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'The Stand' finally aired the highly-anticipated new coda episode written by Stephen King. Here's how fans felt about the new chapter and series finale.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Glen Bateman s (Greg Kinnear) big sendoff during this farcical trial – instead of a conversation in a jail cell like in the book –made so much dramatic sense and just made it a lot more of a last, well, stand for my favorite character.
BENJAMIN CAVELL: The scene in the book is very memorable, but we had some questions about it. One is just about Lloyd Henreid s (Nat Wolff) arc. In the book, when we meet him, he s killing people and does not have an issue with it. So I always questioned why he hesitated in the book when he was ordered to kill Glen. Part of this is also a testament to Nat Wolff and his commitment and willingness to work with us on crafting an arc for that character. We put Lloyd in a position where he s never killed anybody and doesn t seem to want to and wanted to set this up as a bigger deal for him. It also always bothered me that in the bo
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Christmas comes early for Stephen King fans this year, as last week marked the premiere of CBS All Access’
The Stand, a new, nine-part adaptation of King’s post-apocalyptic riff on
Lord Of The Rings. There’s an unexpected timeliness to the story’s post-pandemic landscape, in which plague survivors are supernaturally drawn to opposing camps, but don’t go in expecting another
Contagion. As with King’s novel, the CBS limited series is primarily about what happens
after 99.4% of the world’s population is gone. That much is made clear in the premiere, which, in a departure from King’s novel, begins in the wake of what society names Captain Trips.
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