Mike Flanagan Went Into Carrie Thinking He Understood Teenagers. He Didn’t.

Mike Flanagan was a bullied kid. He figured that gave him a way in.

I asked him about the teenagers he brought into the writers’ room for Carrie.

“My misconception was that I was a bullied kid in high school,” Flanagan told me during the Carrie press day. “I felt those pressures, and so I assumed that I had a...