How many episodes are in Carrie?

Carrie has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does Carrie premiere?

Carrie premieres on 2026-10-07.

Is Carrie a new series?

Carrie is a new series (Season 1).

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Carrie(2026)

Archived · Prime Video

7.6168 eps

S01

MysteryDramaHorror

ON AIR: OCT 7Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Carrie builds its horror out of the everyday cruelty of high school, letting humiliation accumulate before the danger turns physical. A viral bullying scandal gives that cruelty a reach beyond the classroom: public exposure becomes a threat that follows Carrie through her community. The miniseries moves with slow dread rather than a rush of shocks, in a bleak register where adolescent powerlessness gradually gives way to something more dangerous.

Margaret’s fierce protectiveness makes home another source of pressure, not a simple refuge from school. Carrie’s growing independence runs up against maternal control just as her mysterious telekinetic abilities begin to awaken. That overlap gives her adolescence a frightening physical dimension: feelings she has little room to express are developing the power to hurt people around her.

Best for

slow-burn horror, bullying horror and Mystery

Story lane

Mystery and Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Prime Video

Official Premise

Misfit student Carrie White has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret. After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.

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Strongest Match

Carrie and If Wishes Could Kill turn high school cruelty into close, personal horror, with danger growing out of the pressures teenagers face among their peers. Carrie’s humiliation spreads through social media, while five friends in If Wishes Could Kill race against a deadly app’s warnings; the latter moves faster and gives the fear a mystery to unravel.

American Horror Story

FX • Sep 24, 2026

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Physical and psychological horrors affect a decomposing family, workers and residents of an insane asylum, a coven of witches, a cast of circus freaks, the employees and guests at a struggling hotel, a family who moved into a mysterious farmhouse, the members of a small suburb in Michigan, the surviving members of the Apocalypse and the counselors of a creepy summer camp in this haunting anthology series, focusing on the themes of infidelity, sanity, oppression, discrimination, addiction and exploitation.

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Why this pick

Carrie builds dread from family control and the casual cruelty of school, a mix American Horror Story also uses to make horror feel personal. Its seasons move between psychological unease and sudden brutality, with family collapse and social cruelty feeding the menace; the anthology is more campy and wildly varied than Carrie’s focused, slow burn.

The Shards

FX • Aug 5, 2026

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Why this pick

Carrie and The Shards make adolescent social pressure feel dangerous, letting unease gather through exposed nerves and a growing sense that safety can vanish. Carrie faces public humiliation at high school, while The Shards sets prep school tensions against a killer nearby; its 1981 Los Angeles setting gives the dread a quieter, more interior feel.

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