If you finished Mike Flanagan’s Carrie and still feel the pull of that final car ride, you’re not alone. The series mixes a lonely outsider, a cruel high school, a controlling parent, and powers nobody around her understands, and then widens the story into a hidden world of people just like her. I went through the shows that share one or more of those ingredients, from teens with telekinetic powers to girls turning on each other, to other Flanagan and Stephen King stories. Here are 11 TV shows like Carrie worth adding to your watchlist.
1. I Am Not Okay with This
Genre: Supernatural Teen Dark Comedy | Year: 2020 | Cast: Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff, Sofia Bryant | Where to Watch: Netflix
This is the closest cousin on the list. Syd is a teenager grieving her father, struggling with a messy home life, and just learning that her strongest emotions can move objects with her mind. It’s short, funny in a bleak way, and focuses on how rage and loneliness feed her powers. It ran for only one season, so you can finish it in a single evening, but the ending leaves you wanting more.
2. Stranger Things
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Drama | Year: 2016–2025 | Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Winona Ryder, David Harbour | Where to Watch: Netflix
Eleven is the most famous screen telekinetic after Carrie herself: a girl raised in isolation, with powers she doesn’t fully control, who is hunted by people who want to use her. The tone is more adventurous than Carrie’s, with monsters and a big friend group, but the heart of it is the same: a kid who has never known normal learns what love and cruelty both look like. The series has now finished, so you can watch it from start to end.
3. The Institute
Genre: Supernatural Horror Thriller | Year: 2025–present | Cast: Joe Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, Ben Barnes | Where to Watch: MGM+ (also via the MGM+ channel on Prime Video)
If the hidden-organization angle in Carrie’s finale hooked you, this Stephen King adaptation is the natural next stop. A genius teen with mild telekinetic ability is abducted and taken to a facility full of children with unusual gifts, all of whom are being used and experimented on by adults. It’s colder and more thriller-driven than Carrie, but it shows what a group like Adelaide’s could look like up close.
4. Wednesday
Genre: Supernatural Comedy Mystery | Year: 2022–present | Cast: Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Gwendoline Christie, Catherine Zeta-Jones | Where to Watch: Netflix
Wednesday Addams arrives at Nevermore Academy as the ultimate outsider and quickly finds a murder mystery, a psychic gift, and a school full of social hierarchies. It’s far more playful than Carrie and Wednesday is never anyone’s victim, but if you enjoyed watching an unusual girl take on a school that doesn’t understand her, this delivers that with a lot more style.
5. Yellowjackets
Genre: Psychological Thriller Drama | Year: 2021–2026 | Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse | Where to Watch: Paramount+ (Premium plan)
Carrie shows how cruelty spreads through a group of teenage girls, and Yellowjackets takes that idea to an extreme. A high school soccer team survives a plane crash in the wilderness, and the show cuts between their time stranded and the damaged adults they become. It’s darker than anything in Carrie, but the group dynamics, shifting loyalties, and sense that the past never stays buried will feel familiar. The fourth and final season premieres on November 20, 2026, so now is a good time to catch up.
6. Midnight Mass
Genre: Supernatural Horror Drama | Year: 2021 | Cast: Hamish Linklater, Kate Siegel, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford | Where to Watch: Netflix
If you want to see more of Samantha Sloyan, this is the one. She plays Bev Keane, a fiercely devout woman in a small island town who uses faith as a weapon, a role that makes Margaret White’s religious control look even more deliberate. It’s a slow-burning Flanagan limited series about belief, guilt, and what a community will accept when it wants to believe in a miracle.
7. 13 Reasons Why
Genre: Teen Drama | Year: 2017–2020 | Cast: Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Alisha Boe, Christian Navarro | Where to Watch: Netflix
At least one reviewer compared Carrie’s modern bullying storyline to this show, and the comparison makes sense: social media, group cruelty, and school staff who see the signs too late. It has no supernatural element, so it’s a different kind of watch. A heads-up, though: it deals directly with heavy themes including suicide and sexual violence, so go in prepared.
8. Locke & Key
Genre: Fantasy Horror Drama | Year: 2020–2022 | Cast: Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, Jackson Robert Scott | Where to Watch: Netflix
Three siblings and their mother move into an old family house after a tragedy and discover magical keys that grant strange abilities. It’s more fantasy than Carrie, but the story of young people discovering powers while trying to process grief and trauma carries the same emotional weight. Teenage life, magic, and a threat hidden in the walls make for an easy binge.
9. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Genre: Supernatural Teen Drama | Year: 1997–2003 | Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz | Where to Watch: Hulu (US), Disney+ (many other regions)
The original high-school-as-horror series, where the social cruelty of school and the actual monsters are often the same thing. Buffy is a girl with extraordinary power who just wants a normal life, and the show treats that tension seriously. It’s lighter and funnier than Carrie, but it’s the model for nearly every supernatural teen drama since, including this one.
10. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Genre: Dark Fantasy Horror | Year: 2018–2020 | Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Ross Lynch, Miranda Otto, Lucy Davis | Where to Watch: Netflix
Sabrina Spellman is half witch, half mortal, and pulled between a normal high school life and a coven that expects her loyalty. It’s far more gothic than the original sitcom, with horror imagery, occult rituals, and a heroine who has to decide who she wants to be. If you liked the mix of high school drama and supernatural danger in Carrie, this goes bigger and more theatrical.
11. The Haunting of Hill House
Genre: Gothic Horror Drama | Year: 2018 | Cast: Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate Siegel | Where to Watch: Netflix
The series that made Mike Flanagan’s name as a streaming horror storyteller. A family haunted by a childhood house is forced to face what happened there, and the scares are tied tightly to grief and family secrets. Kate Siegel, who plays Adelaide in Carrie, is in the cast, and Samantha Sloyan appears too. If you liked the emotional core of Carrie more than the prom-night carnage, this is where Flanagan’s style is at its strongest.
Whether you’re after more teens with powers, more mean-girl psychology, or more of Flanagan’s style and his favorite actors, there’s enough here to keep you busy until Carrie gets a Season 2 announcement. Want to revisit the finale first? Our Carrie ending explained guide covers every twist. Already watched a few of these? Let me know in the comments which one came closest to the Carrie feeling.
