Carrie

“Foreign Language”

Fallout from the first episode dominated episode two as the results of the torment in the locker room came to bear. The characters are being developed impressively so far. I have a lot of confidence in Mike Flanagan, as his writing has been amazing at this point.

This is the first time that I feel as if Margaret was shown to love her daughter, even if her methods were ridiculous. Margaret going to the school to “fight” for Carrie, even though what she was fighting for was to prevent people giving Carrie pamphlets to help inform her about things such as sex and her period.

By the way, Matthew Lilliard’s Principal Henry Grayle is such a coward. As an administrator, him passing off contacting Margaret White about the locker room incident to a teacher was absolutely immoral. It 100% should be his responsibility for something this horrific and to tell Miss Desjardin to do it because Margaret already doesn’t like him is so cowardly. I understand it and I can see it happening in the real world, but this guy has lost a lot of my respect.

Miss Desjardin is an intriguing character that I like getting to know more in the format of the longer storytelling of a series. She is someone who would not receive this kind of inclusion in a movie, but works well in a TV show.

It still feels like the show is trying to show why Chris is such a bitch, excusing her behavior because of her at home challenges, but this week made me hate this character even more. Her behavior with her mother and her mother’s new family was mean spirited and her launching the Instagram account “Carrie Red” to anonymously post the video she took in the shower was cruel. If the purpose was to understand why the bullying happened, I think the show failed for me. I still see a cruel, angry young woman who has more than others and wants to take out her own hurt feelings on others.

Carrie had a little bit of power given back to her, specifically by the guidance counselor Peter Morton and the mysterious Emaline. I am curious as to the role Emaline will play in this story. The future flashes Carrie got of her drenched in blood was scary.

Good second episode and I am liking the character development we are getting in the show.