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The Stand. I really liked parts of it, and I bounced
hard off other parts. But I think the moment that sums the show up best is that, towards the end of the series, there’s a scene where a character has sex with the Devil. The Devil usually appears as Alexander Skarsgård (exactly how I would appear if I were the Devil) but while the two character are having sex, his usual glamour slips a little, and the scene flashes between a romantic scenario in a rose petal-strewn hotel room with a naked Skarsgard, and some gross and rather violent writhing in a desert, which ends on a closeup of a terrifying monster screaming directly into the camera.
The Stand: How Fear and Loathing in New Vegas Differs From Stephen King s Book
The fifth episode of
The Stand debuted on CBS All Access on Thursday with Fear and Loathing in New Vegas taking viewers into Randall Flagg s (Alexander Skarsgard) stronghold for the first time. At the same time, things continued to develop for those in Mother Abagail s (Whoopi Goldberg) Boulder Free Zone after spies were sent off at the end of The House of the Dead last week. As has been the case with previous episodes of
The Stand, there are some significant differences between Stephen King s book and the series and we re breaking down some of the major ones we spotted as the story begins to move even closer to the showdown between good and evil.
I don’t know about you, but a virus series is the last thing I want to sit through right now.
Then again, a lot of people flocked to Contagion, Outbreak and
#Alive has apparently done well for Netflix.
The Stand is a 9 part adaptation of Stephen King’s 1978 novel (another screened in just 4 parts in 1994) ironically completed filming just before COVID-19 gripped much of the western world. King has written a new coda for his story.
The limited series comes with an impressive cast, including Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear in its ensemble and cameos or supporting roles from J.K. Simmons, Heather Graham, Bryan Cranston and more. Just who is the hero of the series seems to shift, including from teen writer Harold Lauder (Owen Teague) to Stu Redman (James Marsden) and, in episode 2, musician Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo) …and there is a gravitation towards Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) whose all-knowing wisdom is a magnet for lost souls.