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‘The Stand’ 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 ‘The Stand’
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 they’ve 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 “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the ultra-violence of “A Clockwork Orange,” the reproductive tyranny of “A Handmaid’s Tale”—and the pandemic of “The Stand,” whose arrival right now as a nine-part miniseries seems more than a bit uncanny, morbidly fascinating and in somewhat questionable tast ....

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