Though perhaps the victim of bad timing, HBO Max has released the first three episodes of one of the absolute best TV shows of the year, Station Eleven. The first three of ten episodes are now streaming on the platform and as of this writing the series has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with [.]
Station Eleven, HBO Max s adaptation of Emily St. John Mandel s award-winning novel of the same name, debuts in just a few days on Thursday, December 16th and will take viewers into a world radically altered by a devastating flu pandemic that wipes out most of the world s population. Two decades [.]
Just over a month after offering up a first look teaser, HBO Max has released the full trailer for Station Eleven, the upcoming live-action adaptation of Emily St. John Mandel s novel of the same name. As was the case with the teaser, this new trailer showcases the miniseries star-studded cast [.]
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King Lear might not sound like the most clear-headed response to a swine flu pandemic decimating the population, but hey, after a year like 2020, are we really the ones to judge? It s impossible not to feel a kinship with the characters of Emily St. John Mandel s
Station Eleven, a book repeatedly deemed prescient for its depiction of a pandemic-ravaged earth in which a troupe of actors attempt to discover and create a sense of meaning in the wake of endless death
. Now that the acclaimed 2014 novel is headed for an HBO Max adaptation, we’ll finally see the Shakespearean thespians explore the post-apocalypse on the screen. But what most fascinating about this particular project is how it was forced to adapt during our world s own (very real) lockdown.