Featured image: Mike Flanagan. Photo: Kevin Payravi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lowdown
Flanagan said from the start he saw Carrie as three seasons, and the numbers gave Prime Video an easy yes. The bigger creative risk is the one he already took: letting Carrie survive the prom. Season 2 is where we find out whether going past the book was a gamble worth taking.
Key Takeaways
- Prime Video renewed Carrie for a second season on October 22 (Deadline).
- The eight-episode first season was released October 7 (Deadline).
- Carrie topped Nielsen’s weekly streaming ratings for October 5–11 with 1.26 billion minutes (Deadline).
- Unlike the novel, the finale leaves Carrie alive and leaving town (Deadline).
The Story
Prime Video has renewed Carrie, Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s first novel, for a second season. The pickup came two weeks after all eight first-season episodes were released on October 7. Deadline reported Flanagan has envisioned a three-season arc (Deadline).
The series, starring Summer H. Howell as Carrie White, topped Prime Video’s weekly global rankings and was No. 1 in Nielsen’s streaming ratings for its first week, with 1.26 billion minutes viewed (Deadline).
The renewal matters because Season 1 departed from the book. Instead of dying, Carrie ends the finale in the passenger seat of her friend Emaline’s car, leaving town for an unknown destination. “From the beginning, we imagined a story that goes far beyond the prom,” Flanagan said (Deadline).
King, who executive produces, said he and Flanagan are excited about what comes next. Flanagan returns as showrunner (Deadline).
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