Flanagan Rewrote Carrie Finale for Haute & Freddy's 'Shy Girl' — SkimNews
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- Mike Flanagan told Please Relate To This that Haute & Freddy's "Shy Girl" — which he heard before the album was released — "made me rewrite" episode 8, titled "AP Physics," to place the track in a key scene of the finale.
- Haute & Freddy became "our musical identity very early on" and "the genetic identity of the sound of our show," per Flanagan, who called the album's unreleased version "this is our show."
- Flanagan wrote the band's merch directly into the script: Carrie (Summer H. Howell) finds a Haute & Freddy t-shirt in the school's lost-and-found and upcycles it into her own design.
- Lana Del Rey's lyrics from "A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" were also written into the Carrie script, while other featured artists "came out organically through production and post," Flanagan said.
- The eight-episode Prime Video series follows Howell as telekinetic teen Carrie White and Samantha Sloyan as her fiercely religious mother Margaret, with the character entering public high school after her father's death.
Why it matters: Flanagan reshaped a show's finale — and wove a band's merchandise into the script — around a track from an album that hadn't even been released yet, a level of pre-release artist integration that signals how music supervisors and labels are increasingly building sonic identities into TV productions during editing rather than after.
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