Carrie is a strong, monster-destroying horror hero, but her power was forged in traumatic and isolating conditions. It’s here that The Girl In The Woods does some of its most interesting work. They’re taught that the ultimate expression of love is sacrifice, and they all bear permanent scars and wounds-sometimes self-inflicted. They’re stripped of their individuality and connection to the outside world. Carrie and her fellow young Disciples Of Dawn train brutally to become guardians. Protecting the world from these beasts comes at a great cost. When West Piners start violently dying, the three have to team up to close a portal to hell. There, she meets Tasha (Sofia Bryant) and Nolan (Misha Osherovich). Carrie and that monster both make their way to nearby Pacific Northwest smalltown West Pine.
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The series kicks off when Carrie, for reasons we don’t learn until much later, abandons her post as a guardian and lets a monster slip out. On the other side of that door lie great horrors, like a long-tongued monster who lures victims with a spinning coin. I won’t spoil too much, but the show’s mythology is pretty straightforward: Our titular girl in the woods Carrie (Stefanie Scott) belongs to a cult that trains literal children to guard a door to hell. And the series explores grief and trauma as well as friendship and love with depth and care, injecting a fairly familiar supernatural story with some freshness. There’s a queer, messy backstory between Carrie and her ex. But it also adds in specificity when it comes to its characters and the emotional stakes of the story. Featuring a small town disrupted by monsters and a powerful teen girl who teams up with a couple weirdos to stop them, the show mashes together dystopian YA and supernatural-horror tropes.
With eight half-hour episodes that dropped all at once on Peacock, the new supernatural teen series The Girl In The Woods goes down easy in one sitting.