Mike Flanagan’s Carrie series puts a completely different spin on the classic Stephen King tale. The Prime Video show dropped all eight of its episodes for fans to devour quickly as they dove deeper into Carrie White’s world. It allowed time to really flesh out Carrie’s home life as well as the heartbreaking challenges she faced with trying to integrate into school after spending her entire life sheltered at home.
Her surviving parent, Margaret White, is a paranoid religious zealot whom Carrie soon discovers painful truths about. Things all come to a bloody and fiery ending in Carrie’s finale where her vengeance spills over, and this ending is very different from anything we’ve ever seen before. So, let’s get into the finale of Carrie and explain exactly what goes down in the series’ eighth episode.
The Carrie Finale Puts a Fresh Twist on the Classic Prom Massacre Scene
At the end of episode seven, in classic Carrie fashion, her shining moment onstage as the prom queen is quickly doused in pig’s blood, thanks to Chris and Billy. Honestly, it further speaks to Carrie’s general naivete and their principal’s baffling stupidity because how would she possibly be crowned prom queen when she’s a sophomore who only got to go because a senior Tommy invited her. But I digress…
Carrie is standing on stage in complete shock as blood covers her body and a bunch of cell phones are pointed at her. Some students, like Sue and Tina, are genuinely horrified and shocked for her while others are laughing at her expense. It doesn’t matter to Carrie because righteous rage has taken over after she feels betrayed by her peers.
Carrie becomes incensed and causes everyone’s phones to explode in their hands and, for some, in their faces. She also spots Chris and Billy above her head and makes the catwalk they are on fall, which kills Tommy. Emaline appears and tells Carrie to let her “take the wheel,” and that’s when things get incredibly dark. This is a huge departure from what we’ve seen from Carrie in the original book as well as live-action films before, where she acts completely alone. King’s novel did touch on the concept of other young girls and women with these types of gifts, but Carrie never connected with any of them. However, this series allows her to bond with Emaline to cause pure chaos.
Carrie’s Prom Massacre Comes With More Help From Three Mystery Girls
A fallen light sparks a major fire, the doors of the gym are locked, and fires spread in the bleachers. Amanda attempts to kill Carrie, but is telekinetically stopped by two mysterious girls who obviously don’t go to the school. We later see a third girl, whom we recognize as the girl sitting in the interview room with Sue. Her name is Caitlin and she is the one who put Sue’s microphone on.
So, these three girls are all tied to this woman, and they certainly helped Carrie to NOT die and leave to finish her revenge. Carrie watches a host of her classmates get electrocuted, and then doesn’t waste time tracking down Chris and Billy to crush them to death. Outside of Billy driving instead of Chris, this isn’t too different from most previous versions of their deaths, which usually involve her telekinetic powers causing a crash.
Who Is the Woman Interviewing Sue, Tina, and Margaret in the Carrie Finale?
Episode eight brings us full circle to the series’ opening interviews. We see a drained-looking Sue Snell sitting in front of a camera and, for the first time, we see the woman who is behind the camera. It is not completely clear if she’s the unseen woman from episode one who was alerted about Carrie or not, but we do know that she’s not with the police nor a real investigator.
She starts asking a lot of questions about Carrie, including what happened on her very first day of school, and Sue just maintains that she was kind. The woman also shows Sue a picture of Amanda, the lady who was trying to convince Carrie’s mom Margaret that she should kill Carrie to stop her from joining other people with special powers. Sue doesn’t know Amanda and begins to recall prom night, which is how we get back into the action.
This woman has her own powers to get into a person’s mind and manipulate them, which we see when she convinces Sue that she wasn’t sure about seeing the other girls at the prom. This action makes sense, especially if they are a group or coven that does not want to attract the attention of the government or people like Amanda who think they are better off dead.
Margaret White Dies in Carrie, But in a Completely Different Way… And She Has Telekinetic Powers, Too
This woman also talks to Margaret, who dies at the hands of Carrie in their home in other versions. Prior to the prom, the last time we saw Margaret, she stormed out of the gym meeting where Carrie’s speech bested her pleas to not have the prom. Tina and others were live-streaming, and Amanda likely saw those or read online in general that the high school’s prom would happen, especially if she knew that Carrie was going to be there. It doesn’t feel likely that Margaret sent Amanda there to kill Carrie because she’d rather do it herself in a way that felt less scary and violent, as wild as that seems.
When Carrie comes home, she gives her mom a hug while still covered in blood. Margaret puts her in the bathtub and eventually tells her that she can repent in their prayer closet. She holds a huge knitting needle and attempts to stab Carrie in the head, but Carrie catches on and defends herself. She stabs her mother in the back and caves the house down on both of them in an attempt to end their lives. However, Carrie is saved by Emaline, who actually shows up in the flesh, and we discover that Margaret is able to keep herself alive by holding a piece of the house up without touching it. Carrie’s mom has never had powers before, so this is yet another major change.
Carrie Begins to Reveal More About Emaline, an Astral Projector
Of course, Carrie leaves with Emaline and gets to survive. Emaline tells her that she’s taking her somewhere safe with others to protect her and says that the world belongs to Carrie. The woman and Caitlin interview Margaret, who is upset that she doesn’t know who Emaline is nor where she took her daughter. She tells Margaret that Emaline is dangerous, but doesn’t mention who she’s with nor what she knows about her other than her being an astral projector.
And, to a degree, she’s not wrong. Emaline got into Carrie’s head figuratively and her body literally to drive her to some pretty horrific acts of violence and murder. Again, many signs point to Emaline possibly being Amanda’s daughter. We didn’t see Amanda escape that gym, so she’s presumably dead, but she is a part of a larger group of regular people who aim to find and kill girls with these kinds of powers.
After Caitlin gathers what’s necessary for Margaret’s mind, and with everyone knowing that Margaret will continue to be a meddling presence, the woman causes Margaret’s heart to slowly come to a crawl until it stops. The other two girls from the prom come in and the woman tells them to put Margaret in her hotel room and people will believe she had heart failure.
What Does This Woman Want With Carrie and Why Does She Think Emaline Is Dangerous?
The answer to this two-part question is not clear at all, and the Carrie finale certainly leaves the doors wide open for a season two. We don’t know who this woman is, why she wants to find Carrie, and if she’s really an antagonist or not. She’s certainly not a “good person” in the traditional sense, as we see through her manipulation of Sue and murder of Margaret White. She’s certainly not aligned with Amanda nor others like her considering those girls came to help Carrie and not harm her. But we don’t know what the beef is between the group is that Emaline is taking Carrie to and them.
It is possible that Emaline’s group wants to hone and use Carrie like a weapon for some larger purpose and this woman wants to stop that. It could be the other way around. One thing is for sure: this is only the beginning of what Mike Flanagan wants for Carrie White’s future story. Sadly, Carrie makes the perfect weapon as someone who wants to feel valuable, powerful, and like she has some autonomy in life. Without normal friends and family, Carrie could be going down a dangerous path… or maybe one towards freedom.
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