagan. You still knew about prom 10, five minutes into the show. Yeah, yeah. And so you've got to pay that off. You know, it's like you gotta pay that off

for the people who are watching in isolation who are just getting this. Yeah, like, oh my God, it's all leading to this. Yeah, I'm trying to... I'm trying to find that part out with myself to. Because when I think about it, I'm like, I feel like they, at least get claw. I think because they're doing more stuff and I am sort of aware of like,

okay, so this is segueing, you know, the original movie, you get that whole stinger at the end where her hand like pops out of the, you know, the dirt and everything. And so they're making big choices and they're doing some, yeah, I could imagine a version of this where the sequence itself is more harsh and more visceral. Like, I like the lot of flourishes and the sort of in and out between her pain and rage, but also this sort of like these flights of fancy as Emmeline takes over. I'm a little conflicted,

and I'm curious what people are going to think about that because the ending, like they have Emmeline take control. And thus you kind of skew some of Carrie's culpability. So in the story of Carrie called Carrie, based on the book Carrie about Carrie, I'm a little... And in an entire season where we're talking about taking

responsibility for your own actions. Yeah, I am curious to unpack that mentally and part of me is like while we're in that trap of like well, the rest of the show is there's more show ostensibly. So like some of that choice

may play better to me in hindsight. I am a little dubious about it at this moment and I do think that it's like when I think about this I'm like it's a pretty harsh sequence so I don't necessarily my point is not like I wanted more cartage. Part of me

could imagine. Well, she definitely kills Tommy, right? Like, Emmeline's not there yet, and she drops the thing on Tommy. Not on purpose, but she did that. So it's not like she didn't do anything, right? Yeah. She, there are things. And even, um, even when Emline's there,

Carrie's still the one who gets Billy and, um, and Chris. Emline's standing there and she's like, you didn't do anything wrong. But it's, she's not inside her in that moment. Like we saw her do on stage. I guess not. I was a little...

That was my interpretation, at least. In that moment, I was a little bit also kind of honed in because she has that beat where she's like, oh my God, no, like she seems like... And then you're like, okay, she just, yeah, in the rage and then snaps out of it, or was there still, you know, Emmeline influence in there? I mean, and it's a good...

It's like, it's a good moment in the, in the, like, smaller context and the whole she's about to apologize finally for real when it's like way too little way too late and that's very striking i can see some people wanting a more horrible death for chris in a way i do think a lot of this though is about becoming your enemy and like you know you become the person you hate the most and who would have dropped a car on somebody is chris and that's what Carrie chooses to do. So there was a lot of good full circle, but to the initial question,

which I'm kind of feeling like you are, I'm wondering if the prom aspect does pay off for people as much. I think that this show had its hands tied in a lot of ways because there's such a popular adaptation of this. It's not like the OG Carrie movie is some people have talked. reference like it is one of the biggest horror movies of all time it's on a lot i would say a lot of top 10 lists so so it's among yeah the it's in that list of like the 100 most iconic horror movies you know yeah so because of that you either decide you're going to completely ditch prom or you're going to do prom

you either decide you're going to do the pig blood thing or you're not going to do the pig blood thing you either decide you're going to do the fire or you're not going to do the fire and because they made all the same choices in a lot of way that the movie did from the book. I'm glad that they told us about that in episode one. So it wasn't like a buildup to see, will it, won't it? Because then if they just do, then they just do. But at the same time,

for a show that took a lot of its own swings, I kind of thought that they were going to either not kill the mom, which I guess they did it in a different kind of way, or they were going to not have the, like there was just there, I wonder how people feel about it being, so similar in some ways and different in others. Does that make sense? Yeah.

I lost you? No, no, not at all. I distract myself slightly. I do that to myself all the time. Sorry, take me back a step. Take me back to the night. Because I'm also sort of, yeah, like trying to reference to what we, like, yeah, I remember one of the iconic moments of the original movie is a sort of, is a definitive.

end that has like a gotcha and there are a lot of elements here that like it's because it's it's in a position where it has to now do two things and this can't like tie everything up and it's like yeah you think like oh are they going to bring margaret back like having kate seagull it's a striking scene and this whole thing about like did you have latent power you know and then and then she like the heart slowing the the thing where she's slowing her heart down is like really striking and harsh in a different way and is unique. I wonder, like, having her be the one to kill Margaret White is a little... It's just a different...

Like, there's, you know, they change up some of the circumstances as to why she might try to kill Carrie. They make them a little more complex and a little more sort of in the lore of this new take versus, you know, in the original film, there's like a real human reveal about where Carrie's, you know, where Carrie was conceived. yada yada yada so like her mom is is sort of revealed to not be all of the strength of her convictions whereas here she is all of the strength of her convictions it's just she can't always tell when

she's acting selfishly versus in a motherly way and you know for her to be killed by kate seagull it's just a different thing it feels literally like this expanded lore is choking the actual story that's kind of what i was referenced like while i really actually liked these last two episodes. And I can talk about that in a moment. I'm curious from you guys at home because, and again, just to reiterate, I have not read this book. I don't know

about the book and the similarities or differences, but I did watch the movie for the channel. And so, you know, at the end of season one of the show, Margaret is dead. And at the end of the movie, Margaret is dead. Yeah, they're both ostensibly dead.

Until the hand pops out. No, I'm just saying at the end of both of them, Margaret's dead. movie and the show. Yes, agree. And the remake movie with Carrie Ann Moore. I didn't watch that one. For Julie Ann Moore. And she's... It's Julianne Moore? She and Judy Greer are the best parts of the movie.

Who's Judy Greer play? Judy Greer is Amber Midthunder. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay. So the point of that is that, like, they did the... Going into the end, Margaret's dead. However, one of those is that Carrie kills Margaret,

because Margaret tried to kill Carrie. And the other one is that Margaret actually survives and random character that I don't believe is in the book or the movie, Kate Siegel's character kills her. So that's like very different. Same thing with how, like as opposed to Margaret trying to stab Carrie, they switch it to a knitting needle, but she does try to kill her in both.

Same thing with how the fire ensues, right? Like I don't remember exactly in the movie, but here it seemed like an accident based on the light that fell. It's a kind of chain reaction of things and I think she's just like, well, we'll just keep that. As opposed to in the movie, it seemed like she wanted there to be fine if I'm remembering correctly. And that's the thing like it makes me, I didn't watch Carrie immediately before this because I didn't want to sit here. Yeah, it's like I have a random access memory of the general Carrie story and how the DiPolm. movie feels especially

and I didn't want to be sitting here just doing a one to one like you know holding one picture up and the other picture up and like trying to find the differences but it is a yeah so like I'm excited in one way to hear some of the ideas because you're going to and and you know this will also kind of maybe inspire me to crack the book finally

but it makes me wonder what they are pulling some stuff is in tribute to the movie they show Brian De Palma on the marquee and stuff but you know there's a lot that's coming from the book and a lot there seem to be making up on their own or at least commingling with other king's stuff. Yes, like the shine and whatnot. But that's why I like the possibilities that we ended with

and what we did in 7-8 because as a television fan, I do feel like we needed to position season one to not be a limited series. If we wanted it to not be a limited series, we needed to expand and figure out, are there more characters? is out there. What does life look like for Carrie after this? As opposed to like you keep referencing the iconic hand. So I don't want to say Carrie dies in the movie, but you know, she does.

And then she has that here. We need to show. Yeah. Is she alive? Is it just a nightmare? Here we need to show like there's life for Sue and there's life for Carrie and like what could we? That's Crystal Lake. Bring me over.

What could things look like moving forward and who else could be in the picture? and why would anybody tune in for a season two? And so I do think that we positioned ourselves, interestingly here, because I do care about this Katie Sackoff versus Katie Segal gangs, which is what it seems to be, right? Like, it does seem like it's the others versus the people. And somehow Sue has now had this erased, like, I'm curious about what that might look like,

because she's really her and Tina are the, big players from the other that still survived. But I do think that they are really setting up for a show here about people with powers. That's why it gave me Legion vibes. That's why we've referenced Stranger Things. That's why we've referenced X-Men.

It felt like it was trying to set up the show that they tried to set up with that one spinoff episode of Stranger Things where she goes to San Diego or whatever. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That one punk interlude. And I'm curious because, yeah, it's like I like, I like having the idea of, yeah,

Katie Sackoff and Kate Seag. being these two sort of opposing heavy hitters in a sort of, yeah, youth telekinetic, you know, powered world X-Men type scenario. Like, it's interesting. And it's not like beyond what Kerry could be. At the same time, I'm like, it's not the first thing I think like, oh, this is what Carrie should be. I am fascinated and I am reminded in this moment of a show that I actually, Greg and I

both rather enjoyed for a good run of it, which was from. dusk till dawn, which did kind of what they're doing here, which is like the first season is essentially the movie. I did not watch that either. It does like, oh, well, you've got much things in store should you want to. Or you can watch that here at some point, maybe. Talk to the, talk to the, to Greg and Alex. But they have the first season due basically the movie in an expanded form, which worked better than I thought and then set up for more story beyond that which at least for

a while I rather enjoy it so I've seen this work in this kind of a situation and I like the proportions generally like I think you could do too much to overpower the story of Carrie and her mom with this X-Men stuff

for lack of a better shorthand I know I know some people are going to feel like they did overpower this with too much of that stuff and I have the most I'm the most curious to digest it in terms of how the stuff ends, again, with Margaret White. And yeah, like, I'm interested in like, yeah, what do we have to expect for Carrie down the line? It's like so much of what you associate with the character is these situations. So to me, it's like, okay, now we're going to do a bunch of sort of Carrie inspired fanfic.

And, you know, like that Jason movie, where she, part seven, where she raises him up out of the lake with the telepathic powers. Like that was supposed to be like a crossover with Carrie Or something like that And then they couldn't do it So they'd sort of tweak the lore But you know like they've tried to expand on this before And I like her character enough to see where she goes But so much of this show was a high school drama

That I'm curious like Now are we just doing that with College year Well more like this group of This Motley crew that we've kind of a little bit. The two black-haired girls, the girl from interview with the vampire and Eline and Katie Segal.

Yeah. What did you think of pivoting for one second, because I know we've got to get out of here, but what did you think of the choice to make Margaret have a little bit of the shine? That is interesting.

I thought it was interesting. And I appreciate in this moment. I was kind of leaning toward the side of if they give her like full on awakened power now i'm i might that might be a little too much for me like the idea that like it it was in there or at least a glimmer of it was in there but yeah it's um yeah it's it's it's something that i've seen in other forms of lord it's like yeah you're almost the special but like she said it's a latent gene so it's not

really going to materialize in you and so like it's an interesting beat because she views this thing as something that's evil about her daughter and something like an abomination. Yeah, and she used it to save her life. So there's this, yeah, there's this weird thing that that must be doing inside of her that I think is interesting. I'm a little bummed that they saved her just to kill her off. Kind of. Because like to find out she had that, no, I didn't want to see her with full-blown powers, but I do love seeing characters fight against themselves.

And to know that that's inside her and hate it so much and have her be part of the Katie Sackoff war, I think would have been really interesting to see that, like her kind of turn into that and her and Carrie continue to go to blows if we're going to do more seasons or to have Carrie be the reason that she died. But to have that in between, I'm interested in, they must have thoughts on why they're doing that. There must be a reason why they did that. They're in a fortunate position where I'm like, I like and have a certain built up level of trust in these creators that I'm like I will check out whatever is next because I believe you have a plan here.

Is there stuff after this? Like obviously my plan again, yes, but Stephen King wise, is there any other, is there like a? I don't know if there's any here. Pass me that. Unplug that their keyboard and pass me that. Because I don't know, because there's the rage carry to the movie from the 90s or 80s or whatever that came out. While you're looking up that, I will say I so appreciate. the soundtrack. I thought that it was

really cool, different than what we've seen Mike Flanagan do in the past. Loved the strong female voice of it. And I like the motif throughout the episodes of doing these little intros where it's talking about like women with extraordinary abilities

or who are channeling some kind of otherworldly something throughout history and the way that history responds to all that. We see one of them have that ability with the the heart and then we and now this is Kate Siegel has that ability with the heart and I was like was she that one that they were talking about but I couldn't remember exactly I would have to go back I'd have to go back for sure but but um what is this saying but uh

musical adaptation oh yeah yeah what is it I just looked up at the yeah tell me what it's general uh they on you mean the Riverdale thing yeah but I watched Riverdale I don't remember there was yeah I guess they did the musical parody version they like staged it okay I don't I remember that. That's funny. I think I vaguely remember. I remember a musical episode of Riverdale, but I don't remember that being it.

I fell off the wagon at some point with Riverdale. So I remember it was coming up and I don't think I fully come. What is the rage carried two? I saw this tape all the time at Blockbuster. Oh my God. It's famously... 1999 American Supernatural Horror Film directed by Kat Shea starring Emily Bergel in her film debut.

Okay. Based on the O.G. novel. Okay. It's a famous box office bomb, the rage. Maybe it's neat. Maybe they're borrowing from this. It doesn't sound like that.

And no one knows. Does not seem to be the case. We got to watch it now. Well, you guys let us know. Where do you want to see this go? Are you invested in a season two? I think a season one of a show does its job. If it's attempting to get a second season, it makes you want to watch a second season,

then it did its job. And this definitely did that. for me. There were also nail-biting moments. I love the way it looked. I thought the acting was phenomenal. Great cast. A lot of great, a lot of people putting in great work to play really unlikable people. Yeah. You gotta applaud that because they did a good job. Dude, Tina, man. Yeah, like you want to see. Tina's less likable than anybody at times because she's such a sheep. Yeah, and she's so, like, yeah, and she's so, it's like the kind of you think you're the queen be and you're not, and you're not like sharp enough to be the queen. No, she's Gretchen Weiner.

Yeah, that was a great. Yeah, they were absolutely Greshon and Regina, yeah, for sure. And I mean, that's a, that's a fair way to take this. I'm really kind of torn in this moment because part of me is like, I feel like we're at this weird place where I'm like, oh, they completed the story, but also they didn't complete the story because they're telling me, obviously, the story's not done. Right. They completed the story we know, and then they've had some tags.

Yeah, and so I guess heading into the future, it just makes me wonder what the, now I'm in a crossroads where I'm like, is this going to, be a Carrie story still or is this going to be Carrie is now in this ensemble of a thing that could be called another show yeah to Carrie yeah Carrie yeah the others featuring Carrie yeah totally not that she would be like okay with that a main character I would really have to

see it like I'm because I'm really it's like right now we're in that territory where I'm like okay so everything beyond this is fan fiction sounds like a mean way to put it but you know it's like yeah we're just now we're just beyond the thing. But if Mike Flanagan is that fan who's writing that thick, then I'm cool with it. Yeah, it's like I'm absolutely willing to take a look at it and it makes it hard to assess the season as a whole.

It's like I like these last two episodes and barring some of the stuff that the greater story kind of makes you think about. I thought there's a lot of good execution. And yeah, like, because of some of this stuff, I'm like, did they slide a little bit of the high school sequence to do some of this later set up? And then you have the mom thing where you're like, this is kind of an odd set of choices. but I don't know what choice I would have really liked other than for her to die the original way. Right. And I'm not the kind of viewer who's like, it's got to be the original. And even by the original, like, I mean a movie and not the book that I'm less familiar with.

So, you know, it's, it's a good conversation piece. Like, I think it's, they did a good job making it relevant to the now. And I don't have a problem personally with having Carrie B sweet because it is like the world had a chance. And it just didn't. you know, materialize in a good nurturing way and you understand how lonely and angry she feels. Yeah. You know,

and it's it's the nice people fail and the, you know, her mom, this harsh, you know, overlord that she lives under the draconian, you know, cold person who twists her idea of love and everything.

You know, you get how upset and angry and, and alone and pain she feels. And that's a story, that's appropriate for this story. So even the harsh, notes, I'm like, well, job well done. And for a story that's talking about, this is a pretty good example to me of how you can take something well liked and an IP and make it very relevant to the now. Totally. And use that. And that makes it different. Yeah. And now I guess my concern is like now it's going to become a thing that it inspired, but now I'm very used to seeing. And so like, will this feel very different from a stranger things or a dairy or any number of these shows? Or is this.

going to be late to a party where all the telekinetic kids with their hand up are. I have faith, and I think it's a totally fair question. But I think this is going to be on the good side of that. But that's mostly because I think Mike Flanagan has a really strong sense of this. However, we have not watched Mike Flanagan make shows with multiple seasons. I don't think any of his shows that I, I don't. I don't think Hill House, Blind Manor, House of Usher, Midnight Mass, Midnight Club. I don't think any of those are three-season shows, like he's pitching with this, as has stated.

So I trust him to land the plane, but it is a little bit of uncharted water. I could be wrong about that. You guys correct me if I'm wrong. And they can't take two years to make that. No, no. They got to be on top of season two. This has got to be an October release. Like, this has got to be in 2026, 27, 2028.

Because it's stranger things lost steam, Wednesday lost steam. These shows lose steam. And it would be especially easy to lose steam after you've completed your namesake adaptation. Totally. Yeah. I'm so with you. We do have to get out of here because I have 45 more hours of things. Until you're 90.

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