Now is a good time to consider the new series Station Eleven. It's based on a novel of the same name by the Obama-approved Canadian novelist Emily St. John Mandel. The book concerns a post-apocalyptic world that finds the human population reduced to something terrifyingly minuscule, around 7 million, and human entertainment reversed to Shakespeare's olde times. Patrick Somerville and Hiro Murai developed the show for HBO Max. It stars Himesh Patel, Gael García Bernal,.