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How’s this for eerily relatable entertainment: On
The Stand, a nine-episode thriller based on Stephen King’s 1978 bestseller, a deadly global pandemic strikes, dividing Americans.
But this catastrophe makes our real-life virus struggle look puny in comparison. The fictional superflu kills 99 percent of the world’s population, and after the survivors rebuild civilization, opposing factions clash in a deadly battle. Plus, everyone’s having
extremely weird visions.
At least no one’s hoarding toilet paper. “It was very surreal coming to the end of production just as COVID was starting to emerge,” says showrunner Benjamin Cavell. Good thing this tale has a positive message for our time. “It’s about the human conviction to overcome any obstacle,” executive producer Taylor Elmore says. “There’s hope.”