Elaine Chung
“The pandemic parallel makes me a little uncomfortable,” says author Owen King, “Because the suffering of real people is one thing. And artwork is really another thing.” The millions who’ve been hurt by the COVID-19 epidemic are real; the victims of Captain Trips, the viral super flu in his father’s now-classic novel
The Stand, are fiction. That story’s dramatically deadly plague, which wipes out more than 99 percent of the American population and leaves bodies filling the streets, is very different from the quieter horror actually unfolding across the nation, where COVID-19 victims die in hospitals pushed to their limits while members of the same communities enjoy meals at restaurants or write articles about television shows.
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âThe Standâ (CBS All Access)
A deadly virus, a devastating pandemic and a divided America. Rings a bell? No, we re not talking about the COVID-19 pandemic but the latest Stephen King adaptation. Presenting the mystical and apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the nine-episodic limited series is all set to enthrall fans of the dark fantasy novel first published in 1978 by Doubleday.
In the televised version, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), the Dark Man.
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