Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ Gets Lost In The Television Machine
The eight-episode series gives Carrie a fuller backstory and folds in social media pressure, bullying and telekinesis, critics said.
6 Articles
6 Articles
Carrie Review: All That Telekinesis, So Little Momentum
I wanted to like Mike Flanagan’s Carrie. I really did. I’m fond of Flanagan’s work in general. And in particular, I adore his takes on Stephen King’s stories. If somebody was going to convince me that Carrie needed eight episodes, he seemed a good bet. Having watched them, however, I’m still wondering why this needed […] This post belongs to FandomWire and first appeared on FandomWire
The American filmmaker goes back to his television adaptation of Stephen King's famous novel.
'Carrie' is a series that adapts Stephen King's homonymous novel and brings it to the present together with the problems of the real life of the present.
Mike Flanagan’s darker, riskier Carrie adaptation takes a few too many detours
The teen protagonist of Prime Video’s Carrie is quite different from that of its source material. Creator Mike Flanagan still envisions Carietta “Carrie” White as an oddball outsider—but unlike in Stephen King’s seminal 1974 novel or Brian De Palma’s 1976 film adaptation, this doesn’t stem from Carrie being bullied at school or emotionally abused at home. In Flanagan’s telling, she’s a doe-eyed, earnest, candid girl yearning to become her own pe…
Carrie rises again: Prime Video’s take on King is magnetic but loses momentum
High school is a viral hell in Mike Flanagan’s new Carrie, exposing the cracks in small-town America. To resurrect Stephen King’s telekinetic antiheroine, Mike Flanagan needed a fresh, newly relevant... The post Carrie rises again: Prime Video’s take on King is magnetic but loses momentum appeared first on Soundsphere magazine.
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 60% of the sources are Center
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
