Chris Hargensen

I'm judging this book right damn now.

Margaret White is about as Christian as Chris Hargensen is a kind person.

It's not computing, at least not visually.

What we have been shown is square peg, round hole.

This was pretty cool, and I was into it, and I'm glad it's negative.

I hope it stays negative.

[laughs] Number five, Chris Hargensen, queen of control and the slow knife.

I mean, there's just so much to say about this gal, friends, but in this episode, wow, we really get some great moments with Chris.

And could I just say, um, the girl who taunts, um, Carrie the most-

Yeah, Chris Hargensen

... yeah, she's good.

Um, but her mother is played by Heather Graham.

Yeah.

So Alison Thornton, uh, plays the bully, uh, Chris.

Uh, okay.

We got Josie Totah here as Tina Blake, who's a, uh, trans actress.

Uh, it's not good.

I don't recommend it.

Uh, but yeah, she plays, uh, Tina in this one, who is Chris' best friend, one of the bullies.

Uh, and then you have, oh, just everyone's favorite character, Emmaline.

... and Chris.

Chris Hargensen.

Chris Hargensen.

Yes.

The two main villains of Carrie.

... that is a question I have, is like s- some of the core aspects of the Stephen King Carrie or the Brian De Palma Carrie are there is a real meanness and nastiness to the world that just, in my opinion, isn't present in this new version.

Yes, uh, Chris Hargensen, who's the bully in the new version, she's mean, but by the way, like, she has a tragic backstory as well and, like, there's reasons that she has for being not nice to people, right? Like, like, it's a much more, I would say, softer version of the world that Flanagan puts forward than what we see in the Stephen King novel or in the De Pal- the De Palma film.

And so that, to me, is, like, the core of Carrie, and that is just, like, removed completely from this version.

Ugh, I don't know that I-

And so I think that, you know, there's some really cool changes that it makes.

It's like, oh yeah, this is like kind of a modern-day reinvention.

Um, but you know, one of the biggest changes is Chris Hargensen, Carrie's bully, in my opinion, gets as much or more character development than Carrie herself in this show.

And it's like, you know, uh, like, uh, does, does that fundamentally change kind of what the, the Carrie story is about? It's hard for me to parse, but I'll, I'll, I'll say despite all-

Her mother would technically be her biggest bully.

But her biggest bully in school, this girl named Chris Hargensen, she was banned from prom for not complying, so her prom tickets get revoked and she knows that Carrie's going with Tommy.

So Chris and her boyfriend Billy decide to devise a terrible scheme to get revenge on Carrie.

But they don't realize that Carrie is not your average girl.

You know, put a little bit more emphasis on his upbringing and his father and sort of remove the veil of why he is considered the villain, you know? Like-

Right

... and the reason I bring this up, that's what they did with Chris Hargensen in the TV series.

Mm-hmm.

I, I think part of it is just the pulling the focus back from her a little bit, because it really is an ensemble show.

Like, we spend a lot of time with Chris Hargensen, who's the bully, um, who's awful.

Uh, actress, amazing.

Uh, you are despicable on screen.

The other students are a little bummed out, are pretty bummed out about it, that they have to stay extra.

But that Chris Hargensen, who's played by Nancy Allen, the old head bitch in charge, she... wants no fucking part of this shit.

And she's like, you can't do that.

And then we cut to them, you know, practicing and shit outside.