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The last stand stephen king6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() (Filming on the nine-episode series began in September 2019.) If there’s an incidental lesson, it’s that Covid-19 has changed the narrative when it comes to plagues, in ways that will show up onscreen in due course. It’s a Hollywood-style outbreak, racing past quarantines and leaving bodies dramatically splayed around the landscape. The pandemic that King imagined in 1978 wasn’t like the one we’re experiencing now, though, and in the new mini-series “The Stand,” premiering Thursday on CBS All Access, the depiction of it doesn’t resonate in any strong way with our nerve-racking experiences of the last 10 months. ![]() ![]() That would seem to make it pretty relevant, or at least timely, in the year of Covid-19. Stephen King’s slab of a novel, “The Stand” (originally 800-plus pages, later expanded to 1,100-plus), begins with a manufactured viral epidemic that wipes out most of the human race. ![]()
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