What the ‘Carrie’ Series Does With Sue Snell’s Pregnancy Question

Sue Snell’s pregnancy storyline in ‘Carrie’ has become one of the most talked about threads in the new Prime Video series, largely because earlier adaptations handled it so differently. Siena Agudong was cast as Sue Snell, one of the lead roles opposite Summer H. Howell’s Carrie White. The question of whether Sue is expecting a child sits at the center of her arc this time around.

Mike Flanagan serves as writer and showrunner on the series, and also directs four episodes. All eight episodes arrived at once on October 7. The series gives Sue far more room than a feature film could, and her pregnancy scare drives some of its most important character conflicts.

Sue Snell and the Pregnancy Test in Episode Four

In the fourth episode, Carrie goes for a drive with Chris, Billy and Tina while Sue follows them because she is worried about her. During a stop at a convenience store, Sue secretly takes a pregnancy test, unaware that Tina is recording her.

The result is not left hanging for long. Sue’s test comes back negative, and she then hears Carrie scream and rushes to the construction site. She had also been ghosting Tommy for a while because of the pregnancy scare.

Later dialogue in the series removes any doubt. Sue tells Tommy she was a couple of days late after the party, but the test was negative. So the direct answer is that Sue is not pregnant in the series, even though the scare shapes much of what follows.

After the confrontation at the site, Sue argues with Chris and then leaves to call Tommy for help. The scare is already pulling her away from the people who matter most to her.

The Carrie Red Photo and Tommy’s Reaction

The test becomes a weapon in the sixth episode. Chris faces suspension after Sue gives the principal a recording linking her to the Carrie Red account. Chris knows Sue turned her in, so she retaliates by posting a picture of Sue buying the pregnancy test.

As the photo spreads, Tommy confronts Sue about keeping the pregnancy from him, saying he only wanted to be there for her. Tommy is more upset that he could not support Sue, given that she decided to go through it alone.

Sue’s explanation is a candid one. She tells him she saw everything she had worked so hard for, including college, soccer and getting out of town, slipping away. It reframes the scare as a story about her ambitions rather than only a plot device.

After the riot outside the school, Tommy realizes she did not tell him because she does not see him in her future, and they break up. Not every critic was convinced, and one reviewer felt the ongoing Sue and Tommy situation was becoming increasingly pointless.

How Sue Snell Differs From Earlier Carrie Adaptations

Viewers who know the 2013 film will recognize the idea but not the execution. In that version Carrie senses that Sue is pregnant, protects her and throws her out of the house to safety as it collapses. The film ends with Sue going into labor at the grave.

The novel took a more ambiguous route. Sue both fears and hopes she is pregnant. After Carrie’s death she discovers blood on herself and knows she has miscarried.

The series resolves the uncertainty much earlier with a negative test. That choice turns the pregnancy question into a source of friction between Sue and Tommy rather than a late reveal tied to Carrie’s powers.

The series also adjusts another familiar Sue beat. In each iteration Sue has a premonition that something bad will happen to Carrie at the prom, but here she sees Billy and Chris’ car on a television news report and concludes something must be wrong.

Sue Snell’s Role in the Carrie Finale

Sue is also the lens through which the story is told. The first episode opens with a 911 call about the prom night massacre, and a woman named Adelaide sits down with the survivors, including Sue, to understand what happened.

The finale adds a strange twist to that framing. A director hypnotizes Sue into forgetting she saw strangers at the prom and a looming black shadow behind Carrie. Her memory of the night is not entirely her own.

Sue’s survival also fits the series’ wider departure from the source material. Unlike in the novel and the 1976 film, Carrie and Margaret both survive, just like Sue and a handful of others. Flanagan told The Wrap that it was important to him that Carrie be able to survive emotionally.

Given how much weight the series places on Sue’s choices, from the secret test to the recording that took down Chris, her story feels more like a moral reckoning than a pregnancy plot. If you think Sue’s decision to keep the test from Tommy was the right call for her future, or the moment that cost her the most, the comments are open for your read on that breakup.