Carrie
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Carrie

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 12, 202618 min
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The new series Carrie updates the Stephen King book for the digital age, and plays with what we think we know in some surprising ways. Streaming on Prime Video, it follows a young Carrie who has led a sheltered life with her overbearing mother. But as Carrie enters high school, she has a rough go of it. The signposts are familiar – the showers, the prayer closet, the prom, the pig’s blood – but showrunner Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass) builds out the world around those events. Looking for more TV and movies inspired by Ste...

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and famously a musical and we don't have time to get into the musical here today folks,

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beats are so familiar. I mean, there's been a sequel and a TV movie and a film remake and famously a musical and we don't have time to get into the musical here today folks, But trust me, it's a rich text. Why remake Stephen King's Carrie, much less do it as an eight-episode streaming series?

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