“I will fear no evil.”
(SPOILER WARNING – FOR THE BOOK AND BOTH VERSIONS ON TV!)
So here we are at episode 8 of the new version of The Stand, and it’s The End. Not the end of the novel, or, weirdly, even the end of this series. But definitely The End of the only story the showrunners seemed interested in telling, the final confrontation between the demonic Randall Flagg and our heroes representing The Forces of Good.
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‘You are this blank page’.”
(SPOILER WARNING – FOR THE BOOK AND BOTH VERSIONS ON TV!)
This new version of The Stand is now onto its third ep, and has finally started filling in some of the gaps in its non-linear narrative, as we start seeing some of the bits we missed while it concentrated on five main characters in its scattershot first two instalments. That’s a welcome change of pace, but there’s still plenty of gaps to fill in for an audience that might not have been familiar with the source material.
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