Here it is, readers, viewers, graduating seniors of Ewen High, consumers using Prime to get the cheapest AAA batteries and therefore blessed with Carrie: the finale.
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it → graduate → Carrie
And not the series finale, if we’re lucky, but merely the conclusion of the first season.
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we → ’re → season
Speaking of which, let’s go back to the beginning of the show.
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’s → speak → show
We learn the filmed interviews are not for a documentary or an investigatory committee, but for far more interesting and mysterious purposes.
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interviews → learn → purposes
We finally see that the woman asking the questions is indeed Kate Siegel, who, across the season, has been narrating the history of psychically powered women.
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who → see → women
Working with her behind the camera is someone named Caitlin (Delainey Hayles)—the same person who felt Carrie’s locker-room scream from who knows how far away in Episode 1.
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who → work → Episode
(“I just got hit hard, I mean hard. …
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I → hit → ?
And whoever she is: wow,” Caitlin told her…boss?
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Caitlin → tell → her
The interviewer tells Sue she’s not there to push back against her story.
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she → tell → story
“All I wanna do is understand.”
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I → do → ?
When Sue asks what she wants to know, Siegel’s character replies, “Every single thing.”
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character → ask → thing
She’s bringing an unsettling brew of kind, frank, and blunt.
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She → bring → kind
(“If it’s Vicky’s footage, you should talk to Vicky.”
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you → ’ → Vicky
“Vicky’s dead, we found her tangled in the rafters.”
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her → ’ → rafters
“I felt like I was looking at a child, like my little sister,” Sue recalls of Carrie’s first day at school.
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Sue → feel → school
“She was fucked, I could tell right away, because she was kind.”
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she → fuck → ?
I mentioned in my first recap that Sue’s “we were kids” dialogue was very book-accurate.
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dialogue → mention → recap
Now that you’re seeing it again, go ahead and compare:
Intro complete.
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you → see → it
Back to the prom, Sue sprinting into the gym, Chris dumping several gallons of pig’s blood onto Ewen’s new prom queen, Billy giggling, an entire crowd short-circuiting — then laughing.
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crowd → sprint → queen
Carrie closing her eyes.
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Carrie → close → eyes
Her eyes open, and so does hell.
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hell → open → ?
She flicks her dripping wrist and dozens of upraised phones shatter into dozens of faces.
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dozens → flick → faces
Tina Blake’s in bad shape, confirmed when we jump to her interview.
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we → ’ → interview
A long bandage covers half of her face; her eye’s still full of blood from the glass that flew into it.
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that → cover → it
With both Sue and Tina, Siegel’s interviewer is fixated on what sensations the girls felt, what specific physical effects Carrie’s telekinesis might have conveyed.
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telekinesis → fixate → effects
“It was a fucking nightmare, lady,” Tina says.
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Tina → say → ?
“That’s what I remember.”
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I → ’ → what
After Carrie detonates those instruments of daily torment, she looks up to see who’s behind this fresh new torture, who has — to quote Stephen King’s text — “drenched her in the very secretness of blood.”
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who → detonate → blood
Chris and Billy bolt as Carrie tears the catwalk down, guiding it away from hitting her but lethally whomping Tommy in the face.
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Carrie → bolt → face
Her prom king’s reign has ended.
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reign → end → ?
A stage light falls, conking Principal Grayle on the noggin and catching the stage’s backdrop aflame.
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light → fall → backdrop
“Stars…” Tommy murmurs as blood pours from his skull.
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blood → murmur → skull
Yes, the gym’s covered in decorative ones, but it’s also a devastating callback to the moment outside the party where he and Carrie stargazed from the grass.
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he → cover → grass
Sue rushes the stage to be with him.
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Sue → rush → him
A sprinkler goes off; Carrie stops it.
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Carrie → go → it
As she takes in the chaos, that stone cold look has turned to panic, agony.
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look → take → panic
Emaline appears with a smile.
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Emaline → appear → smile
“Hey, let me help.
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me → let → ?
Let me take the wheel, okay?”
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me → let → wheel
Carrie does.
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Carrie → do → ?
…and 164 more, not listed.
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