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WHAT IT S ABOUT:
After a man-made virus called Captain Trips wipes 99% of mankind off the face of the planet, a small group of survivors in the American heartland are left to pick up the pieces and build a new civilisation. Even with most of humanity dead, the final remnants of humanity are once again divided, but this time by far more than just political squabbling. With loyalties divided between the saintly Mother Abagail Freemantle (Whoopi Goldberg) on one side and the devilish - perhaps literally - Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgard) on the other, what s left of humanity are drawn into a supernatural battle between good and evil with the final fate of humanity hanging in the balance. Based on the acclaimed best-selling epic novel by Stephen King.
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Amber Heard s femme fatale breathes life into pulpy pandemic story The Stand
3/5
In a first-look review, it s hard to know what to believe in this enjoyable but muddled adaptation of Stephen King’s 1978 classic
Amber Heard as Nadine Cross in CBS All Access The Stand
After the circus of the Johnny Depp libel trial, Amber Heard returns to the day job with a starring role in an enjoyably pulpy, if sometimes muddled, adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand. Heard, whose 2017 divorce from Depp has been fodder for the tabloids, puts in a winningly villainous turn as a wicked temptress allied with the forces of darkness in a post-apocalyptic America.
âThe Standâ Review: A Dystopia for Today and Tomorrow
This adaptation of a Stephen King novel about a pandemic is especially timely in the age of Covid, but also stands up as a lasting work in the genre.
Whoopi Goldberg in âThe Standâ Photo: James Minchin/CBS By John Anderson Dec. 15, 2020 4:52 pm ET
The classics of dystopian fiction have often been born of an unhappy vision, but theyâve always been the product of uncluttered logic: Take an existing problem to its possible end, imagine the worst and, voilà , you have the perpetual war of âNineteen Eighty-Four,â the ultra-violence of âA Clockwork Orange,â the reproductive tyranny of âA Handmaidâs Taleââand the pandemic of âThe Stand,â whose arrival right now as a nine-part miniseries seems more than a bit uncanny, morbidly fascinating and in somewhat questionable taste.