The Station Eleven finale aired on Jan. 14 on HBO Max. The show is a must-watch about the fallout after a deadly pandemic and the communities people build in the aftermath.
The flu in HBO Max's "Station Eleven" and Emily St. John Mandel's book kills off 99.99 percent of the human race. After living through COVID-19, we know it doesn't take such widespread mayhem to cause the kind of generational trauma explored in "Station Eleven."
Emily St. John Mandel talks about the pandemic novel she wrote years before Covid-19 and the HBO Max adaptation that some viewers have found oddly life-affirming.