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| Best Shows Like Carrie. |
If Carrie (2026) left you wanting another series where teenage life, psychological pressure and supernatural forces collide, there is plenty to watch next. Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode Prime Video adaptation takes Stephen King’s familiar story into a world of smartphones, viral humiliation, religious control and online cruelty, giving the classic coming-of-age tragedy a distinctly modern edge.
The result sits somewhere between supernatural horror, teen drama and psychological thriller, so the best alternatives are not limited to shows about telekinesis or haunted houses. Some explore young people discovering frightening abilities, others focus on bullying, isolation, family pressure or the ugly politics of school life. A few simply understand that adolescence is already stressful enough without adding a murderous psychic teenager to the timetable. Here are 21 shows like Carrie worth putting on your watchlist, ranked from the closest thematic matches to more loosely connected picks.
Shows Like CARRIE
1. I Am Not Okay With This (2020)
Netflix’s I Am Not Okay With This is arguably one of the closest matches to Carrie because it puts a socially isolated teenage girl at the centre of a story about confusing supernatural abilities and emotional pressure. Sydney Novak is struggling with grief, family problems, school life and feelings she cannot easily explain when she discovers she has telekinetic powers. Like Carrie, her abilities are strongly connected to her emotional state, making every awkward interaction feel slightly more dangerous. The show also understands the uncomfortable comedy of being a teenager while your life is quietly falling apart, which is considerably less funny when furniture starts moving by itself.
2. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina mixes teenage drama with supernatural horror, religious imagery, family conflict and a young woman discovering that the world is considerably stranger than she was taught. Sabrina Spellman must balance school, friendships and romance while being pulled towards a darker supernatural inheritance.
Its themes around control, belief and personal freedom give it a strong connection with Carrie, particularly through the tension between young women and oppressive authority figures. It is more fantastical and occasionally much more playful, but underneath the witchcraft is another story about a teenager trying to decide who gets to control her life.
3. The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House is an obvious recommendation for anyone who enjoyed the darker psychological side of Carrie. Rather than focusing on teenage bullying, it follows the Crain family across two timelines as childhood trauma continues to shape their adult lives. Its horror is deeply connected to grief, family relationships and unresolved emotional damage. Carrie’s story similarly treats supernatural events as an extension of psychological suffering rather than simply a parade of frightening images. Hill House is more gothic and family-oriented, but Flanagan’s interest in damaged people, complicated parents and consequences makes the connection difficult to ignore.
4. Yellowjackets (2021)
Yellowjackets takes teenage pressure, social hierarchy and psychological instability into considerably more dangerous territory. The story follows a girls’ football team whose plane crashes in the wilderness, forcing them to survive while their relationships and social structures begin to change dramatically.
Like Carrie, it examines what happens when young people are pushed beyond ordinary emotional limits. Bullying is replaced by survival politics, but the themes of isolation, group behaviour, fear and psychological deterioration are closely related. The dual timeline also shows how events experienced during adolescence can follow people for years. Because apparently regular school trauma was not stressful enough, this one adds wilderness survival.
5. The Society (2019)
When the teenagers of The Society return from a school trip, they discover that every adult in their town has mysteriously disappeared. With no parents, teachers or established authority left to tell them what to do, the young characters have to build their own society. The connection to Carrie comes through its examination of teenage social structures, power, exclusion and the consequences of group behaviour. Both stories place young people inside environments where adults fail to protect them properly. The supernatural mystery makes The Society less personal than Carrie, but its school-based setting and increasingly fractured community make it a strong companion watch.
6. Wednesday (2022)
Wednesday is considerably more mischievous than Carrie, but the similarities become obvious when looking at its teenage outsider protagonist. Wednesday Addams attends Nevermore Academy, a school populated by students with unusual abilities and identities, while investigating a series of disturbing events.
Like Carrie, she is socially isolated, possesses supernatural abilities and struggles to fit into an environment governed by cliques and expectations. The difference is that Wednesday usually treats social awkwardness as a personal brand rather than a tragedy. Still, beneath the gothic humour is another story about a young woman learning what she can do and deciding how she wants to use it.
7. The Midnight Club (2022)
Another Mike Flanagan series, The Midnight Club focuses on teenagers living in a hospice who gather at night to tell one another frightening stories. Its supernatural elements are intertwined with illness, friendship, fear and the uncertainty surrounding the future. It shares Carrie’s interest in young people dealing with circumstances far beyond their emotional maturity. The characters also use horror stories as a way of processing experiences they cannot easily discuss directly. It is much less violent than Carrie and has a more intimate tone, but viewers interested in Flanagan’s approach to teenage characters and psychological horror should find plenty to appreciate.
8. School Spirits (2023)
School Spirits combines teenage mystery, supernatural drama and high-school politics through Maddie Nears, a student who finds herself stuck in the afterlife while trying to understand what happened to her. The school itself becomes a strange little ecosystem filled with secrets, rivalries and complicated relationships.
Like Carrie, it uses the high-school environment as more than a backdrop, showing how quickly social dynamics can become overwhelming. The supernatural element is also directly tied to teenage identity and unresolved problems. The tone is lighter than Carrie, but the basic idea of young people being trapped by the consequences of their school lives fits remarkably well.
9. The Vampire Diaries (2009)
The Vampire Diaries moves away from psychological realism and firmly into supernatural melodrama, but its teenage characters face many of the same emotional pressures found in Carrie. Elena Gilbert and her classmates deal with relationships, grief, family problems and dangerous supernatural forces while attending high school in Mystic Falls. Carrie is much more focused on social cruelty and isolation, whereas The Vampire Diaries is packed with vampires, witches and complicated romances. Still, both shows use adolescence as the point where extraordinary abilities and difficult emotions collide. If you want Carrie’s teenage supernatural drama with significantly more supernatural dating problems, this is an easy next stop.
10. Teen Wolf (2011)
Teen Wolf begins with an ordinary teenager suddenly discovering that he is becoming something decidedly less ordinary. Scott McCall has to navigate school, friendships and romance while learning to control his supernatural abilities.
The show shares Carrie’s interest in the uncomfortable transition from ordinary adolescence to a life dominated by powers that are difficult to understand. It also explores bullying, social status and the pressure of fitting in. The major difference is that Scott generally has people around him who want to help. Carrie, unfortunately, gets a much worse support package.
11. The Innocents (2018)
Netflix’s The Innocents follows teenagers Harry and June as they run away together, only for June to discover a disturbing supernatural ability that changes their lives. Its story is built around identity, fear, family control and the frightening uncertainty of suddenly becoming someone you do not fully understand. That makes it a strong match for Carrie’s central idea of a young person discovering an extraordinary power under intense emotional pressure. The series is quieter and more mysterious, but it shares the same fascination with adolescence becoming increasingly difficult to separate from supernatural transformation.
12. The End of the F*ing World (2017)**
There are no telekinetic explosions in The End of the F*ing World**, but its psychological connection to Carrie is surprisingly strong. The series follows two troubled teenagers, James and Alyssa, as they run away together and become caught in increasingly complicated circumstances.
Both stories are interested in alienated young people who struggle to communicate their emotions while dealing with dysfunctional adults and environments that fail them. Carrie is supernatural horror while this is dark comedy-drama, yet both understand the uncomfortable reality of teenagers being expected to cope with problems they were never equipped to handle.
13. Cruel Summer (2021)
Cruel Summer swaps supernatural abilities for a mystery surrounding two teenage girls and a disappearance that dramatically changes their lives. The series explores popularity, rumours, manipulation, social pressure and the way competing versions of the truth can spread through a community. That makes it particularly relevant to the 2026 Carrie adaptation, where smartphones and viral humiliation become major parts of the story. There is no supernatural revenge waiting around the corner, but the social consequences can be just as destructive. Sometimes the scariest thing at school is simply everyone having a different story about you.
14. Euphoria (2019)
Euphoria is grounded firmly in reality, but its portrayal of teenage isolation, social pressure, relationships and emotional distress gives it a thematic connection to Carrie. Rue Bennett and her classmates navigate a chaotic high-school environment where private problems regularly become public ones.
The show is much more contemporary and stylised, while Carrie leans heavily into supernatural horror, but both examine how young people can become overwhelmed by pressures surrounding them. The 2026 Carrie adaptation’s emphasis on phones, online humiliation and modern adolescent culture makes Euphoria an especially useful comparison.
15. The Midnight Gospel (2020)
This is the wildcard entry, but it works for viewers interested in the more philosophical side of supernatural storytelling. The Midnight Gospel follows a spacecaster travelling through bizarre worlds while holding conversations about life, death, consciousness and human experience. It has almost nothing in common with Carrie’s high-school plot, but it shares an interest in psychological pain and the strange ways people process difficult experiences. Think of it as the recommendation for someone who watched Carrie and thought, “Yes, the telekinesis was good, but I would also like an animated existential crisis.”
16. Locke & Key (2020)
Locke & Key follows three siblings who move into an old family home and discover magical keys with extraordinary powers. Their discoveries lead to supernatural dangers, family secrets and difficult questions about identity and responsibility.
Like Carrie, the series places younger characters at the centre of a supernatural story where adults cannot simply solve everything for them. The tone is more adventurous and fantasy-driven, but both shows understand the appeal of teenagers discovering that the world around them contains forces they were never prepared to control.
17. Fate: The Winx Saga (2021)
Fate: The Winx Saga follows teenagers attending a magical boarding school while dealing with relationships, rivalries, family secrets and dangerous powers. Its school setting makes it an easy recommendation for Carrie viewers, particularly those interested in stories where supernatural abilities become tangled with adolescent identity. The characters have considerably more access to friends and magical training than Carrie does, which is probably for the best. Still, the combination of young protagonists, institutional pressure and supernatural power creates a familiar framework.
18. The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself (2022)
This British fantasy series centres on Nathan Byrne, a teenager caught between powerful magical bloodlines while being watched and controlled by people who fear what he might become. The story explores prejudice, identity, family expectations and the difficulty of growing up while other people have already decided what you are. Those ideas echo Carrie’s experience of being defined by her family and community. It is more action-heavy and fantasy-oriented, but the underlying question is similar: what happens when society decides a young person is dangerous before giving them any real chance to understand themselves?
19. Scream: The TV Series (2015)
Scream takes the familiar teenage horror formula and puts social relationships, school politics and secrets at its centre. A group of teenagers become targets of a mysterious killer while rumours and personal conflicts spread through their community.
The connection to Carrie becomes particularly strong when considering the 2026 series’ focus on public humiliation and teenage social hierarchies. Both stories understand that high school can be a brutal environment where reputations matter far too much. The supernatural element is missing here, but the tension between teenagers, secrets and public humiliation remains firmly intact.
20. Chucky (2021)
Chucky brings supernatural horror directly into suburban and school life, following teenagers who become caught up with the murderous doll after he arrives in their town. The series mixes horror, dark comedy, family problems and teenage relationships while gradually revealing deeper personal conflicts. Carrie viewers may appreciate the way Chucky uses young characters to expose the failures and hypocrisies of the adults around them. It is considerably more playful and outrageous, but it shares the idea that seemingly ordinary teenage environments can become very dangerous very quickly.
21. The Returned (2012)
The Returned is the slowest and most atmospheric recommendation on this list, following people who mysteriously return to a small French town after having died years earlier. Its supernatural mystery is less interested in spectacle and more concerned with grief, family relationships and the consequences of impossible events.
That makes it a useful choice for Carrie viewers who connected with the emotional weight behind the supernatural elements rather than simply the horror. It is haunting in a quieter way, relying on atmosphere and character rather than constant shocks. In other words, this is the one to watch when you want your supernatural drama to stare into your soul rather than throw a chair across the room.
I Am Not Okay With This, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Yellowjackets and The Haunting of Hill House are the strongest places to start if what worked for you in Carrie was the combination of teenage isolation, psychological pressure and supernatural storytelling. School Spirits and Cruel Summer are better choices if the high-school mystery and social humiliation appealed more, while Euphoria works when the modern adolescent pressure is the part you want to explore.
What makes Carrie particularly interesting in 2026 is that the central fear is no longer just being laughed at in a school corridor; humiliation can now be recorded, shared and replayed within seconds. That gives these comparisons plenty of room to breathe. Which one would you put at number one, and which show do you think deserves a place on this list?