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Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie” brings Stephen King’s most famous teenage outsider into a world of smartphones, viral humiliation and social media, but the emotional foundation of the story predates both the Prime Video series and Brian De Palma’s celebrated 1976 film. Summer H. Howell’s Carrie White remains a fictional teenager with an impossible ability, and there…
“Carrie” Season 1 reaches the event that has ended almost every previous version of Stephen King’s story, but Mike Flanagan’s Prime Video adaptation does something unexpected once prom night is over: it keeps going. Carrie White is alive, Emaline has taken her out of Chamberlain, a wider network of people with psychic abilities has moved…
Among all the new material Mike Flanagan adds to “Carrie,” Emaline may be the addition that changes the story most dramatically. Played by Thalia Dudek, who is officially listed among the Prime Video series regulars, Emaline enters Carrie’s life as a sarcastic, unusually perceptive outsider who appears to understand her long before anyone at Ewen…
Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie” begins with a story almost everyone thinks they know, then spends eight episodes quietly preparing to take it somewhere Stephen King’s original novel never did. Prime Video’s first television-series adaptation follows Summer H. Howell’s Carrie White from an intensely sheltered childhood into public school, where social media turns an already difficult adolescence…
Small Prophets begins with a man who has become very good at living the same day over and over again. Michael Sleep works at a DIY store, keeps largely to himself, visits his elderly father Brian and returns each evening to a house that feels suspended in another time. Seven years earlier, his partner Clea…
“NCIS: New York” may bring LL COOL J’s Sam Hanna back to familiar franchise territory, but CBS has surrounded him with an entirely new group of agents for his latest chapter. The most important newcomer is Nick Schaeffer, played by Scott Caan, who quickly becomes much more than the local agent assigned to help Sam…
CBS expands the “NCIS” universe again with “NCIS: New York,” but its series premiere wisely relies on a familiar face to introduce an otherwise new corner of the franchise. LL COOL J returns as Sam Hanna, the veteran agent viewers followed for years on “NCIS: Los Angeles,” and his arrival in New York is much…
Apple TV’s “Last Seen” reaches its Season 1 finale with the mystery of Maggie Ridley’s disappearance largely solved but the emotional consequences still unfolding. Episode 6, “The Choice,” picks up after Henry escapes with Sarah and the badly injured Jenna, while Ian forces Donald to help him find where his brother is heading. What follows…
Apple TV’s “Last Seen” reaches the end of its six-episode first season with Ian Ridley’s central mystery largely resolved. Sarah is confirmed to be his missing daughter Maggie, Henry and Jenna’s long-held secret is exposed, and the finale finally removes Sarah from the isolated life in which she was raised. On the surface, that gives…
Best Medicine Season 2 Episode 3, “Crate Expectations,” takes one of Port Wenn’s strangest traditions and turns it into an unexpectedly important day for Martin Best. The town is preparing for its annual lobster crate race, a competition Martin would happily avoid considering his embarrassing childhood history with it. Instead, the event brings him two…
“Last Seen” spends much of its first season presenting Henry Reid as the controlling force in Sarah’s life, but the finale reveals that Henry himself grew up under an even more powerful authority. His father Gareth and the isolated religious community he built shaped much of the worldview Henry later imposed on his own family,…
Apple TV’s “Last Seen” begins as Ian Ridley’s search for the daughter he lost, but its finale refuses to end by simply returning Maggie to the life she had before. Eleven years have passed since she disappeared, and the teenager Ian finally finds is not the three-year-old child preserved in his memories. She has grown…
