@cogentwanderings: I was homeschooled, so I watched Mike Flanagan's Carrie on Prime Video a little differently than most people. what got me wasn't the powers. it was that she's kind. sincerely, almost formally kind. everyone around her already speaks a language she's never heard: irony, detachment, knowing exactly when not to care. none of that is natural. it's learned through years of daily practice, and she walks in without a word of it. so her niceness doesn't read as niceness. it reads as an accent. I think that's the real horror I felt, that sincerity is what marks you. I needed a few days with that one. Summer H. Howell plays it without ever winking at the audience, which is exactly right. Stephen King wrote this in 1974 and it still understands something most coming-of-age stories miss. for the record, I also would have taken the telekinesis #Carrie #MikeFlanagan #StephenKing #Homeschooled #PrimeVideo

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