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Plot. An extremely contagious and lethal strain of influenza, resistant to antibodies and vaccines, is developed as a biological weapon within a secret Department of Defense installation in the Mojave Desert, and is accidentally released.
- Stephen King
- 1978
The Stand: Created by Josh Boone, Benjamin Cavell. With James Marsden, Odessa Young, Alexander Skarsgård, Whoopi Goldberg. After the world is in ruins, due to a man-made plague, a battle of Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.
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- 2020-12-17
- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- 57
Feb 12, 2021 · In the new coda to the show, Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young), the first woman to give birth after almost all of the population of earth died in a plague, ventures out into the world with Stu...
The Stand is an American post-apocalyptic fantasy television miniseries comprising nine episodes, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King and a remake to the 1994 adaptation.
- Why Do Frannie and Stu Decide to Leave Boulder?
- Who Is The Mysterious Young Girl Who Helps Frannie?
- Is Randall Flagg Really Dead?
- Changes Between The Ending of The 2020 Miniseries and The Book
- What The Stand 2020's Ending Really Means
Frannie went through an emotionally difficult pregnancy, one fraught with anxiety as one might expect of being pregnant in the middle of a pandemic and post-apocalyptic wasteland. The last month of her pregnancy was even more difficult, Stu having gone to Las Vegas with the others making the final stand against the Dark Man. With Mother Abigail hav...
In the final episode, Frannie falls down an old abandoned well on the property of a home they're staying at overnight. Her body is twisted and broken: A leg broken in multiple places, a fractured hip, a blown-out knee, a potentially fractured skull, broken ribs, and blood coming from her mouth indicating one of those broken ribs has potentially pun...
Though Flagg appeared to be obliterated in the nuclear bomb blast in Vegas, it was never confirmed that he had died. As he was pummeled with the bolts of lightning, he disappeared just a few seconds before Trashcan Man's (Ezra Miller) bomb detonated. The survivors believed him to be gone, but still, evil has a way of never dying, and it's shown tha...
The ending of the 2020 miniseries was written by Stephen King himself, and in it, he seemed to find the right balance between the book's two endings while adding something new. The original ending of the book closed on a tranquil, ambiguous note. As Frannie and Stu put their kid to bed, Stu asks Frannie whether she believes humankind will be capabl...
The ending is neither happy nor bleak but both simultaneously. It's this balance that is needed to keep the world turning. Just as good was reborn in the form of the young Abigail, so, too, was evil rebirthed into the world in the form of Flagg. There can be no good without evil, no Mother Abigail without Randall Flagg; one is always destined to ex...
- Editor
Nov 30, 2020 · The story, which takes place over a staggering 1100 pages, is a grandiose tale of good versus evil set to the backdrop of an America ravaged by a pandemic that wiped out almost the entire planet's population.
Dec 17, 2020 · That kernel of an idea evolves into a sprawling narrative about disease, collapse, and recovery – all leading to an epic confrontation between good and evil that goes a long way in satisfying...
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